Grants database

This grant will support Morvern Odling to explore how an open-source repository of creative resources made by communities in areas of multiple deprivation can raise awareness of local issues, facilitate co-developing solutions for challenges with those who experience them and benefit the third sector.

Mobilise Care seeks to combine the potential of digital marketing with chat-bot technology to make carer assessments available to more carers. Through this grant they will develop a compliant prototype to pilot the concept with residents in several local authorities, and then evaluate the impact of their engagement with the tool.

This grant will support Kwame Sekyere to create a platform to connect lawyers with social change funders to fund criminal justice reform cases.

This grant will support Kirsty Cassels to pilot a mobile office that services the western islands of Scotland, available to third sector organisations and to rent.

Through this grant Iona Lawrence will research how ​‘relational practitioners’ are testing new ways of placing relationships at the heart of their work across a range of sectors, and to explore ways to strengthen this field.

True Cadence aims to develop a music industry social enterprise that provides support, structured accredited learning, expert mentoring and artistic development to young people (aged 13–26) who are experiencing disadvantage. The programme will offer interactive guitar training, song writing and music recording workshops, to increase young peoples’ confidence and skills.

This grant will support Craig Geoffrey Pennington to set up Future Yard Campus, a new community music venue and learning hub in Wirral. The organisation will provide mentoring and career opportunities for local young people experiencing disadvantage.

This grant will support Toni Lewis and Demi Nandhra to set-up a new arts organisation called Contemporary Other. This organisation, working at the intersections of race, health and care, will aim to offer a range of support for artists of colour with/​without neurodiversities and disabilities, ranging from artist development, production, mentorship, space, programming and dramaturgy.

This grant will support Beenish Shaikh to start a recruitment advocacy network for Muslim women in London, providing a support network and volunteering and internship opportunities.

Beats Bus Records will explore the potential of hip hop, arts, and music as part of an alternative schooling programme for young people experiencing disadvantage. They aim to give young people aspirations and transferable skills in alternative career paths and improve their lives.

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.

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.