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Dash Arts
(UK, 1089222) Browse events
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(UK, 1089222) Dash Arts promises rigorous and unflinching adventure, rich in spectacle, creativity and magic. And that’s exactly what it delivers.
The London Library
(UK, 312175) Browse events
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(UK, 312175) The London Library is dedicated to advancing education, learning and creativity by the provision and maintenance of a lending library focused on the arts and humanities. Located in central London but used by people throughout the UK and beyond. Founded by the historian Thomas Carlyle in 1841, The London Library has played a central role in the intellectual life of the nation ever since. It is a treasure house of literary heritage, seeking to preserve the best of written culture and thought, while nurturing the work of current and future generations and supporting learning and creativity. Charity No: 312175 Find out more Website http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk
The Prince George Galitzine Memorial Fund for St Petersburg
(UK, 1015036) Browse events
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FOCUS Friends of Children in Uganda Scotland
(UK, SC040564) Browse events
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(UK, SC040564) FOCUS aims to build the capacity of extended families in Uganda to look after the children of their deceased relatives, thereby helping to keep children in their communities and prevent them from being sent away to orphanages. FOCUS supports the relief of poverty of orphans and vulnerable children and young people in Uganda and their extended family carers affected by HIV/AIDS through raising funds to support: - breakfast feeding centres, so that school-aged children will be better prepared to learn at school- after-school clubs that support the development of the children’s education, their social and emotional development, and widen their access to leisure opportunities FOCUS is run by a small group of volunteer trustees in Scotland who work to raise a minimum of £7000 per year to support the continued funding of the 2 breakfast centres (Breakfast Centres D at Bulindo & E at Kiwologoma) run by NFSC in Uganda. We have no running costs in Scotland so every penny raised goes to the projects in Uganda. We also promote volunteering opportunities and links between Scotland and Uganda. Strong links have been made between the community of Muirhouse in Edinburgh and Namugongo, with further exchanges planned. Our Annual Report for financial year 2009-10 is available.
London Musicians Collective
(UK, 290236) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Resonance104.4fm is an art radio station run by volunteer musicians, artists, instigators and critics from London's kaleidoscopic cultural communities. Experimental, inclusive and pedagogical, it is a challenging model of community media once hailed as "the best radio station in the world".
Coventry Youth Orchestra Parents' Association
(UK, 502879) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The City of Coventry Youth Orchestra has steadily grown in reputation and stature over the years both nationally and internationally. To extend the musical experience of its members, the orchestra commissions new works and engages guest soloists as funds allow. Over the years the orchestra has been coached by players from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In addition to its concerts in Coventry, the orchestra also performs regularly in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, The Arts Centre, University of Warwick, and The Parish Church of All Saints, Royal Leamington Spa. Brian Chappell is in his 27th season as conductor/director and is assisted in the running of the orchestra by Barbara Donaldson. A team of players/teachers provide specialist input at rehearsals. The orchestra is managed by a committee of parents and former members who promote the orchestra, provide assistance at rehearsals and concerts and raise funds. The orchestra is a registered charity and is in partnership with the Performing Arts Service. PAS is a non-profit organisation, managed under Services for Schools as part of the Children, Learning and Young People’s Directorate of Coventry City Council. In 2012 the orchestra will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Holborn Community Development Project
(UK, 1110439) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00HCDP works with children and adults of all ages in south Camden providing community development and support through arts, education and other activities to those who may not otherwise have access for reasons of financial or social exclusion.
National Railway Museum
(UK, XN63797A) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The National Railway Museum is the largest railway museum in the world and the most visited English museum outside of London. As a National Museum entrance to the museum is free. We receive a grant from the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) which goes towards basic running costs e.g heating; lighting etc. However with your help we can: Be a world-class museum where people from all walks of life will choose to explore how railways help shape our world. Change how people think, talk and act about railways and transport and their impact on our lives. Inspire our visitors with our collections, enabling them to understand more about the development of the modern world and its relevance to the future, and motivate them to learn more. Please help us to become the most admired Museum in the world and thus be a source of pride to the public and our supporters. By donating now you are helping us secure the work of the NRM for future generations. Thank you to all our visitors who made a donation at one of our museums (MOSI, National Media Museum, National Railway Museum and the Science Museum). Last financial year alone, you very generously donated £1.6 million towards our work. This money is so important to all of our museums as not only does it help us replace the funding lost due to reductions in Grant in Aid, it means we can spend it where we need to the most: ensuring your visit is as memorable and enjoyable as possible. Receiving regular visitor donations means that this income now plays a crucial role in contributing to showcase the past and inspire the future about the science in all of our lives. We would love it if you would like to donate today.
