Grants database

This collaborative partnership between the Royal Shakespeare Company and IVE (formerly Cape UK) focuses on using rehearsal room approaches and theatre-making to teach Shakespeare at primary level. This project aims to develop teachers’ skill, confidence and ambition, to impact on students’ literacy and language development and to use reflective practices and action research to encourage teachers to consider how to apply this across the curriculum.

In Wales, Cerdd Iaith/​Listening to Language is exploring new approaches to music and language learning. Year 6 classroom teachers from ten primary schools in South West Wales are working with orchestral musicians to pilot a new approach to the teaching of modern foreign languages through sound components such as pitch, rhyme, repetition and rhythm, embedding these within music. The project is a partnership between British Council Wales and BBC National Orchestra of Wales with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David School of Education and Communities, and Ein Rhanbarth ar Waith.

Concordia aims to increase the confidence of teachers to lead singing with children so that they can successfully transform the learning environment of their schools. This project is distinctive in that it is school-led; the grantee is a primary school whose head teacher has a track record in singing and music and strong local school networks. Teachers and senior leaders from 16 schools across Newcastle are participating in the project.

Transform Justice is a national charity working for a fair, humane, open and effective justice system. This grant will support the continuing dissemination of the findings of the reframing crime and justice programme which Paul Hamlyn Foundation has previously funded.

This grant will provide emergency accommodation for refugee children arriving from the Calais refugee camp. The Salvation Army will provide welcome packs of toiletries and additional items such as sweets, chocolate and clothing.

This grant will support the role of a part-time coordinator, who will carry out the following functions: 

• Strategic planning
• Fundraising and promotional activities
• Human resources activities
• Communications – lead communications with funders and other stakeholders
• Operational & financial activities – oversight of delivery of projects, monitoring and financial reporting.

The Ministry of Stories is a creative writing and mentoring centre for young people in east London. After a 3 year evaluation by the Institute of Education, Ministry of Stories invited similar organisations working within the sector to share in the findings and discuss practice, beginning a ​’roundtable’ group. It will now explore the ​‘hub and spoke’ model and develop shared methodologies.

The Scale Accelerator is ICSF’s structured programme to support replication; helping partners choose from a spectrum of replication or growth models. Working alongside delivery partners The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) and the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE), the Scale Accelerator enables organisations to assess their readiness for replication, analyse their business model, plan for scale, improve evidence, build a support network and engage in wider learning. This grant will support several grantees to develop clear plans on how they can scale and measure impact.

Citizens UK, established in 2004, is the largest community organising network in the UK, with an expanding membership of 350 institutions, This grant will support DBS checked volunteers to accompany refugee children through the transfer process and support successful relocation.

The British Academy is the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences – the study of peoples, cultures and societies, past, present and future. It will produce a collection of essays exploring different elements of social integration. The collection will bring academic viewpoints and research on social integration together with examples of practical interventions and activities that have been shown to make significant positive impact. The British Academy will be work with a range of stakeholders to look for solutions that can be implemented at a local level by councils, businesses or voluntary sector organisations to promote integration.

Only Connect UK works with Londoners aged 16+ who are currently in custody, or who have left within the last year. It runs two centres in King’s Cross and White City offering creative opportunities and delivers rehabilitation projects in prisons. This grant will allow Only Connect UK to develop a more sustainable business model. It will convert its 4000-square-foot head office into a local hub with hot-desking, room hire and catering to generate revenue and provide opportunities for members. It will also seek to inform national policy and practice, and encourage replication of its model outside of London.

DanceEast will explore whether it can maintain quality, via specialist dance artist input, in blended learning models (those that combine digital and face-to-face delivery) for primary schools. It will test which elements are practical and their impact on children’s progression in dance, teachers’ confidence and dance’s place within the curriculum. DanceEast will work with the Northgate Pyramid: a consortium of 7 primaries that feeds Northgate High School in Ipswich.