Grants database

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire is a community organisation working with a range of disadvantaged communities. This mini-grant supports Coventry Young Activists, a group of young adults who experience social isolation to develop, deliver and lead movement building initiatives that address the root causes of loneliness.

FORWARD is an award winning African-led, women’s rights organisation working to combat multiple forms of violence against women and girls. This mini-grant supports the delivery of Speak Out, a young women’s leadership hub for training, movement building and developing strategic partnerships to tackle violence against women and girls.

Comics Youth provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised young people aged 8–25. This mini-grant supports the establishment and running of a young person-led publishing house that will focus on comics and zines which address the systemic injustices faced by young people experiencing mental health concerns especially those from LGBT+ communities.

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project supports young people to raise awareness of their needs among organisations and service providers. This mini-grant supports the Youth Led Social Action Studio and employment of a Project Coordinator to support young people to access leadership and campaign training.

42nd Street supports young people with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. This mini-grant supports the employment and training of peer-activists who will work with young people experiencing social injustice within mental health and social care systems to devise campaigns to address this.

Punchdrunk is a leading creator of immersive theatre in the UK. As part of Punchdrunk’s six-year residency in the London Borough of Greenwich, it will develop the Immersive Learning Journeys (ILJ) project, an intensive four-year partnership with eight Greenwich schools, working closely with teachers to develop and deliver high-impact immersive learning tailored to address specific educational objectives.

Plymouth Music Education Hub provides music-making opportunities and engages with most of the city’s schools, supporting over 4,000 children a week to learn music. This project aims to build the skills and confidence of teachers in seven schools for children with special educational needs to improve the quality of singing and music education, working alongside music practitioners in the classroom.

Groundswell Arts delivers projects using music, art, drama, movement and film making to engage and support children, parents, carers and educators across early years, school and community settings. In Storylab, Groundswell Arts will work with six Haringey primary and Early Years settings over three years, collaborating in a programme of integrated digital literacy, using filmmaking, green screen and animation, which aims to improve speech, language and communication, and cross-curricular learning outcomes. The approach will be delivered across the schools/​settings, working with whole classes from all age groups, alongside smaller targeted intervention groups and work with parent/​carer groups.

Listen Imagine Compose–Primary is a partnership between Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sound and Music, Birmingham City University, Bristol Plays Music, Birmingham Music Education Partnership and schools. The project will work with teachers and composers to develop meaningful composing activity to better understand children’s progression as composers, and to improve the quality and frequency of composing in primary schools. The project will create and deliver schemes of work and action research in six Birmingham and three Bristol primary schools, and professional development for teachers and composers.

ZoieLogic Dance Theatre challenges the perceptions of dance, who it’s for, where and how it is shown. This grant will support the organisation to explore and test an open-ended, placed-based approach to co-creating work with young people on Holyrood estate, over a sustained period of time.

The Wallich provides support and advice to people experiencing homelessness in Wales. This grant will support the organisation to pilot a two-year programme of creative engagement offers for individuals who have experienced homelessness and to explore ways to embed delivery within the organisation’s core activities.

This grant will support MAC Belfast to deliver participatory arts projects for socially excluded groups and co-design new public programmes, working in collaboration with leading third sector organisations.