Halsway Manor Society Limited
(UK, 247230) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Halsway Manor - National Centre for the Folk Arts - is a folk arts centre that provides courses, events and activities for everyone interested in traditional folk music, dance and song, storytelling, folklore and arts and crafts. Located in the Quantock Hills - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - in West Somerset, Halsway Manor has a fascinating history that goes back over 600 years. The Manor has a warm friendly atmosphere, tranquil woods and gardens, great food, a bar, a range of overnight accommodation and camping in the grounds. The Kennedy Grant Library contains thousands of books and recordings of folklore, customs, traditional folk music, dance and song - an excellent resource for research and study. 'Our Future' Development Fund The Board of Trustees have launched plans to develop the facilities so that people of all ages and abilities can access Halsway Manor more easily and learn about the folk traditions found in England and further afield. The Manor HouseConserve and repair the historic features (Halsway Manor is Listed as Grade II* by English Heritage). Make more of the building accessible to visitors by moving service and support facilities (ie. kitchen and offices) out to the rear of the Manor and refurbishing those spaces for learning, including increased space for the library and a new dining room. Activity CentreA timber-framed building, in the grounds behind the manor, designed to have a low impact on the environment and the natural and built heritage. It will provide new spaces for arts and crafts activities (for example, musical instrument making) while being an exciting space for use by schools, young people, families and the local community to do a wide range of folk activities. Performance SpaceA new building adjoining the manor for dances, concerts and celebrations as well as providing a larger teaching space for dance and music. More overnight accommodation, improved accessBuilding some new accommodation to the rear of the Manor. Improving access to the gardens, woods and grounds. More parking and better camping facilities.
Gambia Youth Project
(UK, 1103715) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00In October 2008, a group of young people with special needs will travel to Gambia to meet Gambian students and work with them on sports and arts programmes in school and to develop enhanced ties between schools and cultures.
Daytrippers Limited
(UK, 1097313) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Daytrippers was founded in 2003 to help children with disabilities, life limiting or terminal illnesses enjoy amazing experiences. To date we have helped over 20,000 children by either funding group daytrips or hosting their own larger scale events, encouraging the children and their parents to experience new and exciting environments whilst making friends. Daytrippers continuously growing list of events includes; the UK’s largest pan-disability football tournament, co-sponsoring London Zoo’s Annual Special Children’s Day, Oscar film premieres showcasing the children’s own films and animations, multi sensory art and music workshops at Colourscape Festival, and a sought after private showing of the annual Christmas Pantomime at The Lyric Theatre. Every penny donated we put straight towards a daytrip or event ensuring that as many disabled children as possible get out and about all over the UK.
Wass Village Hall
(UK, 1104547) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Wass village hall has served the community for 90 years and is now in need of replacement. It is heavily used for dances,panto's ,bridge, WI and all other meetings and folk arts events. It is due for demolition in March 2009. We have raised about half the funds needed from a population of only 110.It is a vital community building for our area.
