Funded Projects

Here are some examples of projects funded through grant and bursary awards in recent years:

2023

£4,880 to Youth Arts & Health Trust towards Increasing Access to Arts Therapy

£1,000 to Men in Sheds (Okehampton) towards materials for their community activities during summer 2023.

£4,100 to MoMENtum towards bursaries and materials at their residential workshop at Dillington House in July 2023.

£1,100 to The Clay Club, a therapeutic group using clay with local primary school children in Exeter.

£5,055 towards the running costs of Art in Reflection Support Group in the Crediton area.

2022

£2,050 to Crazy Beautiful World towards a story-telling project with school-age children

£4,297 to Helen Hamilton towards Art in Reflection support groups in the Crediton area.

£1,532 to Green Hill Arts towards Art Raft for Health, a regular creativity group.

£3,250 to Organic Arts towards The Makers Group, a weekly creative and social group.

£4,325 to Magic Carpet towards their Story into Art project

£5,000 to Therapy Services SW CIC

£200 towards external supervision costs for a volunteer Art Therapist at Rowcroft Hospice.

£2,000 to Double Elephant Print Workshop towards their Botanical Printing Summer Programme 2023

2021

£4,005 to Magic Carpet towards their Story into Art project

£2,000 to The Common Players Theatre towards their summer touring production of The Tuck Inn

£3,178 to The Bridge Collective towards their Women’s Art Group, Art at the Bridge

2020

£200 to Beacon Arts towards their Summer 2020 Drama Club for children and young people living on Dartmoor.

£4,268 to Youth Arts & Health towards Anxiety & Me: Arts Therapy Online.

£1,728 to Woodland Theatre Presents CIC towards Devon Environmental Arts Therapy Group for people with enduring mental health difficulties.

£3,178 towards Art at the Bridge, regular art sessions at The Bridge Collective

£1,000 to PaddleBoat Theatre towards their inclusive theatre project Dreams and Aspirations

2019

£1,074, the final instalment of our three-year grant to The Bridge Collective’s Women’s Art Group

£3,705 to LiveWell Exeter CIC for Five Lives Training and Clinical Supervision

£3,000 to Arts & Health South West, via The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019 towards their regional priorities of mental health, young people and social prescribing.

£1,200 for four bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£1,320 towards Creative Self-Care, offering arts for health sessions for people living with dementia and their care partners.

£2,000 to Flying Fish Artists in North Devon to fund their Fundraising & Development Co-ordinator for a further 12 months.

2018

£7,000 towards Making Space, offering creative activities to children, young people and families.

£3,000 to Arts & Health South West, via The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018 towards their regional priorities of loneliness, mental health and social prescribing.

£4,168 to The Bridge Collective towards the second year of our support for their Women’s Art Group

£2,115, which represents the final instalment of the grant awarded to an art therapy group for patients with medically unexplained symptoms in Teignbridge.

£1,000 to an art therapist to continue their work with a family in South Devon

£1,000 to Flying Fish Artists towards the post of Fundraising & Development Co-ordinator

£915 towards an artist residency at Ellen Tinkham FE College during Arts Week Exeter

£1,895 to Movement & Play to run arts-based psychological therapy courses in five primary schools in and around Exeter.

2017

£1,200 for four bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£4,087 to Magic Carpet to support the third year of the Transitions Project

£2,000 to Flying Fish Artists in North Devon to fund their Fundraising & Development Co-ordinator for a further 12 months.

£1,042 towards the second year of The Bridge Collective’s Women’s Art Group

£2,000 towards a pilot art therapy group for patients at a GP surgery in Teignbridge with medically unexplained symptoms.

2016

£400 for two bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£8,605 to Magic Carpet to support the second year of the Transitions Project, now known as the Open Studios Group, towards identified core activities.

£2,740 over three years to The Bridge Collective to support their Women’s Art Group and enable a second group leader to be appointed.

£2,000 to Flying Fish Artists in Barnstaple towards their development and fundraising coordinator for a further 12 months.

2015

£400 for two bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£795 towards a pilot therapeutic arts project at Ladysmith Primary School in Exeter

£396 for a bursary for a Devon-based artist to attend Dartmoor Arts Project

£390 towards Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship to offer sessions for young people to work with horses in a therapeutic and educational way.

