Recent Grants Awarded

Education Grants Awarded in 2007

Cross-cultural Schools

1. The ARROW Programme
   (The Barefoot Project)
   £7,500 towards the costs of enabling this organisation, which seeks to encourage cross-cultural dialogue through artistic activities, to develop a series of regional initiatives in collaboration with the National Association of Youth Theatres.

2. Border Dance
   £5,000 towards the costs of a dance residency designed to enable students from a predominantly white and a predominantly South Asian secondary school in Telford to develop a greater understanding of their respective cultural backgrounds.

3. Citizenship Foundation
   £7,500 towards the costs of an exchange visit between students from an all-white secondary school in Cornwall and a BME school in East London so that the students might develop an understanding of each others’ cultural backgrounds, and towards the cost of a toolkit for teachers drawing on the experience of the project.

4. Soft Touch Community Arts Co-op
   (Arts Council England, East Midlands)
   £14,491 to enable this Leicester-based community arts organisation to work extensively with pupils and staff in a local secondary school in order to help the school to achieve greater cultural integration.

5. Windsor Arts Centre
   £12,880 towards the costs of developing at the Centre a Forum for PSHE teachers from secondary schools in Windsor, Slough and Maidenhead, and of residencies by artists, in the interests of promoting cross-cultural relations within and between schools.

Cross-cultural Youth Work Projects

6. Bolton Lads and Girls Club
   £7,000 towards the costs of developing activities for girls from black and minority ethnic groups with a view to promoting their greater integration.

7. Calypso Productions
   £5,000 towards the costs of enabling this Dublin-based theatre company to expand a participatory arts project designed to bring together Irish young people and the children of refugees and asylum seekers.

8. Durham University, School of Applied Social Sciences
   £14,907 to implement a project with a variety of youth groups in the North-East designed to foster good relations between young people from different cultures and faiths.

9. Mobex (Cumbria)
   £14,971 towards the costs of a young people-driven project that will forge relationships between groups of young people in Cumbria and their city-based peers from other cultures, and towards the costs of disseminating this model.

10. National Children's Bureau Northern Ireland
    £17,049 to undertake and publish a scoping study on the issues faced by asylum seekers, refugee and migrant children in Northern Ireland.

Exceptional Projects

11. Council for Dance Education and Training
    £6,500 toward the costs of a feasibility study to consider the establishment of an International Dance Accreditation Forum and the introduction of an international accreditation procedure in vocational dance education and training.

12. Dance United
    £6,750 towards the development costs of a major initiative, in collaboration with Sadler’s Wells, designed to promote the vision and practice of the company, which works with a wide range of marginalised and excluded groups.

Human Scale Schools

13. Astley Sports College, Tameside
    £7,420 to consult about school design and the curriculum, as well as to visit other schools, prior to the college being rebuilt and the adoption of a competence-led curriculum at Key Stage 3.

14. Chorlton High School, South Manchester
    £14,760 towards the costs of introducing a number of human scale strategies in the areas of school design, Student Voice and curriculum development, subsequent to the school’s recent move to a new building.

15. Christ’s College Guildford, Surrey
    £10,135 towards the costs of introducing a scheme where teachers take part in cross-faculty exchanges within the school to enable them to teach in cross-curricular ways and thus engage with students in several areas of the curriculum.

16. Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot, Devon
    £12,000 to conduct an audit of the College’s current Student Voice activities, and towards the costs of staff development programmes to enable staff to support such activities.

17. Cramlington Community High School, Newcastle Upon Tyne
    £14,500 towards the costs of enabling staff to develop and write learning materials for a new Key Stage 3 curriculum prior to the division of the school into three ‘Learning Villages’.

18. Farnley Park High School, Leeds
    £10,000 to research and develop human scale practices and structures relevant to all year groups prior to the re-designing and re-building of the school.

19. Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, Hagley, Worcestershire
    £15,000 towards the costs of implementing a variety of human scale strategies in the school organisation and curriculum for Year 7 and 8 students prior to the school entering a new building.

20. Holyhead School, Handsworth, Birmingham
    £15,000 towards the costs of undertaking a number of human scale developments, including the division of the school into four ‘halls’ prior to its eventual move to a new building.

21. Hove Park Language College and Sixth Form Centre, Hove, East Sussex
    £13,000 towards the costs of researching and developing human scale approaches to the teaching and organisation of Year 7 students.

22. Human Scale Education
    £6,662 to cover the costs of administering the Human Scale Schools initiative for the Foundation.

23. Human Scale Education
    £34,000 (£27,000 in the first year and £7,000 in the second) to cover the costs of taking teachers from schools in the UK funded under the auspices of the Foundation’s Human Scale Schools initiative to visit schools in the USA, as well as sundry other costs incurred by Human Scale Education in the course of administering the initiative on behalf of the Foundation.

24. Lister Community School, London
    £15,000 towards the costs of piloting a system of ‘base rooms’ or discrete areas where Year 7 and 8 students will both learn and receive pastoral support, prior to adopting this human scale approach once the school moves to a new building in 2009.

