Findhorn Bay Arts distributes £38,000 between eight arts projects for Moray youngsters
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FINDHORN Bay Arts (FBA) has shared out nearly £38,000 to nine local artists to develop creative programmes for children and young people in Moray.
FBA has announced that eight projects will receive funding as part of the Youth Arts Small Grants scheme, a Scottish Government Covid-19 funding package to support the arts administered by Creative Scotland.
The overall scheme had funds totalling £700,000 to devolve between £10,000 and £50,000 for locally artist-led projects in early learning, schools, and other family support and community settings.
FBA was one of 18 organisations in Scotland to be awarded one of the grants to then distribute to artists and creative practitioners for arts programmes that engage with local organisations, children and young people in Moray, especially those most affected by Covid-19.
Kresanna Aigner, FBA director, said: "Lockdown has impacted on everyone’s mental health and our children and young people have suffered a lot because of the social isolation of not being able to see or play with their friends.
"We have first-hand experience of how the creative arts can help increase confidence and self-belief but, most of all, our children and young people will have fun accessing the gamut of the creative arts."
Twelve applications were received and were assessed by a panel of local specialist advisers.
Eight awards totalling £37,665, ranging between £4000-£5000, have been awarded in Moray.
The eight project awardees, for projects covering a range of age groups, are: Daniel McQuarrie, £4000, for film project "What Makes You Happy"; Rachael MacIntyre, £4792, for Circus Connections' workshops; Carol Scorer, £4095, for storytelling and percussion workshops; Ruby Worth, £5000, for embodied learning and dance movement therapy; Gail Sneddon, £5000, for a dance film project; Steven Sharpe, £5000, for drum and percussion workshops; Nicola Kennell, £4793, for mixed media workshops; and Graeme Roger and Dave Martin, £4985, for a film and music project.
The funding will build on the work of Ignite Moray Youth Arts Hub that was supported by Creative Scotland’s Time to Shine, Scotland’s National Youth Arts Strategy.
