Grants database

Spark Inside runs coaching programmes in prison to encourage rehabilitation and reduce reoffending. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Founded in 1997, South East Dance aims to widen participation in dance, engage audiences and support independent dance artists. It delivers community-based participation programmes, public festivals and programmes dance performance across the South East. This grant supports South East Dance to continue their national programme Little Big Dance and support the artist community in post-Covid recovery.

Social Ark is a charity based in Tower Hamlets that supports young people from under-resourced East London communities to use their lived experiences to develop social businesses of their own. They deliver team-building activities, business development and leadership programmes to businesses, schools, youth organisations, other non-profits and prisons. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Slung Low specialises in making productions in non-theatre spaces, often with large community performance companies. They manage The Holbeck in Leeds which includes an open development space for artists and run a Cultural Community College where adults come to learn new cultural skills. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes. Shape Arts jointly delivers Unlimited, a programme which aims to change perceptions of disabled people through supporting the creation of ambitious and ground-breaking art by disabled artists. This grant supports Unlimited in extending its existing commissioning support for a key group of artists who have had their work significantly disrupted by the pandemic; expand its reach to offer micro-commissions to disabled artists in Northern Ireland; and provide an emergency funding pot to respond to ad hoc requests from disabled artists for equipment and support.

The Sexual Health Circus is a ​‘circus in education’ show and project enhancing young people’s experience of sexual health education through the engaging media of circus. After the show the students are invited to take part in an anonymous question and answer session. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Settled is a Bristol-based charity whose mission is to guide, inform and assist EU citizens who are at risk of being left behind, due to their specific life circumstances. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Scrutiny is a project by freelance journalist Louise Tickle. Scrutiny supports journalists and citizen investigators to hold to account parts of the state and public-facing organisations that operate behind closed doors. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (RLPS) is an orchestra with associated ensembles, concert hall and music learning programme based in Liverpool. It has a number of associated chamber ensembles including a contemporary music ensemble which champions new music by composers from the North West and beyond. This grant supports RLPS to continue its cornerstone programme ​‘In Harmony’. ​‘In Harmony’ aims to improve the education, aspirations, and health of young people and their families in Anfield and West Everton and aspires to transform communities through music.

Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre (RET) is a nationally recognised organisation which produces new theatre in-the-round, national tours and community-based programmes. This grant will support key delivery roles and engagement activity for RET’s Young Company and ensure sustainability of the programme.

Rochdale Connections Trust are committed to supporting disadvantaged, disaffected and disenfranchised young people living in the most deprived communities throughout Rochdale. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Rights of Women is a women’s charity working in a number of ways to help women through the law. Their services provide women with the legal advice and information they need to understand and use the law and their legal rights. They also work to improve the law for women and increase women’s access to justice. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.