NetPark Wellbeing Project - TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND TO REACH OUT TO 16-24 YEAR OLDS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS (360G-EssexCF-A499333)
Funding Organization
£7,018
Recipient Organization
To extend the NetPark Wellbeing Project for young people with mental health conditions in Southend
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 8880 |
| Amount Awarded | 7018 |
| Award Date | 2019-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01015842 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Southend-on-Sea 014D |
| Grant Programme: Code | 2018/19 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Multiple Funding |
| Impact Category | Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety |
| Last Modified | 2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 11 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2020-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2019-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary age group | Young People (13 – 18) |
| Primary beneficiary | NEET |
| Primary ethnicity | All Ethnicities |
| Primary issue | Counselling/Advice/Mentoring |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1104635 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | 04738521 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Metal was founded in 2002 by Jude Kelly CBE, working with current Artistic Director, Colette Bailey since inception. We believe that access to arts and creativity can transform the lives of people of all ages and from all walks of life and it is this belief that drives all of our aims, objectives and activities. We nurture excellence in the arts by providing development and learning opportunities for artists, young people and communities working across all creative disciplines. We provide space and projects for them to work together, experiment, explore and push the practice of contemporary art, music and performance. We run artists-in-residence schemes for artists from across our local patch as well as from the rest of the UK and overseas. These artists work across the artistic disciplines and at all career levels. We work to create projects and opportunities to connect our artists in residence with communities and local people through schools programmes, adult education, well-being programmes, festivals and large scale participatory work that involve a large number of people working alongside artists to create mass artworks or performances. For example, On The Line, which worked with 22 artists and 22 schools across South Essex to create a young persons Museum of the Thames Estuary in response to the history of the Thames Estuary; Anthem 2012 which brought together a choir of 2000 singers (1500 school pupils and 500 adults) to work with composer Tolga Kashif to perform a new 12 minute choral composition to welcome the Olympic Torch to Southend; and Thames to Tama an artist-led project that worked with 4665 young people from 25 schools along the north bank of the Thames Estuary to create one huge visual art exhibition that celebrated the life of the 15th Century explorer Will Adam. We do these kinds of projects in our three UK places – a neighbourhood on the edges of Liverpool City Centre, the city of Peterborough and across the Borough of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. These are places that have identified a need for social change and support cultural engagement as a key part of the delivery of that change. In each location we have transformed buildings of historic significance from empty or derelict spaces into vibrant cultural and community hubs. This application comes from Metal in Southend-on-Sea where we are based in Chalkwell Hall, a four storey, Grade II listed, Georgian House, located within a busy and well-loved municipal public park. Here, each year we house upwards of 40 international and UK artists-in-residence and work with around 500 other artists through projects. We engage around 8,000 participants of all ages and attract live audiences of approximately 40,000. We have active relationships with 50 schools in the South East Essex region and with the three main HE/FE providers, University of Essex (including East 15 performing arts college), South Essex College and SEEVIC. We have also developed the NetPark Wellbeing Project in partnership with Southend Borough Council and the Integrated Clinical Commissioning Group. This project uses the arts to work with people living with a mental health diagnosis, including dementia, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, bi-polar and anxiety as well as those at risk of social isolation and loneliness. The project uses NetPark, the world’s first digital art park that Metal developed in 2015 which currently has 15 digital artworks that are GPS located in Chalkwell Park. These works are accessed and experienced using iPads or smart phones. Participants enjoy a walk in the outdoors, experience one or more of these works and then go into our Metal Studios to create their own over a 12 week course. To date 829 participants have taken part, with 95% saying that they would recommend the project to others. We support an alternative MA programme for artists who for one reason or another are excluded from mainstream Higher Education (cost / family commitments / travel); we curate exhibitions and events, which are often in response to place, for example our Shorelines Literature Festival of the Sea hosted in Southend in 2011 and 2013 and in Tilbury in 2016; and Village Green which attracts an audience of up to 20,000 people to share in great music and art. All our spaces provide short term incubation space for artists and other creative industry organizations. They are also well used by numerous community groups for meetings, workshops, performance, artists talks and the development of networks and ideas. Our stated aims over the next 4 years are as follows:- 1. Acting as a catalyst for art to create innovate social change 2. Bringing creative thinkers from all sectors together 3. Supporting artists, and strengthening their voice 4. Offering local and global perspectives through creative projects to stimulate curiosity and opportunities to learn 5. Showcasing, developing, delivering and disseminating successful projects and events 6. Offering a new, alternative model for the traditional ‘civic arts centre’ in places of low engagement. We call Metal’s unique model and methodology the ‘Alternative Art Centre’ – offering a nimble, responsive, relatively low resource model that builds ideas from the starting point of people and place. We have been practising and refining this model for 10 years. We operate through a wide range of partnerships, from Arts Council England, our local authorities, agencies such as the Local Economic Partnerships, Cycle Southend, Ideas in Motion, Music Hubs and Bridge organisations, house builders, public health & well-being teams, economic and regeneration agencies, football clubs, prisons, churches, cathedrals, other arts organisations, community groups, schools, FE and HE, business, individuals and a wide range of others. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.metalculture.com/projects/netpark-wellbeing-project/ |