The Community Grants Fund aims to provide voluntary and community groups with a chance to apply for flexible funding of £500 - £5,000 to support projects and activities within local communities which can be delivered between November 2011 and June 2012.
Similar projects funded through the Targeting Change Fund in 2010 included activities promoting community action, empowering young people with learning disabilities, engaging older people in devising a piece of theatre and involving neighbourhoods in transforming their local environment.
Applicants for Community Grants will be asked to demonstrate how their project meets at least 3 of the following criteria:-
• Benefit the local community.
• Increase local peoples’ interest in local democracy.
• Promote involvement in community life.
• Bring together people form different backgrounds.
• Reduce inequality.
• Support individuals with disabilities.
• Engage young people in positive activities.
• Support the needs of older people
Projects and activities will also need to have clear links to the priorities detailed in the 2011-15 St Albans City and District Inclusion Strategy. www.stalbans.gov.uk/community-and-living/.
Application forms and further guidance notes for the Community Grants Fund are available from the Centre for Voluntary Service who are administering the fund on the Council’s behalf:-
CVS St Albans District, 31 Catherine Street, St Albans, Herts. AL3 5BJ. Tel: 01727 852657. E-mail: kate@cvsstalbans.org.uk
Website: www.stalbans.gov.uk/community-and-living/community-grants/.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm on Monday 31 October 2011. Successful applicants will be notified in early November 2011.
Monday 26 September 2011
Tuesday 6 September 2011
A New Future for Trestle Arts Base
For over thirty years, Trestle has developed masked storytelling theatre, unmasked physical theatre, education and training programmes and community arts projects and in the last year alone, engaged over 30,000 people in the Arts.
Earlier this year, when the government made its cuts in culture, Trestle lost its future funding, had to hone to its strengths and decide how to cut back public output for the time being. One of the major downsides to the funding cut by the Arts Council is that sadly Trestle will be unable to run Trestle Arts Base in St Albans at its current capacity, which over the past decade has inspired all ages at local and international levels.
From September 2011 Trestle Arts Base will be open to the public on the following days;
Mondays 4pm – 9pm
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 9.30am – 5.30pm
Saturdays 10am – 3.30pm
The Gallery Café will be open, but scaled down to a minimal service of hot and cold drinks and cold snacks. We are looking forward to welcoming back many of our community classes on the days that we are open.
StoryTent and Youth Theatre programmes
Determined to not let down our 70 strong dedicated StoryTent and Youth Theatre members and to keep supporting young people’s creativity across the District, we have joined forces with our professional storyteller Kathryn Holt and local professional theatre company Tip of the Iceberg. Through these partnerships, Trestle will re-launch StoryTent and the Youth Theatre to provide sessions that bring together theatre and performance skills in a fun and nurturing environment, available to all children and young people of any ability.
StoryTent will re-launch on Wednesday 14 September
The youth theatre will re-launch on Monday 12 September with a free taster session for each age group.
4-5pm 5-7yrs
5-6.30pm 8-12yrs
6.30-9pm 13-18yrs
Tip of the Iceberg has a wealth of experience delivering creative performance, workshops and training. Their work has taken them from performing in local schools to thousands of students, including Verulam, Beaumont, St Albans Boys and the High school, to Prince Charles’ Garden at Clarence House with High Speed Theatre for Eurostar. Tip of the Iceberg and Trestle share the ethos to Involve, Inform and Inspire. We will continue to develop new ways of working with professionals and emerging artists to produce and show performance work. We are delighted to be working in partnership with the St Albans City and District Council to develop an exciting programme of professional work at Trestle Arts Base.
Emily Gray, Artistic Director said, “We are determined to keep Trestle Arts Base alive as it is such a well loved venue. We need people in the District to come and take part in our activities and see the performances and in return we will give all we can to make this a culturally alive and exciting place to live.”
We ask you to visit Trestle’s website and social networking pages and use them as a place to explore ideas, experiences, new ways of making and watching work.
- Trestle Facebook: www.facebook.com/TrestleTheatre
- Trestle Twitter: www.twitter.com/trestletheatre
The Company’s new touring show, The Man with the Luggage, previews at Trestle Arts Base on the 21 and 22 of September before it heads out on National Tour; beyond that, we will not have the resources to make and tour two new productions a year, but will instead concentrate on collaborations across cultures and art forms. Forth coming projects include Unicorn’s Indian Snow Queen, www.unicorntheatre.com/snowqueen (winter 2011) and Increpación Danza’s www.increpacion.com version of The Birthday of the Infanta (in Spain, spring 2012) – of course our efforts to make new work will never disappear.
Earlier this year, when the government made its cuts in culture, Trestle lost its future funding, had to hone to its strengths and decide how to cut back public output for the time being. One of the major downsides to the funding cut by the Arts Council is that sadly Trestle will be unable to run Trestle Arts Base in St Albans at its current capacity, which over the past decade has inspired all ages at local and international levels.
From September 2011 Trestle Arts Base will be open to the public on the following days;
Mondays 4pm – 9pm
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 9.30am – 5.30pm
Saturdays 10am – 3.30pm
The Gallery Café will be open, but scaled down to a minimal service of hot and cold drinks and cold snacks. We are looking forward to welcoming back many of our community classes on the days that we are open.
StoryTent and Youth Theatre programmes
Determined to not let down our 70 strong dedicated StoryTent and Youth Theatre members and to keep supporting young people’s creativity across the District, we have joined forces with our professional storyteller Kathryn Holt and local professional theatre company Tip of the Iceberg. Through these partnerships, Trestle will re-launch StoryTent and the Youth Theatre to provide sessions that bring together theatre and performance skills in a fun and nurturing environment, available to all children and young people of any ability.
StoryTent will re-launch on Wednesday 14 September
The youth theatre will re-launch on Monday 12 September with a free taster session for each age group.
4-5pm 5-7yrs
5-6.30pm 8-12yrs
6.30-9pm 13-18yrs
Tip of the Iceberg has a wealth of experience delivering creative performance, workshops and training. Their work has taken them from performing in local schools to thousands of students, including Verulam, Beaumont, St Albans Boys and the High school, to Prince Charles’ Garden at Clarence House with High Speed Theatre for Eurostar. Tip of the Iceberg and Trestle share the ethos to Involve, Inform and Inspire. We will continue to develop new ways of working with professionals and emerging artists to produce and show performance work. We are delighted to be working in partnership with the St Albans City and District Council to develop an exciting programme of professional work at Trestle Arts Base.
Emily Gray, Artistic Director said, “We are determined to keep Trestle Arts Base alive as it is such a well loved venue. We need people in the District to come and take part in our activities and see the performances and in return we will give all we can to make this a culturally alive and exciting place to live.”
We ask you to visit Trestle’s website and social networking pages and use them as a place to explore ideas, experiences, new ways of making and watching work.
- Trestle Facebook: www.facebook.com/TrestleTheatre
- Trestle Twitter: www.twitter.com/trestletheatre
The Company’s new touring show, The Man with the Luggage, previews at Trestle Arts Base on the 21 and 22 of September before it heads out on National Tour; beyond that, we will not have the resources to make and tour two new productions a year, but will instead concentrate on collaborations across cultures and art forms. Forth coming projects include Unicorn’s Indian Snow Queen, www.unicorntheatre.com/snowqueen (winter 2011) and Increpación Danza’s www.increpacion.com version of The Birthday of the Infanta (in Spain, spring 2012) – of course our efforts to make new work will never disappear.
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