Grants awarded under Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006

Question 1

Overview

Accepted Answer

Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006 (the Act) sets out the powers for Ministers to give financial assistance to charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions and requires that payments made under this power are reported.

The funding matched both the aims and objectives of the department. This spending does not represent the total amount of grant funding provided to the Voluntary and Community Sector, as many other grants have been paid to this sector under the powers conferred by alternative legislation.

During 2023-24, the department made grant payments totalling £739.7m under the provisions of the Act, compared to grant payments of £693.1m in 2022-23. Prior year information can be found in DCMS’s 2021-22 Annual Report and Accounts.

Question 2

2023 to  2024

Accepted Answer

The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2023-24.

Grant recipient	Payments £’000	Purpose
Arts Council England	495,330	Grant in aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund	74,600	This £75.97 million grant scheme in financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25 supports voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to deliver critical frontline services to vulnerable people facing cost of living pressures. The scheme is intended as short-term emergency grant relief to support organisations facing high demand for their services and high operational costs, with a focus on those delivering core subsistence-level provision around food, warmth, shelter/safety and associated advice. The £75.97 million grant scheme is part of a £101.5 million cost of living funding package for VCSE organisations, secured at Spring Budget.
Social Investment Business - Youth Investment Fund Phase 2: Main Agreement	64,146	The objectives are this grant are to provide youth facilities, including small community youth spaces, youth centres and activity centres in some of the most underprivileged areas across the country.
British Film Institute	25,205	Grant in aid funding.
Lawn Tennis Association	13,600	Over two years the LTA will provide renovations for park tennis courts throughout the UK, solving the problem of poor quality park tennis courts by renovating them to a playable standard. The LTA have committed £8.4m of funding to bring the total package size to £30.3.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Life Chances Fund	12,032	The Life Chances Fund (LCF) is a fund, committed by central government to help people in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives. It provides top up contributions to outcomes-based contracts involving social investment, referred to as Social impact Bonds (SIBs). These contracts must be locally commissioned and aim to tackle complex social problems.
British Council Cultural Protection Scheme	8,123	The objectives of the Cultural Protection Fund are to enhance cultural heritage protection, training, capacity building, advocacy and education.
UK Community Foundations - Know Your Neighbourhood Fund	5,922	The overarching aim of this fund is to improve well-being and pride in place in a selection of high-deprivation local authority areas by providing funding for sustained community action on volunteering and loneliness.
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust	5,019	Grant in aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund Anti- Social Behaviour Action Plan - Million Hours Fund	4,028	As part of the Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Action Plan, the Government confirmed its commitment to an additional million hours of positive activities for young people in ASB hotspots.
National Film and Television School	2,360	The purpose of this award is to contribute to eligible expenditure itemised in the organisation’s annual delivery plan.
The Scout Association - Uniformed Youth Fund	2,074	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10 - 18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The National Lottery Community Fund - #iwill Fund	2,060	This funding will help to deliver the #iwill Fund - a joint investment between DCMS and The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) which creates social action opportunities for young people across England.
Geffrye Museum (Museum of the Home)	1,945	Grant in aid funding.
UK Youth - Adventures Away From Home Fund	1,765	This award will provide bursaries for approximately 7,500 disadvantaged and/or vulnerable young people to take part in outdoor learning activities in 2023-24.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Fund	1,500	The overarching ambition of this grant is to increase access to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE), through supporting mainstream schools, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), Alternative Provision and community organisations to deliver the DofE. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Fund will identify and remove barriers for schools to start delivering the DofE through a tailored package of support. The fund will develop a new strategic partnership approach to establish a sustainable DofE offer at a grassroots community level, through a programme of targeted operational and financial support.
The National Youth Agency - The NYA Core Grant	1,400	£3.93m has been awarded to fund the National Youth Agency (NYA) to deliver their core functions; youth work qualifications, a youth worker and youth services registry and safeguarding support between FY 22/23 - FY 24/25.
St John Ambulance - Uniformed Youth Fund	1,146	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The National Youth Agency - Youth Worker Bursary Fund	1,075	The strategic goal of this work is to support a sufficiently qualified youth sector workforce, which will support young people to develop skills for life and work, and improve their mental and physical wellbeing, alongside meeting government priorities to reduce wider societal challenges such as NEET (individuals classed as not in education, employment or training) and serious youth violence.
Girlguiding - Uniformed Youth Fund	1,016	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme	991	The overarching aim of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Energy Efficiency Scheme is to support frontline VCSE organisations to be more sustainable and lower their energy costs, enabling them to become more efficient in the delivery of frontline services.
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich	779	Grant funding of £779K to be paid to Old Royal Naval College for FY 23/24 in support of the delivery of its core objectives which are to conserve the buildings, interiors and grounds for present and future generations and to provide opportunities for wide and diverse audiences to enjoy and share its significance.
British Red Cross	750	Awarded to help build capability in the voluntary and community sector to respond to different emergencies more effectively, the aim of this funding is to increase the efficacy and efficiency of the voluntary and community sector’s input into emergency response, including through working in close partnership with government and other local partners.
Blavatnik School of Government	750	The objectives of this programme are to conduct research and engagement work to enhance and share evidence on outcomes-based contracting and partnership working.
The Boys’ Brigade - Uniformed Youth Fund	662	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Marine Society and Sea Cadets - Uniformed Youth Fund	553	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs C.I.C. - Social Enterprise Boost Fund	550	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
First Port for Social Entrepreneurs Limited - Social Enterprise Boost Fund	517	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
Marie Curie - National Day of Reflection	512	The grant is to fund the charity Marie Curie to deliver a UK-wide National Day of Reflection in March 2024. This is in line with the recommendation made by the UK Commission on Covid Commemoration. The National Day of Reflection will allow everyone to reflect on this significant period of our history as well as their own experiences. It will recognise the experiences and contribution of groups including bereaved families, frontline workers, volunteers, the scientific community and young people.
Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade - Uniformed Youth Fund	475	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The Together Initiative - Big Help Out 2024 (part 1)	450	The objectives of the Big Help Out are to encourage more people to consider volunteering, especially those from backgrounds who do not traditionally volunteer. The programme aims to drive increased traffic and interest to volunteering platforms and organisation’s home pages, with more people being able to find or create a volunteering opportunity in their community.
School for Social Entrepreneurs - VCSE Contract Readiness Programme	413	The Contract Readiness Programme aims to enable Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs) to compete alongside other organisations and increase their participation in public service procurement in England by improving the skills, knowledge and support networks of VCSEs for successful bidding, and improve the awareness amongst VCSEs of opportunities regarding current and upcoming tenders. The funding aims to make it easier for the VCSE sectors to position their offer to public service commissioners, raising their awareness and understanding of the sectors’ role and value while improving the evidence on what initiatives work.
