Grants database

Candoco is a professional dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. They present ground-breaking performances with inclusion at their heart. Their learning programme includes high-quality dance activity for young disabled dancers alongside professional development for disabled makers. This grant will enable the radical sustaining and resourcing of trustee and director-level disabled artists; to lead and remain in post long enough and with sufficient, data informed, rest, space, pace and production assistance, to have a creative impact on the dance sector.

Boys & Girls Clubs is a regional voluntary youth organisation working with disadvantaged children and young people. This grant supports Boys & Girls Clubs NI to work with primary schools in Northern Ireland and a small network of arts organisations to grow its successful curricular arts education programme, which supports pupils’ learning across the curriculum, and enables teachers to develop their practice in teaching in and through the arts, ranging from working with clay to digital photography.

Autograph ABP is an arts organisation exploring identity, representation, human rights and social justice through work produced by artists who use photography and film. This grant supports Autograph ABP to establish a new collective of ​‘Social Practitioners’; artists with lived experience of immigration, recruited and employed to develop and embed equitable approaches to socially-engaged practice across arts, grassroots organisations and the communities they represent.

ArtsEkta is a cultural organisation that works to develop intercultural relationships and is home to the Belfast Mela – the largest celebration of cultural diversity in Ireland. This grant supports delivery of My Place, Our Place – a three-year proposal to allow ArtsEkta to deepen their socially engaged practice with culturally diverse audiences, participants and artists across Northern Ireland.

Alleyne& support organisations and people to create more equitable spaces. This grant supports their Neurology of Power project which will explore how managing power can support cultural institutions to better manage their relationships with their workforce. Funding will also contribute to recruitment to enhance the Alleyne& team and help develop their resilience.

Pure Insight works with young care leavers providing practical and emotional support. This grant enables Pure Insight to reach more care experienced young people by expanding into three new geographical areas, informing commissioning, practice and policy, and providing consultancy functions to share best practice nationally.

Status Now Network (SNN) is a network of migrant and refugee rights organisations committed to campaigning for the regularisation of people with a precarious immigration status. This grant supports SNN’s core operating costs.

The Nanny Solidarity Network (NSN) is a grassroots and worker-led organisation providing support, resources, community, and space for collective action to nannies and au pairs throughout the UK. This grant provides core funding to support NSN’s community organising and campaigning work.

Level Up is a feminist community campaigning for gender justice and bodily autonomy in the UK. They envision a world where people of all genders are liberated from systems of oppression that lead to bodily and systemic violence. This grant will enable Level Up to grow their strategic campaigning coalitions with young people with lived experience of gender-based violence, and develop campaigning training with young people designed to build their collective media skills, strategic vision and community.

Participation and the Practice of Rights is a grassroots human rights organisation based in Belfast, working on campaigns relating to socio-economic rights, currently including migration, anti-racism, mental health and housing. This grant supports The Kind Economy, which is subverting the hostile environment by building networks of solidarity and support around asylum seekers and refugees as well as challenging poor practice by public bodies and contractors.

My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led, non-partisan movement on a mission to change the culture of democracy and get every single young person voting. This grant provides funding towards the Next Gen Conference, which serves as a platform to explore youth-led solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society.

POMOC is a national grassroots political home for Eastern European migrants to organise together towards dignity, power and justice. They work with Eastern European migrants with marginalised genders, including women and queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people, and work in solidarity with other marginalised communities. This grant supports POMOC to widen their reach through local organising hubs and a membership structure, increase the pool of leaders and their capacity for creating change, and grow their local and national impact through power-building campaigns.