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Grant Winners April 2006
Multilingual Interpreters UK: £500 |
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A group of hostel residents in London with a range of language skills have joined together to form Multilingual Interpreters UK. They are offering translation and interpretation services in a wide range of languages. Their £500 is used to pay for a website and a phone line to work on marketing their services. |
Suzanne’s Delights: £500 |
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Suzanne, a participant in Broadway’s Peer Education Course, has created a course to teach fellow residents in her women’s hostel about healthy eating. She is using her own culinary expertise to give people the knowledge and skills to cook their own food to support their independce when they move on from the hostel. The grant will be spent on food and equipment to run two courses, this will supplement the juicers that she has already been donated. Suzanne is using the courses as a springboard for starting her own culinary business. |
The Iambe Project: £500 |
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The Iambe Project are a group of women Travellers based in a range of sites across London, who are setting up a business making products from recycled materials. Their first product they are creating is a set of bags made from recycled vinyl advertising banners. The grant will be spent on collecting the banners, a series of sewing workshops training women to make the bags, and the costs of incorporating the project as a business. |
Eco Solar Co-operative: £500 |
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The Eco Solar Co-operative are a group of squatters who have formed a housing co-operative. They are fitting solar panels, pipes and storage to operate their domestic hot water provision. They are inviting a range of people from other socially excluded groups to attend workshops showing how the installation is done. They hope to show that alternative technology is accessible to people on low incomes, and the benefits of a solar hot water system. |
Amethyst: £500 |
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Amethyst is a resident-led women’s group at an alcohol rehab hostel in Aberdeen. The group gives women the opportunity to meet in a supportive and relaxed environment to discuss social and health issues that are specific to women. The group meets 10 times a year and gives the individuals a chance to socialise at an indpenedent venue without alcohol being involved. The money will be spent on venue hire, refreshments and activities costs including a day trip. |
Iron Pirate : £500 |
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Based at the New Futures Housing Co-operative in Wales, which was set up and is run by former rough sleepers and Travellers, Iron Pirate run a community workshop powered by renewable energy. They have used their grant to buy a range of metal work equipment so that they can run a series of workshops, continuing the success of their work with Cloud 10 youth project. The workshop is also used to create original crafts for sale in the community shop. |
MHAGS – Mental Health Action Group Sheffield: £500 |
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MHAGS are a group of people who have mental health service users, the majority of whom have experienced homelessness, who have got together to support each other. They have decided to run two separate men’s and women’s groups. As well as bringing a collective voice to the user’s of Sheffield’s mental health services, the groups will have a social focus to help build self-esteem, self-confidence and communication skills. Activities planned include swimming, bowling and a walking trip. |
Jumblymamba: £300 |
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A group of Travellers have invented a new universal circus tool called the Jumblymamba. They have set up a business to sell the Jumblymamba and have created prototypes from 90% recycled materials and have already sold their first few. They also offer teaching and performances in Street Arts such as juggling and busking. Their £300 grant is for the running costs of their website and for a digital camera to add new photos to their website. Check it out on www.jumblymamba.com. |
High 8 Flix : £135 |
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High 8 Flix are a voluntary organisation of ex-homeless women artists who are working collectively to share resources to support each other to document and present their work. The group are using their grant to buy a printer so that they can print their photos and produce covers for CDs and DVDs. |
The Homeless Front: £500 |
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The Homeless Front are a group of rough sleepers in London who are initiating an Out of the Doorways campaign to create a sanctioned tent city, which will over time become a green, sustainable urban village. Taking inspiration from the successful tent city Dignity Village in Oregon, USA, the group are using their grant to purchase tents, a camping stove and printing and phone costs to start the campaign. |
Sqaut Breaks: £500 |
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Squat Breaks are a DIY collective who are producing a series of CDs of musicians who are homeless and on low incomes. Their grant will produce a run of 500 copies of their first compilation, sales of which will then fund future releases. They will use their collective strengths to give the artists involved a professional product to properly showcase their work and will give them a platform to reach new audiences. |
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