Grants database

The Baobab Foundation is creating a new type of foundation that will support, grow, and strengthen Black and Global Majority communities and community organisations that are led by Black and Global Majority people. This grant will support the start-up and incubation phase of the foundation to include developing their infrastructure and activities, and a contribution to a collective fund to re-grant into organisations and groups led by and for Black people and communities affected by racism in the UK.

The Adolescent and Children’s Trust (TACT) is the UK’s largest dedicated fostering charity. This grant will enable the implementation of the start-up phase of the Care Experienced Movement which is a civil rights style organisation formed and run wholly by care experienced people. The start-up phase includes becoming a legal entity, establishing governance and policies, developing a staff group and drafting strategic and operational plans.

Class 13 supports teachers to recognise, reflect, and respond to their racial and wider biases so that all children can access an education that promotes free expression, as guaranteed to them by Article 13 of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child. This grant will fund the recruitment of two part-time employees to support the development and capacity building of Class13.

Black Funding Network (BFN) is a community of individuals and institutions who come together to support Black founded and led non-profit organisations. This grant will support BFN to recruit and build a team to support its ongoing management and development. Roles recruited for will include operational management, membership/​sales/​fundraising, marketing/​social media and admin roles.

Scarabeus Theatre uses aerial theatre and circus to engage with vulnerable children, young people and families nationwide. This grant will support Scarabeus to deliver Shifting Point, a partnership project with Tender Arts and Education and three primary schools. It focuses on supporting Key stage 2 students to negotiate and build stronger relationships, referring to the Relationships and Sex Education curriculum, using aerial skills, visual theatre and drama.

Music Masters aims to ensure every child can access an outstanding music education, upskilling the workforce, and championing creativity. This grant would support Music Masters to understand and increase their impact, through developing and testing different models of partnerships with schools across the UK and through developing further and wider-reaching training offers for music educators. The charity aims to drive change, towards a music education sector which is more equitable, diverse and inclusive.

Kazzum is an arts organisation which uses creativity to enable marginalised children and young people who have been impacted by trauma to feel seen, heard and valued. This grant will provide core support towards their work in education settings to meet the needs of children and young people facing pandemic-related barriers to learning and progress in their learning.

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.