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Grant Winners October 2004
Artists on the Move: £500 |
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Artists on the Move are a group of Travellers who run a mobile art gallery and stall. They aim to offer an outlet to individuals and small groups, who create craft or artisan objects to advertise, display and sell their products. With £500, they will be able to set up a website, and buy materials they need and a market stall. |
Autonomous Arts: £500 |
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A squat-based community art project that makes mosaics accessible by creating travelling workshops where they can teach mosaic and other craft skills. Which can be used to make saleable items or works of art for community spaces. £500, will enable them to buy more materials but also essential health and safety equipment and for one person to go on a first aid course. |
BDP Art Group: £402 |
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Bristol Drugs Project is a weekly art group for the recovering addicts that attend B.D.P. Each week different art practices and different materials and their uses are introduced. The aim is to provide a fun group activity and introduce a new pastime or hobby to distract from addition. The £402, will enable us to buy a wider range of materials and explore such mediums as clay and print. |
CATH: £486 |
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CATH (churches action for the homeless), engage street drinkers in a literacy project that will produce a personal profile of their lives, past and present. £486, will pay for materials and expenses involved in producing four personal profiles. |
High 8 Flicks: £500 |
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Are a group of artist living in poverty, sharing resources and skills. We aim to document and present our work and rehearsals and keep a record of our artists development.
£500, will enable us to complete the equipment required to edit and credit the film, so we can provide finished VHS copies. |
Hosford Garden Project : £500 |
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Hosford House is a homeless hostel that caters for up to 22 adults, offering accommodation, life skills, resettlement support and counselling. With the £500, the residents are planning to turn the waste ground outside the hostel into a garden with a patio, in which to work together and to relax in. |
Hummingbirds Community Project: £500 |
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Hummingbirds Community Project bring people in their community together by providing a safe space, with play and fun activities for families who are rurally isolated and provide support for parents of young children both socially and educationally. They already have a static caravan which they have been holding under fives play sessions once a week and with £500, they will be able to buy more and a better range of art materials, books and indoor and outdoor toys. |
Interaction: £499 |
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Interaction are a supplier of mobile renewable energy who aim to promote appropriate sustainable technologies for a wide variety of common uses. They provide safe, reliable solar and wind power for various community events, green gatherings, rural permaculture projects and local traveller communities for their day to day needs. With the £499, they are going to buy a 1500 watt sinewave inverter which will enable them to improve their energy producing effifiency. |
PICSEL : £135 |
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PICSEL are building a community of environmentally sustainable housing, with an integral school site, teaching ecologically aware living, and courses in alternative technology. The £500, will enable the them to get the equipment and materials to do market research, extensive project planning and land searches. |
Scraptop Wifi: £365 |
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Scraptop Wifi are a group of squatters that have set themselves up as an informal computer centre providing internet and word processing facilities for their local community. As they are constantly being moved on it becomes very expensive to pay connection/disconnection and installation fees each time they have to move, with the £365 they will be able to get the equipment they need to set up wireless routers to connect their own and other peoples networks to the internet. |
Drury Family: £332 |
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Would like to travel freely the highways and byways of Britain without the aid of benefits. To do this Mr Drury will take a course that will qualify him as a “trek ride leader” and enable him to work at BHS approved riding establishments in the UK. The £332, will pay for the 3 day course, and 1 day exam and the expenses involved. |
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