Grants database

ACEVO is a network of over 1,400 charity and social enterprise CEOs and aspiring CEOs. This grant is to support delivery of the second part of the Home Truths (HT) project which shone a light on the problem of racism and race equity in civil society. HT2 will focus on and accelerate practical action in civil society to centre race equity and ensure organisations positively impact Black and minority ethnic people inside and outside the sector, identifying real-life interventions on race equity that exemplify a further, faster approach.

Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity that makes grants and uses its endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society. They aim to connect, fund, invest and share learning to shape an economy that works for all. This grant is a contribution towards the research costs of the Foundation Practice Rating (FPR), which rates UK foundations on their accountability, representation and transparency on an annual basis

Power the Fight tackles violence affecting young people. They work to create long-term solutions for sustainable change and act as a link between the community and policy makers. This grant will fund an event and accompanying report to highlight the contributions of Black professionals in safeguarding Black children in the UK. The event will foreground anti-racist methods of knowledge creation and healing.

Speech Bubbles delivers drama programmes for young children with communication needs and supports other theatres to do the same. This grant will fund core costs to support organisational development and expand the reach of the central Speech Bubbles programme to benefit children aged 5–7 with speech, language and communication needs.

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a dance education charity that delivers multiple initiatives that engage a range of target audiences in dance. This grant will support the provision of the RADiate programme of inclusive and accessible dance for primary-aged children with special educational needs and disabilities. Funding also supports early career dance artists and RAD BA Ballet Education degree students via paid assistantships and mentored placements creating pathways into inclusive dance teaching.

Grand Junction is a community venue running activities for children and adults, and a public arts and music programme. This grant will support Grand Junction to work with primary schools in Paddington and Thanet, Kent, to improve speech, language and communication skills of children with English as an additional language and/​or speech and language delay. The programme uses drama practice, storytelling and creative writing to support pupils facing multiple barriers in school to thrive as expressive communicators and deep thinkers.

Discover Children’s Story Centre is a venue dedicated to engaging and supporting children aged 0–11, families and teachers with creative approaches to literacy. This grant would enable Discover to respond to needs identified by teachers in East London schools relating to children’s literacy and wellbeing. Discover plans to roll-out its Creative Wellbeing Project to 20 classes in five primary schools, over three years, using illustration, poetry, storytelling and a range of crafts to support children’s development, wellbeing and learning.

Baby People is a Black and minority ethnic led music and arts social enterprise that works with disadvantaged young people in Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. This grant will support Baby People to work with young people in alternative education provisions using their Hip Hop based social pedagogy to support engagement in learning.

Amber is a film and photography collective focused on documenting working class and marginalised lives and landscapes in North East England. This grant will support Amber to work collaboratively with two primary schools to adapt, deliver, trial and evaluate digital and hybrid models of its successful photography and filmmaking approach to supporting children’s learning. The project will also develop continuing professional development for teachers in partnership with Newcastle University, produce a range of resources and explore these adapted models with other primary schools in North Tyneside.

Turf Projects is a grassroots, artist-run, free, contemporary art space in Croydon which hosts two artist collectives, MOSS (a collective of local learning disabled artists) and Art Press (a collective of Croydon artists aged 13–18). This grant will support these collectives to regain their access to the arts post pandemic, promote collaboration, fund associated staff costs and develop an impact measurement system.

Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) is a centre for contemporary arts, that enables audiences, artists and participants to see, experience and create. This grant will support DCA in partnership with LUX Scotland and Collective to bring lasting, systemic change in the Scottish arts sector for disabled artists and arts professionals. This programme of research, evaluation and commissioning will create opportunities for meaningful organisational developments to ensure the institutions and their programmes better reflect society.

Bernie Grant Arts Centre (BGAC) is a Black-focused visual arts space in Tottenham working to remove the barriers contributing to underrepresentation in the arts, putting Black artists centre-stage and advocating for critical change. This grant will support the development of their Community Programme and fund associated staff costs, enabling them to grow their critical work with local Black and global majority communities, and establish robust evaluation frameworks to monitor and assess the impact of their work.