Funding available for collaborative art projects with people who have experienced homelessness.

See Me North is a creative health project led by Northumbria University to help create futures beyond homelessness, and tackle homelessness stigma.

We are looking to work with organisations and artists that:

1.         Based in the North-East and Cumbria and lead creative and cultural activities in their communities.

2.         Have a collaborative approach to creativity and culture to enable people to work together to strengthen their community.

3.         Will work closely with people with lived experience of homelessness in designing and producing creative outputs.

We are offering grants of up to £3k for organisations and artists to create collaborative art works with people with experience of homelessness. Types of media, numbers of participants, sessions, and outputs are left open. The creative works, or recordings of them, will be shown as part of events challenging homelessness stigma in October 2026.

The money could be used for the time of an artist, renting a space, or anything that helps to make collaborative creativity happen.

The projects will be shortlisted by people with lived experience of homelessness, in March. The projects will have to take place between April and September 2026.

As a condition of this funding, we would expect to be able to organise an informal visit, and a short report at the end of the project including a reflection on how your project might fit in with the overall project aim of tackling stigma.

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please fill in the attached application form. If you have any questions, contact us at: see.me.north@northumbria.ac.uk