Funded projects

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.

To research and write a short paper on recent funding for arts work with older people from health and social services sources in England and future prospects for these services.

To document and publish the practice of a number of older artists.

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

For work on a national conference on arts and older people to be held in Manchestser in October 2011.

To create and run a website on arts and older people.

For a programme of artistic participatory events, workshops and short courses aimed at the cultural and mental needs of older people in Kirklees.