Grants database

No Limits supports young people in and around Southampton with advice, counselling and specialist youth services, meeting the needs of the those facing the most complex and challenging circumstances including isolation. This grant will support No Limits to build organisational capacity, enhance IT expertise, train staff and improve support for young people in and around Southampton with advice, counselling and specialist services.

Mermaids works with and on behalf of transgender and gender variant children and young people across the UK. Funding will support a new post to oversee data, security and infrastructure.

Launch It is a youth enterprise charity with sites in England and Scotland. They aim to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to start their own businesses. This grant supports further replication and the development of a more rigorous infrastructure to support its growing network of enterprise centres.

Based in Birmingham, GirlDreamer ​‘educates, elevates and empowers’ marginalised young women of colour to become agents of change in their local communities. Funding will support GirlDreamer’s senior team to focus on strategic planning and to lead the organisation through a period of transformation and growth. They aim to combine the different elements of their offer into one core programme and thus increase the number of young women directly supported by 100 each year. They also hope to enhance long term sustainability by growing consultancy work.

Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT UK) is a national children’s rights organisation working to protect children from trafficking, transnational exploitation and modern slavery. ECPAT UK will work with the Sheila McKechnie Foundation to develop a new campaigns strategy and strengthen its existing youth participation model. It aims for young people to take a more central role to develop and lead new campaigns and reach new audiences. Specialist training will strengthen youth voice as central in leading campaigns to improve legislation to better support child victims of trafficking.

Effervescent Social Alchemy delivers projects supporting young people to create campaigns which focus on issues affecting them, such as sexual exploitation, mental health and loneliness. This grant provides core funding to invest in creative spaces for the benefit of children and young people.

Become provides support and advice to care-experienced children and young people across England, to help them realise their potential and understand their rights. Funding will support the Director of Policy, Campaigns, and Communications, who will lead on campaigning around the planned national Care Review, and ensuring that young people’s voices are central to this.

Darts will develop its Creative Classrooms drama-based approach in four Doncaster schools. Using narrative, drama techniques and a relatable cast of characters to explore stories, the project aims to support children’s resilience, emotional literacy, ability to explore behaviours and overcome obstacles. They will also be better able to communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings, using a wider range of vocabulary and speaking and listening skills. Drama practitioners will work alongside teaching staff, developing their skills and confidence, working towards an impact on whole-school practice.

New Writing North supports writing and reading in the North of England. Through this grant, New Writing North aims to increase community-led cultural provision and facilitate community-based cultural leadership in the Newbiggin Estate and Scotswood and Benwell areas of Newcastle. The programme will further their co-creative practice with Creative Producers working on the ground to develop relationships and respond to community need and barriers.

Trestle Theatre Company is partnering with 8 primary schools in Luton and Stevenage, Royal Opera House Bridge and the University of Hertfordshire to explore how drama- and storytelling-based teaching approaches can support students’ speech, language and communication needs.

Rubicon Dance is partnering with six Welsh primary schools in and around Cardiff, to develop teachers’ knowledge and skills in teaching dance across the new Curriculum for Wales.

Peacock and the Worm will develop accessible printing practices to inform cross-curricular, arts-based pedagogies with small schools across rural Aberdeenshire. Processes will scaffold visual literacy, promote a growth mindset and challenge perceptions of how visual arts operate by embedding printing across curricula.