Grants Announcement March 2016

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Grants Made March 2016

Paul Hamlyn Foundation is very pleased to announce that in March, we made the following More and
Better for the Arts-Based Learning, Arts Access and Participation, Shared Ground and Youth Funds.
We also made Explore and Test grants for the Arts-Based Learning, Access and Participation and
Shared Ground Funds. Other Grants made by PHF are also listed. Details of all grants are searchable
in our database.
Arts-Based Learning: More and Better

A New Direction
Grant amount: £300,000
Grant duration: 32
Location: London and South East
Project: My Creative School
Description: A New Direction is London's leader in cultural education; connecting children,
young people and education with the best of arts and culture. My Creative School offers a new
model for relationships between arts organisations and schools. Facilitated and supported by A
New Direction and Arts Council Bridge Organisation, this project will see schools choose to work
with arts organisations based on how those organisations respond to priority areas identified in
School Improvement Plans (SIPs). The focus of activity will be using the arts to teach non-arts
subjects in primary schools across three outer London boroughs and various locations within
Kent.

Big Brum Theatre in Education
Grant amount: £242,000
Grant duration: 36
Location: West Midlands
Project: Strengthening the case for Theatre in Education
Description: Set up in 1982, Big Brum provides high-quality theatre-in-education programmes
for children and young people of all ages and abilities. By improving its approach to evaluation
and promotion of its work, Big Brum plans to strengthen the case for theatre in education in
response to the current challenging educational context. It will also deliver and evaluate its ‘End
of Reason’ programme, which focuses on World War One, to 90-100 schools and Pupil Referral
Units.
Hampshire Cultural Trust
Grant amount: £350,000
Grant duration: 47
Location: South East
Project: Horizon 20:20: bringing artists in residence and Arts Awards to Hampshire's Pupil
Referral Units (PRU)
Description: Hampshire Cultural Trust runs 23 arts and museum venues across the county.
Horizon 20:20 aims to create a cultural change in Hampshire's PRUs, where arts-based learning,
including trips to cultural destinations, becomes central to their work. The aim is to improve the
pupils’ self-esteem and motivation to learn as well as teachers' professional confidence. This will
be achieved through a four year programmes of artists' residencies, teacher training and Arts
Awards for pupils.

Kid’s Own Publishing Partnership CLG
Grant amount: £388,000
Grant duration: 48
Location: Northern Ireland
Project: Virtually There: An Artist in Schools Virtual Residency Programme
Description: Kids' Own Publishing is dedicated to supporting children's individual creative
expression through publishing and the arts. Virtually There aims to increase children's problem-
solving skills and teachers' confidence through enquiry-based learning with an artist in virtual
residence. The project will take place in a range of schools in Northern Ireland using standard
classroom technology. Participants will reflect on their experiences in an online journal that
combines children's, artists' and teachers' perspectives to give the wider community a window
into the project.

Arts-Based Learning: Explore and Test

Beaford Arts
Grant amount: £44,996
Grant duration: 24
Location: South West
Project: Community Trails
Description: For 45 years, Beaford Arts have supported art in rural communities in North Devon.
Working alongside the Devon Wildlife Trust and pupils from eight rural primary schools in the
South West of England, this grant will help create a walking trail and map about the local area.
This work will be supported by artists, a cartographer and older people from the pupil’s local
communities. The project will explore how local arts organisations can support rural schools to
deliver arts-based learning.
Hackney Music Development Trust
Grant amount: £59,712
Grant duration: 18
Location: East Midlands
Project: Developing Arts-Based Learning at Queen Eleanor Primary Academy, Northampton.
Description: Hackney Music Development Trust specialises in creating, developing and managing
arts projects in schools. It will trial a new model of working with schools using performance arts.
They will assist staff at Queen Eleanor Primary Academy to develop arts based teaching and
learning activities.

Luxi Ltd
Grant amount: £23,500
Grant duration: 7
Location: North East
Project: Supporting Young People to Change Online Behaviour through Creative Storytelling
Activities.
Description: Luxi Ltd is an organisation that aims to enrich people’s lives through the arts. It
have a keen interest in using performance and projects to further educational and arts
participation. Luxi will use storytelling and drama-based activities to support young people to
understand and engage with the moral, ethical and legal implications of their behaviour when
playing online games.