British Youth Council - UK Youth Parliament	375	The key objectives of the grant are to engage young people in a UK-wide democratic process and on the development of policy affecting them; enable young people to express their voices on issues that matter to them; and test ideas and policy with young people.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) - Vision for Volunteering	370	The Vision for Volunteering is a strategic voluntary sector initiative to lead the ongoing support and development of volunteering in England. This funding will support the Vision for Volunteering core partners to transform the vision into action across five strategic themes: awareness and appreciation, power, equity and inclusion, collaboration, and experimentation. These themes aim to change the volunteering system and peoples’ experience of volunteering over the next 10 years. This funding supports the next 18 months of this journey.
ScreenSkills Limited - Creative Careers Programme	359	The aim of the Creative Careers Programme is to create a comprehensive and coordinated approach to sharing specialist creative careers information, advice and guidance with young people from all backgrounds across England in line with the Government’s Levelling Up objectives. The programme’s main objective is to improve the aspirations and knowledge of young people (11-18 years) and their parents/carers of pathways and opportunities to enter the creative industries workforce -especially the aspirations and knowledge of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
Impact Investing Institute	345	This grant for the Impact Investing Institute (III) over the next three years aims to continue to grow and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, with a focus on local investments. Further funding for the III can make further progress towards alleviating these barriers and leverage more capital towards HMG priorities, in particular the levelling up agenda.
Social Enterprise Kent- Social Enterprise Boost Fund	334	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
The Together Initiative - Big Help Out 2024 (part 2)	303	The objective of The Big Help Out is to raise awareness of volunteering throughout the UK and provide opportunities for people to experience volunteering and make a difference in their communities. This grant award will support the launch of a Big Help Out campaign for 2024, building momentum from this year’s event and helping to establish future sustainability for further annual events.
Centre for Youth Impact core funding	299	The objective of this funding for the Centre for Youth Impact is to extend a sustainable, robust and free-to-access evidence and evaluation support offer to all those working with and for young people.
North East Business & Innovation Centre - Social Enterprise Boost Fund	279	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall	273	This project will transform the interpretation of the National Small Boat Collection, deliver a strong sense of identity, place and narrative and anchor the museum experience. It reimagines the principal gallery, reinvigorates the use of space, improves wayfinding, celebrates the architecture, reduces the environmental footprint and will enhance financial sustainability.
The Bowes Museum	255	The project will co-produce 346 sqm of museum galleries and storage to improve access, display and care of the Designated collections. A more relevant and engaging visitor experience, with increased connectivity to the natural landscape, will inspire curiosity and enable conversations with increased numbers and diversity of visitors.
The Young Peoples Foundation (YPF) Trust	250	The primary objectives of this funding are to increase the number of functioning Local Youth Partnerships by 8-10, to foster coherent partnership approaches in support of sustaining local investment, including the YIF (Youth Investment Fund), and to increase the knowledge, skills and resources of the sector in support of local partnership working. The award also aims to build capacity locally to increase collaboration, investment and support, and to establish a business base for partnerships as a key element of the local youth sector ecosystem. Finally, this grant aims to increase the level of service user participation in decision making on service provision.
The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum	233	Investment would enable transformation and enhancement of the visitor experience, improve collections care and re-connect Cheltenham residents and visitors with the collection through the creation of five new gallery spaces and four accessible stores. The refurbished spaces will enable frequent redisplays, improved disability access and additional school group visits.
People’s History Museum	231	This funding will enable vital capital improvements which will improve visitor experience and respond to the Access Audit conducted by an independent partner as part of the new programme exploring disability rights and activism “Nothing About Us Without Us”. This project supports People’s History Museum’s ambition to be an exemplar for accessibility and visitor experience.
Museum of the Home - Homes Through Time Redux	230	This project will overhaul and extend the much-loved Rooms Through Time in the 1990s wing. Three new room sets will be built, and the existing rooms restructured to make better use of gallery space. New interpretation will create dynamic scenes to engage visitors and tell more diverse stories of home.
National Motor Museum	230	This project will improve the approach to the Museum, install new, accessible doors, re-configure the roof above the entrance and install skylights, create a new welcome/orientation space, redisplay and re-interpret two galleries and install new heating and lighting to improve environmental performance.
The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life	219	Fossils on display at this Designated Collection are under threat from disintegration in moist air. This project will replace the current display cases with versions that are airtight, humidity controlled and accessible, reducing the serious risks of decay to the displayed specimens and allowing easy access to update the exhibitions.
Hampton Court Palace	201	The innovative presentation of an historically significant collection of Tudor history paintings and portraiture at Hampton Court. By upgrading environmental controls and lighting, Hampton Court will create a permanent gallery in the Wolsey Rooms and establish a dedicated ground floor space delivering accessible interpretation.
The National Youth Agency	200	The grant funds the National Youth Agency, in partnership with the Local Government Association, to deliver a Peer Review Framework Pilot of Local Authorities’ youth provision, with subsequent best practice sharing and recommendations for improvements. Objectives include understanding and reporting on the current landscape of Local Authorities’ youth provision, identifying best practice and recommendations on how Local Authorities could improve provision, and creating and encouraging the long- term use of an outcome framework against which Local Authorities can assess their delivery and act on areas of improvement.
English Chess Federation - Supporting Elite Chess	200	This grant aims to support the development of elite chess playing in England. The funding will enable increased coaching and opportunities for elite English players.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust	196	Grant funding to Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust will support the delivery of its core objectives, which are to preserve and study the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections, and to deliver exhibits and education services.
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	173	BMAG is undergoing an essential electrical upgrade requiring a total decant. This requires that they dismantle the outdated showcases in the three Ancient Civilizations Galleries. The removal, by necessity, will be destructive. BMAG will commission new, upgraded and demountable showcases, suitable for contemporary audience, partnership, collection, and improved conservation needs.
Manchester Art Gallery	172	This funding supports Manchester Art Gallery to make optimal use of unused space to move fine/decorative arts collections on-site, improving access, security and environmental conditions. The grant will help the Manchester Art Gallery to move collections from off-site stores and purchase new roller racking/cupboards.
Museum of Natural History	144	Life, as we know it is Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s (OUMNH) masterplan to transform the Museum’s main court through new displays, with creative interpretations in new showcases. This vision will create an inspiring and illuminating space, stimulating curiosity and discussion about the natural world and our place within it in the 21st century.
Temple Newsam House	140	This award aims to support an exciting development project at Temple Newsam House that will see the Butler’s Pantry restored; the silver collection put on an accessible and enhanced display; the creation of a volunteer and community hub; an inclusive and accessible main entrance created and improved collections storage facilities on site.
Memorials Grant Scheme	121	A fund to reimburse VAT on works done on national memorials of importance.