2014

£7,992 to Magic Carpet Arts towards The Transitions Project

£600 for three bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Art in Mental Health: A Foundation Course in Art Therapy.

£2115 towards ABC Group for continuing work with children living with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in South Hams.

£250 emergency grant to The Project towards art materials.

£6,150 to Double Elephant Print Workshop towards Print on Prescription, fine art printmaking with adults with mental ill-health.

£200 bursary towards Sandtray Therapy course.

£100 towards book launch for Sara Hurley’s publication Blazing Tales: a river exe-pedition at Hub on the Green

£3,000 to Flying Fish Artists in North Devon to pay for a fundraiser for 18 months.

2013

£600 three bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Art in Mental Health: A Foundation Course in Art Therapy.

£800 bursary towards a Forest School course.

£2,460 towards The ABC Group who work with children living with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in South Hams.

£1,535 to Bridge Social Enterprises towards a project supporting children affected by domestic abuse.

£500 towards the supervision costs of a therapeutic play project in Exminster.

2012

£7,000 towards Magic Carpet’s creative work with vulnerable people in Exeter and East Devon

£600 three bursaries for students attending Insider Art’s Art in Mental Health: A Foundation Course in Art Therapy.

2011

£2,130 towards an Art Therapy Group for women living with Post Natal Depression at Teignmouth Children’s Centre.

£768 funding for creative art workshops, Soundings : Chudleigh, a group of elderly people who meet regularly for mutual support run by Aune Head Arts.

£2,175 towards a women’s art group taking place at The Bridge Collective, Exeter.

£1,300 to fund One BIG Sing, a three generation community singing project in Buckfastleigh.

2010

Art & Mind, Honiton

Double bursary (£400) awarded to a student on Insider Art’s Art in Mental Health: A Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£500 to North Devon Arts on Prescription to help develop evidence and support the writing of an article about the AoP project.

£4,000 to Flying Fish Artists in North Devon

£5,000 towards projects with mental health and people with learning disabilities run by and at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW).

£3,000 towards supporting concessionary places at the Ninth Exeter Arts & Therapies Conference at The Guildhall, Exeter

£500 bursary for a student to attend a Get Into Reading course

2009

£500 towards Art & Mind, Honiton

£3,729 for an art therapist to work in Stoke Damerel Primary School, Plymouth

£3,500 to Soundwaves to fund administrative support for 46 weeks

£2,000 for four bursaries for students of Insider Art’s Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£200 towards exhibit support at Wonford House

£4,000 to fund a Project Worker with Flying Fish Artists, a social co-operative based in North Devon.

£400 to Arts on Prescription in North Devon to purchase video cameras

£500 subscription to continue as Patron of Arts & Health South West and to sponsor a regional meeting in Devon during 2009.

£5,000 towards Blazing Tales, a multi-ethnic story telling project.

2008

£2,000 for a member of Indigo to undertake a Play Therapy foundation course

£1,600 to Creative Expression towards three blocks of 15 art therapy sessions

£5,000 to Flying Fish Artists to fund a part-time Project Worker and to purchase equipment

£600 for four bursaries for students of Insider Art’s Foundation Course in Art Therapy

£450 for three bursaries for students of Insider Art’s Participatory Visual Arts course

£800 over four years towards supervision of Indigo’s project at Crediton Neighbourhood Family Centre

£960 over four years towards a Women’s Art Therapy Group taking place at The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington

2003 – 2007:

£400 towards Truro Art Therapy course grant

£700 to Windmill House Arts Project, Woodspring Community Mental Health, Avon & Wiltshire NHS Trust

£500 bursary to Forest School training

£1,000 for WordPower project

£500 to Avon & Wiltshire NHS Trust

£180 bursary towards Art Psychotherapy supervision training

£400 to support an outreach printmaking group

£1,000 towards North Devon Arts on Prescription project

£500 to fund Sandtray Therapy course support

£1,290 to fund training and outreach project run by Double Elephant Print Workshop

£600 for four bursaries for students of Insider Art’s Art in Mental Health: A Foundation Course in Art Therapy