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.
Domestic resilience and creative communities
Funding Opportunities
Theatre Uncut
Theatre Uncut tackles inequality by supporting playwrights to create new work that raises awareness and encourages debate on social injustice. By presenting our work in theatres, online and releasing it free of charge for groups across the world to perform themselves we aim to galvanise action to create a fairer world.
theblokhouse studio
Founded by Fine Art graduates from University Centre South Essex College in 2020, theblokhouse is an artist-run studio and project space in the heart of Southend on Sea, offering supportive studio space and facilities, artist-made creative learning resources addressing a wide range of disciplines, workshops, critiques, mentoring and career development.
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.
Women’s Community Matters
Women’s Community Matters want to play our part in creating a world where the consequences of gender inequality and patriarchy, and their impact on women and their families, are consigned to history. We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission with our primary focus on women-centred working.
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.