Grants database

Two clusters of schools from the London Boroughs of Brixton and Lambeth work together within schools and with partner organisations to share ideas, resources and expertise to support and facilitate the highest outcomes in attainment and aspirations for our pupils, parents, families staff and wider communities. This grant provides support to aid the clusters in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Studio Voltaire is a contemporary arts organisation based in Lambeth. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Stewarding Loss is a collective of organisational designers, social innovators and coaches. They aim to test and trial ways to support organisations considering, facing or designing closure with practical and emotional guidance and signposting to support and contribute to a wider systemic shift whereby organisational ending or closure is considered as ordinarily as ​‘growth.’ This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Sport 4 Life aims to create better futures for young people through sports-themed personal development programmes. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Sport 4 Life UK aims to create better futures for young people through sports-themed personal development programmes. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

SPID (Social Political Independent Direct) champions the voices of young people from council estates. They help disadvantaged young realise their potential and champion their communities by sharing the stories of where they live and advocating for positive social change. They celebrate shared history, spaces and experiences to create stronger neighbourhoods. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Speak Street is a pop up language cafe based in London which offers a positive response to negativity towards newcomers to the UK. They offer free English classes to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants as well as foreign language classes and events. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

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.