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Children/young People

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The General Public/mankind

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The project will develop a programme of community arts activities in the Lawrence Weston area of Bristol.  This will include video, music technology, visual arts and several community events. _x000B_

The National Lottery Community Fund

Develop Community Groups

This project aims to improve the lives of vulnerable people in areas of high deprivation in South Bristol through providing a range of activities at a community centre that is being extended. The funding will be used to increase staff hours to maximise use of the facilities. Activities will target people of all age groups and will include a theatre group, social sessions for people with depression and low self-esteem and an intergenerational project involving local schools and a community choir.

Get Together

This project aims to raise the educational and employment aspirations for young people by enabling them to participate in, manage and deliver arts activities. It will use workshops to encourage young people to take part in activities to promote their creative thinking and develop their presentation skills. They will then develop these activities into material that they can perform to a wider group. Visits will complement activities and help young people understand the types of creative jobs in their area.

Go North!

This project will set up a programme of intercultural creative learning activities for young people and their families in disadvantaged areas of South Bristol and the Kingsweston area. Activities will include music, dance, visual arts and story telling from different cultures. Taking part in activities will encourage joint learning for young people and families in communication skills, self-confidence, literacy, numeracy, language development, creativity and physical coordination.

Open Circle

This three year project will create innovative play opportunities for children in Lawrence Weston and the wider Kings Weston ward of North Bristol. The project will be delivered by ACTA, an educational arts charity specialising in individual and community development through participatory arts. The project involves children under 16 exploring their imaginations through a range of interactive activities, including Visual Arts, Drama and Music Making.

Magic Day

The project will allow ACTA Community Centre to set up a regular drama project for young people with learning difficulties in the South Gloucestershire area. There will be activities for two age groups: one for under 15's and one for 16-25 years. The groups will meet weekly to take part in drama and theatre workshops, including music, dance and improvisation. The group members will devise and perform their own original shows, which will be presented to the wider community.

Wings

This is the development of a community arts project in Bristol aimed at reducing isolation of marginalised groups while improving people's physical health and emotional well-being, and building community cohesion.The project will have an intergenerational and intercultural emphasis with beneficiaries involved in selecting activities, such as arts and crafts, story-telling, creative-writing, singing, dance, and drama work-shops, and developing events such as carnivals and festivals._x000B_

The Get Together Project

This project will provide drama activities for children and young people from low income families. The sessions will enable young people to increase communication skills, feel more confident and raise their aspirations.

BBC Children in Need

Grant to Acta Community Theatre

This project will deliver drama activities with children and young people experiencing deprivation. The activities will result in increased confidence, aspiration and communication skills.

Grant to acta Community Theatre

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

acta community theatre ltd

The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m evaluation

Youth Investment Fund

Grant award to fulfil the aims of the Office for Civil Society's Youth Investment Fund to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m evaluation.

Acta is a community theatre which engages people from marginalised communities from across Bristol in the creation and performance of their own original theatre. This grant will support acta's core programme and Foundation initiative. This includes supporting acta to deliver participatory theatre activities with new community groups, training and mentoring a new generation of Community Theatre facilitators and contribute to sector development through CPD sessions and quarterly seminars.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

acta Foundation: extending the programme; enriching the workforce; sharing learning

To build on work to improve workforce diversity, increase participation and share learning.

Cornerstone

Gas Girls: women workers in Avonmouth WW1 Mustard Gas factories: community theatre, film, booklet, exhibition

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Grant to Acta

the salary of the Senior Youth Drama Worker, freelance fees, travel, materials and a co-ordination fee

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales

Drama workshops for young people living in Bristol to learn about their Sudanese heritage.

Quartet Community Foundation

Sudanese Youth Theatre Project

Grant to ACTA

To provide weekly youth theatre workshops for young people aged 11-18 in Lockleaze; developing self-confidence, communication skills, encouraging creativity, problem-solving, cooperation; creating new play for wider community

Lockleaze Youth Theatre

To support a project involving 8 African-Caribbean older women - aged 60-85 - in an intergenerational project with a yr 6 class from St Nicholas of Tolentine Primary school, Easton in Bristol.

Malcolm X Elders Schools project

For weekly online drama and support sessions for young carers over the summer period and to develop and deliver weekly creative activity packs for isolated older people and vulnerable families.

Upgrade digital/IT infrastructure with a new website, box office and digital presence, and to connect with a wider-range of participants and stakeholders.

Free weekly theatre group for young carers living in Bristol; where they will use their ideas and imaginations to devise and perform an original live theatre performance.

The funding will be used to deliver creative workshops for elderly people at risk of social isolation. The project aims to reduce loneliness and improve mental health and wellbeing.

Making Time

This registered charity is a community theatre group that aims to promote, maintain, improve and advance education particularly by the production of educational plays and the encouragement of the arts. Their project is to work with a group of Malcolm X Elders from St Paul's to devise a play based on their experiences.

Many Rivers to Cross

This Bristol based community theatre will provide free weekly drama sessions for children, resulting in a culturally themed performance that will focus on the diverse community in the area. The project will offer creative activities for children helping them to gain skills and self-confidence.

Shirehampton Youth Theatre

The organisation will  develop and increase their programme of support activities to meet the needs of people within their community during COVID-19. This will include weekly phone calls doorstep visits creative and social activities and engagement with community networks. They will work with local people community groups health agencies social networks and schools specifically targeting older people people with disabilities and those with long term physical and mental health conditions.

Holding On: Creative Support for Isolated Older People

Weekly drama activities for 30 young people (14-25) from the Hartcliffe & Withywood areas of South Bristol will be run exploring the issues of transition to adulthood and peer pressure.