Grants database

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.

The Digital Life Skills Company (DLSC) helps children and young people thrive in a digital world by upskilling young people – and their parents, teachers, educators – to navigate the internet effectively. This grant supports DLSC to collaborate with young people and educators to co-create a compelling solution for schools to empower pupils to make sense of the information and misinformation they encounter online.

The Braich Goch was established by a collective of individuals from diverse backgrounds working towards social justice. This grant will support the collective to explore the feasibility of creating a residential learning and cultural exchange centre for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, based in Wales.

Live Through This plans to develop peer support groups for LGBT+ people affected by cancer, where they will be able to come and freely discuss their health related issues and how they intersect with their sexual or gender minority status.

Stewarding Loss is a collective of organisational designers, social innovators and coaches. Based upon thinking about the impacts of technology on society for the last few years, and the longer term consequences, Stewarding Loss will explore the creation of a fund to help close programmes and organisations down responsibly, kindly and intelligently in the social sector.

This grant will support sounddelivery to research the viability of creating a not-for-profit speaker agency for spokespeople with lived experience of challenging social issues.

This grant will support Samar Ziadat to research, explore, prototype and set up a community art space in Glasgow that supports, develops and showcases the cultural and artistic production of Arab and North African women.

Pariah is an early stage ethical social enterprise, based around combining fashion and social action. This grant will support the organisation to develop workshops combining fashion and social action to support young people to consider careers in social entrepreneurship.

REPAIREL is a new social enterprise created to respond to the climate emergency at a local and actionable level. This grant supports REPAIREL to create a circular Shoe Repair Lab in Glasgow that will help people break away from the throwaway culture of buying and discarding shoes, reduce shoe waste and facilitate innovation and circular design practices through three interlinked elements joined together in one creative space: Repair Hub; Sustainable Fashion; Innovation Lab.

Rachel May will use her Ideas and Pioneers grant to organise empowering adventures that make people feel ​‘at home’ in Scotland’s hills and open spaces. In partnership with social services, Mhor Outdoor’s will deliver a personable experience that includes outdoor gear, transport, nourishing food and conversation. Adventurers will gain become stronger, healthier and happier through gaining: a sense of belonging in the outdoors; new physical accomplishments and skills; and increased mental strength.

Pasalo CIC want to produce an accredited e‑learning module for mental health practitioners, to support them to work with multilingual clients. The project aims to improve practitioners’ confidence to understand and respond to marginalised clients’ needs in a timely way, so that clients have the opportunity to lead productive and fulfilled lives.