Oriental Museum	120	This grant will help to redevelop the Chinese gallery in order to ensure that the displays are secure, environmentally protected, accessible to all, and reflective of the voices of source communities. Central to the achievement of this aim will be the reinterpretation of core displays and the replacement of out-dated case stock.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust - No. 1 Smithery	115	This grant enables improvements to the Orientation Gallery and Courtyard of No 1 Smithery required to address underutilisation of collection display in these gallery spaces, and structural refurbishment and supporting digital infrastructure required to improve access to collections. The grant also supports installation of energy efficient solutions required for optimum environmental performance of the building.
National Science and Media Museum	115	Sound & Vision will combine outdated and underused displays with currently inaccessible spaces to create two new cutting-edge galleries. Through improved collections, care and interpretation, the award will support the building of relevant, engaging and interactive experiences, with enhanced access and increased capacity for future visitor growth.
Natural History Museum	115	The Grade I listed and purpose-built Mammals Hall, home to the suspended Blue Whale model and large whale specimens, is one of the Natural History Museum’s most iconic and popular galleries. The project will make high-impact visible improvements to address issues and enhance the quality of the visitor offer.
The Tank Museum	115	This project will upgrade the facilities in the Tank Museum’s supporting collection stores to change the environmental controls from active, power hungry, heating and ventilation to a passive system which will be more efficient, both financially and using less energy and while providing more stable conditions than possible today.
Grant Museum of Zoology	100	Species under threat uses unique specimen-rich displays. It will improve visitor experiences of seeing, hearing, and touching the diversity of life, increasing understanding of human impact on it and inspiring behavioural change of visitors through narratives of exciting research and positive action. It ensures a contemporary, relevant and future-proofed collection.
The Girls’ Brigade England & Wales - Uniformed Youth Fund	97	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10 - 18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Food Museum	90	The project will create a new exhibit by making it possible for visitors to see inside the Grade II Fishing Lodge on an island at the heart of the museum. The project will build a stunning new accessible bridge, transform a central visitor route and improve the museum’s resilience.
The Whitworth Welcome	80	Seven years after the reopening of the Whitworth, this grant seeks to address outstanding access issues in key areas of the building where there are barriers to visitors with additional needs. The funding also aims to improve the exhibition infrastructure to better showcase the galleries outstanding collections.
National Film and Television School - Inside Pictures	80	The National Film and Television School’s (NFTS) professional development programme ‘Inside Pictures’ is available to mid-career Film & TV specialists across England in 2024. The programme addresses the gap in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities available for mid-career talent through a professional development programme, improving job quality and opportunity for high potential workers in film and TV. The programme will improve sector productivity through training for 20 screen professionals in cutting-edge industry business knowledge, sourcing and exploiting intellectual property, management skills, and international networking.
Mary Rose Museum	75	This project will be focused on creating additional environmentally controlled facilities to critically conserve items at risk of degradation within the Mary Rose collection. It will also significantly enhance collections care by improving storage of the original ship’s timbers and items of the archaeological archive.
London Transport Museum	72	DCMS support will create the first gallery space dedicated to London Transport Museum’s collection of 175,000 photographs, placing it in the wider context of photography as a medium and the history of London. This will materially improve the display and interpretation of this historic collection, and, through creative display, make these objects and important associated collections accessible for children and visitors with disabilities.
Derby Museums - Pickford’s House	70	This project will make material improvements to the display, interpretation, and collections at Pickford House to enhance visitor experience, and improve access for visitors living with disabilities. This project will also enhance the care of collections on display through conserving items for display and improving the cases available for delicate material.
Discover Bucks Museum	60	A project to extend the available museum stores capacity through the installation of roller-racking and movement of quarantine space to an external building. A lack of museum store space would otherwise soon become an issue due to the HS2 archaeological finds that will need to be housed by the Discover Bucks Museum.
Museum of English Rural Life	54	This project will transform the Museum of English Rural Life’s (MERL) main temporary exhibition area. It will replace existing display architecture and lighting that will introduce environmental controls. These material improvements will respond to growing interest in its collections, enhance visitor experience, increase access to currently inaccessible collections and enable more in-depth interpretation and storytelling.
The Wallace Collection	50	This grant will support the conversion of an existing space, which is currently used as both the cloakroom and as an overflow area for the Wallace Collection’s shop, into a dynamic, flexible temporary display space that will allow the hosting a variety of free displays. Another room will be converted into the new cloakroom.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) - Time Well Spent	45	This grant will help to deliver the Time Well Spent survey in 2022/23, related to improving understanding about the experience of volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic and now. It will support future policy development as we look to better understand the investment required to enable volunteering in the current context.
Kelham Island Museum	45	More to See will invest in a suite of flexible museum standard cases for Kelham Island Museum. The cases will facilitate a changing programme of displays that tell dynamic, community co-produced stories exploring the breadth of Sheffield’s industry past, present and future using the city’s collection and loans.
Tate St Ives	43	The objectives of this grant are to improve the access at Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden with the installation of an accessibility ramp for individuals using mobility aids or with wider access needs.
Abbot Hall Art Gallery	40	The project will create an interactive, responsive collection engagement gallery centred on landscape, ecology, and identity. Furnished and equipped as a welcoming, interchangeable space it will facilitate rotating displays that can respond to debate, community dialogue and research.Digital infrastructure will enable the inclusion of a broad variety of content.
Experience Barnsley Museum & Discovery Centre	38	This funding will help to transform an underused space in the permanent main gallery to display and interpret social history collections co-curated with Barnsley’s communities. It will bring relevance, range and diversity to the collections and improve access and interpretation for people with disabilities to enhance visitor experiences, whilst improving care of the collection.
Royal College of Music Museum	33	This project aims to increase access and engagement opportunities for visitors with additional needs, younger audiences and student musicians through the creation of 3D digital/printed models of iconic musical instruments from the Royal College of Music Museum, opening pathways to explore our musical past through touch and performance.
Youth Work Unit Yorkshire and the Humber - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus North West - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Partnership for Young London - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus West Midlands - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus North East - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus South West - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	19	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
East Of England And East Midlands Regional Youth Work Unit - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	16	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Poetry Society	16	To ensure that DCMS, as the Government department for supporting culture in the UK, can provide support to the Poet Laureate, via a host organisation, so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit.
RMD Adventure Learning C.I.C. - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	15	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Public Interest News Foundation	10	This grant aims to support the long-term sustainability of the Public Interest News Foundation Local News Map, a unique research project which maps local news coverage across the UK, offering potentially valuable insights into changes in coverage over time and the impact this has on communities. This will be achieved through automating of data collection/verification processes, reducing the cost of maintaining the map over the longer term and improving its accuracy, and also improving the map’s visualisation/usability.
Total	739,707

