Grants database

Based in North Belfast, The Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts (DCCA) delivers a programme of live music, workshops and participatory arts events. Through this grant, DCCA will explore how best to embed impact measurement across all programme strands and test which methods best enable participants and staff to reflect and articulate personal, social and skills-based changes as a result of engagement.

This grant will support the Southbank Centre to expand, improve and evaluate (B)old: a participatory arts programme for people diagnosed with dementia and their carers.

Glasgow Sculpture Studios supports creative practice in sculpture. This grant provides core support to expand Glasgow Sculpture Studio’s learning and engagement team. This will further develop their engagement programme with and for communities in North Glasgow with a focus on early years and youth provision; support greater integration of a co-produced approach across its offer; and seek to embed its role as a creative community asset.

Fuel is a leading independent producer of new theatre, live, digital and multi-disciplinary work. Through this grant Fuel will develop their audience engagement practice and deliver a longer-term strategic programme across the UK to increase access for people from minoritised backgrounds and groups underrepresented in the arts.

This Derby arts consortium will develop and embed a cross-city approach to making high quality professional performance that works with disengaged communities as active and equal partners, and creates new audiences for locally produced arts.

ActionSpace supports the development of artists with learning disabilities. This grant supports the developent and expansion of ActionSpace’s participatory programme co-led by artists with learning disabilities. ActionSpace will train a professional, paid team of learning disabled facilitators to co-deliver a regular programme of public participatory events and workshops. This will enable them to engage more participants with learning disabilities, deepen their understanding of a peer-led approach and analyse their impact.

David Agnew was previously supported to set up his own company, So It Is. So It Is produces events and festivals and supports new networks of venues in the North West, many of whom have limited arts programming, to build strong, distinctive programmes and to attract sustained, enthusiastic audiences. This grant will support 2014 Breakthrough Fund recipient David Agnew to continue to develop adventurous programming and audiences, largely in music and outdoor events, in partnership with venues and other producers in the North West.

Core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, to ensure long-term support for young people using the power of issue-based film to positively impact the lives of mostly Black, Asian and minoritised young people aged 16–25, platforming their voices to influence change.

A collaborative project, working with a number of civil society organisation, to collect and analyse data on the impact of the EU Settlement Scheme and to work with cross-party parliamentarians to set out and advocate for a set of recommendations for how government policy and practice could improve.

The new strategy seeks to achieve a permanent transformation in the data culture and practice of grantmakers by increasing data available, improving quality, enhancing data use, providing insight, and leading practice. It will work towards our vision for UK grantmaking to become more informed, effective and strategic.

Voice4Change is a membership-based infrastructure charity for Black and minoritized ethnic charities, community groups and social enterprises. This grant supports Voice4Change to test public thinking on ​‘race’ and racism before and after reading carefully framed messages as part of their Reframing Race programme.

Migrants Organise is a shared organising platform for refugees and migrants acting together for justice. This grant supports the production of Still We Rise, a podcast created by the grassroots community of people seeking asylum in Coventry about the impact of the hostile environment on their lives.