Grants database

Core-support for a ​‘Sistema-inspired’ daily provision of music-making activities to children, families and residents of West Everton.

To develop and run an education and participation programme associated with the building of an architecturally and conceptually innovative temporary live/​work spaces for artists in the New Forest.

This publication will bring together leading educationalists to contribute ideas to a Manifesto for Schools to narrow the attainment gap. The aim is to produce a set of innovative and radical policy proposals that are workable in the current context and couched in the best research and evidence available. The proposals will be reviewed by a ​‘practitioner panel’ to ensure the participation of school leaders in this work.

Young Curators: a three-year training programme enabling young people to conceive, organise and present their own visual art exhibitions in a public art gallery.

Digital artist’s residencies based in a cluster of schools in Bannockburn, Stirling where the use of ICT and Digital Arts will be explored and teachers will be trained.

105.9 Academy FM Folkestone Motiv8 is a work training programme for 16–19 year old NEETs to develop their speaking and listening skills and to improve employability skills and attitude to work through presenting on the radio.

Following on from the support we gave in 2009 to The Making to develop Skills in the Making, a continuous professional development scheme for teachers and trainee teachers: we are supporting a transition phase to enable NSEAD to take over the management of the programme.

People with learning disabilities take the lead

This project aims to channel the enthusiasm for formal schools-based work into engaging young people with the gallery in an informal way. A series of projects with young people will result in their designs for interpretation materials to be utilised in the Gallery.

Extending DCYP’s existing services to deliver, in partnership with other local service providers, a programme of intensive one-to-one support to local young people, which enables them to access education and training and develop the skills and confidence to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

Prospects is a two-year project to help ex-offenders, aged 18–25, who are severely disadvantaged in the labour market, to find and remain in employment. Based in Cumbria, the project aims to work with local partners to improve employment and training opportunities, help participants become more confident and responsible, and access advice and support to address their basic needs which will allow them to play a fuller part in their communities.

The evaluation and report of ​“Learning to Lead” national pilot by Cambridge University and New Economics Foundation to enable national roll out