Odd Arts
Grant amount: £55,984
Grant duration: 18
Location: East Midlands, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, Scotland and
Wales.
Project: Supporting Young Leaders to Facilitate Drama-Based Learning by their Peers in
Alternative Education Centres.
Description: Odd Arts aims to transform the lives of vulnerable and excluded groups through the
use of creative arts. Odd Arts will work in partnership with Rathbone, a UK wide youth sector
organisation, to develop a training programme for young 'Ambassadors'. It will use Forum
Theatre and other drama-based activities in peer education to engage students at Rathbone's
alternative education centres with learning.
Access and Participation: More and Better

Artichoke Trust
Grant amount: £150,000
Grant duration: 10
Location: London
Project: London's Burning (Part of Great Fire 350)
Description: Artichoke Trust is a creative company that specialises in putting on extraordinary
public spectacles. This grant will underpin the participation and engagement strand of work for
a large scale public event across the river Thames marking the 350th anniversary of the Great
Fire of London. It will encourage disadvantaged young people from five London boroughs to
take an active part in designing and building an ephemeral art installation as part of this
commemoration.

Fevered Sleep
Grant amount: £233,000
Grant duration: 48
Location: East Midlands, London, North West, South East and Yorkshire and the Humber
Project: Fevered Sleep: Creative Participation across Artforms
Description: Fevered Sleep are an arts organisation that focus on challenging social relationships
through performance, installations and other art mediums. It will create, in collaboration with
its partners and participants, three participatory arts projects to be presented at 20 venues
across England over four years. Fevered Sleep will also extend the approaches developed
through Future Play and apply them to work for adult as well as child audiences. It will focus on
gathering evidence in order to understand the impact on participants who engage in making,
presenting and promoting their work.

Intoart
Grant amount: £170,000
Grant duration: 48
Location: London
Project: Design by Intoart
Description: Intoart is a visual arts charity that works with adults with learning disabilities. This
grant will provide core investment and capacity building to help create ‘Design by Intoart.’ This
is a two-pronged programme to create a dedicated design studio run inclusively by people with
learning disabilities and run a leadership programme by artists with learning disabilities, which
will support wider dissemination across the sector.
PRS Foundation
Grant amount: £255,000
Grant duration: 28
Location: Yorkshire and the Humber
Project: New Music Biennial
Description: The PRS Foundation is the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music across all
genres. It has a particular interest in the development of young artists and audiences. This grant
will help develop new elements to the New Music Biennial 2017 initiative taking place in Hull.
These elements include composer residencies and developing a tailor-made listening scheme to
offer new experiences and skills to local communities and schools.

Tyneside Cinema
Grant amount: £100,000
Grant duration: 36
Location: North East
Project: Tyneside Cinema Access and Participation Programme for Children and Young People
across North East England
Description: Tyneside Cinema is one of the UK’s leading film and digital-media centres. It is
based in a remarkable heritage building in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Building on the success of the
PHF-funded 'Young Tyneside' project, Tyneside Cinema will deliver a three-year Access and
Participation programme for 8,500 children and young people in North East England. It will bring
new audiences in film and filmmaking, address social, economic and educational need and
develop important new models of engagement to the wider film sector.

University of Sunderland
Grant amount: £54,000
Grant duration: 24
Location: North East
Project: ArtWorks-U: Participatory Arts and Media MOOC
Description: The University of Sunderland is one of the leading providers of higher education in
the UK. This grant will enable the university to offer a specialist Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOC) for artists, students and others working in participatory settings. This work will build on
legacy of the PHF funded ArtWorks initiative.
Arts Access and Participation: Explore and Test

Autograph ABP
Grant amount: £59,824
Grant duration: 14
Location: London
Project: Canvas(s)
Description: Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography and film,
exploring ideas of cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. This grant will allow
Autograph to explore and test ideas for increasing access opportunities for young refugees at
the National Gallery. It aims to develop a potentially scalable methodology to improve access
and participation practice that can be shared across the cultural sector.

