Awarded grants

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This a list of recent grants awarded by The Rayne Foundation.

Awarded grants

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Applicant Project details Amount Area of Special Interest Geographical area Year awarded
Cardboard Citizens Towards a programme of intensive creative residency projects in areas of low arts engagement that will draw in local expertise, empower communities to explore stories and create change. £30,000
Over 2 Years
Arts as a tool to achieve social change UK-wide 2019
Age Exchange Towards adapting its evaluated Reminiscence Arts (RA) intervention for older people with dementia to support the specific needs of people with young onset dementia. £49,000
Over 3 Years
Arts as a tool to achieve social change UK-wide 2019
Orchestras for All Towards a programme that aims to tackle inequalities in the provision of music making opportunities and music education across the UK. £45,000
Over 3 Years
Arts as a tool to achieve social change UK-wide 2019
National Theatre of Scotland Towards using the arts to effect change within Renfrewshire Council's care system by bringing young people and caregivers together in a three-year programme to creatively reimagine relationships. £60,000
Over 3 Years
Arts as a tool to achieve social change Scotland 2019
OpenUp Music Towards the remote training sessions for professionals in order to support existing schools and expand to new schools £10,000
Over 1 Year
Arts as a tool to achieve social change South West 2020
Glasgow Connected Arts Network CIC Towards creative activities and professional development opportunities for young people. £20,000
Over 2 Years
Arts as a tool to achieve social change Scotland 2023
Changing Tunes Ltd Towards researching and developing a music rehabilitation programme for Secure Children’s Homes. £20,000
Over 1 Year
Arts as a tool to achieve social change UK-wide 2020
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester Towards the development of a programme for midwives that is complimentary to its existing programme for bereaved parents, responding to the need for both programmes to be rolled out nationally. £38,000
Over 3 Years
Arts as a tool to achieve social change UK-wide 2023
Caryl Jenner Productions Ltd Towards the salary of the Schools Relationship Manager delivering programmes tailored to the needs of individual schools. £10,000
Over 1 Year
Arts as a tool to achieve social change UK-wide 2016
Writing East Midlands (WEM) Towards the delivery of writer-led activities to build the confidence of refugees using English. £10,000
Over 1 Year
Arts as a tool to achieve social change East Midlands 2016
Collective Encounters Towards a project using the arts to improve the quality of life for paid and unpaid carers and people with dementia. £9,800
Over 1 Year
Arts as a tool to achieve social change North West 2016
Breadwinners Foundation Towards core costs to keep growing and improving its employability programmes for young refugees. £60,000
Over 3 Years
Better opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers South East 2023
Breadwinners Foundation Towards Breadwinners’ continued work experience, training, and support for young refugees and asylum seekers. £10,000
Over 1 Year
Better opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers London 2023
University College London Hospitals Charity Towards core costs to support a rapid-access, community-based health service for asylum-seeking people (AS-R) living in precarious circumstances. £90,000
Over 3 Years
Better opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers London 2023
Spitalfields Festival Ltd Towards a cross-arts project in three Tower Hamlets care homes, aiming to reduce isolation, reimagine care relationships and improve the wellbeing of up to 180 older people. £30,000
Over 3 Years
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people London 2018
Nightingale Hammerson Towards a Dietician to implement & evaluate nutritional strategies for residents and to educate more care staff around the role of nutrition in supporting quality of later life £124,200
Over 3 Years
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people London 2019
Age UK South Lakeland Towards the development of 'Compass': a new approach to tackling poverty, ill-health and loneliness amongst older people. £60,000
Over 3 Years
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people North West 2018
National Care Forum Towards a suite of resources to help care providers use digital technology to enhance the lives of their residents and staff during the C-19 lockdown. £10,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people UK-wide 2020
St Margaret's Somerset Hospice Towards Project Echo which will share specialist palliative care knowledge wtih care staff, improving identification and care of residents approaching the end of life. £10,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people South West 2019
Sunderland Carers Centre Towards general donation £10,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people North East 2020
National Activity Providers Association Towards expansion of the helpline during C-19 £15,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people UK-wide 2020
Live Music Now Ltd Towards funding to contribute to and enhance LMN’s extensive ongoing programme of carefully delivered live music activities with people who live and work in adult social care (ASC) . £75,000
Over 3 Years
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people UK-wide 2019
Social Finance Towards the development of two models that will be designed to improve quality of life for older people £59,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people UK-wide 2018
UK Men’s Sheds Association Towards the construction of a shed building at Anchor Hanover’s West Hall retirement village in partnership with UKMSA and Woking Men’s Shed to pilot a working shed in a care setting. £10,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people South East 2019
St Joseph's Hospice Hackney Towards the Empowered Living Team project, which supports terminally ill people to practise exercises based on goals for their everyday lives, to expand into Hackney and Tower Hamlets. £25,000
Over 1 Year
Improved quality of life for carers and for older people London 2016