Grants database

Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, and Scottish Ballet will pilot a regular programme of weekly dance activities in Edinburgh and Glasgow for people with Parkinson’s disease, their caregivers, families and friends – accompanied by live music. They plan to explore how to monitor the impact of this pilot in partnership with Glasgow University Institute of Neurological Sciences.

Action Space London supports the development of artists with learning disabilities. It plans to trial half-day workshops in public spaces across London. These will be facilitated by people with learning disabilities to enable their peers to explore their creativity and enjoyment of visual arts. 

A speaking and listening learning programme for 15–19 year olds, creating pathways into work or training using employer-validated Open Badges.

To develop and pilot a new ​‘progression curriculum’, designed to support an improved transition from primary to secondary school.

A programme for businesses and young people to develop communication skills, co-delivered by young people.

To develop new, sustainable supplementary/​mainstream school partnerships to help bridge the attainment gap affecting African and African-Caribbean secondary students in Harrow and Barnet.

Phase II of the ​‘Critical Connections Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project’. Developing an engaging approach to language learning between supplementary and mainstream schools.

To develop supplementary/​mainstream school partnerships in Milton Keynes to improve the attainment in English and maths of underachieving young people from BME communities.

To overcome school attendance barriers for pupils, allowing them to maximise their potential.

To support activities underpinning the transition of the PHF Language Futures initiative to management by the Association for Language Learning, including evaluation and research, resource development and sustainability planning.

Two years of core support for the Cultural Learning Alliance, working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to culture.

Support for the 3rd International Teaching Artists Conference (ITAC) due to take place in Glasgow in 2016.