Available Funding

Paul Hamlyn Teacher Development Fund

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund support arts-based learning in children’s education. They believe that arts-based teaching and learning can add value and help schools achieve their aspirations for pupils. The fund does this by:

• focusing on pupils who experience systemic inequity and enabling them to access and make progress in their learning;
• supporting arts organisations and schools working in equal partnerships to exchange and enrich their expertise;
• recognising teachers are critical to pupils’ outcomes;
• creating high-quality inspiring professional learning for teachers;
• enabling teachers and artist practitioners to learn and work together in the classroom;
• building a body of evidence and practice, and understanding how the work improves equity for pupils; and
• generating sustainable changes in teaching and learning in schools for the long-term.

Fund receivers will explore equity in schools, develop a two-year professional learning programme for teachers and use arts-based approaches to teach the curriculum.

A primary school or arts/cultural organisation may be the lead applicant.