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With the number of people interested in various forms of art in the village, maybe someone has a project in mind and is looking for some funding?

Community groups to benefit from Derbyshire County Council Small Arts Grants

Eight groups will share £7,230 to develop plans they have to work with communities in their area.

Each group had the chance to secure up to £1,000 towards projects which will:
Develop new audiences and participants in arts activity
Support arts work with disabled people
Support art work in rural areas
Support the creative economy

DDC’s Deputy Cabinet Member for Health and Communities Councillor Ellie Wilcox said:
“The grants are a great way of encouraging creativity and development in local communities − bringing people together who before might have felt isolated.This money contributes to groups working with so many different people, whether they’re troubled families, young people, older or disabled residents − they’re all diverse projects which aim to improve ability and wellbeing.”

The council awards Small Arts Grants three times a year. Applications are still open for the third round in October and should be submitted by Monday 23 September.
For more information and to download an application form visit http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/arts (opens in a new window) or contact the council’s head of arts Ann Wright on ann.wright@derbyshire.gov.uk or 01773 832497.

The following eight groups are to receive funding in the current round:

arthur+martha, countywide (Grant Received – £1,000)

Stitching the Wars is a project working with older people in Derbyshire, creating artwork and poetry stitched on to embroidered quilts to remember people affected by the First and Second World Wars. Workshops are in partnership with the library service, Age UK, the Alzheimer’s Society, the Farming Life Centre, The WI, the National Trust and the Quilters’ Society

Captive Audience Community Theatre, Belper (Grant Received – £1,000)

Setting up a new drama group for children and young people in Belper

Derbyshire Constabulary Male Voice Choir, county-wide (Grant Received – £600)

Project to do a series of joint concerts with children’s choirs around the county

Friends of Lemon Grove Refuge, Swadlincote (Grant Received – £800)

A project called Express Yourself helping women and children fleeing domestic abuse to express their feelings through art, producing a large artwork for the communal garden

Made by Katie Green, Creswell Crich, Cromford, Sudbury (Grant Received – £1,000)

Children’s dance theatre piece called the Museum’s Secrets to be held at four sites in Derbyshire, working with children and their families from the local communities to produce a different piece at each site.

Seeta Agency, New Mills (Grant Received – £830)

Music in the Mill is a 12 hour music festival held in Torr Vale Mill for a wide variety of local acoustic and electric bands

Spiral Arts, Ilkeston (Grant Received – £1,000)

An art project working with older people from a day centre in Ilkeston and young people from Cantelupe Youth Group, culminating in a tea party planned by all

Whitwell Festival of Music (Grant Received – £1,000)

A three day music festival in September with emphasis on encouraging younger people to take part

Please note that DDC do not award grants to:
Individuals
Commercial organisations.
Other county council departments.
Organisations already receiving funding from the council.
Organisations outside the county boundaries.
Schools, nurseries and pre-schools running in school time and supporting the national curriculum.
Organisations which have already received a Small Arts Grant in the last ten years.