Grants database

Boys & Girls Clubs is a regional voluntary youth organisation working with disadvantaged children and young people. This grant supports Boys & Girls Clubs Northern Ireland to work with artist practitioners from Community Arts Partnership in Belfast to deliver and test the impact of an in-depth programme of visual and digital arts-based learning, linked to the curriculum, in three Belfast primary schools and three rural primary schools.

BEEE Creative works to improve inclusion and access to dance provision for people in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. This grant will support their work with Key stage 2 students and their teachers in six primary schools in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. The project will support children’s learning and wellbeing and will seek to build teacher’s confidence in teaching dance and develop a supportive and sustainable dance teaching network across the two counties.

Arts Council of Wales is the official body that funds and develops the arts in Wales. This grant will support Arts Council of Wales to work in partnership with Early Years Wales to identify voluntary-managed, non-maintained nursery education settings to take part in a three-year pilot. The programme will explore how arts-based approaches can be used in early years settings to support teaching for creativity in the context of the new Non-maintained Curriculum for Wales.

Tamasha is a national new writing theatre company, serving Global Majority artists and audiences. This grant will support Tamasha to roll out a national developing artists programme, supporting emerging and mid-career artists from the Global Majority. This will in turn develop audiences to access and participate in authentic diverse stories in the theatre space.

Slung Low are large scale People’s Theatre creators based in Holbeck, inner south Leeds. They also manage a shared community resource and arts centre. This grant will allow Slung Low to deliver a leadership academy to create the capacity for civic leadership amongst the people of Holbeck, ensuring local committees are more representative of the communities of Holbeck. The academy will also work to increase the capacity of values-based, action-led leadership within the arts sector.

Museum of Homelessness (MoH) educates on homelessness through their artistic work and public programme. They take practical action to support the homeless community and fight injustice through research and campaigning. This grant supports MoH to pilot and develop a new creative community asset in Finsbury Park, employing and supporting people with experience of homelessness in key creative and community building roles; commissioning exceptional artists from marginalised backgrounds to make participatory work; deepening community action and agency and growing campaigning and influencing work.

Hear Me Out brings immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform powerful music, increase wellbeing, and change attitudes to migrants. This grant will support Hear Me Out to develop organisational capability, build capacity and expand their audiences.

Glasgow Zine Library is a community space, self-publishing library and archive working with adults and young people, artists and marginalised community groups to provide affordable and accessible community arts programmes. This grant provides core support to enable the organisation to deliver a community arts and training programme, provide professional development for staff and volunteers and employ local, marginalised creatives to provide meaningful, high-quality arts programming for a diverse and inclusive audience.

EastSide Arts inspire residents and visitors by celebrating east Belfast, nurturing creative talent and delivering excellent programmes and events. This grant will enable them to deliver ​‘Creative Citizens’, a four-year immersive community engagement programme in east Belfast. The organisation will build community capacity to design and deliver creative programmes, create a benchmark for creative community facilitation and build and nourish a creative ecosystem in east Belfast.

Coventry City of Culture Trust is an arts organisation planning and delivering Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture 2021 and its legacy activity between 2022–2024. This grant will support the Trust to work with the arts and community sector to embed legacy practice via a programme of commissioned partner projects and capacity-building support. The programme is designed to harness and expand networks of partners and embed co-creation practice and joined-up ways of working across the city, with funds contributing to a series of targeted and open commissions, and associated staff costs.

Ardent Theatre Company produce theatre, career training and mentorship programmes, providing a platform for theatre industry voices and online resources. Their aim is to make theatre a place where no one feels like an outsider, welcoming people whose voices are unheard and stories untold. This grant provides core funding for staffing costs to enable Ardent to sustain their work and grow their impact through fundraising activity.

Windrush Defenders Legal (WDL) provides free independent support and advocacy to the African Caribbean community, particularly the Windrush Generation, while actively contributing to a just and equal society where everyone’s rights are protected. This grant will support them to create or amend legislation that restores the citizenship of the Windrush Generation and their descendants, and repairs the damage done to community cohesion by racially disproportionate immigration law enforcement.