Grants database

ARCADE supports creativity in all its forms, working with local communities and supporting local artists to ensure the Scarborough region has a thriving creative scene. This grant supports ARCADE to develop a locally-rooted partnership in Scarborough, encompassing artists and museum educators from ARCADE, Scarborough Museums and Galleries, Flash Company Arts and KIT Theatre. Using an arts-based approach drawing on immersive drama and storytelling, the partnership would work with a small group of Scarborough primary schools, a PRU and an SEND specialist school, to support learning across the curriculum.

Talawa is a Black British theatre company that champions Black excellence in theatre. This grant will support Talawa’s new Early Years programme addressing a significant gap in provisions for quality, accessible and affordable theatre for babies aged 6–18 months. Funding will support staffing, artist/​facilitator fees, early years training for artists, alongside the development of, and subsequent tour, of a new co-created show for babies, as part of a wider early years program. This programme will be delivered in partnership with children’s theatre experts Unicorn Theatre.

Studio Voltaire (SV) is a contemporary arts organisation based in Clapham. This grant will provide support for its four-year civic programming, including the development of a Programme Advisory Group of local community members to critically engage and reflect on SV’s work, and a national programme of research and creative participation with, by and for young trans people.

Peak Cymru collaborates with young people, artists and intergenerational communities to celebrate the unique qualities and ecologies of Southeast Wales. This grant funds core costs to enable rurally based young people aged 16 to 30 years to shape Peak Cymru’s programme, to embed their voice within the organisation and strengthen a co-leadership model.

Ort Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space in Birmingham with the social mission to facilitate dialogue in the community. With this grant, the gallery will continue to test and develop their ​‘Warmth’ way of working, centring care and embedding equity across all their work; this will involve internal development of governance and policies, and community-led programming focusing on supporting under-served Muslim creatives and audiences.

Museum of Colour is a heritage and creativity social enterprise. This grant contributes core funds for the development of a digital museum to explore the contribution made by people of colour to the nation’s film, television and art, through a series of digital collections and responses. Museum of Colour wishes to shift the narrative of the UK’s arts and national history by recognising and celebrating the lives of past generations of artists of colour. In addition, they will support others to reframe and retell their stories to create a fuller richer history without omissions and obsfucations.

Impact Dance (ID) is a Black-led art-for-social-change organisation specialising in hip-hop theatre, street dance and youth development. This grant will support Impact Dance’s work addressing the inequality of opportunity to access and participate in dance by those facing long-term structural and systemic inequalities: an accessible CPD programme for dance teachers from non-traditional backgrounds, pastoral care provision for members, and residential and respite opportunities for young people in the Academy.

Future Yard CIC is a social enterprise with the ambition to reimagine the role of a community music venue. This grant contributes to core costs to develop Future Yard, their music venue and artist hub in Birkenhead, as a community asset that will develop and nurture cultural industries in the North West and support the local community.

East London Dance (ELD) work to inspire communities through dance, creating opportunities within dance for those least likely to receive them.This grant provides core funding to enable ELD to deliver their three main programmes of work – an artist commissioning programme, ​‘Our House’; a professional development programme for producers, ​‘Producers House’; and ​‘Creative Collective’, a paid advisory board formed of creatives aged 18–35 that will inform ELD’s strategic development and artistic programme.

Beyond Face is a theatre company working with local global majority artists and young people to help them to build their own creative work and sense of community. This grant supports the growth and development of Beyond Face’s Regional Voices programme, which aims to connect with local people who currently have little to no engagement or experience with the theatre industry, investigating how people who don’t work in the arts sector can engage with arts as a creative outlet.

ATLAS Arts organises collective art projects across the North West coast of Scotland. They work with artists and local residents through a programme of screenings, residencies and workshops. This grant will support the delivery of the School of Plural Futures (SoPF), a three-year youth-led creative learning programme where young people create a peer-led community to talk about housing, social history, culture, belonging, climate justice, Gaelic and Scottish colonial history in a safe and supported way. Working with a lead artist, the group will explore issues through creative activities including book making, film screenings, film making, print making, writing and poetry.

The Refugee and Migrant Policy (RAMP) Project helps political leaders to think more deeply and to collaborate more widely on migration, asylum and integration issues to improve the quality and quantity of political debate and subsequent policy outcomes. This grant supports RAMP’s core work, including their role as Secretary of the APPG on Migration to develop shared recommendations for action.