Question 3

2022 to  2023

Accepted Answer

The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2022-23.

Grant recipient	Payments £’000	Purpose
Arts Council England	495,330	Grant in aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund	74,600	This £75.97 million grant scheme in financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25 supports voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to deliver critical frontline services to vulnerable people facing cost of living pressures. The scheme is intended as short-term emergency grant relief to support organisations facing high demand for their services and high operational costs, with a focus on those delivering core subsistence-level provision around food, warmth, shelter/safety and associated advice. The £75.97 million grant scheme is part of a £101.5 million cost of living funding package for VCSE organisations, secured at Spring Budget.
Social Investment Business - Youth Investment Fund Phase 2: Main Agreement	64,146	The objectives are this grant are to provide youth facilities, including small community youth spaces, youth centres and activity centres in some of the most underprivileged areas across the country.
British Film Institute	25,205	Grant in aid funding.
Lawn Tennis Association	13,600	Over two years the LTA will provide renovations for park tennis courts throughout the UK, solving the problem of poor quality park tennis courts by renovating them to a playable standard. The LTA have committed £8.4m of funding to bring the total package size to £30.3.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Life Chances Fund	12,032	The Life Chances Fund (LCF) is a fund, committed by central government to help people in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives. It provides top up contributions to outcomes-based contracts involving social investment, referred to as Social impact Bonds (SIBs). These contracts must be locally commissioned and aim to tackle complex social problems.
British Council Cultural Protection Scheme	8,123	The objectives of the Cultural Protection Fund are to enhance cultural heritage protection, training, capacity building, advocacy and education.
UK Community Foundations - Know Your Neighbourhood Fund	5,922	The overarching aim of this fund is to improve well-being and pride in place in a selection of high-deprivation local authority areas by providing funding for sustained community action on volunteering and loneliness.
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust	5,019	Grant in aid funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund Anti- Social Behaviour Action Plan - Million Hours Fund	4,028	As part of the Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Action Plan, the Government confirmed its commitment to an additional million hours of positive activities for young people in ASB hotspots.
National Film and Television School	2,360	The purpose of this award is to contribute to eligible expenditure itemised in the organisation’s annual delivery plan.
The Scout Association - Uniformed Youth Fund	2,074	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10 - 18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The National Lottery Community Fund - #iwill Fund	2,060	This funding will help to deliver the #iwill Fund - a joint investment between DCMS and The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) which creates social action opportunities for young people across England.
Geffrye Museum (Museum of the Home)	1,945	Grant in aid funding.
UK Youth - Adventures Away From Home Fund	1,765	This award will provide bursaries for approximately 7,500 disadvantaged and/or vulnerable young people to take part in outdoor learning activities in 2023-24.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Fund	1,500	The overarching ambition of this grant is to increase access to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE), through supporting mainstream schools, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), Alternative Provision and community organisations to deliver the DofE. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Fund will identify and remove barriers for schools to start delivering the DofE through a tailored package of support. The fund will develop a new strategic partnership approach to establish a sustainable DofE offer at a grassroots community level, through a programme of targeted operational and financial support.
The National Youth Agency - The NYA Core Grant	1,400	£3.93m has been awarded to fund the National Youth Agency (NYA) to deliver their core functions; youth work qualifications, a youth worker and youth services registry and safeguarding support between FY 22/23 - FY 24/25.
St John Ambulance - Uniformed Youth Fund	1,146	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The National Youth Agency - Youth Worker Bursary Fund	1,075	The strategic goal of this work is to support a sufficiently qualified youth sector workforce, which will support young people to develop skills for life and work, and improve their mental and physical wellbeing, alongside meeting government priorities to reduce wider societal challenges such as NEET (individuals classed as not in education, employment or training) and serious youth violence.
Girlguiding - Uniformed Youth Fund	1,016	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme	991	The overarching aim of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Energy Efficiency Scheme is to support frontline VCSE organisations to be more sustainable and lower their energy costs, enabling them to become more efficient in the delivery of frontline services.
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich	779	Grant funding of £779K to be paid to Old Royal Naval College for FY 23/24 in support of the delivery of its core objectives which are to conserve the buildings, interiors and grounds for present and future generations and to provide opportunities for wide and diverse audiences to enjoy and share its significance.
British Red Cross	750	Awarded to help build capability in the voluntary and community sector to respond to different emergencies more effectively, the aim of this funding is to increase the efficacy and efficiency of the voluntary and community sector’s input into emergency response, including through working in close partnership with government and other local partners.
Blavatnik School of Government	750	The objectives of this programme are to conduct research and engagement work to enhance and share evidence on outcomes-based contracting and partnership working.
The Boys’ Brigade - Uniformed Youth Fund	662	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Marine Society and Sea Cadets - Uniformed Youth Fund	553	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs C.I.C. - Social Enterprise Boost Fund	550	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
First Port for Social Entrepreneurs Limited - Social Enterprise Boost Fund	517	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
Marie Curie - National Day of Reflection	512	The grant is to fund the charity Marie Curie to deliver a UK-wide National Day of Reflection in March 2024. This is in line with the recommendation made by the UK Commission on Covid Commemoration. The National Day of Reflection will allow everyone to reflect on this significant period of our history as well as their own experiences. It will recognise the experiences and contribution of groups including bereaved families, frontline workers, volunteers, the scientific community and young people.
Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade - Uniformed Youth Fund	475	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10-18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The Together Initiative - Big Help Out 2024 (part 1)	450	The objectives of the Big Help Out are to encourage more people to consider volunteering, especially those from backgrounds who do not traditionally volunteer. The programme aims to drive increased traffic and interest to volunteering platforms and organisation’s home pages, with more people being able to find or create a volunteering opportunity in their community.
School for Social Entrepreneurs - VCSE Contract Readiness Programme	413	The Contract Readiness Programme aims to enable Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs) to compete alongside other organisations and increase their participation in public service procurement in England by improving the skills, knowledge and support networks of VCSEs for successful bidding, and improve the awareness amongst VCSEs of opportunities regarding current and upcoming tenders. The funding aims to make it easier for the VCSE sectors to position their offer to public service commissioners, raising their awareness and understanding of the sectors’ role and value while improving the evidence on what initiatives work.
British Youth Council - UK Youth Parliament	375	The key objectives of the grant are to engage young people in a UK-wide democratic process and on the development of policy affecting them; enable young people to express their voices on issues that matter to them; and test ideas and policy with young people.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) - Vision for Volunteering	370	The Vision for Volunteering is a strategic voluntary sector initiative to lead the ongoing support and development of volunteering in England. This funding will support the Vision for Volunteering core partners to transform the vision into action across five strategic themes: awareness and appreciation, power, equity and inclusion, collaboration, and experimentation. These themes aim to change the volunteering system and peoples’ experience of volunteering over the next 10 years. This funding supports the next 18 months of this journey.
