INCLUDE (360G-SomersetCF-A421538)
Funding Organization
£3,000
Recipient Organization
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 4500 |
| Amount Awarded | 3000 |
| Award Date | 2016-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01029317 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Taunton Deane 006D |
| Grant Programme: Code | September 16 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Grants to Groups |
| Impact Category | Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety |
| Last Modified | 2017-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 12 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2017-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2016-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary age group | All Ages |
| Primary beneficiary | People with multiple disabilities |
| Primary ethnicity | White British |
| Primary issue | Health, wellbeing and serious illness |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 299698 |
| Recipient Org: Description | We are a vital community arts centre based in the heart of a rural community outside Taunton. We programme more live work than any other theatre in the region and offer a range of 23 classes and activities each week focussed on arts, heath and wellbeing. We also offer a crucial platform for young people and adult volunteers to gain skills, improve confidence and gain experience in a live theatre. We have a dedicated outreach programme – including an inclusive theatre company working with young people with learning disabilities and their carers, an elders singing group, and over 50s dance company as well as hosting a range of activities aimed at reducing social isolation and exploring the arts as a means of improving health and wellbeing – from cream teas to mime-inspired dementia workshops; from boys dance initiatives to mental health workshops in schools; from exploring heritage through contemporary dance to performances by brain injury carity Headway: the arts and its impact on reducing social isolation and building our community is at the heart of everything we do. The crux of all our work – be it a professional production, a workshop or a work placement is participation. As well as providing 23 classes centred around arts, health and well-being we also offer bespoke termly workshops with professional visiting companies, a range of outreach work – free workshops, school tours etc., and a host of volunteering opportunities. We are staffed by approximately 100 volunteers – ranging from adults who man the café, bar and box office to young people who gain their first taste of the arts and check tickets as well as watching shows for free. We have just launched a buddies scheme aiming to further increase the accessibility of our venue. Our work isn’t just about reaching those who arrive at our door – it is about unlocking potential engagement from those who sit ‘outside’ of the arts. Our communications extend to every educational establishment in Somerset, every library and tourist information centre and a host of care homes and community settings. We have done extensive targeted marketing to ‘Older and Homebound’ audiences. Singing for Fun with free refreshments in our foyer each week is particularly aimed at those aged 55+ who may be experiencing isolation. Through outreach and nurturing this group now has over 20 active members per week. Bolder our resident Dance Company also now has approx. 15 members and have toured care homes across the county. From mime-inspired dementia workshops for care providers to Big Sing and Dance Alzheimer’s events; from free boys dance curtain raisers, to mental health theatre workshops for young people, to our celebrated community showcases – it is paramount to us that we respond to and engage our local community. We feel it is essential that our stage and centre as a whole reflects and directly responds to our local community. Some of the most important work we have programmed in the last three years is work that challenges cultural stereotypes and that explores what it means to be human and contemporary issues. We have worked with some of the UK’s finest practitioners using drama to explore depression, mime to underscore dementia, physical theatre to depict domestic abuse. We know that the arts are a powerful vehicle for social change, for playing out a range of emotions and experiences in a safe public space, for developing a sense of empathy. Recent years have seen us grow our inclusive programme and partnerships enormously. A critical factor in this growth has been our inclusive approach. Key to our programming has been giving our audiences direct, first-person testimony and experience. We were one of only five venues to tour I am Joan – an incredible autobiographical piece of dance theatre exploring personal experience of manic depression and abuse by Somerset artist Viv Gordon. Viv Gordon was the winner of Judge’s Prize at Arts in Health South West Awards 2015; I Am Joan is a hopeful comedy about a woman in trauma finding empowerment by connecting through inspirational Joans. TMAC has hosted performances by some of the UKs most significant inclusive companies (featuring disabled and non-disabled actors and dancers) – including StopGap, Mind the Gap and Blue Apple Theatre. Our exhibitions programme has been critical in bringing stories from our community to life: be it exploring wildlife photography by working with Oliver Hellowell, Downs Syndrome photographer or exploring mental health stigma. Working with the ‘1 in 4 steering group’ – a collective of Somerset based mental health workers and service users we showcased an exhibition by celebrated photographer, Stuart Griffiths providing a visual and stimulating representation of issues surrounding the experience of mental health and stigma accompanied by hand-written testimony by service users. We see the development of this area of our work as critically important to both our evolution as a venue and to our local community. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.tacchi-morris.com |