Grants database

A business consultancy exercise (by strategic development consultants Cause4) to build the organisation’s capacity to explore possible new operating model(s) for their Healthier Dancer Programme, in the context of a larger strategic review by Kate Devey & Graham Devlin.

Scoping exercise to validate ideas, engage ​‘critical friends’, challenge assumptions (scale, budget, partners), set up a steering committee and hold a brainstorming/​planning day for project team.

To enable Poetry Archive to assess the potential income for digital poetry downloads.

FIHRM is a new international network led by National Museums Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum – our support goes towards FIHRM’s second conference in Liverpool in October 2011.

To evaluate their first pilot projects, as well as funder behaviour and motivation, to help improve the site and curate a fuller project portfolio.

Core support towards a celebration of ensemble singing on an unprecedented scale and ambition, bringing together the world’s leading vocal groups with singers of all backgrounds and abilities at the Roundhouse in March 2011.

To underpin a programme of CPD and integrated action research, aimed at freelance musicians.

To commission independent research to consolidate the existing body of evidence for cultural learning, aggregating findings on impacts, outcomes and best practice.

A grant towards a major commissioning project in collaboration with Frome Carnival, Frome’s community groups and major internationally known British artists (Bob & Roberta Smith, Edwina Ashton and Matt Stokes), to work inter-generationally over three months to create new works that will form interventions into the Frome Carnival on 26th September 2009.

A feasibility study into the practicalities and benefits of making the Poetry Archive’s recordings of poets’ reading their work available as digital downloads.

To underpin the first phases of research that might lead to Earlyarts expending to a few more regions and, perhaps, nationally.

Working with arts and cultural organisations and funders, Deft will help redesign business and financial models, develop the exploitation of technology and evolve core competencies.