Funded projects

Contribution towards the second year of setting up and running a Festival of Arts for Older People in Scotland.

For research into Digital Continuing Biography in residential care settings,

To contribute towards the costs of an evaluation report on evidence of a programme of arts interventions from fourteen participatory arts projects at venues in London.

To contribute towards the costs of an international symposium in Ireland in 2012 on arts and older people.

To support a project in Birmingham involving six comedy courses at three residential care homes, led by community theatre worker and stand up comedienne Janice Connolly.

To support a project called TEA, designed to bring older and younger people together to share stories at Dora House in St John's Wood.

To support a project called "Hurdles" to take place in Coventry involving a care home, a primary school and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Resulting in an exhibition of portraits and text exploring the stories of those who built post-war Coventry.

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 part-fund the costs of an adviser and travel costs for 2012-2014, relating to the Baring Foundation - Winston Churchill Memorial Trust partnership.

To review the existing evidence available on the impact of the arts on the lives of older people.