Fabrica
Grant amount: £29,300
Grant duration: 20
Location: South East
Project: Fabrica & Project Art Works - Multisensory Co-Commission
Description: Fabrica is an arts organisation, based in a former church building in Brighton, which
commissions visual art installations. In collaboration with Project Art Works, Fabrica will use this
grant to research the role of people with severe intellectual disabilities as creative participants
and gallery audiences. They will commission an immersive and interactive exhibition that will
resonate with audiences with a range of intellectual capabilities. Through the use of this
exhibition, they will also investigate the challenges and opportunities of co-production, co-
commissioning and cross-sector collaboration.

Writing East Midlands
Grant amount: £38,803
Grant duration: 12
Location: East Midlands
Project: Write Here Sanctuary: Social Integration for Refugees through Creative Writing.
Description: Established in 2007, Writing East Midlands runs creative writing projects to further
links between writers and local communities. Working in partnership with refugee support
groups, this grant will build on its existing writers in residence programme ‘Write Here!’ The
project will use writer led story-telling and creative writing activities to enable refugees to tell
their stories, articulate their identities and provide a platform for their creative self-expression.
Delivered through ten two-hourly creative writing sessions over six months, new work and
public performances will be shared between refugees and participants from host communities.
Sessions will be supported by a shadow writer with appropriate language skills.
Shared Ground: More and Better

Central England Law Centre
Grant amount: £330,000
Grant duration: 36
Location: London, South East, West Midlands and Scotland
Project: KIND UK
Description: Central England Law Centre (CELC) is the UK’s largest Law Centre, with 51 staff and
30 volunteers providing legal expertise to 8,000 people per year across ten areas of social
welfare law. CELC and partners will test the viability of a sustainable model of pro bono legal
advice. KIND UK will support young people in regularising their immigration statuses aiding
them to lead more stable lives, where they can better access help and support. The pro bono
service will maximise the expertise and resources of commercial firms taking some pressure off
law centres to focus on more complex cases.

Citizens UK
Grant amount: £240,000
Grant duration: 36
Location: UK Wide
Project: Support for Citizens UK's New Communities team
Description: Established in 2004, Citizens UK is the largest community organising network in the
UK, with an expanding membership of 350 institutions. This grant will enable Citizens UK to
expand their ‘New Communities’ work campaigning on migrant, asylum and integration related
issues. Citizens UK will target, engage and mobilise new demographics (including young
migrants) in new geographic locations. It will build alliances with institutions which have not
engaged on migration issues before.

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
Grant amount: £60,000
Grant duration: 18
Location: East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, South East, South
West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, Scotland.
Project: JCWI at 50: Supporting Strategic Review to Benefit more Vulnerable Young People
Description: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), established in 1967, provides
legal support for immigrants and their families. They specialise in immigration and asylum law
and policy. JCWI will test a new internal structure and model of delivery to maximise their
resources and increase their impact. This includes a more joined-up approach to casework,
campaigns and training, with a view to driving forward focused policy change. It will identify
potential test cases to bring forward as strategic litigation cases. It will also run related
campaigns alongside these cases to raise awareness of key issues; engaging MPs and tabling
parliamentary questions and policy amendments. Finally, it will engage and train relevant
professions responsible for policy implementation.
Shared Ground: Explore and Test

Asylum Aid
Grant amount: £60,000
Grant duration: 18
Location: London
Project: Assisting Young People with Applications to Register as British Citizens
Description: This grant will develop the Project for the Registration of Children as British
Children (PRCBC), which is being hosted by Asylum Aid. PRCBC will explore whether policy
changes relating to the registration of undocumented young people as British citizens can be
secured using test cases in strategic litigation proceedings. A focus on strategic litigation has the
potential to set precedents for other undocumented young people to register as citizens by
remedying unlawful and poor practice. In addition, Asylum Aid will test whether hosting projects
in early stages can allow them to grow steadily before being established as independent
entities.