Friends Of The Potteries Museum And Art Gallery, Stoke On Trent
(UK, 507834) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Friends of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery is a registered charity (507834) whose aims are to promote, support, assist and improve the Stoke on Trent Museums. Please help us raise much needed funds for the Staffordshire Hoard and the Spitfire Appeal by clicking: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Staffordshirehoard http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Spitfire Or you may prefer to to make single or monthly donation to our general fund that supports both the Staffordshire Hoard, The Spitfire Appeal and the the Stoke-on-Trent Museums, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and Gladstone Pottery Museum, please click the donate buttons opposite. Thank you for your kind donation The Museum Friends
IdeasTap
(UK, 1132623) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Please donate now to make a real difference to young people working in the arts. We rely on donations from people like you to help young talented people find jobs and take part in amazing artistic opportunities. IdeasTap helps young people find work in the creative industries through training, mentoring, seminars, CV clinics, paid internships and our extensive employment database. We work with leading arts organisations and creative businesses to provide career opportunities and paid commissions, and we offer facilities and support for start-ups through our Creative Space programme.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide (UK, 313015) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The **** Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is Britain's leading and most extensive archive on the Holocaust. Established in Amsterdam in 1933, the Library was originally founded as an information service to reveal the true nature of events in the Third Reich. Today, the Library holds an exceptional collection of over two million items including published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimonies, and it is this collection that lies at the heart of our work. The Library aims to serve scholars, researchers, the media and the public as a library of record, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds in understanding the Holocaust and its historical context. It provides a resource to oppose anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice and racism. We reach out to audiences across the UK encouraging students, the media, writers, policymakers, educators, legal professionals, refugees, survivors and their descendants to use our wealth of materials in their search for the truth. The Library is committed to exploring innovative ways to promote study and engagement with source materials, and to enable connections and explorations with modern day issues. As a living memorial to the evils of the past, the Library is dedicated to verifiable truth, democratic accountability, openness and tolerance of ethnic and religious differences. The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide is Britain's leading and most extensive archive on the Holocaust. The Library holds an exceptional collection of over two million items including published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimonies, and it is this collection that lies at the heart of our work. You are welcome to visit us and study our books, documents and photographs in the Wolfson Reading Room. We aim to serve as a library of record, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds in understanding the Holocaust and its historical context. The Library is committed to exploring innovative ways to promote study and engagement with source materials, and to enable connections and explorations with modern day issues. We have an active Learning and Outreach programme of free lectures, book launches, workshops and seminars run by leading academics and educators. We also run a temporary exhibition programme throughout the year and our current First World War exhibition ‘The Kaiser’s Jewish Soldiers: Loyalty, Identity, Betrayal’ showcases objects, documents and artefacts from our extensive collections. Story of the Library The Library is named after Dr Alfred Wiener, a German Jew who after the First World War began to fight against the surge of antisemitism in Germany. In 1933, Dr Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he established the Jewish Central Information Office, which collected information with the purpose of revealing the true nature of events in the Third Reich. In 1939 the JCIO was transferred to London, and throughout the Second World War Allied Governments as well as the BBC made extensive use of its collection, which was increasingly referred to as ‘Dr Wiener's Library'. After the war, the Library provided critical evidence to the Nuremberg Trials and later to the Eichmann Trial, and became a key source of information for survivors attempting to trace their families. Today, the Library’s collection continues to grow with more items added every year, including materials on other genocides such as Rwanda and Darfur. The Wiener Library is open to the public five days a week free of charge. Read more about our work and our history at www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
The Music Centre
(UK, 1079536) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Since 1992 Islington Music Centre has brought music tuition of the highest quality within the reach of all children and young people aged 6 - 18 in the Islington area of North London. Over two thousand children and young people have benefited from its provision, developing talent and confidence that has enabled them to excel.
Queer up North
(UK, 1105510) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Queer up north promotes and presents through festivals and events lesbian, gay and queer work across the arts- theatre, performance, dance, literature, visual arts, music and film- and to make the work accessible to a wider audience. The queer up north festival fund supports artist and creative project development within the lesbian and gay community.
