Grants database

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) brings together 14 leading UK aid charities to rapidly raise funds and scale up their operations on the ground when major disasters hit countries without the capacity to respond. This grant constitutes Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s contribution to the DEC’s fundraising efforts in response to Covid-19 across the world.

DASH is a disabled-led visual arts charity. It creates opportunities for Disabled artists to develop their creative practice. These opportunities take many forms, from high quality commissions to community-based workshops. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Dance Umbrella is a London-based international festival with a mission to engage new audiences through contemporary dance. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

D6: Culture in Transit are visual arts producers and policy advisors who promote the role of artists and value of the arts in the sustainable development of neighbourhoods, communities and the planet through research, commissioning, and presentation. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Cubitt is an artist-led charity, consisting of a gallery, studios and education programme. Cubitt offers exhibitions of emerging visual artists, affordable artists studios and an education programme which includes artist-led creative development projects in partnership with schools. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Creative Youth Network works in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North East Somerset. It runs four open access youth centres, provides a one to one advice service for young people navigating challenging situations, offers creative courses and qualifications, and has an alternative education provision. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Cove Park creates residencies in all the art forms for national and international artists, supporting the development of new work alongside a year round programme of free artist-led creative workshops, events and talks for local children, young people and families. This grant supports Cove Park in continuing the development and delivery of ​‘Hands On Cove Park’ and adapt to the longer-term impact of Covid-19 through online resources and responsive offers that maximise use of Cove Park’s facilities once reopened.

Arts and Health South West is a learning, advocacy, networking and development organisation. This grant will support the set up of the National Centre for Creative Health, to take forward the recommendations on Creative Health by the APPG on arts, health and wellbeing.

Enact Equality works to advance racial justice and equality in the UK. This grant will provide core costs to support their work advocating for race equality and creating system change. This involves influencing decision-making, empowering young people from disadvantaged or racialised backgrounds, and working with leaders to foster equality, social justice and tangible change.

Culture Commons is an organisation that blends public relations, stakeholder management, campaign strategy and traditional lobbying in order to help amplify the voices of creative organisations who want their work to have an impact on policy at local, national and international levels. This grant will support them to build the evidence base for a series of policy recommendations specifically designed to make the UK’s creative and cultural sectors more equal, diverse and inclusive.

Comic Relief is a charity based in the UK, with a vision of a just world, free from poverty. This pooled fund will support the intersection of migration, racial injustice, popular culture and social change working with organisations at the cutting edge of this work. The programme aims to embed a comprehensive learning approach in order to strengthen and grow the field in the UK.

YMCA George Williams College – incorporating The Centre for Youth Impact – is a community of UK organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant provides core support to the Centre, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.