The Teacher Development Fund is provided and administered by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF).
The purpose of the Fund is to support delivery of effective arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in the primary classroom, and to embed learning through the arts in the curriculum. It aims to do this through supporting teachers and school leaders to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, confidence and experience.
Aims/priorities:
The Fund is focused on:
- Primary schools.
- Supporting children and young people experiencing systematic inequity and disadvantage.
- Approaches which involve learning through the arts.
- Projects which take an anti-racist and intersectional approach across all areas of work.
- Long-term, inquiry-based projects which support teachers’ professional development and learning.
- Promoting effective and equitable partnerships between schools and arts/cultural organisations and artist practitioners.
- The contributions of school leaders and artist practitioners as both professional learners and as supporters of embedding learning through the arts in the curriculum.
- Approaches which involve any of the following art forms: crafts; creative writing, including poetry; dance; design; film; music; opera; photography; digital arts and media; theatre and drama; the visual arts; and cross-arts practices.
- Projects that build on emerging approaches to blended CPDL and include one of more elements of online delivery.
Amount: Grants of up to £150,000 per partnership for two academic years are available.
Each year around six grants are awarded.
The expectation is that participating schools will make a contribution. However the Foundation appreciate that schools’ contexts differ and therefore the nature of this contribution, for example cash, teacher cover, school leaders time or other, is flexible.
Who can apply:
Lead applicants may be:
- Charities, community organisations, social enterprises and not-for-profits companies active in the arts.
- Primary schools and academies operating in the state sector.
All applications will be required to demonstrate that solid partnerships are in place. Each partnership must include one or more arts/cultural organisations. PHF expect that a minimum of five and a maximum of ten schools will be involved in each project, regardless of whether the lead applicant is either an arts/cultural organisation or a school. Each participating school should commit at least two teachers and one senior leader to the project, though flexibility can be offered to small, rural schools.
Some applicants may identify further relevant partners for their project such as a local authority, school improvement service, teaching school alliance, research school or higher education institution. A partner bringing additional expertise in blended learning may also be appropriate.
PHF cannot accept applications for this fund directly from:
- Individuals, or organisations applying on behalf of individuals.
- Independent schools.
- Secondary schools.
How to apply:
Applicants can read the transcript of the webinar that took place on 21 October 2021. The webinar provided details of the Fund's priorities and application process, which have remained the same for 2022.
Applications should be made online via the Paul Hamlyn Foundation website, please click here.
Contact the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for further information.
Deadline: 22 November 2022 at 12 noon.