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243 grants found

  • £10 – £7500000
  • 2006/07 – 2023/24

4 Steps CIC

Tinker Lab

Jonathan Hartley has a background in teaching, entertainment and using technology in performance. He is committed to sharing his digital and technical skills to create a programme that blends technology with play, supporting intergenerational groups to learn and share their skills with one another. With the support of 4 Steps CIC, Jonathan will create a ‘Tinker Lab’ designed to inspire, engage and develop the technological skills of the local community in Burnage.

Access Hospitality

Access Hospitality Programme

  • Grant amount: £10,320.00 over 12 months
  • Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: Yorkshire & Humber

Access Hospitality aims to support adults with learning disabilities to gain fulfilling employment in the hospitality sector. This grant will support the organisation to develop a framework built around the use of assistive technology that includes accredited training, workplace adaptation and support for employees and employers.

Advantages of Age

Advantages of Age Business Academy

Advantages of Age seeks to research, develop, test and pilot a training programme aimed at men and women, ages 50 and up, who have been made redundant from employment and are seeking to fulfil their potential through new career opportunities. Their mission is to empower mature entrepreneurs to create a business suited to their skills and experience with the potential to succeed in today’s tough economy. The Academy will host monthly sessions with industry experts, provide opportunities for peer-to-peer support and will offer a web portal containing additional assets and links.

African Prisons Project

Prison-based legal awareness-raising programme to increase access to justice

African Prisons Project provides legal advice, training, and education to those living and working in prison. It aims to empower those most in need of justice to access it for themselves. This programme will provide inmates and prison staff in HMP Brixton with an introduction to legal concepts through a series of twelve prison-based legal awareness workshops designed and led by affiliated law professionals.

AJP Dreams

Getting the Right Support for Flamboyant Dreaming

AJP Dreams’ tagline is “If I can, you can, we can!” Alexander Warren is a young man who has overcome obstacles to become a conference speaker, businessman and entrepreneur: using his experiences to inspire and motivate others to improve care and support for people with learning disabilities. Alexander plans to work with Edinburgh Development Group, an academic from Edinburgh University and drama experts to research, develop, test and pilot an empathy training programme for support workers, which will help them to listen to and empathise with their clients’ dreams, no matter how flamboyant. This grant will pay Alexander, his support team and these experts for 18 months to create a training product that can be delivered more widely and become commercially sustainable.

Alex Evans

Scoping a new start-up on political psychology

  • Grant amount: £15,320.00 over 6 months
  • Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
  • Date awarded: 2018/19
  • Location: London, Multi-region, Yorkshire & Humber

This grant will support the scoping and development of a start-up ‘think and do tank’ at the interface of psychology and politics to address the psychological roots that can lead to political polarisation. The project will explore new approaches to rebuilding common ground across polarised groups, including in the migration and climate change debates.

Alice Sachrajda

Odyssey: Tube stations that connect people as well as places

Alice Sachrajda and Alex Glennie believe that public places could do more to inspire creativity and support people to live well together. They plan to share stories about people living and working in local communities, starting with a pilot in Oval tube station. Working closely with photographers and illustrators, they will collect and exhibit people’s stories about their identities.

Aliyah Hasinah Holder

Black Curatorial Labs

  • Grant amount: £15,000.00 over 6 months
  • Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
  • Date awarded: 2021/22
  • Location: London, Multi-region, West Midlands

Aliyah Hasinah Holder is an experienced curator and founder of Black Curatorial Labs (BCL), a project which creates Black only safe spaces for curatorial development centred on dreaming, experimentation and play. This grant supports research and development which will form the basis for BCL’s work in supporting and amplifying more Black artists at the same time as diversifying and decolonising art production.

Amahra Spence

Art Hotel: Feasibility Study

  • Grant amount: £5,200.00 over 12 months
  • Fund: Ideas and Pioneers Fund
  • Date awarded: 2017/18
  • Location: West Midlands

Amahra Spence’s background in youth work, creative industries, project management and corporate event management has helped shape her vision to develop an Artist Hotel in Birmingham. As a social enterprise designed and managed by artists, the hotel would feature an arts programme and project space and provide training for young people; an alternative income stream for emerging artists and young people, and a unique experience of Birmingham. Amahra has already made links to other Artist Hotels and with local organisations, including Birmingham City Council, to support the development of a feasibility study and project proposal.

Amanda Walters

Building a national movement of cleaners

Amanda Walters is a community campaigner who wants to create a broad alliance of trade unions and community organisations to create change for cleaners in the UK. This grant supports the early stages of the UK’s first Labour Community Alliance for the cleaning industry in the UK.