Grants database

Step by Step would like to reduce its reliance on local authority contracts and increase commercial and individual donor income. This would enable the charity to meet the growing demand for its services for young people who are homeless or facing homelessness. This grant will contribute to salary costs for two new posts: Business Services Manager and Head of Income Generation.

The charity plans to campaign to keep young people’s mental health on the agenda and keep young people’s experiences and voices at the centre of discussions, through making its Vs young activist group a core part of the charity’s work. This grant will part-fund the salary of the Youth Engagement Manager, a core post under the new strategy.

The organisation plans to expand and will consider franchising their successfully piloted e‑mentoring scheme, providing online access to support, training and advice to LGBT young people. Alongside expanding and refining service delivery the charity aims to influence policy, mainstream homeless provision and raise awareness in wider society. This grant will contribute to salary costs of senior staff.

The organisation plans, with support from the Dartington Social Research Unit, to pilot a shared approach to evaluation and learning across six, diverse member organisations. This will provide evidence of impact to funders and commissioners, as well as to establish a set of quality standards for the sector.

This grant will fund key posts which will strengthen the charity, contribute to its sustainability, as well as further developing income generation and relationships with key businesses. Getaway Girls plans to expand its services in Leeds to reach new groups of young women, build new partnerships to extend its offer geographically across the city, and to share good practice with other organisations locally and nationally.

Action for Kids plans to work with schools across eight North London boroughs, encouraging them to make the voice of young people with learning disabilities central to planning for their future. This grant will contribute to senior staff salaries to enable them to spend time influencing school leaders and spreading good practice.

Asylos is a pan-European volunteer network that that trains and support volunteers to research vital information to help refugees fleeing war, violence, and persecution to claim their right to asylum. This grant will fund Asylos to trial their model, well tested in France, Belgium and Greece, in the UK. Asylos will support refugee community organisations and lawyers to research country of origin information for young asylum seekers, helping them claim their right to asylum.

This grant supports a teaching pilot of specially adapted musical instruments to 7–11yr olds and 18–24yr olds who have only one arm or hand. The project will take place in the South East and West Midlands, ensuring these groups can participate in music making, test the instruments and the teaching methods. Results from the pilot will be shared widely to improve practice.

SYHA, working with local partners Doncaster Community Arts and Yorkshire Artspace, plans to test Brighton University’s ​“We Value” participatory evaluation methodology in the arts for the first time, as part of a year-long programme seeking to increase the wellbeing of tenants via music, dance and crafts.

Sound and Music will investigate how to address inequalities of development opportunity for composers – and how to ensure that, once on a programme, individuals from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds do not drop off before completion. Our grant will support the testing of more diverse residencies; a mentoring scheme; and a pilot course in East London for young composers/​music creators.

Bangor-based Seacourt Print Workshop and key partners, including the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health and Comber Autism Support, want to test whether print-making can help people with illnesses and disabilities form new positive identities as artists and increase their wellbeing –using the New Economics Foundation’s Wellbeing evaluation model to understand the impact of the work.

The Royal Exchange (RET), a theatre in central Manchester, has developed its work with young people and older people over the last five years. They will now pilot RET Local – a mobile theatre and engagement programme particularly targeting these age groups. They will create two, six-month community residencies in the low-engagement areas of Rochdale and Cheetham Hill, delivered in partnership with local agencies.