Grants database

The London Legal Support Trust raises funds for free legal advice services in London and the South East. They support free legal advice centres through the provision of grant funding, supporting infrastructure of the sector, and helping agencies reduce costs and save money via pro bono or discounted schemes. This grant will allow them to commission small-scale research, develop advice workforce strategy, and evaluate programmes funded under this programme to share learning. This work will be done in collaboration with Propel learning partner IVAR to ensure the learning from this work is embedded into the overall Propel programme.

The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. This grant will contribute towards IVAR’s core costs – in particular, the administration, organisation and facilitation of the spring convenings; their Community of Practice; and the production and publication of briefings, webinars and other learning resources.

Ten Years Time (TYT) advises high-net-worth individuals to think about philanthropy differently, bringing them closer to the communities they wish to support and supporting the distribution of funds. This grant will contribute to core staffing costs which will help to develop their membership offer and expand their fiscal hosting work.

Nick of Time Productions is led by director, producer and founder Nicolas Kent. This grant supports the production of a second verbatim play about the Grenfell Inquiry, edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent, performing at Playground Theatre, Tabernacle Theatre and Marylebone Theatre throughout February and March 2023.

The Bytes Project works with vulnerable young people in Northern Ireland, using youth work and technology to help transform their lives. This grant will fund work in collaboration with Youth Action to examine the capacity and capability of the voluntary youth work sector.

Actors Touring Company (ATC) produces international, contemporary theatre that travels, creating shows that activate and entertain, asking questions of the world around us. This grant will enable ATC to conduct an evaluation that evidences the impact of Black Out performances of ​‘Tambo & Bones’ and measure the success of their aim to create a liberating, safe space for Black audiences to view the play together in one night.

Common Wealth make experimental, multi-disciplinary theatre with, by and for people new to the arts that is rooted in their socialist politics, working class backgrounds, and an ambition to make change. Their Breakthrough grant in 2018 enabled them to appoint a Collaboration Coordinator in each city, supported the company’s producing budgets, digital capacity and creative R&D with artists emerging through Common Wealth’s projects and programmes. This grant will support core costs for Common Wealth to continue to grow the company in South Wales and navigate the end of their Breakthrough Fund grant and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Open Theatre develops and promotes the creativity of young people with learning disabilities using non-verbal physical theatre. They run sessions in special schools, out of school groups and theatre projects. Open Theatre Company is extending their reach, working intensively with teaching staff in three specialist SEND school settings in the West Midlands, equipping the adults to embed Open Theatre’s proven young person-led, playful and responsive practice throughout the curriculum and school day.

The Forge is an arts organisation specialising in participatory arts projects with children. They work closely with disadvantaged schools co-creating arts-based programmes to improve children’s outcomes. This grant will support the Forge to partner two Special Educational Needs Schools, Ashdale and Blythdale in Northumberland, to co-construct ​‘Talking Cameras’ with pupils who experience a range of significant speech, language and communication and learning challenges and/​or behavioural needs. The Forge is examining how photography and visual literacy methods can be used across the whole curriculum to support children’s personal, social and academic development in SEND settings

River of Hope explores river and water topics, using creative media, visual arts, music and poetry to challenge and provoke classroom discussion, in particular relating to environmental sustainability and climate change themes. The programme will reach Year 4 classes in 40 schools around England.

Settle Stories collaborate with communities and artists to create transformative experiences that ignite curiosity and reimagine storytelling. This grant will fund work with teachers and pupils in North Yorkshire to co-create new resources supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing through storytelling and mindfulness approaches. They will test the effectiveness of resources in live, hybrid and digital only delivery formats.

Freedom Foundation is an arts organisation who work with children to improve mental health, increase skills, resilience and self-esteem. This grant will support a two-year programme of work in two secondary schools in Nottingham to test the impact of a long-term arts-based approach on the learning, mental health and wellbeing of children who are most at risk of suspension or exclusion.