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Building on schools’ existing work on storytelling and anti-racism, artists from Nottingham Playhouse will work with teachers to explore how drama can unlock language and empower more marginalised pupil voices.

Sampad is working with nine schools across Birmingham using dance and drama approaches to bring the history curriculum to life in their individual settings. Artists will support teachers to explore less visible histories and create space for pupils to explore not only significant historical figures, but also the stories of individuals who are often overlooked. Partners aim to build a whole-school culture centred on child-focused, arts-led learning.

Love Music is working with eight Edinburgh primary schools, supporting teachers to build confidence and understanding of how they can use singing and body percussion in their curriculum, classroom practice and routines, to promote inclusion, wellbeing, community and tackle inequities.

Herefordshire Museums and Galleries will work with a network of small, rural schools around Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire to embed arts-based approaches that explore identity, belonging and cultural understanding.

This programme uses drama and Philosophy for Children (P4C) to engage participants in Climate Change Education. It builds teacher confidence through a progressive toolkit featuring techniques like Mantle of the Expert, Theatre of the Oppressed and Creative Outdoor Learning. By blending practitioner expertise with teacher experience, the programme explores the complex environmental, political and social dimensions of the climate emergency. 

This project will equip teachers to use drama and performance poetry to strengthen oracy, verbal literacy, writing and wellbeing across the curriculum. Teachers will develop practical strategies to support learning, including devising theatre, performance poetry, imaginative play, creative performance and theatre-based approaches that develop oracy skills, building brave spaces where pupils can develop resilience and be their authentic selves.

This project will provide professional development for teachers to use visual arts as a powerful tool to improve children’s learning around food, diet and nutrition. By collaborating with local artists via Keighley Creative, the project aims to increase teacher skills and confidence in using visual arts across the curriculum and in particular to explore food and nutrition with their pupils.

Working with Hull Truck Theatre, Reception and Year 1 teachers in eight Hull primary schools will explore how Process Drama can support the development of executive function, with a particular focus on inhibitory control and self-regulation.

ECPAT UK (Every Child Protected Against Trafficking) upholds children’s rights to protection and to lives free from trafficking and exploitation. Its model combines direct youth support, policy, research, advocacy and campaigns, specialist practical training, information and capacity building. It seeks to end child trafficking and exploitation, prevent harm and secure systemic change that improves protection, care and justice. Core funding over five years will support organisational consolidation and strengthening focused on securing quality for sustained impact, extending reach and influencing.

The Foyer Federation has a vision for young people who can’t live at home to be able to realise their power and purpose. Its mission to support the development of transformational living and learning communities for young people who are experiencing homelessness, and ultimately to break the cycle of homelessness. Core funding over five years will improve quality and grow its movement through investment in organisational strengthening to amplify impact and influence.

We Belong is the only youth migrant-led charity in the UK, with a vision for all young migrants (16–25) in the UK to be treated equally and fairly by the society they call home. Focused specifically on young people who migrated to the UK as children and have precarious status, it has a dual aim of challenging policies that prevent young migrants from participating in society and empowering young migrants to have a positive impact in their communities. Core funding will support consolidation through investment in organisational strengthening for sustained impact.

Not/​nowhere is an artist workers’ co-operative that supports film practices with equipment hire, workshops, screenings and solidarity economics. This grant will enable increased workforce capacity, supporting the provision of enhanced training and development, and the creation of an online community platform and archive. It will also ensure the completion of their publicly accessible eco-processing lab.