Funded projects

Towards enquiry visits and to produce a self-assessment tool and guide for local authorities on arts and older people.

To make a series of enquiry visits to inform a report on the role of local authorities in arts and older people.

Towards the third year of setting up and running a Festival of Arts for Older People in Scotland.

Towards an Arts and Older People programme.

To contribute to a funding partnership with Arts Council England. The partnership will be an England-wide programme and the focus will be on arts in residential care.

To support Elders - a photographic and storytelling project taking place in Peckham and Southwark, involving older people of Caribbean descent sharing stories of their journeys to and lives in Britain.

To support a project involving the local community, staff and residents of a new nursing home being built in Tumble in Carmarthenshire in the creation of new works of art in collaboration with artists from Arts Care Gofal Celf.

To support "The Moment When..." - a project connecting two care homes and two primary schools in Cheshire through dance.

To support a project in Wymondham Norfolk called "Memories and Moving Pictures" - a collaboration between two schools, a care home, community volunteers and Creative Arts East, to create short animated films.

To support Electric Blanket - a creative arts and digital media project involving residents in 10 of Arena Housing Association's sheltered housing settings across the Greater Merseyside area.