FALLEN ANGELS DANCE THEATRE NORTH WEST

towards 12-month professional development costs for FADT’s Liverpool dance artist collective, including co-creating & showcasing a new dance theatre production with Brighton’s New Note Orchestra

Empowering Women

Community Outreach (Core Cost application)

purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting people in recovery from addiction in Cheshire

'Together While Apart' is FADT's new, vibrant online programme helping their vulnerable service users, who are all overcoming significant challenges including mental health breakdown, addiction, long-term unemployment, personal trauma and other ....more

'Together While Apart' is FADT's new, vibrant online programme helping their vulnerable service users, who are all overcoming significant challenges including mental health breakdown, addiction, long-term unemployment, personal trauma and other disadvantages. To minimise the impact of the cessation of weekly workshops due to Covid19, this project will offer high-quality creative participation and learning opportunities, and valuable social interaction within FADT's creative and engaging online space. It also offers early-intervention support, advocacy and signposting to ensure vulnerable members have greater resilience throughout this difficult time. A grant will enable approximately 25 vulnerable people (and their families) to maintain better physical/mental health, increased emotional/social wellbeing, and provide additional protective support from the community at this difficult time.

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) are a charity and company that support those in recovery from addiction to transform their lives and to share the recovery journey with the wider public through dance performance and creativity. Funding will enable ....more

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) are a charity and company that support those in recovery from addiction to transform their lives and to share the recovery journey with the wider public through dance performance and creativity. Funding will enable the group to reach more people in early recovery – including those in isolated rehabilitation settings - through online participation opportunities via strategic outreach.

Towards core costs to hire an extra worker 1-2 days a week over 6 months to facilitate more dance theatre sessions to help participants overcome addiction and mental health issues.

Towards the costs of an experienced Outreach Development Manager (consultant) for 2-3 days a week, driving/coordinating outreach programme

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) is an inclusive dance theatre company, supporting people in recovery from poor mental health (including addictions) to achieve greater confidence, self-esteem and wellbeing through movement and creativity. Our ....more

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) is an inclusive dance theatre company, supporting people in recovery from poor mental health (including addictions) to achieve greater confidence, self-esteem and wellbeing through movement and creativity. Our project builds on the recent success of our online participation programme ('Together While Apart') which successfully engaged many vulnerable and isolated people (including those with significant physical/mental health conditions) in online dance movement workshops. As our 'live' weekly workshops restart at Storyhouse Theatre Chester (in late August 2020), we are requesting support to continue offering additional weekly online sessions, to enable those who are 'shielding'/otherwise vulnerable to continue accessing participation and social inclusion opportunities from their homes. Our beneficiaries generally live in areas of high social and economic deprivation (most within the 10% most deprived areas nationally) and are overcoming significant challenges in their lives - including mental ill-health and/or a history of addiction. This includes Armed Forces veterans, ex-offenders and people overcoming significant trauma and abuse - (e.g domestic violence, bereavement etc). All have mental health challenges, ranging from anxiety/depression to post-traumatic stress and agoraphobia. Many new members who have become engaged through our online sessions are generally socially isolated due to poor mental health, or having to move away from previous friendship groups as part of addiction recovery. Many have significant physical health issues also. Our aim is that by continuing to offer online and live opportunities over the coming months, we can work with vulnerable individuals on a case-by-case basis, building their confidence to progress to accessing our live sessions at their own pace. Our 'Supporting Angel' volunteers will further support people's inclusion by offering 'buddy' support (i.e someone to travel to/attend sessions with), and between session contact to help build people's confidence.

The organisation will deliver dance theatre group workshops through an interactive online format to enable them to continue to support people in recovery from addiction and in poor mental health whilst in isolation. The group aim to increase social ....more

The organisation will deliver dance theatre group workshops through an interactive online format to enable them to continue to support people in recovery from addiction and in poor mental health whilst in isolation. The group aim to increase social interaction and early-intervention support advocacy and signposting to vulnerable participants.

