Grants agreed in 2011


In 2011 we have agreed grants under the following programmes.

Arts Programme Grants



A gallery visit by the Culture Club
Photograph courtesy of Open Art

Arts Project Funding
Supporting pioneering and exemplary practice by UK arts organisations producing and presenting arts made by older people.

 

Oswald Joseph participating in a Clod Ensemble project

Photograph courtesy of
Late Developers/Extravagant Acts/Clod Ensemble /
Holborn Community Association

Aune Head Arts "EVA" project
Paul Scott and Carolyn Pink open memory boxes at Totnes Memory Cafe

Photograph courtesy of Kate Green
Aune Head Arts

The Culture Club "Festvial of Light" visit

 Photograph courtesy of Open Art

 

Organisation name Description of project Grant Amount £
Acta Community Theatre Ltd Towards participatory arts activities in Bristol encouraging isolated older people to develop as pro-active artists and performers and contributing to the wider community.
27,280
An Lanntair For a project on the Isle of Lewis involving older people exploring memories in a visual and aural form both as art and oral history using bilingual artists.
6,225
Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Towards the creation of combined art works by older people facilitated by professional artists on the theme of Celebrating Age and Ambition culminating in exhibitions or performances in arts venues across Cornwall.
26,200
Aune Head Arts For work with a team of volunteer elders in Devon led by a professional artist/producer to make creative radio programmes.
28,500
B arts Ltd For an intergenerational electronic music composition project in care homes and rehabilitation wards in Newcastle under Lyme exploring benefits of multi-sensory music technology in this setting.
24,412
Clod Ensemble For a programme of 12 monthly concerts by internationally acclaimed artists, one six week intensive arts project at two day centres in Tower Hamlets plus a production and dissemination of a toolkit for promoters.
30,000
Collective Encounters For a three year programme of creative work in Liverpool for and with people with dementia and their carers; led by the Third Age Theatre Group collaborating with professional artists and dementia specialists.
27,950
Cubitt Artists Ltd Towards a major public art programme in London produced by and with local senior citizens from the Third and Fourth age, particularly those experiencing social exclusion, poverty or mental health problems.
27,000
East London Dance To establish a dance company for older Londoners who will perform and deliver workshops in a range of community and high profile settings to inspire others to dance.
30,000
Magic Me To bring together 60 older and younger people to learn creative skills to be performed at a May Day party at Wilton Hall in London.
30,000
Open Art Limited For a programme of artistic participatory events, workshops and short courses aimed at the cultural and mental needs of older people in Kirklees.
28,738
Oxford Concert Party To run three participatory projects in rural areas: training workshops for day care staff; creative arts based around food; a concert and six weekly workshops.
30,000
Plantation Productions For media production projects in Glasgow using writing, character development, drama, multimedia, reminiscence, animation and the arts as a way of creatively engaging seniors with artists, film professionals and the wider community.
27,800
Rural Media Company Towards creative media activities in the West Midlands steered by and involving older people in sheltered housing and younger people with housing problems, culminating in community screenings.
26,185
Skippko Arts Team For a participatory arts project in Leeds involving three groups of older people who will devise an artwork about 'Tea', visiting galleries and libraries for inspiration; culminating in an event/exhibition.
18,845
Spare Tyre Theatre Company For a volunteer programme in London improving professional standards of future community artists working as artistic collaborators with older people.
30,000
Take Art Towards a project supporting the lifelong creativity of older people in eight residential settings in Somerset, Devon and Dorset and producing a pioneering film as a resource contributing to excellence in national dance leadership programmes.
29,000

(To find out about arts organisations we have funded since 2004 click here)

Other Arts Funding

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
All About Audiences For work on a national conference on arts and older people to be held in Manchester in October 2011.
10,000
London Arts in Health
To research and write a short paper on recent funding for arts work with older people from health and social services sources in England and future prospects for these services
3,000
Francois Matarasso To document and publish the practice of a number of older artists.
12,000
Mental Health Foundation To review the existing evidence available on the impact of the arts on the lives of older people
25,000
Creative Scotland For the first year of setting up and running a Scottish festival for older people
25,000
Age UK Oxfordshire To create and run a website on arts and older people.
59,500

 

Joint International Development Programme Grants
In collaboration with the John Ellerman Foundation

Zero Tolerance Day, Photograph courtesy of Health Poverty Action

 

Mother with child in displacement camp
Photograph courtesy of
Health Poverty Action



Peace Direct's DRC programme
"Centre Resolution Conflicts"
Photograph courtesy of
Peace Direct

Photograph courtesy of
Network for Africa

 

