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COURSES CONFERENCES AND EVENTS ENAMELLING WITH CLARE LAYTON
Date: 26 June Time: 10am-4pm Location: artworks-mk , Parklands, Great Linford, Milton Keynes Cost: £52 Enamelling is the ancient technique of surface decoration by way of kiln heating enamel onto a metal plate. The results are always amazing as the colours run and melt into each other, each piece being totally individual. The finished pieces can then be made into jewellery, key rings etc.
W:
www.artworks-mk.co.uk
CREATIVE CLUSTERS SUMMER SCHOOL
Date: 5-8 July Location: Huddersfield Entrepreneurship, Workspace and the Local Creative Economy
The second Creative Clusters Summer School is a five-day
FUNDING
BIG improvements to BIG’s Reaching Communities (England) which provides grants of £10,000 – £500,000 for projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference. Improvements include a simpler application process (BIG sigh of relief) for those applying for less than £40,000; better chance of being funded if you are invited to complete a full application; more support for applicants at every stage of the process and applications can be made at any time. Further info go to W:
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
B&Q operate a waste donation scheme and every store wherever they are is striving to be a ‘good neighbour’ by forming partnerships with its local community. So if it’s slightly damaged tins of paint, odd rolls of wallpaper or end of range materials and you represent a community group, charity or school then pay your local B&Q a visit.
Funding for Youth Led Community Projects (England) – the Youth of Today Leadership Fund supports projects that enable young people aged 13 to 19 to make positive changes in their community. The
fund is managed by the Young Foundation and is open to small community and voluntary organisations that work with young people. Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available for innovative projects. The next round for 6 month projects is 23rd June. Further info go to W:
www.theyouthoftoday.org/ fund-great-projects
Awards for Bridging Cultures (UK) is open to community and voluntary organisations that are working towards making a real and meaningful contribution towards mutual understanding of cultural differences. There are three different categories and winners from each of the two categories for voluntary sector organisations will receive £10,000 and commended organisations in these categories will receive up to £5,000 each. The deadline is 5pm on the 13th September – Further info go to W:
www.bridgingcultures.org.uk/ About
The Baring Foundation has announced its Arts Programme for 2011 and will be open for applications at the end of September 2010. The focus is on Arts
Organisations Producing and Presenting Arts made by Older People. New guidelines and application forms from W:
www.baringfoundation.org.uk/ program.htm
A reminder that the 15th July is the next closing date for BBC Children in Need (UK) Two types of grants, up to £10,000 or les per year for up to three years and Main Grants of over £10,000 per year for up to three years. Strong evidence to suggest that arts organisations do receive support for work which engages young people and addresses the issues of illness; distress; abuse or neglect; disability; young people with behavioural or psychological difficulties or are living in poverty or situations of deprivation. Further info go to W:
www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/ general
grants.shtml
The Pilgrim Trust runs a small grants programme, up to £5,000 and a main programme for grants above this sum. Their priorities are social welfare in the context of breaking cycles of dependency and to help develop a sense of social inclusion in disadvantaged or marginalised groups within the UK. The fund
immersion in best practice in developing the creative economy at the local level. The School draws on thirty years of creative industries regeneration in Yorkshire to help strengthen local enterprise deliver sustainable growth and make places of distinction.
For the full programme and registration, go to:
W:
www.creativeclusters.com
A STAGE FURTHER WORKSHOPS AT ARTS WEST, CHESHIRE
The workshops below are £20 for the day and are designed for drama and musical theatre group leaders and members across Cheshire.
Working with Voices Date: 13 June Led by Matthew Hopkins (Director of Youth Choir UK and Music at Nottingham Trent University)
Beginners Lighting Workshop Date: 19 June
Advanced Lighting Workshop Date: 26 June Both workshops are led by Angie Berwick (Freelance Theatre Technician running ‘Aber Lighting’)
Directing Workshop
Date: 27 June Led by Stefan Escreet (Associate Director at Theatre by the Lake)
For further details about the workshop content and those leading each course please call T: 01244972679 or E: artswest@cheshirewestand
chester.gov.uk
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