Research Grants

1. Practitioner research and development grants: a number of grants of £200 each will be made available later this year to support those practitioners who are working in the UK to facilitate British and British-related theatre projects. These grants are a development of the programmes we ran in 2020 and 2021. See Covid19 Support Grants 2020 and Practitioner Grants 2021 for more about these. Please click here to go to the Practitioner Grant page for the application form and more details. [...] Sheldon Chadwick – to develop interactive tools for the Showmen’s Mental Health Awareness Charity to break the stigma surrounding mental health within the fairground community. Emily Garside – supporting her workshops, one in person one online, on LGBTQ+ playwriting, in line with her new production Don’t Send Flowers(for the White Bear Theatre, in September 2021) [...] In July 2020, as a response to the ongoing problems for theatre practitioners caused by the pandemic, the STR offered 17 grants of £200 to support the research and development of new projects, to take place as performers found ways to resume their work while the lockdowns came and went. There were over 100 applications for these and it was clear that they fulfilled a real need, so in 2021 the STR decided to offer Practitioner Grants once more (in addition to the Annual Research Grants that