Last year, we refreshed our arts funding to support organisations who work at the intersection of art and social change. Our ambition was to create a Fund which could build on our existing support and centre values like justice, community and joy – exploring roles and spaces for art and artists in the just future that Paul Hamlyn Foundation as a whole is working towards.

We are pleased to announce that we have made 29 grants in the first round of the Arts Fund. These organisations work across a broad range of art forms – but the ways they work bring them together. This new blog reflects on the themes emerging from our grant-making and what our latest grants tell us about the shape and direction of the Arts Fund.