News and publications

Kerri Sellens, Assistant Headteacher, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School reflects on their Teacher Development Fund approach developed in partnership with Akram Khan Company. Together they’re working to ensure an ongoing legacy of dance in local schools.

Catherine Sutton, Head of Programme – Education for Paul Hamlyn Foundation, reflects on how the Teacher Development Fund has evolved over the last eight years — to shift and adapt to the concerns and needs of the sector.

Over the last couple weeks, our Head of Programme – Migration, Letícia Ishibashi has been sharing some updates related to the new iteration of our Migration Fund. In this blog, she explains what our new vision means for our grant-making criteria and processes as we reopen for applications today.

Letícia Ishibashi, our Head of Programme – Migration, explains what has led us to our new vision and what this means for our grant-making.

As we prepare to launch the new iteration of our migration programme in early spring, Letícia Ishibashi, our Head of Programme – Migration, looks back at how the Foundation’s work has evolved through the years, what we have learned from our grant-making and how this has helped shape and sharpen our direction.

Ahead of the reopening of our Arts Fund, this blog shares draft guidance and application forms.

Colleagues from Trestle Theatre and the University of Hertfordshire offer insight into their evaluation approach and discuss the value placed on collaboration as a core part of the design of their Teacher Development Fund project.

Evaluation consultant, Dr Anni Raw, describes the evaluation approach she is co-developing with project partners on the Parallel Rhythms programme in Huddersfield.

Collaborative evaluation approaches were key to the success of the YDance programme, Step It Up. Linzi McLagan, Head of Education for YDance, discusses the importance of their collaboration with the Robert Owen Centre (ROC) at the University of Glasgow and shares some of the approaches used within their programme.