ScreenSkills Limited - Creative Careers Programme	359	The aim of the Creative Careers Programme is to create a comprehensive and coordinated approach to sharing specialist creative careers information, advice and guidance with young people from all backgrounds across England in line with the Government’s Levelling Up objectives. The programme’s main objective is to improve the aspirations and knowledge of young people (11-18 years) and their parents/carers of pathways and opportunities to enter the creative industries workforce -especially the aspirations and knowledge of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
Impact Investing Institute	345	This grant for the Impact Investing Institute (III) over the next three years aims to continue to grow and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, with a focus on local investments. Further funding for the III can make further progress towards alleviating these barriers and leverage more capital towards HMG priorities, in particular the levelling up agenda.
Social Enterprise Kent- Social Enterprise Boost Fund	334	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
The Together Initiative - Big Help Out 2024 (part 2)	303	The objective of The Big Help Out is to raise awareness of volunteering throughout the UK and provide opportunities for people to experience volunteering and make a difference in their communities. This grant award will support the launch of a Big Help Out campaign for 2024, building momentum from this year’s event and helping to establish future sustainability for further annual events.
Centre for Youth Impact core funding	299	The objective of this funding for the Centre for Youth Impact is to extend a sustainable, robust and free-to-access evidence and evaluation support offer to all those working with and for young people.
North East Business & Innovation Centre - Social Enterprise Boost Fund	279	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall	273	This project will transform the interpretation of the National Small Boat Collection, deliver a strong sense of identity, place and narrative and anchor the museum experience. It reimagines the principal gallery, reinvigorates the use of space, improves wayfinding, celebrates the architecture, reduces the environmental footprint and will enhance financial sustainability.
The Bowes Museum	255	The project will co-produce 346 sqm of museum galleries and storage to improve access, display and care of the Designated collections. A more relevant and engaging visitor experience, with increased connectivity to the natural landscape, will inspire curiosity and enable conversations with increased numbers and diversity of visitors.
The Young Peoples Foundation (YPF) Trust	250	The primary objectives of this funding are to increase the number of functioning Local Youth Partnerships by 8-10, to foster coherent partnership approaches in support of sustaining local investment, including the YIF (Youth Investment Fund), and to increase the knowledge, skills and resources of the sector in support of local partnership working. The award also aims to build capacity locally to increase collaboration, investment and support, and to establish a business base for partnerships as a key element of the local youth sector ecosystem. Finally, this grant aims to increase the level of service user participation in decision making on service provision.
The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum	233	Investment would enable transformation and enhancement of the visitor experience, improve collections care and re-connect Cheltenham residents and visitors with the collection through the creation of five new gallery spaces and four accessible stores. The refurbished spaces will enable frequent redisplays, improved disability access and additional school group visits.
People’s History Museum	231	This funding will enable vital capital improvements which will improve visitor experience and respond to the Access Audit conducted by an independent partner as part of the new programme exploring disability rights and activism “Nothing About Us Without Us”. This project supports People’s History Museum’s ambition to be an exemplar for accessibility and visitor experience.
Museum of the Home - Homes Through Time Redux	230	This project will overhaul and extend the much-loved Rooms Through Time in the 1990s wing. Three new room sets will be built, and the existing rooms restructured to make better use of gallery space. New interpretation will create dynamic scenes to engage visitors and tell more diverse stories of home.
National Motor Museum	230	This project will improve the approach to the Museum, install new, accessible doors, re-configure the roof above the entrance and install skylights, create a new welcome/orientation space, redisplay and re-interpret two galleries and install new heating and lighting to improve environmental performance.
The Etches Collection – Museum of Jurassic Marine Life	219	Fossils on display at this Designated Collection are under threat from disintegration in moist air. This project will replace the current display cases with versions that are airtight, humidity controlled and accessible, reducing the serious risks of decay to the displayed specimens and allowing easy access to update the exhibitions.
Hampton Court Palace	201	The innovative presentation of an historically significant collection of Tudor history paintings and portraiture at Hampton Court. By upgrading environmental controls and lighting, Hampton Court will create a permanent gallery in the Wolsey Rooms and establish a dedicated ground floor space delivering accessible interpretation.
The National Youth Agency	200	The grant funds the National Youth Agency, in partnership with the Local Government Association, to deliver a Peer Review Framework Pilot of Local Authorities’ youth provision, with subsequent best practice sharing and recommendations for improvements. Objectives include understanding and reporting on the current landscape of Local Authorities’ youth provision, identifying best practice and recommendations on how Local Authorities could improve provision, and creating and encouraging the long- term use of an outcome framework against which Local Authorities can assess their delivery and act on areas of improvement.
English Chess Federation - Supporting Elite Chess	200	This grant aims to support the development of elite chess playing in England. The funding will enable increased coaching and opportunities for elite English players.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust	196	Grant funding to Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust will support the delivery of its core objectives, which are to preserve and study the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections, and to deliver exhibits and education services.
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	173	BMAG is undergoing an essential electrical upgrade requiring a total decant. This requires that they dismantle the outdated showcases in the three Ancient Civilizations Galleries. The removal, by necessity, will be destructive. BMAG will commission new, upgraded and demountable showcases, suitable for contemporary audience, partnership, collection, and improved conservation needs.
Manchester Art Gallery	172	This funding supports Manchester Art Gallery to make optimal use of unused space to move fine/decorative arts collections on-site, improving access, security and environmental conditions. The grant will help the Manchester Art Gallery to move collections from off-site stores and purchase new roller racking/cupboards.
Museum of Natural History	144	Life, as we know it is Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s (OUMNH) masterplan to transform the Museum’s main court through new displays, with creative interpretations in new showcases. This vision will create an inspiring and illuminating space, stimulating curiosity and discussion about the natural world and our place within it in the 21st century.
Temple Newsam House	140	This award aims to support an exciting development project at Temple Newsam House that will see the Butler’s Pantry restored; the silver collection put on an accessible and enhanced display; the creation of a volunteer and community hub; an inclusive and accessible main entrance created and improved collections storage facilities on site.
Memorials Grant Scheme	121	A fund to reimburse VAT on works done on national memorials of importance.
Oriental Museum	120	This grant will help to redevelop the Chinese gallery in order to ensure that the displays are secure, environmentally protected, accessible to all, and reflective of the voices of source communities. Central to the achievement of this aim will be the reinterpretation of core displays and the replacement of out-dated case stock.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust - No. 1 Smithery	115	This grant enables improvements to the Orientation Gallery and Courtyard of No 1 Smithery required to address underutilisation of collection display in these gallery spaces, and structural refurbishment and supporting digital infrastructure required to improve access to collections. The grant also supports installation of energy efficient solutions required for optimum environmental performance of the building.
