Grants database

A partnership between Live Music Now Scotland, South Ayrshire local authority’s Creative Learning Network and all five Additional Support Needs schools in South Ayrshire, this project aims to develop teachers’ confidence, knowledge and skills in using music to support students’ language and communication.

This programme is a partnership between Lansbury Lawrence Primary School, five other primaries in Tower Hamlets, Akram Khan Dance Company and Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service. The project aims to develop teachers’ skills and knowledge to confidently plan and deliver dance across the curriculum, and to enable children to tell stories and express themselves through movement.

Creativity Hive is an enquiry-based immersive programme focusing on lower KS2 to raise engagement and attainment in English, using music and journalistic digital media. Exploring text using music, the project seeks to build solid foundations in oracy, vocabulary, reading and comprehension. The programme aims to improve writing and close the progress gap for vulnerable children.

Voices for the Future is a collaboration between Collage Arts, Alexandra Palace and a cohort of five Haringey primary schools, led by Alexandra Primary. Arts practitioners and teachers will develop and embed a multi-disciplinary arts approach to teaching and learning with a particular focus on improving oracy.

The Guardian Foundation is an independent charity that aims to increase access to the media for underrepresented voices. This grant will support Heartlands, a place-based video journalism training programme, examining the social challenges people face, working collaboratively to empower local people to tell their stories.

The Funders for Race Equality Alliance (also known as the Alliance) is a group of charitable foundations working together to achieve race equality in the UK, of which Paul Hamlyn Foundation is a member. This grant supports research to map out organisations working on race equality, including the role of Black and minority ethnic led organisations, and to find out what an active organisation in the race equality sector looks like.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Creative Diversity are a cross-party group working to identify and tackle obstacles to diversity in the creative sector. This grant supports the APPG to develop a research report and events with King’s College London and University of Edinburgh on effective practices for the creative sector in its approach to recruiting, retaining and developing diverse talent and provide recommendations for industry and government.

The Finance Innovation Lab aims to build power to transform the financial system for people and planet. They strive to cultivate a community of systems-changemakers and work on initiatives that impact mental models and power dynamics in finance for deep, lasting change. This grant will support the organisation to empower civil society and finance organisations across the UK to understand and influence the finance system, in order to reduce exclusion, exploitation and inequality.

Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity that provides mental health support in schools. This grant supports a pilot intervention to deliver a counselling service for children attending two schools in South Ayrshire, with a view to entering in a Social Bridging Finance agreement with South Ayrshire County Council alongside the Robertson Trust and the William Grant Foundation.

GiveBLACK is a group of individuals of African and Caribbean heritage who are committed to promoting philanthropy amongst Black people in the UK and increasing funding to Black led organisations. This grant supports a qualitative research project commissioned by GiveBLACK in partnership with the Runnymede Trust, exploring the motivations, desires and patterns of Black philanthropy in the UK.

COMMON is an arts organisation in Berwick Upon Tweed which exists to make theatre more accessible to working-class artists, audiences and communities. This grant supports COMMON to expand management capacity and develop a communications strategy.

Chorus Campaigns are a collective of communications, campaign and political strategists who work with activists to create change. This grant supports Chorus to develop support systems for activists and movements by documenting the experiences of grassroots campaigns.