[cma-l] Funding News: Young Film Fund (UK) & TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards (UK)

[Tamar Millen]

Young Film Fund (UK)

First Light Movies, which provides grants to projects that enable young 
people to participate in all aspects of film production, has announced 
that its Young Film Fund has re-opened for applications.

Since launching in 2001, First Light Movies have enabled over 40,000 
young filmmakers to write, act, shoot, light, direct and produce over 
1000 films and media projects. The funding is available to organisations 
such as; schools; youth services; community and voluntary groups that 
work with young people aged between 5 and 18. Grants are delivered 
through two different funding streams. These are:


     the Studio Awards which provides grants of up to £30,000 for 
between two and four films of up to 10 minutes;
     and the Pilot Awards which provides grants of up to £5,000 for one 
short film of up to five minutes in duration.


Previous grants awarded include;

Hartside Primary School, County Durham, which received a grant of £3,000 
to help produce a five minute shadow puppet film using an original fairy 
tale devised, told and filmed by the children in Year 1

Balfour Junior School in Brighton, which received funding to make an 
environmental documentary ‘The Amazing Adventures of the Plastic Bag’.

The closing date for applications is the 22nd November 2011. For more 
information visit: 
http://www.firstlightonline.co.uk/fundingstream/young-film-fund

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TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards (UK)

TalkTalk, the telecommunications company has announced that it is 
seeking applications through its Digital Heroes Awards scheme.  Digital 
Heroes Awards seeks to reward individuals who are using digital 
technology to solve a social problem or improve people’s lives.

12 regional winners from across the UK will receive cash grants of 
£5,000 each to fund digital projects – as well as getting free broadband 
to help them make the most of the internet. From these, one overall 
winner will be chosen to receive £10,000 plus free broadband. The awards 
can be used to fund both new and existing digital projects.

Previous winners include:

Street League, a nationwide charity using football as a means of getting 
disadvantaged people into work and education. Street League will use its 
award to redevelop its website to create a social networking facility 
for site users, and increase the uptake of IT training.

Aspire, which helps people with spinal cord injuries to access computers 
through specialist equipment in hospitals and at home. The grant will go 
towards helping even more people get online, however severe their injuries.

The closing date for entries is the 11th September 2011. For more 
information visit: http://www.talktalk.co.uk/digitalheroes/enter.html
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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.commedia.org.uk