National Science and Media Museum	115	Sound & Vision will combine outdated and underused displays with currently inaccessible spaces to create two new cutting-edge galleries. Through improved collections, care and interpretation, the award will support the building of relevant, engaging and interactive experiences, with enhanced access and increased capacity for future visitor growth.
Natural History Museum	115	The Grade I listed and purpose-built Mammals Hall, home to the suspended Blue Whale model and large whale specimens, is one of the Natural History Museum’s most iconic and popular galleries. The project will make high-impact visible improvements to address issues and enhance the quality of the visitor offer.
The Tank Museum	115	This project will upgrade the facilities in the Tank Museum’s supporting collection stores to change the environmental controls from active, power hungry, heating and ventilation to a passive system which will be more efficient, both financially and using less energy and while providing more stable conditions than possible today.
Grant Museum of Zoology	100	Species under threat uses unique specimen-rich displays. It will improve visitor experiences of seeing, hearing, and touching the diversity of life, increasing understanding of human impact on it and inspiring behavioural change of visitors through narratives of exciting research and positive action. It ensures a contemporary, relevant and future-proofed collection.
The Girls’ Brigade England & Wales - Uniformed Youth Fund	97	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10 - 18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Food Museum	90	The project will create a new exhibit by making it possible for visitors to see inside the Grade II Fishing Lodge on an island at the heart of the museum. The project will build a stunning new accessible bridge, transform a central visitor route and improve the museum’s resilience.
The Whitworth Welcome	80	Seven years after the reopening of the Whitworth, this grant seeks to address outstanding access issues in key areas of the building where there are barriers to visitors with additional needs. The funding also aims to improve the exhibition infrastructure to better showcase the galleries outstanding collections.
National Film and Television School - Inside Pictures	80	The National Film and Television School’s (NFTS) professional development programme ‘Inside Pictures’ is available to mid-career Film & TV specialists across England in 2024. The programme addresses the gap in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities available for mid-career talent through a professional development programme, improving job quality and opportunity for high potential workers in film and TV. The programme will improve sector productivity through training for 20 screen professionals in cutting-edge industry business knowledge, sourcing and exploiting intellectual property, management skills, and international networking.
Mary Rose Museum	75	This project will be focused on creating additional environmentally controlled facilities to critically conserve items at risk of degradation within the Mary Rose collection. It will also significantly enhance collections care by improving storage of the original ship’s timbers and items of the archaeological archive.
London Transport Museum	72	DCMS support will create the first gallery space dedicated to London Transport Museum’s collection of 175,000 photographs, placing it in the wider context of photography as a medium and the history of London. This will materially improve the display and interpretation of this historic collection, and, through creative display, make these objects and important associated collections accessible for children and visitors with disabilities.
Derby Museums - Pickford’s House	70	This project will make material improvements to the display, interpretation, and collections at Pickford House to enhance visitor experience, and improve access for visitors living with disabilities. This project will also enhance the care of collections on display through conserving items for display and improving the cases available for delicate material.
Discover Bucks Museum	60	A project to extend the available museum stores capacity through the installation of roller-racking and movement of quarantine space to an external building. A lack of museum store space would otherwise soon become an issue due to the HS2 archaeological finds that will need to be housed by the Discover Bucks Museum.
Museum of English Rural Life	54	This project will transform the Museum of English Rural Life’s (MERL) main temporary exhibition area. It will replace existing display architecture and lighting that will introduce environmental controls. These material improvements will respond to growing interest in its collections, enhance visitor experience, increase access to currently inaccessible collections and enable more in-depth interpretation and storytelling.
The Wallace Collection	50	This grant will support the conversion of an existing space, which is currently used as both the cloakroom and as an overflow area for the Wallace Collection’s shop, into a dynamic, flexible temporary display space that will allow the hosting a variety of free displays. Another room will be converted into the new cloakroom.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) - Time Well Spent	45	This grant will help to deliver the Time Well Spent survey in 2022/23, related to improving understanding about the experience of volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic and now. It will support future policy development as we look to better understand the investment required to enable volunteering in the current context.
Kelham Island Museum	45	More to See will invest in a suite of flexible museum standard cases for Kelham Island Museum. The cases will facilitate a changing programme of displays that tell dynamic, community co-produced stories exploring the breadth of Sheffield’s industry past, present and future using the city’s collection and loans.
Tate St Ives	43	The objectives of this grant are to improve the access at Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden with the installation of an accessibility ramp for individuals using mobility aids or with wider access needs.
Abbot Hall Art Gallery	40	The project will create an interactive, responsive collection engagement gallery centred on landscape, ecology, and identity. Furnished and equipped as a welcoming, interchangeable space it will facilitate rotating displays that can respond to debate, community dialogue and research.Digital infrastructure will enable the inclusion of a broad variety of content.
Experience Barnsley Museum & Discovery Centre	38	This funding will help to transform an underused space in the permanent main gallery to display and interpret social history collections co-curated with Barnsley’s communities. It will bring relevance, range and diversity to the collections and improve access and interpretation for people with disabilities to enhance visitor experiences, whilst improving care of the collection.
Royal College of Music Museum	33	This project aims to increase access and engagement opportunities for visitors with additional needs, younger audiences and student musicians through the creation of 3D digital/printed models of iconic musical instruments from the Royal College of Music Museum, opening pathways to explore our musical past through touch and performance.
Youth Work Unit Yorkshire and the Humber - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus North West - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Partnership for Young London - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus West Midlands - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus North East - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	20	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Youth Focus South West - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	19	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
East Of England And East Midlands Regional Youth Work Unit - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	16	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Poetry Society	16	To ensure that DCMS, as the Government department for supporting culture in the UK, can provide support to the Poet Laureate, via a host organisation, so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit.
RMD Adventure Learning C.I.C. - Regional Youth Infrastructure Support Fund	15	The primary objective of the Regional Infrastructure Support Fund is to support Regional Youth Work Units (RYWUs) to ensure there is a consistent minimum level of regional leadership across England.
Public Interest News Foundation	10	This grant aims to support the long-term sustainability of the Public Interest News Foundation Local News Map, a unique research project which maps local news coverage across the UK, offering potentially valuable insights into changes in coverage over time and the impact this has on communities. This will be achieved through automating of data collection/verification processes, reducing the cost of maintaining the map over the longer term and improving its accuracy, and also improving the map’s visualisation/usability.
Total	739,707

