I am an Egg Dance Company (360G-SomersetCF-A430276)

£1,525

Dance sessions for adults with mental ill-health

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Grant Details

Amount Applied For 1525
Amount Awarded 1525
Award Date 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00
Beneficiary Location: Country Code GB
Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code E01029046
Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type LSOA
Beneficiary Location: Name Mendip 011A
Grant Programme: Code December 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) 1
Planned Dates: End Date 2017-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-01-09T00:00:00+00:00
Primary age group Adults (26 – 65)
Primary beneficiary People with mental health issues
Primary ethnicity White British
Primary issue Mental health
Recipient Org: Company Number 09900831
Recipient Org: Description We are a not-for-profit dance and wellbeing organisation based in Glastonbury, set up in 2004. Our aims include: • engaging people of all ages and abilities in low cost, high quality, fun, inclusive creative dance opportunities. • working in partnership with a range of arts, community, health, education and social care agencies to reach those who are most at risk of exclusion. • harnessing our work to social agendas, championing the potential of dance to deliver key personal and social outcomes. Since 2009 we have specialised in dance and wellbeing developing best practice arts work with adults with mental health needs. This work is led by artists with lived experience of mental health including artistic director Viv Gordon who lives with a long term mental health condition. In 2015 our groundbreaking One Step Forward project was highly commended in the Arts and Health SW awards and Viv was awarded the judges prize for her contribution to the field. Annually we reach over 1000 people. We work across Somerset - with regular projects in our hometown of Glastonbury. Our core projects currently include: 1. I am An Egg Dance Company - Weekly dance training for adults with mental health needs from across Somerset 2. Stepping Up - a series of short dance and wellbeing courses for adults and families in deprived wards of Glastonbury and Bridgwater 3. Boogie Bum Bums - weekly creative dance and movement play sessions for under 4's and their adults We have gained national recognition, published in industry publications, presented at international conferences and trained practitioners countrywide. We advocate for access and inclusion in the arts for adults with mental health needs. We have 3 company directors, 5 freelance part-time staff and 9 volunteers who work on a project to project basis.
Recipient Org: Web Address http://www.meanfeetdance.co.uk