Grants database

Targeted at individuals within organisations or working freelance who show a strong commitment to encouraging people to be actively and practically involved in the arts and culture, as a maker and/​or participant

To build infrastructure of early years arts practice in Somerset by placing creative arts practitioners within Children’s Centre teams, in tandem with county arts organisations.

FutureEverything is a research-active, creative studio that experiments with art, music and emerging technologies. The grant will support their flagship event, the annual Futuresonic Festival in Manchester, which blurs boundaries between art practice, social innovation and technological experimentation.

A series of cross-disciplinary, participatory artists’ projects that aim to improve co-operation, collaboration and trust within specific villages and communities in rural Cambridgeshire.

A new opera for family audiences, touring nationally in September/​October 2008 accompanied by a family and schools workshop programme.

Feasibility study to help understand how best to involve, protect and support young people, as well as to further develop our understanding of the potential impact of the ​‘communication leaders’ initiative.

We will deliver a TIE project in English and Cantonese to students, teachers and parents to 16 Chinese Supplementary Schools in London and surrounding area.

Eye Citizen, a London based organisation, is being supported to carry out research and development for the creation of a free service for marginalised groups and individuals to help them use the social media and citizen journalism to enable their voices to be heard.

Impact Measurement Survey

Funding to support the evaluation of Future Play.

Research to explore the scope for, and implications of, volunteering by young ex-prisoners, with a view to creating practical, evidence-based guidance and policy recommendations.

To enable the organisation to build on a pilot that explored the theatre’s role in educating children, whereby children come to classes at the theatre every day for seven weeks instead of going to school.