Grant Recipient	Payments £’000	Purpose
Arts Council England	524,307	Grant in aid funding.
Festival 2022 Ltd.	51,202	The development, planning, organisation, presentation, management, production, curatorial co-ordination and promotion of Festival 2022.
British Film Institute	34,515	Grant in aid funding.
Social Investment Business (Youth Investment Fund Phase 2)	18,870	To provide youth facilities, including small community youth spaces, youth centres and activity centres in some of the most underprivileged areas across the country.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Life Chances Fund	11,464	The Life Chances Fund (LCF) is a fund, committed by central government to help people in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives. It provides top up contributions to outcomes-based contracts involving social investment, referred to as Social impact Bonds (SIBs) in this FAQ. These contracts must be locally commissioned and aim to tackle complex social problems.
Lawn Tennis Association Limited	8,300	Over two years the LTA will provide renovations for park tennis courts throughout the UK, solving the problem of poor quality park tennis courts by renovating them to a playable standard. The LTA have committed £8.4m of funding to bring the total package size to £30.3.
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust	7,686	Grant in aid funding.
British Council	3,840	The outcomes of the Cultural Protection Fund are cultural heritage protection, training and capacity building and advocacy and education.
Geffrye Museum (Museum of the Home)	2,908	Grant in aid funding.
National Film and Television School	2,360	To contribute to eligible expenditure itemised in the organisation’s annual delivery plan.
The Big Give Trust - Tampon Tax Fund	2,153	To raise £5m for the Women & Girls sector through two match funding campaigns whilst increasing the resilience, skills and profile of Women & Girls charities. The project will also help to create a long-term philanthropic legacy for giving to Women & Girls organisations.
The National Lottery Community Fund - #iwill Fund	2,000	To deliver the #iwill Fund - a joint investment between DCMS and TNLCF which creates social action opportunities for young people across England.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award	1,568	The overarching ambition of this grant is to increase access to the DofE, through supporting mainstream schools, SEND and Alternative Provision and community organisations to deliver the DofE. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Fund will identify and remove barriers for schools to start delivering the DofE through a tailored package of support. The fund will develop a new strategic partnership approach to establish a sustainable DofE offer at a grassroots community level, through a programme of targeted operational and financial support.
UK Community Foundations	1,530	The overarching aim of this fund is to improve well-being and pride in place in a selection of high-deprivation local authority areas by providing funding for sustained community action on volunteering and loneliness.
The British Red Cross	1,454	This grant will provide crisis funding to the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP), and as a consequence the voluntary and community sector (VCS), supporting their work responding to the impacts of the cost of living increases during winter 2022/23.
National Youth Agency-The NYA Core Grant	1,430	£3.93m to fund the National Youth Agency (NYA) to deliver their core functions; youth work qualifications, a youth worker and youth services registry and safeguarding support between FY 22/23-FY 24/25.
National Youth Agency – Youth Worker Bursary Fund	1,000	The Youth Worker Bursary Fund aims to support the development of the youth sector workforce by: enabling individuals from low socio-economic background or underrepresented groups in the youth sector workforce to access and complete either a level 2 or 3 youth worker qualification; improving the youth sector workforce infrastructure to support groups in achieving level 3 and 4 qualifications; and by piloting a Leadership and Management Programme, prioritising those from groups underrepresented in youth sector.
Best Beginnings and White Ribbon Alliance UK	857	The Safer Beginnings programme was managed by Best Beginnings and White Ribbon Alliance UK with the aim to improve maternity outcomes and the postpartum safety of 70,950 women of whom 13,350 are women from ethnic minority communities in England, Wales and Scotland by 2023, by developing specialist information, services and interventions that enable self-advocacy in maternal safety from obstetric and domestic abuse/violence and Female Genital Mutilation//Cutting.
South West Grid for Learning Trust	849	To set up an independent support service to deliver nationwide targeted support in the UK on issues related to harmful sexual behaviour and support schools/professionals to develop an effective strategic response to HSB.
Women in Sport	781	To breakdown entrenched barriers to healthy, happy and active lives through a supportive eco-system of ‘Big Sister’ peers and coaches mobilising participation in sport for young women and girls. Targeting those areas characterised by deprivation, our aim is ensuring no one is excluded from the lifelong empowerment of physical activity.
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich	779	The grant will be used towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site.
The British Red Cross	726	To help build capability in the voluntary and community sector to respond to different emergencies more effectively. The aim of this funding is to increase the efficacy and efficiency of the voluntary and community sector’s input into emergency response, including through working in close partnership with government and other local partners.
Ovarian Cancer Action	719	This project will spearhead equal access to clinical excellence for all women with ovarian cancer regardless of where they live, their age or ethnicity. Ovarian Cancer Action will bring together an expert group of partners to award onward grants for best-practice pilots, where they will match the highest-performing centres with the lowest to share learnings and address inequalities in care.
Imkaan	668	To deliver onward grants to specialist Black minoritized women’s organisations working to end violence against women and girls to support their frontline operational and long-term sustainability work in ways that elevates and empowers them through social value-based grant making considering intersectional needs and social justice aims.
UK Youth	600	The objectives of the UK Youth Fund are to: provide bursaries for day trips and residentials to c.2,300 young people aged 11-18 who are experiencing hardship due to the cost-of-living crisis, have a disability, are experiencing strains on their mental health, have little or no current access to or engagement in green spaces, or are otherwise vulnerable; improve participating young people’s skills for life and work; and improve participating young people’s mental wellbeing.
Beat (formerly Eating Disorders Association)	591	To provide better health outcomes through their carers for girls and young women suffering from eating disorders.
Trevi	590	The grant recipient Trevi, managing this project – Spark, provides a myriad of mechanisms to prevent violence towards women and girls: from educational prevention work in schools(addressing attitudes, pyramid of violence, out-of-hours support and access to safe, secure, women only accommodation).
St Giles Trust	575	To enable disadvantaged women to create positive change for themselves and other women in their communities. We will work with local women’s organisations in 3 priority areas to test if a lived experience, Community Champions model at grassroots level has impact and provides solutions to social, economic, and digital exclusion.
Women in Prison	516	The grant recipient Women in Prison, managing The Creating Community Connections project, connects prisons and women in prison to a network of local women’s centres to aid resettlement and engagement with holistic support to meet women’s needs, address root causes of offending, improve outcomes on release and intercept cycles of trauma, disadvantage and abuse.
Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse	477	To support the delivery of the Domestic Abuse Best Practice Framework (endorsed by the National Police Chiefs Council, Crown Prosecution Service and the HM Courts & Tribunal Service), two Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care Mentor Courts will be established (in London and outside London) to accelerate progress in partnerships and to understand and implement the SDAC resource manual. This project will fund both Independent Domestic Violence Advocates and Coordination in the Mentor Court areas to support the CJS response and embed the SDAC model. This will also support a national mapping and capacity building exercise to enable the SDAC model to roll out across the country.
The Scout Association – Uniformed Youth New Groups Fund	471	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Solace Women’s Aid	468	This project aims to ensure that all women have access to the support they need in the spaces most appropriate for them. It will provide joined-up partnership support with the aim of empowering all women across legal and other structures and across urban and rural environments. By developing a Centre of Excellence, with the focus on removing silos across the three spaces in three nations, Solace Women’s Aid will provide a sustainable online space to support women’s organisations in the future.
SafeLives	381	The grant recipient SafeLives, managing the ‘Your Best Friend’ project, will empower 10,000+ young women with knowledge and confidence to act before someone harms or is harmed, to keep themselves and their friends safe. Activities will be carried out in three complementary waves, with evaluation, analytics and learning shared throughout. The waves are research; test and develop; launch tools and grants programme.
AVA (Against Violence and Abuse)	380	To ensure that Violence Against Women and Girls survivors have access to high quality trauma informed support to help them rebuild their lives after abuse, through supporting specialist women’s organisations to build and demonstrate a consistent, survivor led, holistic trauma informed approach.
The Federation of London Youth Clubs	364	The programme will support ethnic minority young women aged 10-14, and a cohort of 30+ youth workers. Young women will access high-quality activities in their youth organisation to promote positive mental health and challenge stigma. Meanwhile, youth workers will be up-skilled through training and peer support, so they can better support young women.
CEIMIA International Center of Expertise in Montreal on Artificial Intelligence	359	This grant consists of £1,068,000 of GRIP funding to advance the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)’s Data Governance research programme on data justice and data trusts. This grant aims to strengthen collaboration between GPAI, the UK Government and UK research institutions, whilst translating the two projects into practical interventions by partnering with the Open Data Institute, Alan Turing Institute and Cambridge University.
Tommy’s	324	Our project aims to tackle the unjust miscarriage inequalities facing disadvantaged and underrepresented women across England. By supporting them with personalised advice and empowering them to advocate for their own care, we will give these groups equity in access to care, otherwise unavailable, and reduce their risk of miscarriage.
Impact Investing Institute	320	This grant for the Impact Investing Institute over the next three years aims to continue to grow and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, with a focus on local investments. Further funding for the III can make further progress towards alleviating these barriers and leverage more capital towards HMG priorities, in particular the levelling up agenda.
