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