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Feed the Minds To promote peace-building, mediation and civic education by improving literacy skills amongst displaced people in Western Equatoria, South Sudan. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
106,568
Health Poverty Action To provide a range of services to enable displaced women and girls in Somaliland to access support after experiencing sexual and gender-based violence. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
166,184
Network for Africa To build the capacity of a local NGO, Patongo Counselling Community Outreach in Northern Uganda, focussing on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, by improving its organisaional systems, developing new training courses and materials and recruiting new outreach counsellors. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
66,600
Peace Direct To develop models that integrate Internally Displaced People return and ex-combatant re-integration through community development initiatives in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
166,276
Womankind Worldwide To promote and protect the rights of refugee women and children, by scaling up and strengthening para-legal resources within two refugee camps in Western Tanzania. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
157,176

(To find out about organisations we have funded in previous years under the Joint International Development programme click here)

Other Joint International Grants

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant Grant (£)
CORD Towards the cost of preparing the application and for the travel costs of the African NGO partner to attend the meeting. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
1,332
Rainforest Foundation UK Towards the cost of preparing the application and the travel costs of the African NGO partner to attend the meeting. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
1,332
Trust for Africa's Orphans Towards the cost of preparing the application. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
733

 

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector - Independence Programme

 


Legal Aid Practitioners Group Conference

Photograph courtesy of LAPG
Photographer Robert Abermam

 
Member of the legal team
at work with an interpreter
Photograph courtesy of Asylum Aid

Maurice Wren,Asylum Aid
with Jean Lambert MP
Photograph courtesy of Asylum Aid

 

Organisation/Grantee Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Access to Justice Foundation To contribute towards the costs of a development worker.
20,000
Asylum Aid To develop new service models for the delivery of quality assured legal advice and representation to people seeking asylum in the UK.
10,000
Civil Exchange To establish and run the Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector. In addition to this grant, five honoraria of £500 each were granted to the following organsiations in recognition of the panel members' contribution to this work: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Federation of London Youth Clubs, Relatives and Residents Association, Disability & Deaf Arts, Roma Support Group.
130,757
Compendium Consulting To produce a report sharing the lessons emerging from collaboration between legal advice organisations in Bristol, Coventry and Nottingham.
8,000
Coventry Law Centre To develop and test a new model for advice delivery focused on early intervention and impact.
30,000
DG Legal To review work funded by the Advice Restructure Fund and to produce a report for publication.
18,000
Frontier Economics Ltd To carry out a feasibility study into new models of funding specialist legal advice.
20,000
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit To assess the potential for future collaboration with other agencies and to purchase HR support to review the organisation's employment contracts.
10,950
Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre To support the organisation and its partner, Nucleus Legal Advice Centre, to co-ordinate legal advice services in west London to help maintain and improve the provision of social welfare law in this area.
30,000
Islington Law Centre To assist in the development of a charging subsidiary which will offer low cost legal advice and representation in areas thta are due to move out of scope of legal aid.
30,000
Legal Action Group To engage four non-advice organisations in collecting and analysing evidence of the impact of proposed changes to legal aid on their beneficiaries.
40,000
Legal Action Group To support the acativities of the Justice for All. campaign.
50,000
Legal Aid Practitioners Group To support the activities of the Justice for All campaign.
10,000
Public Law Project To upgrade IT infrastructure, purchase a new case management system and improve the organisation's administration.
30,000
Rochdale Law Centre To employ a part-time employment solicitor as part of establishing a new Community Interest Company.
29,970
Toynbee Hall To carry out a feasibility study into the setting up of a Community Debt Management Service.
29,921
Toynbee Hall To review and redesign the organisation's advice service.
30,000

 

Special Initiatives and other funding

Migration Museum project
photograph by Tim Smith

A worman born in Britain holds the only two possessions her British mother brought with her when she arrived in this country shortly after the end of the Second World War.They are her Polish bible and a photograph of her holding the bible on the farm in Germany to which she was deported to work during the War. She never returnsed to Poland.

 

Organisation/Grantee Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Association of Charitable Foundations To contribute to the pilot knowledge website for independent funders.
4,775
brap To generate lessons from the Awards for Bridging Cultures and to use this learning to promote intercultural dialogue.
74,645
Charity Commission To support the better regulation of civil society in South Africa.
75,000
Civil Liberties Trust Towards relocation costs.
6,500
Comic Relief Limited To fund a full time post continuing work on the role of the African Diaspora in African Development.
50,000
Gisland Village Hall Towards a low energy refurbishment project.
6,500
Migration Museum Project Seed corn funding for the working group of the Migration Museum to start the project.
5,000
National Council for Voluntary Organisations Towards the printing costs of 'Participation, Trends, Facts and Figures'
2,000
One World Action Towards the cost of the 100 Women Awards and Legacy event 27 October 2011.
2,000
St Michael's Fellowship To cover the costs of writing and producing a comprehensive set of learning resources aimed at young fathers across the country.
5,000
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust To part-fund the costs of an adviser and travel costs for 2012-2014, relating to the Baring Foundation - Winston Churchill Memorial Trust partnership.
5,000

 

 

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