Founded by Maria Benjamin in 2021, The Farmer’s Yarns is a Cumbrian wool event that showcases farm2yarn micro businesses. Wool is a fantastic, natural, biodegradable resource that is currently undervalued. The Farmer’s Yarns highlights and celebrates the positive impact those making the most of this fibre can have. It brings together people open to knowledge sharing and collaborative working.
Domestic resilience and creative communities
Funding Opportunities
The Feel Better Project
Domestic Abuse is not inevitable. Every year, globally, millions of people suffer and lose their lives as a result of this epidemic. At The Feel Better Project we use evidence and research to understand the causes that lead to violence, and what steps we can all take to preventing this tragic cycle.
The Human Nature Project
Within Human Nature lies the ability to create, connect and adapt to change.
The Human Nature Project’s ambition is to strengthen our emotional connection with the more-than-human world, while at the same time strengthening our sense of connection to each other, and to our own individual mental health and resilience.
The London Renters’ Union
The London Renters’ Union is a member-led, campaigning union. We take action with our members to win better housing conditions in the here and now as well as organsing to transform the housing system so that it serves people instead of profit.
The Mobile Apothecary
A collaboration between Phytology, Rasheeqa Ahmad of Hedge Herbs, and a growing network of talented volunteers, Mobile Apothecary supports underserved communities in the locality with good quality, homegrown and communally-made herbal remedies.
The NewBridge Project
The NewBridge Project is an active artist-led community that supports artists, curators and local communities. NewBridge produces a public programme that is responsive to the environment in which it exists, and that places community-centred, experimental, collaborative and socially conscious programming at its heart.
The Shieling Project
The Shieling Project is a social enterprise and community-based off-grid education centre in Glenstrathfarrar, near Beauly in the Scottish Highlands. We use the story of the ‘shieling’ (àirigh in Scottish Gaelic) as a route into place-based learning about crofting, horticulture, green building, food growing and cooking, renewable technologies, traditional skills, crafts and culture. The idea is simple: to explore the landscape’s past to help build a more sustainable, resilient future.
The Tees Online
We aim to connect the diverse communities of the Tees to forge a united area that is free of inequality and division. We are intensely proud of our area’s assets and achievements, and seek to celebrate and champion these qualities. We recognise though that not everyone can share this pride whilst there are immediate issues affecting them. We aim to address this, through addressing issues of power, voice and participation.
Torridge Common Ground
Torridge Common Ground is a non-party-political platform putting the shared values and practical vision of the community at the heart of local governance, empowering communities to transform their local economies and wellbeing. Our key driver is to be giving agency to those who have the least sense of agency.
Warp & Weft
Warp & Weft explores consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. It looks at what gets called ‘mental health’, also at trauma in a broad sense, and considers approaches to foster liberatory personal and collective transformation.
West End Women and Girls Centre
We are the first and only open access, community based women and girls centre in Newcastle. We aim to build the power of women and girls, who have been, and continue to be disenfranchised. We seek to drive positive change in the world, our community and in women and girls’ lives.
Workers
Ten individuals give personal and sometimes moving accounts of warehouse and food factory work, and reflect on their creative lives within and beyond the workplace. Their stories reveal some of the harsh employment conditions in contemporary capitalist workplaces in these sectors, and confirm the power inequalities inherent in them. Three of the narrators also look […]
Young Identity
Young Identity (YI) is a Manchester-based literature and performance arts charity creating opportunities for young people at risk of excellence.
We believe the arts transform lives, our mission is to develop literacy, critical thinking and creative skills in young people through the dynamism of our innovative programme, we nurture the talent of tomorrow.