British Youth Council – Youth Voice Programme	303	To promote and embed UK Youth Voice in Policy Making. To promote and support UK wide engagement in political and parliamentary processes, including through running UK Youth Parliament and Make Your Mark Ballot.
YMCA George William College (formerly Centre for Youth Impact)	300	Funding the Centre for Youth Impact to extend a sustainable, robust and free-to-access evidence and evaluation support offer to all those working with and for young people.
National Literacy Trust	288	The National Literacy Trust, managing the trailblazing Women programme, is specifically engaging excluded and vulnerable girls and women through sport. Disengagement from their learning leaves them with a greater vulnerability to grooming and exploitation, severely impacting their safety and future life outcomes. Game Changers was developed in response to demand from Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) requesting a more tailored offer, which supported their pupil’s deep feelings of exclusion. Game Changers: Trailblazing Women uses the excitement and passion of sport to inspire and motivate excluded girls who have experienced violence and trauma, to develop their communication skills, improve their confidence and resilience, enabling them to make better choices with stronger relationships for safer futures.
The Central Jewish Fund for World Jewish Relief – Tampon Tax Fund	278	The Central Jewish Fund for World Jewish Relief, managing the Step Forward programme, will address key barriers to integration specific to women refugees in line with the Home Office’s Integration Framework. Through this holistic, tailored programme, women refugees will be empowered to gain independence, make informed decisions, improve health outcomes, and move towards employment, and a fully integrated life in Britain.
YMCA England and Wales	269	The YMCA England and Wales, managing the “Y’s Girls Mentoring” project, is a community led Mentoring initiative based on Early and Effective Intervention principles. They will identify young people at risk of developing mild to moderate mental health issues and match them with a trained community based volunteer mentor.
Various – Memorials Grant Scheme	211	A fund to reimburse VAT on works done on national memorials of importance.
Girlguiding – Uniformed Youth New Groups Fund	201	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK Research and Innovation)	199	The aim of this Project is to support the scoping and piloting, led by DCMS, of a new cultural heritage protection workstream focused on the impacts of natural disasters and climate change on cultural heritage in developing countries. The Project between DCMS and AHRC recognises that in the wake of natural disasters, and the increasing risks posed to cultural heritage by climate change, the need for improved preparedness measures is a key priority for the global heritage community. The Project is to be funded as a part of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) managed by the DCMS and is intended to complement and build on the DCMS/ British Council Cultural Protection Fund.
ScreenSkills Limited – Creative Careers Programme	197	The aim of the CCP is to create a comprehensive and coordinated approach to sharing specialist creative careers information, advice and guidance with young people from all backgrounds across England in line with the Government’s Levelling Up objectives. The programme’s main objective is to improve the aspirations and knowledge of young people (11-18 years) and their parents/carers of pathways and opportunities to enter the creative industries workforce – especially the aspirations and knowledge of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust	196	The grant will be used towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections.
Debbie Forster	190	The grant will move the Tech Talent Charter into its third phase of development, ensuring it is a fast scaling, sustainable organisation working in partnership both with major employers but also key organisations across the D&I space, across the talent pipeline and across all lenses of underrepresentation.
The Medaille Trust	178	The Moving on Project focuses on meeting the long-term needs of women affected by trafficking and modern slavery. To do this, The Medaille Trust will establish eight new delivery hubs across England, each staffed with experienced caseworkers.
School for Social Entrepreneurs	170	To enable Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE) to compete alongside other organisations and increase their participation in public service procurement in England by: 1. improving the skills, knowledge and support networks of VCSEs for successful bidding 2. improving the awareness amongst VCSEs of opportunities regarding current and upcoming tenders 3. making it easier for the VCSE sectors to position their offer to public service commissioners, raising their awareness and understanding of the sectors’ role and value 4. improving the evidence on what initiatives work.
Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade – Uniformed Youth New Groups Fund	167	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The Boys’ Brigade – Uniformed Youth New Groups Fund	167	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
BBC Children in Need – Youth Investment Fund Phase 1	159	Youth Investment Fund Phase 1 spending objective is to improve the effectiveness of youth services in order to drive positive outcomes for young people such as improved health and wellbeing, equipping them with skills for work and life, and empowering them to be active members of their communities and society. YIF Phase 1 will work with left-behind areas in England, assessing and distributing grants for capital proposals which meet the objective of improving the effectiveness of youth services.
Comic Relief	155	Comic Relief’s Supporting & Sustaining Specialism project will centre on a competitive, open grants programme for organisations led by ethnic minority women for ethnic minority women to address violence against women and girls in all four nations of the UK. Approximately 15 onward grants of between £40,000 and £250,000 for up to 18 months will be awarded and managed by Comic Relief.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)	155	The Vision for Volunteering is a strategic voluntary sector initiative to lead the ongoing support and development of volunteering in England. This funding will support the Vision for Volunteering core partners to transform the vision into action across five strategic themes; awareness and appreciation, power, equity and inclusion, collaboration, and experimentation. These themes aim to change the volunteering system and peoples’ experience of volunteering over the next 10 years. This funding supports the next 18 months of this journey.
Shout Out UK (SOUK) Limited	150	The key objective of the Youth Engagement grant is to support young people across England to participate in the development of policy affecting them, enabling more young people to have their voices heard and participate in decision making on a national policy level. DCMS remains committed to funding this important programme, enabling young people to express their voices and be heard on issues that matter to them. This programme continues to represent a key mechanism for supporting meaningful engagement between young people and decision makers at all levels.
The Girls’ Brigade England & Wales – Uniformed Youth Fund	116	The objectives of the Uniformed Youth Fund are to: Increase the capacity of non-military uniformed youth group provision in areas with unmet demand, by creating approximately 23,393 new places for young people on existing waiting lists aged 10 – 18 by March 2025, prioritising those in deprived areas; improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work; and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
National Youth Agency- Peer Review Framework Pilot for Local Authorities’ youth provision	102	The grant funds the National Youth Agency, in partnership with the Local Government Association, to deliver a Peer Review Framework Pilot of Local Authorities’ youth provision, with subsequent best practice sharing and recommendations for improvements. Objectives include understanding and reporting on the current landscape of Local Authorities’ youth provision, identifying best practice and recommendations on how Local Authorities could improve provision, and creating and encouraging the long- term use of an outcome framework against which Local Authorities can assess their delivery and act on areas of improvement.
Marine Society and Sea Cadets - Uniformed Youth New Group Fund	98	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
National Council for Voluntary Organisations - Time Well Spent	95	This grant will help to deliver the Time Well Spent survey in 2022/23, related to improving understanding about the experience of volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic and now. It will support future policy development as we look to better understand the investment required to enable volunteering in the current context.
St John Ambulance - Uniformed Youth New Groups Fund	88	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
The Belong Network - The Power of Connection	80	The Power of Connection – volunteering to strengthen social cohesion will consist of guidance and best practice examples on how volunteering can best strengthen social cohesion at a local level. It will draw on the latest research and evidence on volunteering (including analysis of recent data collected on volunteering during the Covid-19 pandemic from the Beyond Us and Them project and other relevant research) and will be developed with input from researchers, volunteering organisations and experts in the volunteering and social cohesion sectors.
Girls’ Brigade England & Wales - Uniformed Youth New Groups Fund	65	The aims of the grant are to open new uniformed youth groups in areas of disadvantage where no existing groups exist, improve the wellbeing of young people and help them to develop skills for life and work, and to support Uniformed Youth Organisations to build their internal capacity to scale up sustainably and ensure organisations can continue to meet demand beyond 2025.
Audio Content Fund	34	The Audio Content Fund, will support a broad range of public service audio content, for all ages, on a wider spectrum of UK radio stations. The Fund aims to create new opportunities for producers to make public service content that adds to viewer and listener choice.
Warwickshire County Council	34	Further the deployment of Full Fibre Networks across the UK.
Colorintech CIC	25	To support the building of a more diverse tech workforce and the creation of an environment that encourages more people to consider a role in tech. The work will provide Insights into the interventions that businesses can provide so as to attract, and promote the retention and progression of ethnically diverse individuals in the tech sector; and the creation of a best practice toolkit for businesses to build an inclusive workplace environment that fosters the promotion of ethnically diverse talent.
Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs C.I.C	20	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to Grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
First Port for Social Entrepreneurs Limited	16	The objectives of the Social Enterprise Boost Fund are, by March 2025, to Grow the social enterprise sector in targeted areas, enable targeted high-deprivation local authorities and the local voluntary and community sector in these places to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage social enterprise growth, and to build and disseminate evidence.
The Poetry Society	16	To ensure that DCMS, as the Government department for supporting culture in the UK, can provide support to the Poet Laureate, via a host organisation, so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit.
Total	693,129

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