News and publications

Our annual report, reflecting on the last year as well as the 25th anniversary of our Awards for Artists programme.

We wanted to take this opportunity to say a bit more about our language choices in the description of our different Funds since reopening in October.

This year in response to the challenges posed by Covid-19, the Teacher Development Fund (TDF) will focus on exploring how blended approaches, combining digital and face to face delivery, can enhance teacher continuing professional development in arts-based learning. Johanne Clifton, TDF Advisory Group Member and Head of Curriculum and Virtual Learning for the Elliot Foundation describes her own online-learning journey.

In response to the pandemic, this year our Teacher Development Fund will support projects that take a blended approach to continuing professional development and learning (CPDL) in arts-based learning. Nichola Clarke of Into Film shares the many ways they’ve successfully combined remote and face-to-face delivery to enhance teacher training.

Moira Sinclair reflects on our refreshed strategy, which reflects the innovations we have made in the past five years, and provides greater clarity about the values that underpin our work.

Our Strategy 2020 reflects the innovations we have made in the past five years.

Project Sparks supports musically-gifted, disabled young people to work alongside arts specialist teachers to teach music and dance to Keystage 2 classes in primary schools in Northern Ireland. Eamonn McCarron, who co-founded the programme, explores the strengths of their peer tutoring model.

Today we announced grants totalling £1.4 million to support civil society. The Foundation has made a five-year commitment to seven organisations in the latest round of the Backbone Fund.