Funded projects

To support a project connecting elderly people with complex needs to their immediate community on the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, through the collaborative building of a sensory garden and arts structures making the Maples Residential Centre and adjacent sheltered housing more visible and better understood within the community.

To support "The Kindness of Strangers" an arts programme in partnership with care homes and older people's facilities in Westminster.

To support Living Voices - an 18 month programme of work by storytellers and poets in care homes in three areas of Scotland.

To support the artists', coordinator's and volunteers' costs in carrying out Silver Lining - a two year programme of singing in care homes and care settings for people with dementia and their families and carers in Northumbria and the NE region.

To support a project in Gloucestershire, managed by New Brewery Arts, involving professional ceramicists collaborating with residents and staff in a residential home and with elderly carers.

To support a year-long programme involving elders living in two sheltered housing settings in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey leading to performances for the wider community.

To support "Life Still" - a programme of artists in residence at John Taylor Hospice in Birmingham.

To support a two year programme of work in care settings in Oldham, including an element of training for students in care professions, in gallery management and in visual arts; led by the artists of Arthur+Martha - specialists in arts in health.

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.

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.