Grants database

Creative Briefs work with young people with special educational needs to build and develop creative skills. This grant will support their work with Year 5 pupils in three Hull primary schools. Working collaboratively with teachers, they plan to develop their inclusive arts and design-based approach to engage and support the learning of dyslexic children in a whole-class setting.

Bow Arts creates opportunities to work, learn and enjoy affordable, lifelong access to the visual arts. This grant will support the Bow Arts Learning team to continue to build their core learning programme, bringing accessible arts learning to London schools and professionalising the work that a representative range of Artist Practitioners do in school settings, delivering in-school projects and teacher development programmes.

BLINK are a group of four neurodiverse artists who produce accessible multi-sensory participatory projects in diverse education and community settings. They also offer employment and training opportunities that support the needs of individual artists to reach their potential. This grant would enable BLINK to grow their neurodiverse- and disabled-led education programmes in SEND schools in England, working with school staff to develop pedagogy, and training artist practitioners, amongst whom are learning disabled artists.

UD is a music organisation bringing communities together around Black music and Black music culture. This grant provides core funding for UD’s ambition to create a new National Youth Music Organisation for Black music, anchored in the London Borough of Newham with national profile and reach.

Primary is an artist-led visual arts organisation providing affordable work space and studios for artists, community engagement projects and a public programme of exhibitions and events. This grant provides core funding to help Primary maximise their potential, collaboration and build on opportunities for Primary studio’s creative community through their newly redeveloped site.

New Earth Theatre presents and develops work with British East and South East Asian (BESEA) artists. They produce new touring plays and readings, nurture BESEA talent and bring artists to museums and schools. This grant will enable New Earth Theatre to build BESEA Creative Communities in four regions through their programmes of practitioner development and regional venue partnerships.

Manchester Art Gallery is an inclusive cultural space for the people of Manchester and the wider world, opening minds to the essential role of creativity in the making of a healthy society and contributing to social change. This grant will allow the team at Manchester Art Gallery to continue with their ambitious transformation of Platt Hall from a subsidiary building of their main gallery site into community resource for local neighbourhoods, exploring participatory decision making, interrogating collections policy and practice and broadening the Gallery’s understanding of its civic role.

Heart n Soul provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities to discover, develop and share their creative talents and power. This grant will provide core costs to underpin Heart n Soul’s model of working, deepen and extend their influence as experts in co-production, and amplify their role in leading systems change.

Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) is the only Accredited Museum in the UK celebrating women’s lives, histories and achievements with a library, archive and innovative events and learning programme. This grant supports GWL’s project to develop their commissioning and selection processes, the creation of innovative equalities focused frameworks for collecting and curating and the organisation of training for systematically excluded groups to learn about public collections.

Brighton People’s Theatre brings people in Brighton together from a wide range of backgrounds to co-create high-quality new shows. Through conversations, workshops and performances, they create change in and across the system. This grant will provide core support for Brighton People’s Theatre to deliver on their 2023–2026 business plan embedding a cyclical annual methodology that centres the community’s voices and supports them in making decisions about the kind of work they want to develop and participate in. Over the three-year programme of activity members will determine and explore themes, receive training in theatre skills and be supported by artists to develop new shows.

The CAE tackles problems of inequality faced by migrants, breaking down barriers for them, and supporting them to become economically active, thrive and contribute fully to society. This grant will support the CAE to promote the rights of migrants and protect their dignity through working with partners to raise awareness of workplace exploitation, develop routes of reporting incidences to the relevant authorities and empower migrants to know and understand their rights at work. They will provide wellbeing services to help migrants build a sense of belonging and self-worth, and give free legal advice.

Reprieve is a legal action non-governmental organisation defending marginalised people who are facing human rights abuses. This grant will support their work to secure the repatriation of British nationals detained in North East Syria, and their resettlement and reintegration in the UK. Once repatriated, Reprieve will support ex-detainees to re-build their lives by facilitating access to services and empowering them to tell their stories and advocate for systemic change.