Craft Club launches Hook 1 – Pass it On – posted: 07.4.2011

Hook up with your local volunteer group or WI Federation, school or gallery to share your crochet skills. Hook 1-Pass it On joins the Crafts Council’s well-established Knit 1 scheme under the Craft Club umbrella. This will mean some new training dates for prospective volunteers. For new and existing Clubs, you can enjoy new resources and teaching tools to help you to branch out with your Club’s activities.

Coming soon – a new Training Handbook free of charge for everyone running Craft Clubs.

www.craftclub.org.uk

The Trustees of the True Colours Trust are committed to supporting a large number of excellent local organisations and projects that support disabled children and their families on a daily basis. The Trust has a small grants programme, open to application at any time, which provides grants of up to £10,000, usually for one-off purposes, to help smaller organisations develop and deliver programmes for children, their siblings and families. The Trustees are particularly keen to support:

• Hydrotherapy pools
• Multi sensory rooms
• Mini buses
• Young carers projects
• Sibling projects
• Bereavement support

This programme is for UK organisations and projects only. For more information please visit www.truecolourstrust.org.uk/small_grants.aspx.

Funding for schools to purchase musical equipment – posted: 19.5.2011

deadline: 16 September 2011

Schools in the UK that wish to purchase musical instruments and equipment can apply for funding of up to £2,000 through the EMI Music Sound Foundation’s Instrument and/or Equipment Awards.

To date the Foundations has made awards to over two thousand schools, individual students and teachers improve their access to music through the purchase or upgrade of musical instruments and equipment.

The funding has to be made for music education that is beyond statutory national curriculum music teaching. The Foundation cannot fund retrospectively and schools are not eligible for financial assistance under this scheme if they have already purchased their instruments or if they do so before their application has been approved.

www.emimusicsoundfoundation.com/index.php/site/awards

Join the campaign for wool – posted: 19.5.2011

Since it was convened in January 2010 the Campaign for Wool has provided tangible benefit for the global wool industry, as well as the myriad of voluntary knitting groups that are popping up all over the place (as well as weavers, spinners and felters). Wool is back on the news agenda and the campaign is helping sustain prices paid for wool products at retail level, as well as prices paid to woolgrowers around the globe.

To become involved in the Campaign for Wool 2011 international programme you can take the following steps:
• Sign the agreement at www.campaignforwool.org/trade.php to show your support of Campaign for Wool – there are no costs involved.
• When complete email to magsbarrow@campaignforwool.org.
• Send a high resolution JPG file of your logo in with your signed agreement, as it will be used on the Campaign for Wool website and linked to your company to show your support.

www.campaignforwool.org

Your Britain photography competition – posted: 19.5.2011

deadline: 24 June 2011

Musician Dizzee Rascal has curated the Bing.com homepage for a week with fantastic photos of his view of Britain.

Now it’s your turn to follow Dizzee’s lead and take photos of Your Britain with one lucky winner getting the chance to have their photo published as the Bing homepage and a prize of £10,000. You can enter photos in five categories:

• Local Britain
• Natural Britain
• Britain at Night
• Urban Britain
• Secret Britain

Photos will be judged by the public and by a panel of judges including Dizzee Rascal on creativity, visual beauty and relevance to the chosen category.

For more information and to enter, visit http://competition.your-britain.com.

Report published on the impact funding cutbacks has on safeguarding children – posted: 19.5.2011

Children England has published a report on the impact that cutbacks in public sector funding may have on children’s charities, and raising concerns about the impact on safeguarding children, young people and families.

In the ‘Counting the Cuts’ report it found that charities working with children, young people and families are experiencing a testing time. Four out of every five organisations going through changes are subject to cutbacks in their funding from local authorities and half cuts to their national funding.

Voluntary and community sector organisations are at the heart of delivering the Government’s vision for a more caring and responsible society. They are rooted in understanding the communities they serve and support and responding to need. It is a resilient and optimistic sector but the scale and speed of cuts, coupled with chronic uncertainty about future budgets is having a serious impact.

Further information and the full report can be found at www.childrenengland.org.uk.

The Drama and Theatre Manifesto has been led by the National Campaign for the Arts in extensive consultation with those involved in drama and theatre for children and young people in England.

The Manifesto is a call to action to young people, parents, teachers and theatre practitioners to unify their efforts and ensure that young people have access to drama and theatre.

The sense of unity within the sector that the Manifesto represents is only the first step to its usefulness as an effective tool for drawing support and funding to the sector. At a time of cuts, we need to be able to advocate with clarity the successes achieved by the sector as a whole and be able to evidence why our community is of such vital importance to the UK’s cultural, educational and economic life and to the lives of individual children and young people who see or make theatre and drama.

Read a copy of the manifesto at http://dramatheatremanifesto.co.uk.

From Thursday 16th until Friday 24th of June Community Arts Workshop will be holding an exhibition of art work called ‘Free Voices’ at the Old Gallery in Avenue Road, next to the Old Library in Leamington.

The opening of the exhibition is from 2-8pm on Thursday the 16th June – everyone is welcome!

The art work to be exhibited has been produced by members, volunteers and staff of the ArtVenture group which aims to support people coping with serious mental health problems. The ArtVenture group has been meeting every Wednesday afternoon in the Old Gallery since 2008.

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the importance of creative expression and opportunities in supporting people coping with mental health problems.

We would also like to raise awareness of the importance of creative expression and a creative space for the whole community.

Please spread the word!

Thank you

Fran Godwin

Director and Community Artist
Community Arts Workshop
The Workshop
Clinton Street
Leamington Spa
CV31 1EW
01926 888333
07939 368691
www.communityartsworkshop.org

Call for artists to deliver London 2012 Open Weekend project across the UK,

July 22 – 24 2011

As part of London 2012 Open Weekend the ‘Dysarticulate’ project, led by artist Jon Adams, aims to engage artists and audiences from across the UK and ‘celebrate’ by creating and planting one million flags recycled from book pages.

There are paid opportunities for artists to help deliver the project over London 2012 Open Weekend (22-24 July)

See attached for full information.

If you / artists you know are interested in this opportunity, simply complete the expression of interest form (attached) and return it to me by 10th June @ 2pm.

Applications from emerging Deaf and disabled artists, especially those who have a ‘hidden relationship with the written word’ are welcome.

I look forward to hearing from you – any questions let me know

Best wishes

Lauren

Lauren Amery

Cultural Research Analyst

Tel: 0121 631 5705

Twitter: @L_Amery

Keep up to date with the latest cultural research – subscribe to the West Midlands Cultural Research & Intelligence Network (CRAIN) newsletter by emailing “subscribe” to lauren.amery@artscouncil.org.uk

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Hi,

I was looking at your website and found the following page about A Night Less Ordinary.

http://www.wyap.org.uk/metadot/index.pl?id=27203;isa=DBRow;op=show;dbview_id=14822

I am not sure if you know but the scheme ended on March 31st 2011. It’s a real shame but Government cuts were always going to hit the arts! In response and trying to do my own bit for theatre that I love so much, I have put together my own non-commercial (it doesn’t sell anything at all) site on how to get free and cheap theatre tickets. The page for under 26 year olds is at http://www.londontheatreticketscheap.com/students-under-26/

Since your own web page links to a site that no longer works I was hoping you would link to my site. This would help your readers and help me spread the word on making theatre accessible for all. The site is a work-in-progress and I would appreciate your tips on how to go the theatre cheaper.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards
Theresa Mckay

http://www.LondonTheatreTicketsCheap.com