Grants database

Centrepoint Youth Educators’ Project in the North East – A peer educator’s project, based in Northumbria, which trains and supports ex-offenders and young parents to deliver homelessness prevention programmes to vulnerable young people in schools and custody and service deliverers. Centrepoint wish to expand the project in order to engage a wider group of marginalised young people including young mothers and mothers to be.

Child centred intervention across transition years 6/7, supporting children to cope with family relationship breakdown, improving communication skills, training teachers and preventing disengagement with learning.

To work with FE colleges and work-based learning providers to develop the public speaking skills of Foundation Level learners through active citizenship projects.

Using a youth-led enquiry approach, this project will enable young people in Scottish schools to develop skills and confidence to design activities, and access tailored support for making the transition to work.

To develop a blueprint for transforming services for young people through co-production and outcomes-focused commissioning, and to work with commissioners and providers to encourage take-up.

Building on a previous project to develop new strategies to improve young people’s speaking and listening skills in its own centre, Salmon now proposes to train and actively support 5 other youth centres to use this approach. Young people who have experienced the first project will further develop their skills as advocates and trainers.

Support for the new education strategy over three years, aimed at engaging a wide range of people with Scottish Ballet’s work and dance as an art form.

Public Achievement wants to run a pilot project to test our ​‘Civic Youth Work’ model as a way of developing stronger relationships between young people, their communities and the police.

An Education Officer to develop and implement projects that tackle homophobic bullying and carry out research to provide an evidence base on homophobia and successful interventions.

TDT’s National Teacher Enquiry Network invests in teacher-led professional development as a strategy to measurably enhance pupil outcomes and the quality of teaching within a school. Responding to the Programme Committee’s feedback in May 2014, this proposal seeks to extend this approach across 20 schools in the North East of England, working in close partnership with local networks. It also trials a new regional hub delivery model for TDT, which, if successful, will allow it to more effectively scale the support it provides to schools to other regions.

Reducing school exclusions and increasing educational attainment of vulnerable pupils

Support to develop user engagement in re-development of their online service provision.