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Big Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland We Are a UK-Wide Organisation and Our Mission Is to Bring Real Improvements to Communities and the Lives of People Most in Need Written submission to the Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure’s Inquiry into Inclusion in the Arts of Working Class Communities March 2014 1. Big Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland We are a UK-wide organisation and our mission is to bring real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need. Big Lottery Fund was established in 2004 following the merger of the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund. The National Lottery Act 2006 gave us legal status, including powers to distribute non-Lottery funding, make loans and residual responsibility for Millennium Commission projects. Since June 2004, we have invested over £301 million in 6,998 projects in Northern Ireland focused on the areas of health, education, environment and charitable purposes. Our programmes are tailored to meet the specific needs of communities in Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. We also deliver programmes that have a UK-wide remit. We develop funding programmes on a multi-annual basis and our current programmes form part of the 2009 – 2015 portfolio. We are offering support to local communities through a range of programmes, some of which may provide funding for up to five years. We also have a range of UK-wide programmes which will have an impact on communities in Northern Ireland, and have a target that 80 per cent of all our funding across the UK will go to the VCS. While our areas of focus are health, education, environment and charitable purposes, we recognise that arts and culture activities can be a powerful tool to bring people and communities together. These activities often present opportunities for the people taking part to become more involved in their communities, learn new skills, receive training and improve their physical and emotional well-being. 2. Culture for All The Culture for All programme was developed to give communities across Northern Ireland the chance to be a part of the first ever UK City of Culture in Derry/Londonderry. The programme‟s aims were to help organisations to run arts and culture projects that: Linked to the UK City of Culture celebrations in a way that benefited their own communities Encouraged talent, increased skills and strengthened community activity by supporting activities that helped to develop people and organisations Improved quality of life by increasing opportunities for people, especially those most disadvantaged, to engage with the UK City of Culture celebrations; Best met local need and had the most impact on communities. The programme was funded and delivered by Big Lottery Fund and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in partnership with Culture Company 2013. It launched on 1 August 2012 with a budget of £1.35 million, which included £100,000 from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. There was a great response to Culture for All from communities across Northern Ireland who wanted to become involved in the 2013 celebrations. Because of the quality of applications being submitted and the demand, we made an additional contribution of £150,000 to the programme and increased its budget to £1.5 million. Offering small grants of between £500 and £10,000, Culture for All closed to applications on 30 August 2013. In total, we received 463 applications and made 204 awards. The programme extended well beyond Derry City; more than two thirds of the awards made were outside the City and around half outside County Derry/Londonderry. Culture for All has brought many benefits to people and communities and is continuing to make a big impact. As well as encouraging the development of artistic and cultural talents, projects have provided opportunities for community development, networking and partnerships between groups, communities and sectors. The projects have helped challenge and cross many barriers between people and communities, including religious and geographical, age, ability and disability, different background and life experience. They have provided new learning, skills and positive experiences for the most disadvantaged people in Northern Ireland using the widest range of arts media and activities, from drama and photography, crafts, dance, new technology, storytelling and music, all linking into the UK City of Culture celebrations. To capture the impact of the programme we have produced a short film that features some of the projects. To watch this, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-m7kPrPsQ Here are some other examples of projects funded through Culture for All. Greater Shantallow Community Arts: Speaking to the World – Cultural Carnival and Parade Greater Shantallow Community Arts used their £10,000 Culture for All grant to run the 'Speaking to the World Carnival and Parade' which formed part of the UK City of Culture celebrations. The group ran skills development carnival workshops, delivered by artists and facilitators, in preparation for the parade. Shaftesbury Nursery School, Belfast: Bridging the Communities With a £10,000 grant from Culture for All, Shaftesbury Nursery School and St Peter‟s Nursery School joined together to work on creative and artistic projects which linked to the themes of the UK City of Culture. The children and their parents took part in art and photography groups that culminated in an exhibition and presentations at The Mac in Belfast. Parents, staff and children from both schools alongside guests from the local community attended. The ARC Healthy Living Centre, Co Fermanagh: Culchie Club In June 2013, the ARC Healthy Living Centre in Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh, received a £10,000 Culture for All grant for activities which has given local people the chance to unlock their creativity and explore culture through drums and percussion. Through the project, tutors taught staff and volunteers about different drums, including the rituals surrounding them, how they are built, rhythms and performance. The volunteers were also trained to lead drumming workshops, which schoolchildren and older people from the area came to. Later in the summer, the young people were able to showcase their skills in a performance at the local school, which was attended by parents and carers. Further workshops have been given to pre-school children and families, as well as people living with addiction in the Fermanagh, Omagh and Derry/Londonderry areas. NI Opera: Wilde Music Children and young people aged 5 – 15 years from Belfast and Derry/Londonderry came together to perform their own mini operas. Opera singer Lucia Vernon led a series of workshops called Wilde Music in partnership with a Derry/Londonderry project, Off the Streets and Morton Community Centre in Belfast. The project culminated in a joint performance, with the young people from Belfast travelling to Derry/Londonderry. Both groups performed their mini operas and attended a professional opera production of „The Importance of Being Earnest‟. This project was funded with a Culture for All grant of £3,800 grant. A list of the all projects funded through Culture for All is contained in Annex A, for the Committee‟s information. 3. Building a Legacy In January this year, we announced a £400,000 grant to help build a legacy for the first UK City of Culture for communities in County Derry/Londonderry. Awarded to the Community Foundation Northern Ireland‟s Acorn Fund, the grant will be used to fund community arts and culture projects across the county. It will also be used to support projects for young people and marginalised groups such as homeless people, ethnic minorities and people with learning disabilities. Also, a three-year Acorn Fund programme to support young people with learning disabilities who want to pursue a career in the arts will be developed through the funding. Further information is available at: www.communityfoundationni.org/Give/Acorn-Fund or telephone 028 9024 5927. 4. Other funding Some of our Northern Ireland programmes have funded projects that are providing support to those most at risk in our society, with some using arts and culture elements to achieve their overall project aims. We have included two examples here, for the Committee‟s information. Big Telly Theatre Company: Spring Chickens The „Spring Chickens‟ project is bringing the theatre and the arts to older people in rural communities, many of whom have never been to the theatre before. Big Telly are travelling throughout Northern Ireland, working primarily with isolated and lonely people who live in sheltered housing, residential and care homes. They also have a specific programme Targeting Older Men (TOM) which uses a touring portable theatre to tour all across Northern Ireland. The men are encouraged to take part by telling a joke or doing a short performance. Workshops to encourage older people to take part in plays are held. Family fun days are organised by the older people where they can get involved in intergenerational activities and coach younger people in schools and workshops. „Spring Chickens‟ is being funded through a three-year grant of £200,000 from Reaching Out: Connecting Older People. This programme has funded projects to support older people who are at risk of isolation, depression, mental and physical ill health and low self esteem. Contact Northern Ireland: Aggression Related Trauma (ART) – Recovery for Youth Contact, through the „Aggression Related Trauma - Recovery for Youth‟ project, will engage with children and young people, aged 8-20 years old who are at risk as a result of their trauma. This can include young people who are disengaged from education and/or leaving the care system, or are at risk of engaging in risk taking behaviours e.g. criminal activity, drug/alcohol misuse etc, as a direct consequence of their experience of aggression related trauma. The project will build their coping strategies and confidence and limit risky behaviour by offering individual and age appropriate treatments and supportive care including art, music and play therapy.
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