Grants database

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.

The Pásalo Project is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to share knowledge, ideas and experience from applied linguistics, psychotherapy and social care across borders and boundaries. This grant provides additional support to produce an accredited e‑learning module for mental health practitioners to support them to work with multilingual clients.

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.

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.