Our top activities
Our organisation has run 861 separate activities in the last year that have worked with 1884 people to date. These are our most popular activities, and by clicking on them you can see data on each.
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Grant funding
Your Move
Awarded By
the national lottery community fund
Awarded
05/11/21
Amount
£9,014
The funding will be used to deliver an intergenerational project using the game of chess to bring young and older people together. The project aims to improve their social and observational skills as well as concentration logical thinking and planning.
Independent Arts STC Expand application
Awarded By
coop foundation
Awarded
21/09/20
Amount
£9,980
To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect
RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Independent Arts
Awarded By
the fore
Awarded
09/04/20
Amount
£5,000
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Independent Arts, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Strategy support
Awarded By
the dunhill medical trust
Awarded
28/11/19
Amount
£3,850
Development of an Income Diversification and Engagement Strategy
STC Explore
Awarded By
coop foundation
Awarded
03/10/19
Amount
£8,000
They will hold a series of creative and accessible community consultations with current and future stakeholders to provide a direction for their work on underused spaces.
Grant to Independent Arts
Awarded By
the henry smith charity
Awarded
13/03/19
Amount
£117,900
towards three years' running costs of a project providing social singing groups for older people in the Isle of Wight
School Ties
Awarded By
the national lottery community fund
Awarded
28/02/19
Amount
£78,214
The organisation will use funding to deliver 'School Ties', an intergenerational project which seeks to tackle the origins of loneliness in very young children and the isolation and lack of engagement of older people. The project pairs schools with homes, engaging disadvantaged children from each school and isolated care home residents. The project aims to bring young and old together, enhancing social skills and confidence and helping to form relationships and lessen loneliness.
Sustainability Fund 2
Awarded By
comic relief
Awarded
12/02/19
Amount
£27,135
SELFA’s five year vision is a greater voice and more independence for the young people we support.In consultation, they told us they don’t feel their needs are met by the adults who serve their local community. They want a say in the decisions that affect their lives. They want an opportunity to lead changeand give back.Decisions that are fully informed by young people’s own perspectives are more relevant, more effective and more sustainable. Agrant of £30,000 fromComic Relief will enable us to create a platform for young people to influence change and challenge the status quo, starting with takingthe driving seat within SELFA.Specifically, we will work alongside Leaders Unlocked, a s
Changing Spaces - care homes as creative places
Awarded By
the dunhill medical trust
Awarded
18/06/18
Amount
£37,000
Changing Spaces is a culture-change project designed to improve the lives of older people in residential settings by providing a sustainable programme of creative activities to those in care. It takes an holistic approach engaging residents, staff and the wider community to actively transform care homes into creative spaces making them places where individuals can learn, live and thrive
Grant to Independent Arts
Awarded By
the henry smith charity
Awarded
08/09/16
Amount
£10,000
towards two years' salary of the Chief Executive at a project providing support to vulnerable older people in residential care and in the community on the Isle of Wight
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Our funders and supporters
garfield weston foundation
the fore
people's health trust
the tudor trust
the henry smith charity
the dunhill medical trust
coop foundation
comic relief
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Address:
Creative Hub 48 High Street Newport Isle of Wight