Fuse Art Space CIC
Grant amount: £8,696
Grant duration: 9
Location: Yorkshire and the Humber
Project: Sanctuary Screenings
Description: Fuse Art Space is a community and events venue in Bradford’s deprived northern
quarter, dedicated to community cohesion and urban regeneration. This grant will support a
series of film screenings tailored to specific asylum seeking groups to explore whether this
provides a low pressure entry point to engage in the native cultural life of Bradford. Whilst there
are avenues for newly arrived asylum seekers to actively participate in local activities, this would
provide an opportunity for people with lower confidence levels to integrate themselves into the
city’s social and cultural spaces at their own pace and on their own terms.

Youth Fund: More and Better

Clan Childlaw Ltd
Grant amount: £60,000
Grant duration: 24
Location: Scotland
Project: Access to Legal Advice and Enforcement of Young People's Rights
Description: Clan Childlaw is a law centre for children and young people in Scotland providing
free legal representation outreach services, training and policy work. Clan Childlaw will develop
its services to extend access to legal representation for children and young people in Scotland
into new policy areas. It aims to advance policy and the implementation of children's rights,
particularly children involved with the care and criminal justice systems.
The Foyer Federation
Grant amount: £60,000
Grant duration: 24
Location: North East, North West, South East, South West and West Midlands.
Project: Reclaiming the Foyer Ethos to Support Positive Transitions for Young People
Description: Since 1992, the Foyer Federation has provided safe accommodation, employment
and training opportunities for young people who cannot live at home. The Foyer Federation
plans to develop, test and roll out a refreshed model for UK-wide foyers. This will embed the
'advantaged thinking' strengths-based approach to working with young people across its 100-
strong member network. The work includes creating and piloting a foyer 'developers' guide', a
new accreditation framework, a business model and review of the international literature
around advantaged thinking. This grant will provide core support for its work.

MyBnk
Grant amount: £60,000
Grant duration: 24
Location: London, North East, North West and South West
Project: MyBnk's Impact Centre: Creating a Financially Resilient Generation
Description: MyBnk designs and delivers financial and enterprise workshops to young people
aged 11-25 in schools and youth organisations. This grant will fund the Quality and Training
Director, who leads on operations, monitoring and evaluation. MyBnk is expanding into the
South West and plans to expand further to the Midlands and North over the next couple of
years. It will also expand its work focusing on the most vulnerable young people and to evidence
its impact and the social return on investment it achieves, so that it can attract funding from
new sources.
Other Grants

Almeida Theatre Company Ltd
Grant amount: £15,000
Grant duration: 6
Location: London
Project: Almeida Theatre and its Production: Boy
Description: This grant will provide support to underpin the collaboration between Almeida
Projects and Arsenal in the Community’s Positive Future around the main stage production of
“Boy”, by Leo Butler: a play that focuses on social exclusion. Performance pieces will be written
by young people across four different settings, with a film-maker documenting the process and
Arsenal players reading the finished works alongside actors.

Aurora Orchestra
Grant amount: £150,000
Grant duration: 36
Location: London
Project: The Orchestral Theatre: The Claus Moser series at Southbank Centre
Description: This grant will support a series of performances named after Claus Moser. Lord Moser
was a life-long friend of Paul Hamlyn and was closely involved with the Foundation, first as an adviser
and then as a trustee.

Battersea Arts Centre
Grant amount: £250,000
Grant duration: 24
Location: London
Project: A Exceptional Resilience Grant
Description: The Battersea Arts Centre is a community and event venue based in the historic old
town hall in Lavender Hill, London. Every year, its dedicated team provide workshop activities for
5000 young people, work with over 400 artists and put on more than 650 performances. This grant
will support Battersea Arts Centre in the aftermath of a fire in 2015 that destroyed their Grand
Hall. It will allow the centre to continue activities which achieve their mission ‘to inspire people
to take creative risks to shape the future.’

Council for Learning Outside the Classroom
Grant amount: £215,000
Grant duration: 24
Location: UK Wide
Project: Learning Away Legacy
Description: This grant will provide support towards a consortium of organisations that have come
together to carry out the learning from the Learning Away initiative to promote "Brilliant
Residentials." This programme comprised of school trips with an overnight stay, which were led by
teachers, co-designed with students and fully integrated into the curriculum.