Grants database

Supporter To Reporter For Success’ will support 1,280 11–16 year olds to develop their speaking and listening skills through becoming sports reporters. Participants will progress through a structured skills framework, going on to apply what they have learned at high profile sports events and access ​‘career tasters’ offered by media partners including the BBC and Sky. DigitalMe and partners The For Success Foundation will pilot flexible resources to be shared with Playing for Success clubs and schools nationwide.

A three year grant for the Graduate Programme that aims to facilitate creative social enterprise activity driven by young people across Scotland. Entirely youth-led, the programme will employ ​‘graduates’ of the past seven years of operation to be tutors/​mentors/​facilitators. It will also develop creative safe spaces for marginalised sections of the community.

To set up an ensemble to provide leadership for SG’s team of musicians, working across the region and in the building as animateurs, teachers and performers. Each ensemble member will either lead strands of work (overseeing particular music practices or contexts, such a folk music) or lead specific projects working as an individual musician, in small groups or as part of the whole ensemble.

This funding supports a segment of Music in Detention’s continued delivery of work in Immigration Removal Centres, expansion and development of their community exchange work and devolution of delivery to local partnerships.

EmploymentFM is a national consortium project to enable the community radio sector and partners to better deliver employability training to 16–19 year-olds in various settings.

Development of support service for BME learning disabled in Edinburgh and the Lothians – to provide transition support for age 16 +

Continuation support for ongoing development of RDA’s ​‘National Service User Forum’ and ​‘Young People’s Forum’ to secure and strengthen the ability of service users and ex-offenders to influence policy. Building on the national forum work to pilot local service user forums.

Support to establish, test and promote LOV as a model of good practice; with young people as programmers, producers and audiences at the heart of its success

Four pilot projects engaging marginalised young people through their supplementary school in out of schools hours learning, sport & physical activity opportunities.

Towards three pilots testing different approaches to working with new audiences, prior to Open Eye Gallery moving to its new building.

Lincolnshire One Venues – a consortium of eleven organisations across the county – will collaborate to change the dynamics of artistic programming and deepen young people’s engagement, allowing them more contact with creative practitioners so that they can be involved as consumers, critics, aspiring artists and creative entrepreneurs. Our grant will support four key salaries for new posts.

Supported learning programme of voice and confidence building; production of a short but impactful radio recording on employability; and attainment of a personal development qualification.