Grants database

Glasgow Zine Library is a community space, self-publishing library and archive working with adults and young people, artists and marginalised community groups to provide affordable and accessible community arts programmes. This grant provides support to enable Glasgow Zine Library to deliver their core activities of arts, heritage and community-led programmes, zine festivals, youth work, and professional development opportunities, while also improving library resources, by growing their zine collection and extending opening hours.

First Take is a not-for-profit film and digital arts organisation working in oppressed communities. This grant provides core funding to support with staff costs and development, and help with the marketing and distribution of films to enable them to reach a greater audience and therefore have a greater impact on creating social change and tackling injustice in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Far From The Norm is an award-winning hip hop dance company, working across live performance and hip hop artist development. This grant funds core support towards capacity building through investment in senior leadership, enabling further organisational development.

The European Network on Statelessness is a civil society alliance committed to ending statelessness in Europe, and ensuring that stateless people living in Europe are protected. This grant provides core funding to resource work aligned with their core work of addressing statelessness in Europe, including the UK.

Company Three is a theatre company making transformative theatre through long-term, intensive collaboration between young people and professional theatre-makers. This grant provides core costs to enable Company Three to build capacity within their team and to further embed young people’s voices across the organisation.

Clod Ensemble is an independent performance company creating extraordinary, interdisciplinary artistic work that pushes boundaries. This grant supports their project, Ear Opener, which tackles challenges in the teaching of Music composition at GCSE and A Level, including barriers to access for young people whose creative approaches and prior knowledge are sometimes not understood or supported in a system which often centers western classical music; and support for teachers to develop their practice. Clod Ensemble is exploring how the Ear Opener approaches can be made as accessible and effective as possible, so that stronger and more equitable composing education can become embedded in secondary schools.

Citrus Arts use their experience of Travelling Circus life as a model for artistic exploration, responsibility, and creative learning. This grant provides core funding to enable Citrus Arts to facilitate deep conversation with the communities of the Rhondda Valley on pressing social issues including housing justice and home ownership, labour rights and economic justice, Brexit and internationalism, and climate change and migration. They will also produce artists, workers and high-quality, deeply-rooted circus works that reflect the ideas, values, skills and hopes of the diverse, multi-generational community.

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.