Funded projects

To build the capacity of the Dance for Parkinson's Network UK.

Towards the costs of UK speakers at the Celebrate Creative Ageing Sydney.

To support a national conference in Wales on arts and older people in 2016.

To commission a report on arts work tackling isolation and loneliness.

For a project to engage isolated older people in community radio and the arts.

To commission Royston Maldoom to create a new dance theatre production involving veteran performers Namron, Tamara McLorg and Sally Owen with up to five performers from WYP's Heydays' drama/dance group and Alan Lyddiard as Director.

To fund a publication to explore the difficulties of engaging older men in arts participation, drawing on examples of practical activity.

To commission sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard to create a new work as a centrepiece for an exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate, exploring femininity, creative making, and ageing - working title - "Tapestry Unravelled".

To commission Eric Geddes (environmental artist), supported by Robin Ford (poet), Colin Riches (environmental artist) and Dick Davis (photographer and graphic designer) to create a dementia-accessible digital installation at a care home on the Isle of Wight.

To commission poets, Douglas Dunn, Vicki Feaver and Diana Hendry to write new poetry about the subject of ageing for publication by Polygon publishers, Luminate and the Saltire Society. To be widely distributed throughout Scotland.