Grants database

Support

School recruitment for a research project to build sector knowledge about approaches to (re-)engage a sub-group (3/5) of NEET students, most likely to be able to achieve positive outcomes.

Byron Wood School will pilot a programme of innovative language learning activities supported by local supplementary schools and Languages Sheffield. A Language Futures Saturday Club will be established and language learning embedded in a range of other clubs, with assemblies and other events raising awareness of pupils’ home languages as an asset.

Capacity building work, including the development of a business plan and a fundraising strategy and working towards quality standards – to enable realisation of Talk Together London’s ambitious expansion plans.

Piloting the Child-to-Child participatory approach in school to help empower and integrate refugee and asylum seeking young people.

Preliminary market research to investigate the need, potential for and sustainability of a proposed national initiative, ​‘Secondary Talk’ which would aim to transform secondary schools across the UK into places where young people’s speech, language and communication development is actively supported.

Pilot Creative Apprenticeships – Project Development

Support for teaching fellowships for 2011-12

To develop and support a campaign to replace the English Baccalaureate with a better baccalaureate that will provide young people with a more rounded education.

A full evaluation and review of the Craft Caf

Funding from PHF will go towards the development of a small, temporary display of migration ​‘keepsakes’. Objects will be sourced from a range of community members who are traditionally less well-represented in museums.

Core support for work which aims to create a dialogue with about 50 young people in Plymouth (from the UK, Brazil, Serbia, Kosovo, Greece and others) engaging with c. 50 of their isolated peers in places like Palestine and Sierra Leone.