Funded by Channel 4 Education in partnership with Barclays Bank, the Stake is a new competition providing young people in the UK the opportunity to exploit their business and enterprising skills in order to win funding that can be used towards community or business ideas that will make a difference.
The Stake aims to show young people that business and social enterprise can be creative, fun, challenging and that good ideas and passion can be rewarded. The initiative enables the wider public to decide how a total of £100,000 will be spent.
A maximum of six winners will be given up to £20,000 (minimum of £1,000), along with support from Barclays’ mentors and youth engagement agency, Livity, to make their ideas become a reality between January and March 2012.
The money can be used to fund a variety of projects; for example a start-up business, a new school skate ramp or a one-off event.
Anyone aged between 16 and 21 years of age can submit ideas about how they would spend a share of the money. To submit an entry, the participant must be resident in the United Kingdom.
The deadline for the receipt of nominations is 23 December 2011.
For more information, visit http://www.thestake.co.uk/
Dan Jarvis, the Shadow Culture Minister has called for a reinvigorated debate on the arts, culture and creative industries, and highlights concerns over philanthropy’s ability to plug the funding gap. He says that the government needs to ensure that our creative industries and its entrepreneurs can take advantage of this digital age. To read the full statement, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2011/nov/08/dan-jarvis-arts-culture-investment?newsfeed=true.
Baroness Bonham Carter has also motioned a creative industries debate in the House of Lords last week which is available to read in full at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2011-11-03a.1349.7.
This pilot programme is run by a partnership within Manchester City Council consisting of Manchester City Galleries; the Culture Team and Community and Cultural Services; Manchester Public Health; and Manchester Community Health Trainers (MCHT).
The partners have come together in order to develop the use of the City’s cultural facilities to improve public health.
The pilot is designed to:
- Encourage six cultural organisations (art gallery, museum, sports event, library, theatre and film venue) to assess and implement how they might encourage greater numbers of people to become regular users of their facility. An audit and training programme is being developed in consultation with the organisations. The aim is that people will attend independently as opposed to attending specific workshops or events for specific people.
- Encourage MCHT to include cultural attendance in their ‘training’ of clients. A training programme to this effect is being designed for the HTs.
The evaluator is asked to use quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the success of the Pilot.
For details of the brief, go to http://www.greatermanchesterartshealth.org.uk/blog.php?id=33
Please read the full brief and respond in writing to Myna Trustram, research manager, Manchester City Galleries, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL, or email: m.trustram@manchester.gov.uk. (0161 235 8849)
Deadline for receipt of proposals: 12 noon 12 December 2011
The Next Steps: Supporting Social Investment initiative will see awards of £40,000 to £1 million provided to social investment proposals that are already in development but are in need of some extra funding to further their plans.
The total fund available is £6 million.
Investments of £40,000 to £1 million are available for the following:
- Investment ready proposals:
- Establishing and delivering a social investment vehicle to help people in need. Funding is available for up to two years.
- ‘Nearly there’ proposals:
- Completing development of a social investment vehicle, where partners and funders have been identified and only nominal development is needed. Funding is available for up to six months.
- Pilots:
- Testing a social investment concept which is fully developed, or to test its feasibility in practice. Funding is available for up to two years.
UK based organisations that will use social investment for the benefit of people living in England, statutory organisations, companies limited by guarantee and Community Interest Companies may apply.
The deadline for applications is noon on 14 December 2011.
For more information, visit http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/
Proposals for extra curricular activities.
Haslam Park Primary School in Bolton has just undergone a building project as part of the schools ongoing expansion. Now that the building work has been completed we are looking to initiate and establish partnerships, with groups and individuals, whom are able to plan and deliver high quality extra-curricular activities.
Between now and the start of 2011 we are aiming to collect as much information as possible about potential providers, regarding the sorts of opportunities that could be available to our children. We are interested in provision across all subjects of the national curriculum and beyond and are hoping to discuss the possiabilities with a view to staring a full program of activites in January.
If you belive that you would be able to run a group in our school then we would love to hear more about the types of services you offer. If you think that you would be interested in running a club at our school then please contact us.
Please include secific information in correspondence or publicity that is sent:
Times of the day that you expect clubs to run (Before school, Lunchtime and Afterschool).
- Which age groups can you deliver a club for?
- Breifly, what kinds of activities will the children take part in?
- What is the cost of the clubs to the students or the school?
Thankyou in advance,
Alex Bradley
Extra Curricular Activities Coordinator
Alex Bradley happygoluckytheatre@yahoo.co.uk
Source: http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_source=dailyjobs&ne_post_id=72479
