Arts Project Grants

Anjali Dance Company

Holly’s Project is a dance engagement initiative supporting learning-disabled artist Holly in co-creating an original duet and participatory workshops. Partnering with Motionhouse, the project will run from April–September 2024, delivering four inclusive experiences in Warwickshire. Holly’s autobiographical piece explores identity, disability voice, and personal challenges, while Anjali supports her leadership growth. Workshops focus on fitness, creativity, and wellbeing, fostering accessible, high-quality arts experiences. In collaboration with Warwickshire Libraries. Impact will be measured through accessible feedback methods, ensuring all voices are heard and valued.

Helping Hands Community Project

Daniel’s Rise provides a safe daytime space for vulnerable men, offering hot meals, activities, and support to overcome challenges like addiction, trauma, and homelessness. Through positive connections and skill-building, we help them move forward. Participants have already started woodworking for a social enterprise and now want to learn mosaic-making. Local artist Jacqui Grove, with experience running a mosaic business in South Africa, will lead a 12-week beginner Mosaic Art Workshop. Up to 10 men will learn design, tile-cutting, and assembly, creating a mosaic name plaque for a charity shop. Sessions will run weekly at our familiar meeting space. The grant will fund artist fees and materials.

Hill Close Gardens Trust

The Story Gardens of Warwick is a pilot workshop connecting ESOL learners with Warwick’s heritage through Hill Close Gardens. It engages 20 adult learners in exploring nature’s role in their lives, inspiring reading for pleasure and new family memories in local green spaces. Using Victorian records, a poetry trail, and creative activities, participants will reflect on and share personal stories. The session ends with seed planting and a family pass, fostering lasting connections. Led by Kate Rumbold, the project includes an initial discussion and a follow-up family session at HCG, blending history, storytelling, and hands-on nature experiences.