Grant to Arkbound Foundation (360G-QuartetCF-A645799)
Funding Organization
£5,000
Recipient Organization
A series of workshops held in partnership with Wild Goose cafe, for people with lived experience of homelessness, to improve their writing skills and access linked opportunities. 1-1 mentoring included.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 5000 |
| Amount Awarded | 5000 |
| Award Date | 2022-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01033347 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Bristol 023F |
| Grant Programme: Code | EXP-2022/23 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Express Grant |
| Last Modified | 2023-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 8 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2023-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2022-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1173072 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Arkbound Foundation is a Bristol grassroots and lived experience charity, which provides writing, mentoring and publishing support to empower people from disadvantaged backgrounds and deprived communities to get their voices heard. Our ethos, visions and missions are based upon widening accessibility and diversity within the publishing and media industries. We believe that everyone should be able to participate in the opportunities that both industries offer, regardless of their background or personal circumstances. Our recent success stories are delivering 1-1 mentoring programmes (Bridging Literary Divides and Writing Within Walls), the publications of several books with high social and environmental importance, written by lived experience and disadvantaged authors which we supported, as seen at https://arkbound.com/authors/ Since 2015 we have supported people with experience of social exclusion, ranging from homelessness, substance misuse, experience of imprisonment, mental health issues, disabilities, and being long-term carers. For example, we published 'No Homeless Problem' (https://arkbound.com/product/no-homeless-problem-by-seamus-fox/) and Seamus Fox read from his poetry at our Christmas event at the PRSC, when we invited homeless people in Bristol to join in, and receive free meals and advice. Shortly before this, we delivered creative writing workshops in partnership with Caring in Bristol, with whom we also produced their dedicated Survival Handbook, tailored for people who need to access support for homelessness. The author of No Homeless Problem, Seamus, was also supported to produce an accessible, spoken word presentation of his poetry - recorded through Ujima Radio. In another case, we supported homeless poet David Onamade getting housed, then published his book: https://arkbound.com/product/sorrow-tears-and-blood-by-david-onamade/ which recently got shortlisted for the Kavya Price. Alongside our social impact work, we also seek to deliver far-reaching environmental impacts, as shown by our treeplanting initiatives in Bristol: https://bristolgreencapital.org/arkbound-foundation-is-stoked-to-be-oak-ing-again/ and a Waterstones climate double booklaunch: https://www.waterstones.com/book/climate-adaptation/arkbound-foundation/morgan-phillips/9781912092123 |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | https://www.arkfound.org/ |