25. The Netherhall School, Cambridge
    £15,000 towards the costs of developing and implementing a wide range of human-scale practices, particularly with a view to enabling the school to respond to the rapid growth and increasing diversity of the city’s population.

26. Northampton School for Girls
    £15,000 towards the costs of developing a range of human scale strategies, including the creation of two satellite schools within the larger school, prior to occupying a new building in 2008.

27. St John’s School and Community College, Marlborough, Wiltshire
    £15,000 towards the costs of developing the ethos, identity and purpose of the College’s new curriculum schools that will each focus on a particular aspect of learning.

28. Somervale School, Midsomer Norton, Bath
    £15,000 towards the costs of developments in a variety of areas, including the curriculum, student participation and parental involvement, that will enable the school to provide education for its students on a human scale.

29. Springwell Community School, North-East Derbyshire
    £15,000 towards the costs of implementing the organisational and structural changes necessary to create a human scale school based on five Learning Communities.

30. Stanley Park High School, Surrey
    £14,800 towards staff development costs preparatory to the introduction of an integrated themed curriculum, to be taught in a discreet area of the school, for Year 7 and 8 students, a model which will be sustained when the school moves to new premises in 2010.

31. Teachers’ TV
    (Human Scale Education)
    £20,000 towards the costs of making a series of programmes on the subject of human scale education in schools, including programmes in America, as a means of promoting the Foundation’s funding priorities in this field.

32. Tideway School, Newhaven, East Sussex
    £14,080 towards the costs of adopting a holistic curriculum for Year 8 students, to be taught by single teachers, and of incorporating mathematics into this curriculum.

33. Trinity School, Carlisle
    £12,900 towards the costs of consulting on and developing different human scale strategies, particularly in respect of the school’s current house system, before moving to a new building.

34. Varndean School, Brighton
    £15,000 to plan and prepare for the establishment of a mini-school for Year 7 students and for the introduction of varied tutoring structures across the school.

35. Walker Technology College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    £13,556 to develop high-quality learning resources that address the needs of the small learning communities the school wishes to establish.

36. Woodlands School, Basildon, Essex
    £15,000 towards the costs of introducing a small-scale learning community for the benefit of students in Year 7 who are experiencing severe difficulties in accessing the secondary school curriculum, an arrangement which will in due course be extended to Years 8 and 9.

Director’s Grants

37. Clore Duffield Foundation
    £5,000 towards the project A Place for Learning.

38. Royal Horticultural Society
    £10,500 towards the costs of the Bud and Blossom programme for children.

Education Grants Awarded in 2006

The Arts Included: Support for the Arts in Pupil Referral Units and In-school Learning Support Units

1. Engage – National Association for Gallery Education
   £6,000 towards the costs of piloting an awards scheme for galleries designed to encourage work that will benefit at risk and excluded young people.

2. Live Music Now! North-West
   £8,954 towards the costs of a training and dissemination programme, drawing on the organisation’s long experience of work in Pupil Referral Units, designed to help other musicians engaged by the organisation develop the confidence and skills to work in these settings.

3. The Mousetrap Foundation
   £13,280 towards the further costs of a programme of drama activities for young people in Pupil Referral Units that will include visits to West End productions and related workshops with professional theatre practitioners, and towards the costs of a training seminar for theatre practitioners who work, or wish to work, in PRUs.

4. Performing Arts Labs
   £12,330 to develop a resource and information web guide for artists and teachers working with disaffected children and young people.

5. Protein Dance
   £18,953 towards the setting-up costs of a dance project in a Pupil Referral Unit in North London, a film of which will be shown at seminars and conferences in order to help make the case for the value of arts activities for this constituency of pupil.

6. University of Hertfordshire, Department of Art and Art Therapies
   £15,000 to initiate a project in secondary schools and Pupil Referral Units in Worcester that will introduce teachers to the theory and practice of art therapy and help pupils at risk through the use of these methods.

7. Warwickshire Pupil Reintegration Unit, Warwickshire County Council
   £3,050 to host a regional training seminar for teachers and artists working in Pupil Referral Units and Learning Support Units in the interests of disseminating a particular methodology that the Unit has developed and implemented.

8. West Sussex County Council
   £2,242 towards the costs of a seminar for teachers and artists designed to promote the value of arts activities for young people at risk.

9. The YCTV Foundation
   £7,000 to conduct extensive qualitative research on current and future user groups in order to develop services for local young people that address their vocational and personal needs.

Cross-cultural Schools

10. The Arrow Programme
    (The Barefoot Project)
    £15,000 towards the costs of enabling this Plymouth-based project that uses the creative arts to promote cross-cultural dialogue to initiate a major project for young people both within and beyond the city’s secondary schools.

11. The Beaconsfield School
    £4,900 to initiate and take part in an arts project with a neighbouring secondary school so that pupils can develop a better understanding of each others’ cultures.

12. Carlton Bolling City Learning Centre
    £10,455 to enable Sixth Formers and their teachers from a group of schools to develop for younger secondary-aged pupils a virtual trail through the city that demonstrates its rich cultural and religious diversity.

