Future Stories Fund: Empowering Youth Voices Through Storytelling

The Future Stories Fund was introduced to help open the capacity of youngsters whose exemption from conventional possibilities has negatively influenced their proficiency and aspirations. With innovative projects rooted in storytelling– from poetry and podcasting to theater and sound manufacturing– the fund supplies abilities, self-confidence and platforms for young voices to be listened to.

2025 West Midlands Grantees

The 2025, West Midlands grantees consist of Powerhouse, Herefordshire for Amplify, its inaugural six-month narration and sound production program for 50 young people from a few of Herefordshire’s a lot of robbed areas. Individuals will take part in scriptwriting workshops and generate short-form sound dramatization and podcasts based upon their lived experiences.

Distinct has actually revealed the most up to date receivers of its Future Stories Fund, spending greater than ₤ 40,000 in 3 grassroots organisations across the West Midlands to support young people aged 16 to 25 from traditionally marginalised communities.

Amplifying Diverse Voices

Sophie Plateau, community influence supervisor at Distinct, stressed the programme’s significance: “We are happy to support these projects, which line up perfectly with our commitment to intensifying varied voices in narration. The Future Stories Fund belongs to Audible’s recurring social impact job, devoted to enhancing proficiency and goals among youngsters from disadvantaged and marginalised teams. By investing in these young people, our company believe we can foster a new age of creativity and assistance develop an extra comprehensive culture where every story has the chance to be heard.

Street Art Solihull: Creative Storytelling

Calathea Arts has been selected as a grantee to launch Street Art Solihull, a creative storytelling programme for neurodiverse young individuals aged 16 to 25. Via eight workshops in poetry, spoken word and performance, participants will check out and respond to regional road art. Meetings with artists and initial soundscapes will finish in a public audio-visual event.

Additionally, Inspire Hub Central will be moneyed to deliver Past the Margins, a new effort integrating verse, podcasting, theater and playwriting for 16 to 18 year-olds from Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali and various other underrepresented histories. Regular monthly workshops, mentoring and live displays will check out identity, self-expression and heritage.