Grants database

REIGN educates on child sexual abuse and exploitation through ​‘The Collective’, a group of people with lived experience. This grant will enable REIGN to recruit a ​‘young person’s board’ of 16–25-year-olds with experience of child sexual abuse and exploitation. This will ensure their work remains relevant to the concerns of young people and ensures the opportunity for leadership is continually passed onto future generations.

Radical Ecology works across art, research and policy to advance environmental justice. This grant will support a combination of core and delivery support which will underpin the current phase of Radical Ecology’s development and work at the intersections of art and environmental justice.

Outburst Arts is dedicated to exploring and celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stories and experiences through the arts in Northern Ireland. This grant provides core funding enabling Outburst Arts to be more ambitious through supported strategic multiannual planning and artist resourcing.

Open City Architecture is an architecture education charity, and creators of the annual Open House Festival. Their dedicated education programme supports young people from underrepresented communities to learn about architecture and design creatively. This grant supports Open City Architecture to deliver two school programmes bringing architect practitioners into schools and extending Open City’s work into Birmingham. ​‘It’s My City Too!’ focuses on life skills and independent living alongside design, craft and interactive play. ​‘Young City Makers’ offers a series of in-school workshops and city visits to develop creative skills, critical thinking, team building and oracy, to improve pupils understanding of place and space.

Metroland Cultures is an artist-led and community-centred charity working within the London Borough of Brent using socially engaged creative practice. This grant will provide core support, enabling Metroland Cultures to further develop their governance structures and systems, cultivate partnerships and retain our support to artists and community groups.

Metal support artists from all disciplines by creating time and space for the development of ideas and philosophies around artists’ work through residencies, producing, commissioning, exhibitions, debate and discussion, touring and publishing. This grant provides core funding to enable Metal to work across Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend with artists and communities to explore social alienation and to reimagine what the opposite of disenfranchisement and exclusion from society would look like.

Kings Cross Brunswick Neighbourhood Association (KCBNA) tackles inequality, creates opportunities and transforms lives from three community centres and through outreach work. This grant will support KCBNA to deliver their youth programme for disadvantaged young people across seven days a week.

International Curators Forum (ICF) is an agency for cultural transformation in the arts. They promote the work of cultural practitioners by developing artistic and curatorial practice and discourse around contemporary visual art. They focus on the social impact of the visual arts across issues and borders through projects and programmes that empower diverse communities. This grant provides core funding which will be used to invest in key new management roles.

Idle Women is an art and social justice collaboration​founded in response to austerity cuts and systemic inequality in the arts. This grant provides core funding to support Idle Women to deliver a new and ambitious programme of co-created artistic activity, integrated with their established projects and reaching more women as co-creators and audiences over four years.

Idea Space is a community arts education charity delivering arts-based outreach projects with community participation. This grant will enable Idea Space to grow its education programmes in SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) groups in three mainstream schools in Leytonstone (East London). They will run engaging experimental art sessions for SEND children during school hours, in an inclusive and comfortable environment. Idea Space will also work with school staff to develop art resources and a pedagogical arts-based model enabling SEND children to participate in arts education.

Hackney Showroom is a unique hybrid of an award-winning theatre production company and a grassroots civic arts centre. This grant provides core funding to enable Hackney Showroom to increase capacity for the delivery of their wraparound programmes and audience development activity, ensuring the social change output of their organisation continues to grow in scale and ambition across the UK. It will also support the seamless journey of marginalised artists from first meeting through to production and audience engagement with the work.

Grand Union is a visual arts organisation, providing studios for artists and a public programme of events, exhibitions, and community collaborations focused on cultural, social and environmental justice. This grant supports Grand Union to reimagine their workforce and leadership. With their communities, they will redefine who has a say in how they work, what they deliver, and the policies needed to support authentically equitable working practices.