Elmley Small Grts Information

 

 

Grants for the Arts Available……..

 

Arts Grants in general have been reduced, but Elmley Arts Small Grants Fund continue to support the Arts within Herefordshire & Worcestershire.

 

Grants of up to £1,000 are available for community-led, community-managed arts-based events and activities and for community-owned arts equipment.

Funded by the Elmley Foundation, the Events and Activities grant can help local groups to organise new arts and cultural activities, particularly in areas where these kinds of events rarely take place. Applicants are expected to show that people from all walks of life will be encouraged to take part, either as participants or as part of the audience.

The Arts Equipment grant enables community groups to purchase equipment which will help to improve access to the arts locally and applicants will need to show that the equipment will make a long-lasting impact and will be used regularly by a range of groups in the community.

 

The next round for Elmley applications is fast approaching as the deadline for applications is 12^th September with the Panel Meeting on 3^rd October.

 

Please apply now by visiting http://www.comfirst.org.uk/elmley_small_grants_arts_fund or contacting Cheryl Cooney 01684 312730

 

 

 

 

 

 

So far in 2013 Elmley has assisted the following groups

 

Events & Activities Fund

Bewdley PCC - £1000 towards staging a Passion Play on Good Friday in Load Street, Bewdley.

 

Border Marches Early Music Forum - £500 towards a day’s workshop for singers to develop and improve their skills in reading unfamiliar music.

 

Malvern Samba Band - £500 towards a day of Afro-Brazilian master classes to develop local skills and increase community involvement in Latin music and dance.

 

St Andrews Parish Centre Trust - £600 towards an Open Day on St. Andrews Day to launch and extend the murals in the church’s entrance foyer.

 

Worcestershire Early Music Festival - £500 towards various dance, music and workshop events.

 

Write on Festival - £500 towards workshops to initiate and develop new writing for the theatre.

 

Equipment Fund

Droitwich Arts Network - £500 for lighting equipment to better present their art work.

 

Friends of St. Swithun’s Church - £1,000 towards audio visual installation to provide live projection onto a large screen and include a hearing induction loop facility and PA system

 

Little Hereford Voices Community Choir - £500 towards the purchase a keyboard for use with accompanying the choir.

 

Weobley Village Hall - £1,000 towards the purchase of a new stage.

 

If you miss this round of applications, don’t panic as the following deadline is 6^th September, with the Panel Meeting being on 27^th September.