Grants database

Midi Music is a music education and talent development charity that nurtures children and young people and supports them in their creative ambitions. This grant provides core support for Midi Music to continue providing affordable music education and pathways to further and higher education for children and young people. This support will enable Midi Music to work with over 4,000 11–30 year-olds each year across ten core music programmes.

The Duncairn delivers a programme of live music, workshops and participatory arts events from their base in North Belfast. As part of a community-based charity, they work to develop young artists and break down barriers to participation for those from minoritised groups and those experiencing structural disadvantage. This grant provides core support for The Duncairn’s work with new communities, including the development of new pathways to showcase emerging artists and community voice through their arts programming and organisational structures.

Project Art Works are a collective of neurodiverse artists, activists and caregivers. Their programmes evolve through creative practice and contribute to awareness raising in both the cultural and care sectors, promoting more diverse representation and relevance in cultural programming. Through their work, they aim to improve quality of life for people who have complex needs and their circles of support through art. This grant provides strategic core support to the organisation to continue key programmes and partnerships and use the opportunity following their nominations and receipt of key awards to address structural inequalities experienced by neurominorities.

Leeds 2023 is delivering a ground-breaking year of culture for Leeds and the wider region. Their mission is to deliver transformational creative experiences that connect and benefit people now and into the future. This grant underpins My Leeds, a two-year project co-created with and led by communities across Leeds. Working across 33 wards, My Leeds celebrates the diversity and complexity of cultural participation by enabling communities to take a lead on designing their own local cultural offer.

Community Arts by ZK is a young lived experience-led participatory visual arts organisation rooted in the working-class South Asian Muslim community of Pendle in Lancashire. They devise art projects serving their community alongside refugees and asylum seekers and white British communities. Their participatory work provides space for community interaction and cohesion. This grant provides core support for a three-year programme of work and enables the organisation to build their capacity, sustainability and impact.

Candoco is a professional dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. They present ground-breaking performances with inclusion at their heart. Their learning programme includes high-quality dance activity for young disabled dancers alongside professional development for disabled makers. This grant provides core support to support Candoco during a critical period of staff transition and to embed a revised Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action and Training Plan.

Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) is an annual arts event and year-round cultural outreach programme based in Bradford. They aim to create high quality cultural activity and build stronger communities through dialogue, cohesion and promotion of intercultural fluency. This grant supports BLF to establish a year-round community engagement programme which will transform social inclusion, accessibility and representation for working-class and marginalised communities. Specifically, funding will support a full-time Community Manager, regular community consultation events, co-created programming and evaluation of the programme.

The Justice Together Initiative is a funder collaboration that offers funding and support to grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the immigration system and embed anti-racism strategies. Through grant-making and collaboration, they aim to connect lived experience, front-line advice and influencing strategies to create lasting change. This grant contributes to funds for grantees Eastern European Resource Centre and Work Rights Centre to increase their advice capacity for those affected by the war in Ukraine and respond to growing demand for immigration advice.

Asylum Matters works to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change. By mobilising and coordinating local, regional and national advocacy work, they aim to increase the impact of campaigns to secure improvements to asylum policy and practice. This grant supports Asylum Matters to deliver a campaign in response to the Nationality and Borders Bill, specifically to increase public and political opposition to the two-tier system of protection proposed by the bill, and to demonstrate the harmful impact of the proposals on Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

United Legal Access (ULA) provides low-cost legal support in the community. They focus on providing legal assistance, legal education and advocating on behalf of migrant and ethnic minority groups, individuals and communities that are often marginalised, discriminated against and facing injustice. This grant supports the supervision, coordination and administration of ULA’s Windrush compensation support alongside increased digital promotion and outreach to support more people affected by the Windrush scandal.

The Public Law Project (PLP) is a legal charity working to improve access to justice in the UK and to ensure those marginalised through poverty, discrimination or disadvantage have access to the public law remedies necessary to hold the state to account. They employ lawyers and academics to support the sector with an expert, evidence-led approach across research and policy, training and support, casework and litigation. This grant supports PLP to appoint a Legal Director during a period of organisational change.

Praxis support migrants to have a voice, live in safety, meet their basic needs and overcome barriers to integration. They host and support Brighter Futures, a group of young people aged 16–25 who work together to speak up for young migrants and their rights and challenge negative perceptions of migration in the UK. This grant supports the continuation of Brighter Futures who campaign on the issues that affect them, with the support of a Youth Coordinator and partner Kazzum Arts. The group will be supported to deliver interventions that challenge discrimination and influence public debate.