Grants made
| When | Amount | Grantee | To be used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/01/2019 | £39,949 | More Music | Grant to establish 2 singing projects in Morecambe in partnership with local health service to improve physical and mental health for young and old. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 16/01/2019 | £200,000 | Coventry 2021 UK City of Culture | Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 01/11/2018 | £198,189 | Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias | Project for people with learning disabilities to create music and socialise in North Wales in a fun and supportive atmosphere with their non-disabled peers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 01/11/2018 | £184,952 | DART (Doncaster Community Arts) | Rousing folk music will offer local opportunities to devise songs and compositions to celebrate Doncaster's rural communities. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 31/10/2018 | £149,525 | My Pockets People CIC | Song-writing music project for disadvantaged young people and those suffering with poor mental health in Hull and East Riding. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2018 | £69,872 | Sporting Memories Foundation | Project providing inclusive physical activities to older people to increase confidence and enjoy. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2018 | £50,000 | The Lord's Taverners | Offering 120 at-risk young people in Glasgow access to increased opportunities through cricket to help them succeed both personally and professionally. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2018 | £69,600 | North Ayrshire Leisure Ltd (KA Leisure) | Raising awareness of drug and alcohol misue to inactive North Ayrshire children to become sport champions in their communities. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £51,600 | Forth Valley College Foundation | Young people with learning disabilities develop skills and sports qualifications to lead to employment and developing community links. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £42,151 | Active Stirling | Early intervention, year long, behavioural change physical activity referral pathway for those with alcohol and substance misuse across Stirling. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £66,218 | Inch Park Community Sports Hub | Engaging Edinburgh girls in key transition points, addressing barriers to engaging in cricket, rugby or football to inform wider development and activity. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £54,003 | Netball Scotland | This project will engage 600 older women in walking netball and will promote the benefits of participating in physical activity. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £69,960 | Youth Scotland | Training in young people and adults in community settings to deliver sport, providing them with a qualification. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £69,787 | Scottish Association for Mental Health | Increase access to jogging for BAME communities and promote benefits of physical activities on mental health. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £64,160 | Achieve More Scotland | Glasgow multi-sport and physical activity programme for 300 young people. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £53,761 | Street Soccer Scotland | Project created new pathway using football for people due for release from prison and connect them with community drop in sessions upon release. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £69,782 | Sport Aberdeen | Project to offer specific physical activity support to families with complex needs in Aberdeen and to encourage them to be more physically active. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £69,985 | Active Communities Scotland | This project will bring care experienced young people and non-care young people in Renfrewshire together and engage them through sport and physical activity. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance |
| 10/10/2018 | £61,205 | Scottish Sports Futures | This project to train young people as wellbeing champions and deliver physical activity and mental health sessions to other young people. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £50,000 | Paths for All Partnership | This project will engage 250 elderly people in 10 residential care homes Perth & Kinross in walking for the physical activity benefits and social contact. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £47,772 | Big Hearts Community Trust | Using football and group work to improve the wellbeing and social connections of 100 local young people from multi-cultural communities in Edinburgh. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/10/2018 | £57,000 | Greenock Morton Community Trust | This project will deliver a fortnightly intergenerational physical activity programme in care home across Inverclyde using local young people as volunteers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 05/10/2018 | £500,000 | Uprising | 1MM aims to train, recruit and connect mentors to young people to increase youth employability, support social action & break down social barriers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 11/07/2018 | £199,920 | Laureus Sport for Good Foundation | Surfing combined with mentoring for vulnerable young people aged between 8 and 24 years from inner-city London who will surf in Brighton. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 11/07/2018 | £99,000 | Beacon Films | Developed from the original grant to support disabled members to pursue their film-making passions & use their abilities more widely & independently. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 18/04/2018 | £72,896 | Youth Cymru | Engaging young champions to better understand experiences of mental health and address the stigma in South Wales using creative art and music. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 18/04/2018 | £1,809,396 | UK Youth | Social action for girls and young women with low levels of wellbeing in England. In partnership with the British Red Cross. Match funded with #iwill. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 18/04/2018 | £196,600 | Access Sport | Inclusive hockey scaled to 50 clubs focusing on introducing young disabled people to hockey. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 18/04/2018 | £600,000 | Absolutely Cultured | A continuation grant from Hull 2017 City of Culture to sustain and grow a volunteer programme across the city and beyond arts & culture. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 18/04/2018 | £450,000 | Springboard Opportunities | Community reference groups part of 14-NOW award participatory community projects. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 11/01/2018 | £1,788,651 | Youth Sport Trust | Brings together young people, their families and communities to be more cohesive through regular engagement in cricket: playing, spectating and volunteering. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 18/12/2017 | £50,000 | Festivals Edinburgh Ltd | A volunteer programme for residents not engaged in the Festivals programme, enable them to gain confidence and city pride and receive training and skills. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 08/11/2017 | £14,954 | The Ripple Project | Project to provide access to multi-sport activities and wellbeing support to young girls who wish to become more physically active. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £25,000 | Street League | A sports and employment skills training academy with dance to increase the health, fitness and future prospects of unemployed young women in Dunbartonshire. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £22,337 | Girvan Youth Trust (Z1 Girls Group) | A dance programme of fun workshops for inactive young girls. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £27,215 | North Ayrshire Leisure Ltd (KA Leisure) | A multi-sport project aimed at engaging girls and young woman in physical activity to improve physical and mental wellbeing. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £24,608 | Bike for Good (Glasgow Bike Shed Limited) | A programme to provide accessible pathways into cycling for women and girls in Glasgow. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £22,890 | Fife Council | A programme to engage inactive young women and girls through fun, interactive cycling related activities and workshops to develop self-esteem and confidence. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £24,850 | The Fighting Chance Project | Martial arts activity for young women and girls in a fun, schools intervention programme with opportunity to gain qualification. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £24,980 | Scottish Youth Dance | Project to setup up six dnace groups in two deprived areas to increase activity and improve health and wellbeing for inactive young women and girls. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £20,100 | The Adventure Syndicate | Inspiring girls in a Bikepacking adventure programme in Scotland coaching and plan adventures through workshops, adventures and skills sessions. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £23,939 | Scottish Women Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Club | Project to increase participation in wheelchair basketball through improving sustainability, recruiting new participants and maximise publicity connections. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £49,979 | Netball Scotland | A netball programme to engage inactive and disengaged secondary school girls to educate, empower and engage other young girls identified as at risk. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £24,686 | Scottish Sports Futures | Engaging inactive BAME young women to pilot a Friday night Basketball programme in Glasgow. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 23/10/2017 | £25,000 | PEEK | A project to increase and support young women and girls to take part in tennis in 3 communities in Glasgow ? Dalmarnock, Sighthill and Haghill. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 05/10/2017 | £99,840 | Verbal Arts | Continued from original grant, Reading Rooms engages weekly with young ex-offenders, homeless & sheltered community, experiencing mental health issues. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 05/07/2017 | £50,000 | Step up to Serve | Funding to support Step up to Serve's data and insight function to understand the youth social action landscape in the UK. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 05/07/2017 | £25,000 | Venture Trust | Outdoor sports programme to engage women with a history or risk of (re-)offending. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 20/04/2017 | £15,000 | Leap Confronting Conflict | Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 to intensively work with 8 young women facing multiple disadvantages and at risk of gang activity to help them develop a positive self-image and develop healthier relationships. |
| 20/04/2017 | £15,000 | Stills | Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 - a project bringing individuals together to explore the gendered perception of caring roles, and the undervaluing of unpaid care through creative sessions including a photography course. |
| 01/03/2017 | £15,000 | The Runnymede Trust | Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 - the project used sport, specifically basketball as a hook to engage girls in a series of workshops on objectification and body confidence. |
