Grants database

Intergenerational speaking and listening project

The Live and Learn project is a pilot short course aimed at a variety of group leaders from the formal education sector, informal community groups and support organisations, designed to equip them with the basic skills, confidence and resources to lead a visit to a cultural venue for their groups.

Resilience support over a 15 month period to enable new strategies for engaging schools with the PROGRESS Programme and sustaining Antidote’s work, to come to fruition in a new organisational context.

To underpin the artistic direction and administration of the company over two years.

Resilience support and business consultancy for Soundart Radio

Working across a partnership of six schools to extend a successful primary-age therapeutic intervention to support children and young people at risk of truancy and exclusion up to the age of sixteen.

A pilot schools’ programme in Northern Ireland focusing on developing young people’s speaking and listening skills to improve communication across communities and reduce segregation.

A biennial puppetry festival for adults linked with an ongoing annual programme of puppet making/​performing masterclasses, R&D provision, a scratch performance festival and an Associate Artist scheme.

Conducting safe space dialogues about difficult issues and difference with communities being targeted by divisive groups.

To establish a core public programming, audience building, venue, promoter and artist support, as a secure, high quality, creatively exciting flagship for the story-telling sector.

The creation of a hub for cultural young entrepreneurs to devise and deliver the orchestra’s associated performance, digital and educational activity/​initiatives.

To support a national infrastructure of youth arts professionals to foster good practice and improve the quality and impact of arts provision for young people at risk.