Grants database

21Common is a dance collective producing performance and community collaborations nationally and internationally. This grant will enable them to work collaboratively with children and teaching staff in four Glasgow schools, enabling pupils to engage in performance arts and develop social and personal skills and a sense of agency over their own learning.

ZoieLogic Dance Theatre is a professional dance theatre company in Southampton; making and touring dance theatre work alongside youth and community projects. They challenge the perceptions of dance, who it’s for, and where and how it is shown. This grant will support ​‘We Are Holyrood’, an accessible creative dance programme delivered in the heart of the Holyrood Estate, Southampton, placing the needs of the community centre stage to raise aspirations and build community cohesion.

The One-Handed Musical Instrument (OHMI) Trust does pioneering work with and for people with congenital and acquired upper limb impairment. They aim to remove the physical barriers to learning and playing an instrument faced by children, young people and adults who do not have the full use and control of two upper limbs. This grant will enable OHMI to support Music Hubs in delivering full equitable access to early music making for physically disabled children and young people. They will do this through needs assessment, providing instruments and additional support to young learner musicians, providing training to music teachers and inclusion managers in Music Hubs. They will also deliver ongoing sector support and development through original research, refining and disseminating best practice; and partnership with others.

The Art House is home to over 50 artists, makers and creative businesses, and exists to champion equality of access and higher diversity in contemporary visual arts practice. Artists and audiences are invited to engage with the creative process through a rich programme of residencies, exhibitions, events, workshops and professional development opportunities. This grant will fund the consolidation of work supporting refugees and asylum seekers as artists and as participants through a Studio of Sanctuary (SoS) programme, offering bespoke support to people staying in the local Initial Accommodation Centre for people seeking asylum.

Albany Theatre is an arts centre and cultural hub in South East London. This grant will help The Albany to create a long-term shift in its operations, to centre co-design, co-creation and community participation across the organisation, with multiple points of entry for communities and artists to help lead this change, including Associate Artists and Young Creatives.

Strike A Light work with and for communities in Gloucester to create events, tell people’s stories through performance and provide participation opportunities for young people. This grant provides core funding to support creative opportunities for young people in Gloucester through Community Producers, youth theatre/​dance classes and annual training programme for new and emerging practitioners with a focus on Global Majority and diverse leaders in the city.

Stand and Be Counted Theatre (SBC Theatre) make live and digital theatre with a proud record for platforming new artists and welcoming new audiences. Their work is innovative, adventurous and political, merging lived experience with new ideas. This grant will fund core support to enable SBC Theatre to extend arts access for people seeking sanctuary (refugees, asylum seekers and new migrants) through developing and delivering long-term programmes of creative activity, leadership and performance.

People United is a socially engaged participatory arts charity based in East Kent. This grant will support Futures of Care 2 which evolves People United’s care-centred practice, building on partnerships and pilot projects developed over the last three years, including co-commissioning and a collaboration with Kent Refugee Action Network.

Extant is a professional performing arts company that explores visual impairment to create unique and innovative artistic experiences, placing visually impaired people at the centre of all they do. Extant Enhance is an alternative to audio description, designed by and for visually impaired people. It addresses the barriers of cost and long lead-in times for venues and provides a more holistic and connected audience experience for visually impaired theatre goers. This grant will enable the roll out of Extant Enhance to a number of mid-scale theatres nationwide to continue developing it and build a business model for ongoing financial sustainability.

Disability Arts Online are an organisation led by disabled people, set up to advance disability arts and culture. They give disabled artists a platform to blog and share thoughts and images describing artistic practice, projects and finding inspiration to be creative. This grant will contribute to Disability Arts Online’s core funding, enabling them to deliver a bold programme of accessible, creative and critical work in the digital realm and with location-based partners.

Access All Areas support Learning Difficulty and Autistic (LDA) artists to be leaders in film, TV and theatre to address structural ableism in the arts and culture sector. Specifically, they will co-lead Transforming Leadership programme and support LDA artists as consultants to further support others like them in the sector.

The Work Rights Centre is a charity dedicated to helping migrant workers exit precarious work. Founded by people who have migrated to the UK with experience of the immigration system, they provide expert employment rights casework and evidence-based advocacy which strives to affect systemic change for the long term. This grant will enable the development of a cohesive strategy for protecting migrant workers in post-Brexit Britain. The programme of work will involve research into the limitations of the current immigration-employment nexus, advocacy, and frontline support for migrant workers.