Grants database

Eden Court Highlands is working with ten small, rural primary schools in the Highland region of Scotland. Specialist artist practitioners are working collaboratively with teachers to develop arts-based approaches in their teaching, including role-play, characterisation, storytelling, film and image composition, to support the teaching of the Health & Wellbeing and Social Studies curriculum areas.

Dance Collective plans to develop a programme of professional development for teachers at nine schools in Llandudno, North Wales. Through collaboration with dance artists, teachers will develop their confidence, skills and knowledge in teaching dance and creative movement. The project also aims to support schools to develop strategies for embedding dance and creative movement throughout the Curriculum for Wales.

Who Are We? is an oracy project involving six schools from East London / Essex and poet educators/​spoken word artists from Eastside Education Trust. Content will be based around celebrating pupils’ diversity and identity and provide cross-curricular learning tools through a variety of subject areas.

Liverpool Philharmonic enhances and transforms lives through music. At the heart of their work is the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (the UK’s oldest); an extensive programme of participative work with young people; and presentation of almost 400 concerts and events each year. This grant will create a £3.5 million endowment, the investment gains from which will be solely used to underpin Liverpool Philharmonic’s long-term commitment to inspiring children and young people to develop their passion for music and fulfil their potential.

Liverpool Philharmonic enhances and transforms lives through music. At the heart of their work is the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (the UK’s oldest); an extensive programme of participative work with young people; and presentation of almost 400 concerts and events each year. This grant will be used over 5 years to expand Liverpool Philharmonic’s In Harmony Youth Hubs into new areas of the city. 

Systemic Justice is the first Black-led organisation in Europe working to radically transform how the law works for communities fighting for racial, social, and economic justice. As ​“the movements’ law firm”, Systemic Justice helps ensure that those fighting for justice and equality can bring about change via the courts. This aims to help dismantle the power structures that fuel racial, social, and economic injustice.

School of International Futures (SOIF) is a global non-profit collective of practitioners in strategy and policy for current and future generations. They are a transformational organisation working at the intersection of intergenerational planning, strategy, and policy. They empower people to use participatory futures and foresight to drive societal transformation through their organisations and countries. Their work has a social purpose and uses foresight to unlock insights about the future.

Positive Money’s vision is for a money and banking system that enables a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy. A research and campaigning organisation, they work with economists, academics, journalists, policy makers and the public to bring about a fairer money and banking system.

Kinfolk Network (KIN) aims to bring Black campaigners, activists, and organisers together from across the UK to collaborate, strategise and support each other in spaces that are accessible, well-resourced, and restorative. KIN envision the groups and individuals at the helm of change are nourished, supported and held accountable, in community with shared purpose. In Adrienne Mariee Brown’s words, they intend to build ​‘critical connections’ that will sustain movements for generations to come. By bringing Black campaigners, organisers and activists together from across movement spaces, they will continue to contextualise the fight for justice, learn from each other, acknowledge internalized oppressions, explore alternative forms of collective organising, and experiment with what these alternative forms might look like.

Good Ancestor Movement exists to accelerate the just transition to a new economy anchored in ecological and social wellbeing, by leveraging the power of private capital. The organisation helps wealth holders and custodians to play their part in creating a more equitable society and ecological resilience through values-led wealth stewardship and reparative and regenerative redistribution. They are the UK’s first advisory firm exclusively dedicated to supporting individuals, families, trusts and foundations with radical wealth redistribution. All their work is grounded in an ongoing exploration of what it means to be good ancestors.

Campaign for Freedom of Information (CFOI) works to improve and defend freedom of information to hold government and public authorities to account. They do this through advocacy, lobbying and policy work. They also provide advice, guidance and training.