Arts Programme
Arts and Older People Programme
(Project Funding)
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Courtesy of Flora Nicholson
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Continuing with the theme of Arts and Older People, our 2011 arts grants are to support pioneering and exemplary practice by UK arts organisations producing and presenting arts made by older people. |
| Organisation name | Description of project |
Grant (£)
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Year grant awarded |
| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| Take Art | Towards a project supporting the lifelong creativity of older people in eight residential settings in Somerset, Devon, Dorset and producing a pioneering film as a resource contributing to excellence in national dance leadership programmes. |
29,000
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2011
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Arts and Older People Programme
(Other Funding)
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| Organisation Name | Purpose of Grant |
Grant (£)
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Year grant awarded
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| All about Audiences | For work on a national conference on arts and older people to be held in Manchester in October 2011. |
10,000
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2011
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| Age UK Oxfordshire | To create and run a website on arts and older people. |
59,500
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2011
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| 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
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2011
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| Mental Health Foundation | To review the existing evidence available on the impact of the arts on the lives of older people. |
25,000
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2011
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| Creative Scotland | For the first year of setting up and running a Scottish festival for older people. |
25,000
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2011
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Arts and Older People Programme
(Core Funding)
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Courtesy of |
Great Cornard photography project |
Courtesy of |
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We introduced a new theme for the
2010 round of core funding grants: organisational development
funding for arts organisations in the UK already producing and
presenting arts made by older people. Listed below are the 10 grants made under this theme in June 2010. |
| Organisation Name |
Grant Amount
£ |
Year grant awarded
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| Akademi South Asian Dance in the UK |
60,000
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2010
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| Art in Hospital |
75,000
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2010
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| Big Telly Theatre Company |
45,000
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2010
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| Capital Age Festival |
66,000
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2010
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| Chapter (Cardiff) Ltd |
75,000
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2010
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| Entelechy Arts Ltd |
58,365
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2010
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| Equal Arts |
60,600
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2010
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| Green Candle Dance Company |
45,000
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2010
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| Library Theatre Company |
75,000
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2010
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| Suffolk Artlink |
75,000
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2010
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 Courtesy of Art In Hospital |
Courtesy of Akademi South Asian Dance in the UK |
 Courtesy of Chapter Art Centre |
Arts and Refugees Programme
(Core Funding)
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Performance by Hooyo Ma'aan brought
to Acta Community Theatre by Rotterdam Wijkheater |
North East Theatre Trust - Live Theatre |
Global Exchange Project |
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Listed below are the 48 grants the Foundation made towards core funding under the theme of Arts and Refugees between 2004 and 2009. We commissioned short, lively profiles of groups we funded under this programme from 2004 to 2007. Please click on the links below to see the profiles. Website on Arts and Refugees |
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| Organisation Name |
Grant Amount |
Year grant awarded
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| All Change Arts Ltd |
75,000
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2004
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| Banner Theatre Co Ltd |
45,000
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2004
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| Community Arts North West |
75,000
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2004
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| Greenwich and Lewisham Young People's Theatre |
75,000
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2004
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| Soft Touch Community Arts Co-operative Ltd |
75,000
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2004
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| Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
75,000
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2004
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National Museums
Liverpool |
180,000
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2005
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| Oval House |
75,000
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2005
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| Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts |
45,000
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2005
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| PhotoVoice |
45,000
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2005
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| Refugees and the Arts Initiative |
45,000
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2005
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| Sound It Out Community Music Limited |
15,000
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2005
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| Theatr Fforwm Cymru |
45,000
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2005
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| Arcola Theatre Production Company |
74,760
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2006
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| B Arts Ltd |
68,613
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2006
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| Cardboard Citizens |
75,000
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2006
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| Commedia Sheffield |
68,000
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2006
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| Cultural Co-operation |
75,000
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2006
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| Music in Detention |
45,000
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2006
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| Project Phakama UK |
45,000
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2006
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| Victoria & Albert Museum |
75,000
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2006
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| Castlemilk Youth Complex |
75,000
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2007
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| Frontline A.V. |
63,000
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2007
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| Hounslow Arts Trust Ltd |
75,000
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2007
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| Music Development Agency |
75,000
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2007
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| Music For Change |
75,000
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2007
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| North Music Trust |
75,000
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2007
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| Street Level Photoworks |
42,000
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2007
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| Writers and Scholars Educational Trust Index Arts |
45,000
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2007
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| Artsdepot |
45,000
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2008
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| BandBazi |
45,000
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2008
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| Bridge and Tunnel Voices |
45,000
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2008
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| Brouhaha International |
75,000
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2008
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| Charnwood Arts |
75,000
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2008
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| City Arts (Nottingham) Ltd. |
74,971
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2008
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| Craftspace |
67,974
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2008
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| Ice and Fire |
45,000
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2008
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| North East Theatre Trust - Live Theatre |
50,000
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2008
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| Sound It Out Community Music Limited |
75,000
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2008
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| Acta Community Theatre Ltd. |
75,000
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2009
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| Action Factory Community Arts Ltd. |
55,494
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2009
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| Amber Associates |
75,000
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2009
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| Beyond Skin |
5,000
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2009
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| Hi8tus South |
9,976
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2009
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| Roma Support Group |
69,814
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2009
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| Tees Valley Arts |
71,962
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2009
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| Theatre Royal Plymouth |
75,000
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2009
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| Wheelworks |
47,754
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2009
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New Growth, an artist led residency
devised by Craftspace with women participants from |
Courtesy of City Arts |
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