Previously funded projects

In the March and October 2021 rounds we funded the following projects:

• Micro-library at the Barton Hill Micro-campus: In response to a request from the local community, the aim is to set up a micro-library at the micro-campus at the Wellspring Settlement. The project would include staffing a weekly programme of reading sessions for a six-month trial period for two specific library user communities.
• Inclusion in Migrant Business Support: This research complements the work of the Migrant Business Support (MBS) Project, which provides support for individual refugee and non-EU migrant entrepreneurs. The aim is to interview a range of potential beneficiaries, to discover what the barriers are to participation in migrant entrepreneurship and how they might be overcome, from the perspectives of eligible non-participants. 
• Toward tRanslational Inclusive Art & Design (TRIAD Public): In collaboration with We The Curious, this project will use the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus as an example of how including people’s experiences of places into architectural design and public art can help prevent unintentional negative side effects on people’s wellbeing.
• Enhancing oral language in the primary school years: A significant number of children now enter formal education with reduced levels of proficiency in oral language, which impacts on later educational achievement and socio-emotional functioning. The project aims to empower the professional development of educational practitioners in 6 primary schools by implementing a programme which has been designed to improve communication and learning outcomes.
• Wellspring Settlement worker clinics: In collaboration with the Law School’s Legal Clinic, the Wellspring Settlement and the Somali Resource Centre, this project will hold four events on labour rights at the Barton Hill micro-campus. The aim is to build a solid foundation for engagement with low waged/unwaged workers in Bristol and contribute to the creation of decent work in Bristol which allows people to earn a living and find fulfilment and purpose.
• Women in health: Through hands-on sessions comprising writing, drama and outdoors activities, creative partners and the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute will work with the young people and parents from the Hannah More Primary community to explore, recognise and rediscover the roles of women in health across local cultures, languages and backgrounds.
• Storyhaven: This project aims to build an immersive theatre and storytelling experience for families through collaboration with a theatre and a network of local children’s bookshops. It blends lone and shared reading experiences with a live immersive event to boost reading habits and help families transition from the isolation of lockdowns back to more social arts experiences.
• St Mungo's progression coaching internship: This project will train a group of student interns to provide appropriate application support and interview practice to St Mungo’s clients. Additionally, the interns will also develop a framework of training resources and tasks that future students can work through ahead of volunteering to support St Mungo’s progression coaches, leading to medium- and long-term benefits. 
• Creating a diverse workforce for the future: Workshops with partner organisations and school pupils from three schools in the Temple Quarter area will generate ideas and content for TikTok/YouTube videos. This will create accessible insights into careers in areas such as cyber, quantum, FinTech, environment, the inclusive economy, and creative/digital economies.
• Engaging with refugee and asylum-seeking families through art: This project combines art and ethnographic research to amplify the voices of refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol about issues that impact their daily lives including education, language, migration, asylum, integration, inequalities and opportunities. The comic-book format will enable participants to communicate experiences from their perspectives and amplify their voices.
• Responding to Bristol's Ecological Emergency: This project will bring together researchers and city partners to pilot the city’s first evidence-led public engagement campaign on pesticides and herbicides, with the aim of a 50% reduction by 2030, alongside developing a method for undergraduate students in the School of Chemistry to monitor its long-term success.
• Engaging and equipping communities in Bristol around tackling domestic abuse: This project will facilitate involvement with ongoing research to equip and support friends, family members, neighbours, and colleagues of women experiencing domestic abuse. It will give voice to survivors and to those supporting them by collecting soundbites of people describing their experiences, adding to a developing online resource.
• We Are Our Stories: This research project features 40 teenagers' short films and multimodal compositions about how they experienced the 2020 pandemic in their Bristol community.  The project foregrounds community, and how community and Bristol life sustained these young people during lockdowns and COVID-19.
• Animal Aspirations workshops for schools: Addressing the lack of diversity within veterinary and other animal-care professions is a priority. The student-led Animal Aspirations team plans to inspire secondary school students from diverse backgrounds to consider veterinary and other animal-related careers buy running workshops for Year 9 students in nine Bristol schools, with a high percentage of BAME and low-income students.
• Creative Tuition Collective: This is a pilot project aiming to provide young people a free high-quality tuition service with an expansive pedagogical approach and mental health support groups. Learning and adapting to the students’ needs as well as expanding their knowledge beyond the GCSE curriculum, the CTC initiative aims to develop the skills and self-assurance of young people to better prepare them for beyond the classroom.

Details of the projects funded in 2020 can be found in this report: TQEF 2020 funded projects (PDF, 177kB)‌.