13. IceandFire Theatre Company
    £15,000 to enable the company to work with young refugees and asylum seekers on incorporating their experiences into a play that will then be performed by the company and toured to secondary schools in London and the UK.

14. Ladybridge High School
    £15,000 to introduce programmes of learning and pastoral support tailored to the needs of especially vulnerable pupils, such as refugees, asylum seekers and EU migrants, as well as a programme of activities designed to increase understanding between pupils from different cultures throughout the school.

15. Middlewich High School
    £15,000 to help younger pupils of this Cheshire school to develop a greater understanding of the values and customs of travellers through joint projects with local traveller children and their parents.

16. Windsor Community Arts Centre
    £10,730 towards the costs of establishing at the Centre a forum for PSHE teachers from secondary schools in Windsor and Slough, and of residencies by artists, in the interests of promoting cross-cultural relations within and between local schools.

Exceptional Grants

17. Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
    £20,000 towards the costs of running this national organisation’s advice lines for parents.

18. Council for Dance Education and Training
    £5,000 towards the costs of promoting and launching an independent review of the Government’s Dance and Drama Awards that fund the training of future professional performers.

19. The Soil Association
    £18,000 towards the costs of further developing the work of the Association’s School Meals Policy Adviser.

Human Scale Schools

20. Abbeydale Grange School
    £13,590 to introduce a variety of human scale measures for Year 7 pupils designed to improve their learning and well-being.

21. Allerton Grange School, Leeds
    £13,250 to hold a series of consultation events for pupils, staff and the local community in order to elicit their views on how the design of a new school, shortly to be built under the Government’s Building Schools for the Future initiative, might embody human scale practices.

22. Artists in Schools: Bolton, Bury and Rochdale
    £10,360 towards the costs of a project in schools in the three boroughs, a number of which are due to be rebuilt, that will encourage pupils to explore the relationship between the architecture of school buildings and how learning takes place, and help ensure that their views contribute to the design of the new schools.

23. Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol
    £15,000 to enable staff to research and discuss structural and curricular changes, particularly as they relate to Year 7 pupils, prior to the college occupying a new building in 2008.

24. Bristol Education Initiative
    £10,290 to conduct a feasibility study into the design, organisation and cost implications of a small state secondary school for the city, based on the model adopted by the Boston Pilot Schools, that may serve as an exemplar for mainstream education across the authority.

25. Burlington Danes Academy
    £14,020 towards the costs of workshops where arts activities are used to enable pupils to become more actively involved in the process of introducing mini-schools.

26. Didcot Girls’ School
    £6,500 towards the costs of researching and adopting small, vertical or mixed-age tutor groups as a means of introducing more human scale practices into the life of this large comprehensive school.

27. Freebrough Specialist Engineering College
    £15,000 towards the costs of piloting a mini-school in the college’s new building.

28. Glossopdale Community College
    £13,840 to enable staff at the college, through training, consultation and visits to other schools, to prepare for the organisational and curricular changes incurred by the restructuring of Years 7 and 8 into a ‘school within a school’.

29. Hartsdown Technology College
    £12,640 to establish small ‘learning to learn’ groups for Year 7 pupils as one of a number of measures designed to introduce a more personalised learning structure.

30. Hugh Christie Technology College
    £12,500 to cover the costs of the professional development of staff in preparation for the structural and curricular changes that are due to be introduced when the school reopens after a substantial rebuilding programme.

31. Human Scale Education
    £5,000 to cover the costs incurred in assisting the Foundation to promote and implement new funding priorities designed to help secondary schools adopt human scale practices.

32. Human Scale Education
    £18,000 to cover the costs of visits to schools in the UK and USA by teachers whose schools have been funded by the Foundation’s Human Scale Schools programme.

33. Human Scale Education
    £400 to establish on the organisation’s website a section devoted to the Foundation’s Human Scale Schools initiative; and to design for the initiative a special logo.

34. LC Research Associates
    (Human Scale Education)
    £54,250 towards the costs of an independent evaluation of the Foundation’s Human Scale Schools programme which helps secondary schools throughout the UK implement human scale practices.

35. Montgomery High School, Blackpool
    £15,000 to enable staff to engage in the detailed planning and development of a curriculum that will deliver a more personalised learning experience for pupils who noticeably underachieve in the environment of a large school.

36. The Thomas Lord Audley School and Language College
    £10,000 to undertake a staff development programme prior to incorporating a range of human scale practices into the school’s methods of teaching and learning.

37. The Westlands School
    £14,000 to undertake a number of measures, including a programme of staff development and visits to other schools, preparatory to the adoption by the school of Small Learning Communities.

38. Wilsthorpe Business and Enterprise College
    £15,000 to engage in the necessary planning, consultations and development prior to the introduction of a mini-school for Year 7 pupils.

Director's Grants

38. Motorway Archive Trust
    £10,000 to further develop the Trust’s photographic archive, reproduce selected photographic material and produce and distribute CDs and DVDs for schools.