| 01/03/2017 | £15,000 | Disability Wales | Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 to challenge objectification of disabled women through celebrating alternative narratives to the prevailing stereotypes and myths about disability and gender and influencing media perceptions. |
| 01/03/2017 | £12,000 | Amina WRC | Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 - a programme of 20 workshops in Edinburgh for girls and young BAME women to use creative responses to suffrage history to challenge the intersectional discrimination and objectification today. |
| 01/03/2017 | £10,000 | Fearless Futures | Funded via Fawcett Society contract with Spirit of 2012 - working in secondary schools in NE England through workshops to deliver their courage, critical thinking and leadership to challenge normalised messages present in society. |
| 28/09/2016 | £475,000 | SHAPE LONDON | An arts commissioning programme that enables new work by emerging disabled artists. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 07/09/2016 | £50,000 | UPRISING LEADERSHIP | A pilot programme to test an online platform in 3 cities to recruit, train and deploy mentors and connect them to young adults. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 06/07/2016 | £200,259 | DANCESYNDROME | An inclusive dance programme bringing disabled and non-disabled people together to dance and gain leadership training. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 06/07/2016 | £231,110 | CREATIVE ARTS EAST | Dementia friendly creative arts activity in rural Norfolk improving wellbeing and reduce isolation. Arts activity includes dance, music and poetry, Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 24/06/2016 | £15,000 | THE CHANGE FOUNDATION | Empowering young disabled people to reach their full potential combining sport with travel training, independent living and a social network. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 13/04/2016 | £963,140 | THE MIGHTY CREATIVES | A project delivering a series of youth verbal arts festivals across the Midlands - for young people, by young people in collaboration with young artists. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 13/04/2016 | £49,430 | PLYMOUTH MUSIC ZONE LIMITED | A Plymouth programme bringing isolated people of all ages together to make music, develop skills and showcase performances. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 13/01/2016 | £110,000 | STREETWISE | Regular inclusive circus workshops in Northern Ireland to bring people together and develop their skills. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 13/01/2016 | £4,500,000 | ENGLISH FEDERATION OF DISABILITY SPORT | An 18 locality UK programme to increase sports and physical activity participation in a fun and inclusive way for disabled and non-disabled people. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 13/01/2016 | £722,708 | SOUTHBANK CENTRE | Celebrating women & girls, bringing them together to develop 9 local Women of the World festivals in Bradford, Exeter, Perth, Norwich & Cardiff (2016-2018). Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 07/10/2015 | £188,126 | Oasis Children's Venture | Uniting neighbouring organisations through inclusive play for children and young people with a programme of artist residencies in South London. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 07/10/2015 | £206,995 | STOPGAP DANCE COMPANY | A series of inclusive dance classes in Norfolk to embed into local schools and train local dance teachers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 07/10/2015 | £320,000 | THE BRITISH PARALYMPIC ASSOCIATION | A celebration of the Paralympic movement and opportunity to relive the wonder of London 2012 with inclusive and accessible 'National Paralympic Festivals'. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 07/10/2015 | £24,674 | THE SPORTING MEMORIES FOUNDATION | A project to road-test, process evaluate and modify the inter-generational toolkits created through the pilot project funded by Spirit of 2012. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 08/07/2015 | £491,715 | YOUTH SPORT TRUST | Continuation of an existing inclusive sports volunteering programme in London, Manchester, Gateshead, Birmingham, Bath/ Bristol, Belfast, Glasgow and Swansea. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance |
| 08/07/2015 | £250,000 | STOCKTON ARTS CENTRE | A programme to integrate grass roots and professional disability art into a cultural arts venue in Stockton and disseminating learning and practice. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 25/03/2015 | £12,000 | THE SPORTING MEMORIES FOUNDATION | Delivering memories events to celebrate the first anniversary of Le Grand Depart in Yorkshire and brings together different groups to record their memories. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/12/2014 | £925,847 | CHARITY PROJECTS | Project for young people to start and grow sustainable social action projects, connecting social ventures with volunteers and mentors. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/12/2014 | £49,951 | THE SPORTING MEMORIES FOUNDATION | Creating inter-generational, community and age specific pilot activities, online training to enable volunteers to engage in inter-generational activities. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 10/12/2014 | £179,400 | WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION | Exploring principles of good volunteer management, embedding consistently across event volunteering through 6 pilot projects and producing a toolkit. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
| 30/10/2014 | £2,850,000 | ABSOLUTELY CULTURED LIMITED | Principal Partner of Hull 2017 City of Culture to transform the potential of arts and culture on the wellbeing of its residents. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance. |
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