Grants database

ConnectFutures (CF) work with young people, communities and professionals to increase knowledge, resilience and confidence in preventing extremism and serious violence, challenging hate, and promoting social justice. This grant will allow CF to strengthen their operating model by implementing a Youth Advisory Board in partnership with the West Midlands Virtual Schools Children in Care Foundation. Funding will also support recruitment of two new roles, trained to support the Youth Advisory Board, and expert guidance to develop their evaluation methods to capture connections between individual and systemic impact.

The Young Women’s Movement is Scotland’s national organisation for young women’s feminist leadership, which creates transformational spaces that enable young women to lead personal, community and institutional change. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans.

Integrate UK are based in Bristol and invest in the skills, passions and talents of young people as leaders who can thrive in a society that recognises the value of gender and racial equality and cross-cultural cohesion. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans.

The Advocacy Academy is a youth organising movement based in Brixton, working to create a more fair, equal and just society where young people with lived experience of injustice have the power to make lasting change for themselves and their communities. They focus on building the power of young people, using radical youth work and community organising alongside social justice training. This grant will provide core funding alongside an annual package of support towards organisational development and growth plans.

Castle Hill School, a SEND specialist setting, will lead a group of SEND specialist and mainstream primary schools based in and around Huddersfield. They will partner with The Colour Foundry, working with teachers and school leaders to develop learning through traditional and digital visual arts- and music-based practices. They will aim to embed inclusion and celebration of individuality at the heart of teaching practice.

Building on Lewisham’s Borough of Culture year, four special and two mainstream schools will work in partnership with Trinity Laban and Peoplescape Theatre. Artists from both disciplines will collaborate with teachers to develop a unified learning journey for everyone, with the goal to improve communication skills of young people facing high levels of disadvantage. Communication skills are the key to unlocking young peoples’ ability to thrive as active, engaged and connected members of their communities, and combining dance and drama will ensure the activities are fully inclusive for children with a wide range of complex needs.

A partnership between MAKE, Knit Shop and Dundee Creative Learning Network, this is an ambitious new career-long professional learning project, which explores the value and potential of teaching craft in primary school with professional textile makers, working across different disciplines. The programme is designed to embed craft approaches to numeracy development across six to eight primary schools in Dundee and aims to develop teachers’ skills, confidence and ambition in teaching craft, whilst unlocking learning across the curriculum.

The Story Exchange Project aims to inspire process-driven creative collaborations which develop the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence of teachers to provide space for improving Emotional Literacy and Pupil Voice in the classroom. Teachers from six Oxfordshire schools will work with artists from The Story Works to explore this area.

Teachers, support staff and school leaders from six Derby primary schools will partner with artists from Derby Theatre to learn and embed drama-based and creative approaches to support students to develop language skills and to build their confidence and interpersonal skills. Participating schools have a higher than average intake of pupils who speak English as an additional language and/​or serve communities experiencing socio-economic inequity.

Teaching for Creativity focuses on how arts can support school improvement and the development of blended approaches to continuing professional development and learning. This project aims to reactivate arts-based experiences (which were paused due to the pandemic) and to enhance the schools’ cultural entitlement. Each school will focus on either theatre or the visual arts, working with an artist from that field to learn the skills necessary to deliver high quality arts-based teaching.

Sacred Heart RC Primary School is collaborating with Digit Music, Manchester Poetry Library and five further schools in the Manchester/​Bolton/​Salford area, to support teachers to embed spoken word and digital music approaches in their practice, and make links into the stories of human rights heroes from the Manchester area.

This project is focused on Year 1 pupils’ Communication and Language, and Personal, Social and Emotional skills, working with eight schools in Doncaster, one in Scunthorpe and darts (Doncaster Community Arts). It aims to build teachers’ arts-based practice, using drama and storytelling to improve core skills such as focus, empathy and vocabulary.