From:
SEFAN [admin_at_sefan_dot_org_dot_uk]
Sent: 13 March 2009 12:56
Subject: SEFAN 2009-03-13_01 2xGLEANINGS from
T.Mason / 1 x ARTSjobs
1. Young People / Education Grants
2. Culture Secretary's 5-Point Plan For Music
3. Gleaning from ATRSjobs London unpaid
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Begin forwarded message:
Date: 3 March 2009 10:16:28
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Subject: Young People / Education
Grants
Yapp Charitable Trust
This funder offers grants of up to £3,000 per year
for up to three years for charities that work with:
• elderly people
• children and young people aged 5–25
• people with disabilities or mental health
problems
• people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of
a social, rather than medical origin such as addiction, relationship
difficulties, abuse, and a history of offending
Eligible charities need to have a total expenditure
budget less than £60,000 pa.
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Young Roots
This Heritage Lottery Fund scheme provides grants
between £3,000-£25,000 for projects that involve 13 -25 year-olds in finding
out
about their heritage, developing skills, building
confidence and promoting community involvement. Projects should also
develop
partnerships between youth organisations and heritage
organisations, as well as create opportunities to celebrate young
people’s
achievements in the project and share their learning
with the wider community. Young Roots is a rolling programme and there are
no
deadlines for applications. Further
information:
www.hlf.org.uk/English/HowToApply/OurGrantGivingProgrammes/YoungRoots
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Prince’s Trust Community Cash Awards
Offers grants of up to £5,000 to help young people
set up a project that will benefit their community. Projects could include
a
music studio, a youth club, a youth advisory board or
a local magazine.
Applicants should be:
• aged 14-16 and are in school, but struggling;
or
• aged 16-25, unemployed or working less than 16
hours a week
Funding can range up to £1,000 for 14-16 year olds
and £5,000 for those aged 16-25.
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The aim of the Gordon Foundation is to help young
people up to the age of 30 grow to full maturity as individuals and members
of
society. It offers grants to support their education
in the fine or performing arts, particularly music, drama or design, or
to
allow them to engage in educational travel which
involves physical challenge and endeavour. The foundation also owns and
maintains
two long wheelbase Land Rovers which it loans without
charge to groups of young people for expeditions or field trips. More:
www.gordon.foundation.btinternet.co.uk
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Children and Young People’s Minister Beverley Hughes
has announced £9 million for a new scheme to help young people spearhead
and
deliver ideas for positive activities, helping them
at the same time to become young social entrepreneurs. Funding and
practical
support will be available for young people to think
of new ideas for positive activities, which could be anything from sport
to
music to art, which they will then deliver in their
local communities, on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Grants for the arts are for individuals, arts
organisations and other people who use the arts in their work. They are for
activities
carried out over a set period and which engage people
in England in arts activities, and help artists and arts organisations
in
England carry out their work. Grants to individuals
normally range from £1,000 up to £30,000, and can cover activities lasting up
to
three years. Grants to organisations range from
£1,000 up to £100,000, and can cover activities lasting up to three years.
This
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The Big Lottery Fund version of the Awards for All
programme will fund not-for profit and community groups, schools and
health
organisations, and parish and town councils whose
project will meet one of these four aims:
• People have better chances in life, with better
access to training and development to improve their life skills
• Stronger communities, with more active citizens,
working together to tackle their problems
• Improved rural and urban environments, which
communities are better able to enjoy
• Healthier and more active people and
communities
You can apply at any time, for between £300 and
£10,000, for projects that are completed within 12 months. This programme will
open
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The Steel Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust
supporting general charitable purposes. Grants of between £1,000 and £25,000
are
made to registered charities in the UK within the
following funding priority areas:
•
Health & Medical Research
•
Social Services Environment
•
Culture
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The Music Sound Foundation is dedicated to the
improvement of music education with a focus on youth. The Trustees currently
accept
applications from the following:
• Schools (non-specialist) to fund music
education
• Music Students in full time education to fund
instrument purchase
• Music teachers to fund courses and training
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foundations in England.
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Begin forwarded message:
Date: 13 March 2009 09:53:57
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Subject: Culture Secretary's
5-Point Plan For Music
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has laid out what he
called a five-point plan for the music business.
In a speech at a jointly hosted BPI and Academy of
Contemporary Music event on the House of Commons terrace Burnham said he
will
provide support to the industry with his new
five-point plan this year. This comprises:
1. Plans for the Government to push to extend
copyright protection from the current 50 years
2. Raise awareness of illegal downloading by
educating young people
3. Opening more rehearsal spaces for musicians in
"disadvantaged communities"
4. Support more music education in schools
5. Support the music industry to introduce more
apprenticeships as a way of "re-investing" in future talent
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`GLEANINGS from ARTSjobs
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Announcing the
Regional Strategic Conference for the Folk / Roots / World
Sector March
2009
supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council
England
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Penny Allen - General Manager
Anthony John Allen - Chair of the Board
SOUTH EAST
FOLK ARTS NETWORK:
Charity registered in England and Wales No:
1111883
Company Limited by Guarantee No: 5114495 registered in
Cardiff
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