[cma-l] Funding News: Funding To Support Poetry and Literature (UK) Clore Duffield Foundation

[Tamar Millen]

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Funding To Support Poetry and Literature (UK)

The Clore Duffield Foundation has announced that the second funding 
round under its new £1 million programme to fund poetry and literature 
initiatives for children and young people across the UK is now open for 
applications.  Through the programme, schools, FE colleges, community 
groups, libraries and other arts/cultural organisations can apply for 
grants of  between £1,000 and £10,000 to support participatory learning 
projects and programmes focused on literature, poetry and creative 
writing for under 19s.

Projects that received funding under round 1 of the programme include:

“E13LC Word Olympics Festival 2012 “, a partnership between the E13 
Learning Community (a cluster of eight schools in Newham) and Theatre 
Royal Stratford East, led by Lister Community School which received a 
grant of £5,000 to inspire young people to have fun with words through a 
celebration of creative writing in an Olympic-style competition and 
Wisbech and Fenland Museum which received a grant of £6,000 to work with 
local arts organisation, Atelier East, to run a Young Poet Laureate 
contest to enliven, empower and engage young writers in the Fenland area

The programme is due to run from 2011 to 2015 with two funding rounds a 
year. The deadline for applications is the 30th March 2012. For more 
information visit:

http://www.cloreduffield.org.uk/page_sub.php?id=331&parent=35
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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.commedia.org.uk