Sang-ngak-cho-dzong
(UK, 1019886) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Sang ngak cho dzong is the charity that supports the Aro Buddhist tradition in the UK. The Aro Buddhist tradition wishes to establish a permanent centre in Britain to make this form of Buddhism more accessible to people. We intend to raise £500,000 to establish a centre capable of hosting events. People endeavour to improve the world in different ways: through improvements in diet, physical and mental health, housing, and education. Our approach encourages joyful interpersonal relationships. Happy marital relationships ensure that children grow up in an atmosphere free of mutual psychological damage. Although we are a Buddhist charity, our teachings are open to anyone. At heart, the logic of our tradition is simple: world peace begins in the family. If children have positive role models in terms of their parents’ relationship, they are more likely to grow up as kind balanced individuals. This provides a self-perpetuating positive influence upon the world. The centre will bear the Tibetan name ‘Drala Jong’, which means ‘Sparkling Meadow of Primal Iridescence’. Of this name Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Dechen write: ‘Drala Jong innately exists in human beings. ‘Drala’ is the appreciative faculty which exponentially enlivens people the more they engage with the world. Appreciation is the key to enjoyment and to the delighting in the enjoyment of others. When we learn to appreciate phenomena our sense fields ‘Jong’ begin to sparkle and a sense of generosity is born which connects us with others. Although Vajrayana Buddhism is by no means unknown in the West -the sense in which enjoyment and compassion are mutually interdependent remains unexpressed. We would like Drala Jong to be a place where human beings could discover the pleasure of existence - the pleasure that animates the sense fields and revitalises the Arts - and the art of living.’
St Helen's Old Girls Charitable Trust
(UK, 265367) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We are raising money in memory of June Leader, much loved teacher and Headmistress at St. Helen's who sadly passed away in November 2014
The Marlowe Theatre Development Trust
(UK, 1120751) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00In 2011 the curtain rises on a new landmark theatre for East Kent, within the historic City of Canterbury. The New Marlowe Theatre Development Trust is raising funds for the project: the complete re-build of the theatre and a new performance space, to develop and nurture the talent of tomorrow.
CMWS
(UK, 1162027) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00We are a registered charity in the heart of Tyneside providing access to music lessons and ensemble playing for young and old. We run tuition groups in various instruments including violin, cello, guitar and viol, and provide music theory and assessments. We also have a band and a handbell group!
Society of Scottish Artists
(UK, SC009586) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00The Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) was established in 1891 to ‘represent the more adventurous spirit in Scottish Art’. Its aims and objectives have evolved since those beginnings to include the representation of art from other countries and a more open arena for contemporary art activity across Scotland. SSA is an artist-led membership organisation governed by an elected President and elected Council consisting of around twelve members of the Society. Specialist professionals are co-opted onto Council to assist on particular projects. SSA continues its tradition of holding an Annual Contemporary Open Exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy Gallery (RSA) in Edinburgh. Installation, video, computer and performance art alongside a strong core of works in traditional media result in challenging and invigorating shows. In an art-world where the divide between "new genres" and "traditional media" has rarely been wider, the SSA plays a unique and vital role in bridging the gap. Each year the SSA selects a number of graduating students from the Scottish art college degree shows to exhibit in the Annual Exhibition. SSA recognised the benefits of an integral education programme in its formative years and this groundbreaking policy has continued and strengthened to the present day, involving school groups, artist talks, workshops and gallery tours. Please visit our website to find out more, or email us at [email protected]
Staines Preparatory School Trust
(UK, 296691) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Staines Prep is a fantastic non-selective, independent, co-educational school. Its aim is for every pupil to achieve their potential within a secure, happy and stimulating environment that allows them to grow in confidence and flourish as individuals. The School has a reputation for high standards of education and pastoral care and for producing pupils who are thoughtful, courteous and considerate of the needs of others. An exciting £3m project to build new state-of-the-art teaching and performance facilities is currently in progress and includes a new Multi-Functional Hall, Art Design and Technology and Science suites, Music Room, five extra classrooms plus new changing rooms and toilet facilities. The initiative is consistent with the School's ethos and long-term strategy to enhance its curriculum and provide the widest range of opportunities to its pupils. Its Fundraising Appeal target of £350k is to fully fit out the new areas with high quality, specialist equipment, including acoustic screens, tiered seating, lighting and sports equipment to enable the pupils and the local community to use the facilities as soon as possible. All donations, large or small, would be really appreciated. Everyone at Staines Prep is very excited and we look forward to sharing our new facilities with you in Spring 2013.
Project MotorHouse
(UK, 1147974) Browse events
YTD Raised: £0.00Project MotorHouse is an exciting initiative to transform Ramsgate’s derelict old Motor Museum into a vibrant indoor/outdoor arts and entertainment complex where Thanet’s young people can be introduced to business culture and gain the personal and professional skills they need to start their own businesses in the area.