62 is an online social platform showcasing the work of British South Asian artists, activists and writers from Muslim and none-Muslim backgrounds. This project aims to combat the marginalisation of BME talent by broadening the online creative space to be more inclusive of diasporic arts, from Peterborough to the UK.
Domestic resilience and creative communities
Funding Opportunities
9ft in Common
An investigation about ownership, access, disruption and place. 9ft in Common uncovers the complexities and shares the possibilities of an infrastructure of urban alleyways, Belfast’s wild and liminal spaces. 9ft in Common is developed across the disciplines of art and architecture by Amberlea Neely (Starling Start) and Aisling Rusk (Studio Idir).
ACV
Asset of Community Value (ACV) document community and culture through print, digital and collaborative real-life projects that bring people together in a supercollider of diversity. The collective showcase their work through an annual 200-page publication, spotlighting communities, grassroots organisations & artists working with people-based practices and themes of social justice.
Ashburnham Place
At Ashburnham Place we are developing two sites – one in our four acre Walled Garden and another in a slightly wilder area of woodland and field; this area is called Friar’s Field. The long-term purpose of both is to provide experience and training that helps others on their journey toward gentler, more sustainable and connected ways of living.
Awareness with Horses
Our mission is to help create, and help others create a more peaceful, sustainable world through equine assisted experiential learning and therapeutic interventions that support learning and growth, self-awareness, mental health well-being, resilience, co-creative leadership skills and nature connection, for both adults and young people, we work one to one and in small groups.
Becoming British
British is a performative exhibition that seeks to interrogate processes of ‘Becoming’ and help audiences explore their own experience of nationality. Centering the voices of migrant artists and community members it will educate, entertain and inform – building
towards a documentary performance piece to be toured in 2023.
Bella Caledonia
Bella Caledonia is Scotland’s Fifth Estate. Our aim is to transform our media into a vibrant, critical mass of dissident voices; to create a space for writers and artists to collaborate and cross-fertilise their resistance. We aim to give voices to the unheard, to amplify the excluded and the marginalised, and to continue to create a space for self-determination, autonomy and independence.
Black History School
Black History School is an online curriculum for children and families. This UK centred programme will provide families the opportunity to learn about Black history through songs, sketches, cooking and mindfulness, providing activities that encourage a supportive community network through shared heritage and creative learning.
Breaks & Joins
Breaks & Joins is a collective who want to make the connections between practical acts of repair, and the repair of our communities and ourselves. We have a repair café led by ‘Mend it with Mo’, Community conversations training with Raj Bhari, and arts workshops with Sue Mayo, Amanda Mascarenhas & Chuck Blue Lowry.
City of Sanctuary
City of Sanctuary UK is running a collaborative film-making initiative called #SanctuaryStoriesOnline to share local stories of creating a culture of welcome for people seeking sanctuary and to communicate our network principles to our growing online audience. To date, 2 films have been commissioned with contributions from 10 participants and 1 training session.
Community Apothecary
We are a collective of medical herbalist, growers, local residents and volunteers who cultivate a network of herb gardens in the London borough of Waltham Forest and offer training in herbalism and horticulture with the aim of building circles of communal knowledge and resource sharing.
Don’t Google It
Don’t Google It is a digital channel which commissions all kinds of people to make episodes about the world we live in. Launching in February 2021, Don’t Google It will release a new series every two months.
Doulas Without Borders
A voluntary organisation spanning across the UK and offering grassroots support, advocacy and nurture to pregnant, birthing and newly mothering women, who are experiencing multiple disadvantages.
Drawing as Stimming
Drawing as stimming looks to create a time where stimming can happen, through drawing and in response to artworks in the gallery setting, or online in response to art collections. Drawing as Stimming seeks to explore how drawing and mark making can support non-verbal interpretation of artworks, whilst also enabling safe spaces to stimm.
Dwellbeing
Dwellbeing is a soon-to-be community benefit society and co-operative in the neighbourhood of Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne. As community members we undertake creative and socially oriented projects which build community knowledge about the issues that affect the neighbourhood including: rapid urban development, gentrification, food poverty and social isolation. We explore alternative models for organising, learning and solidarity which can lead Shieldfield (and other neighbourhoods like it) toward self-reliance, resilience and interdependence.
Enough!
Enough! is a collective formed in response to social, economic and ecological crises within a Scottish context. Through framings of degrowth, decolonisation and deep adaption, we actively respond to emerging (and existing) crisis realities and make visible ideas which are explicitly challenging and exploring alternatives to capitalism.
FoodFutures
FoodFutures is North Lancashire’s award-winning Sustainable Food Partnership and Network. Its working to build a collaborative community of practitioners, food citizens, policy makers and researchers that work on sustainable food matters in the local area.
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is the transnational initiative dedicated to grieving ecological loss. This space builds and activates multi-platforms and resources for interrogating neo-colonial structure around the climate crisis and developing the agency and intelligence for collective witnessing and transformative healing. It aims to process grief through community-led interspecies epistemology.
Fourthland
Fourthland is a socially engaged artist practice bringing together diverse groups of people through creative processes that reposition our relationship to each other and the land. Working across a variety of mediums and social processes, Fourthland becomes a place that brings marginalised knowledge into the center to form new myths about land and people.
Fuel Poverty Action
Fuel Poverty Action confronts the climate and cost of living catastrophes as one fossil-fuelled crisis. We support residents fighting for safe, non-flammable insulation; warm secure housing; reliable, affordable communal heating systems; windfall taxes on energy corporation profits; and fair energy pricing. Born 2011, we’re a small but growing grassroots group.