To support Arts and Culture throughout England

A current group of women (approx. 6) will deliver 4 taster workshops where they can reach out to women at a crucial point in their recovery at WDP, Probation, CSASS, and Richmond Fellowship. Using a peer co-leading approach to gain trust and ....more

A current group of women (approx. 6) will deliver 4 taster workshops where they can reach out to women at a crucial point in their recovery at WDP, Probation, CSASS, and Richmond Fellowship. Using a peer co-leading approach to gain trust and confidence they will encourage other women to join the project. Fallen Angels Dance Theatre artists would then facilitate a dance theatre project, comprising 6 extended workshops, taking mindfulness as a starting point, culminating in a celebration and sharing event. A slideshow of images in action will also be created, with words, questions and phrases to inspire women to consider who they are, and support vulnerable women to become more empowered, and part of a movement for change. A grant will pay for staff costs, resources, refreshments, volunteer and participant expenses, venues for taster sessions, photography, marketing and eligible mangement costs.

Resilience

This dance theatre project will help to challenge misconceptions and empower women in recovery from addiction. Women participating will build their skills and experience increased confidence through the following activities: Discussion and Debate ....more

This dance theatre project will help to challenge misconceptions and empower women in recovery from addiction. Women participating will build their skills and experience increased confidence through the following activities: Discussion and Debate Exploring Movement Learning creative movement skills Group work Socialising with other participants and Storyhouse Women Festival attendees. Audiences at Storyhouse Women will report increased understanding of addiction & recovery. Through participation our beneficiaries learn new skills and adopt transferable skills that support them to reconnect within their community leading to volunteering, education and employment. Through the Storyhouse Women event the wider community gain more insight into women in recovery from addiction and mental health, leading to greater understanding and community cohesion.

This project will bring a group of women in recovery from addiction together to explore the interrelationship between dance theatre, wellbeing and the politics of cultural engagement. 

The funding will be used to run dance based theatre sessions for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. The project aims to improve confidence and wellbeing and create friendships with support networks to aid recovery.

FADT will support up to 15 people in recovery from addiction/and or mental health from the Cheshire West and Chester area to participate in high quality dance theatre workshops and productions at Storyhouse Chester’s new Cultural Centre in the ....more

FADT will support up to 15 people in recovery from addiction/and or mental health from the Cheshire West and Chester area to participate in high quality dance theatre workshops and productions at Storyhouse Chester’s new Cultural Centre in the City Centre. Over 8 months from November 2017 to July 2018 FADT will facilitate 2 artistic projects: “Creative Conversations” will explore themes surrounding the participants lives in Cheshire through dance theatre leading to a performance at Storyhouse in February 2018. The performances will be informative as well as expressive, allowing the audience to gain an insight into our Fallen Angels’ stories to gain more understanding of their personal narratives. From March the group will be supported to work towards a site-based piece to be performed in all the public spaces in Storyhouse, an immersive piece which will make use of this extraordinary new building. This project will facilitate their inclusion with other dance groups from the area to celebrate Big Dance a national dance initiative in July at Storyhouse. The project will be planned in close partnership with local addiction/recovery and mental health services in each area: Turning Point, and Richmond Fellowship as well as other local recovery groups and Arts organisations.

The Comic Relief Core Strengths funding will enable Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) to initiate a relationship with UCLan (University of Central Lancashire) to develop a bespoke interactive tool that would enable FADT to measure their impact, and ....more

The Comic Relief Core Strengths funding will enable Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) to initiate a relationship with UCLan (University of Central Lancashire) to develop a bespoke interactive tool that would enable FADT to measure their impact, and better understand the journey our beneficiaries as they navigate through their projects. The grant will fund the time of a core staff member and consultancy fees.

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) supports people in recovery from addiction to transform their lives and to share recovery stories with the wider public through dance, performance and creativity. Through this grant, FADT will explore a new ....more

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) supports people in recovery from addiction to transform their lives and to share recovery stories with the wider public through dance, performance and creativity. Through this grant, FADT will explore a new approach to enable people with complex needs to participate in the entire process of creating and publicly performing a dance theatre piece and will test how to increase interaction with audiences.

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) is a non-discriminatory dance theatre company that works with people to support them in recovery from addiction in all its harmful forms, through promoting creativity and self-expression,The project will support ....more

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) is a non-discriminatory dance theatre company that works with people to support them in recovery from addiction in all its harmful forms, through promoting creativity and self-expression,The project will support 12-15 disadvantaged adults recovering from addiction to participate in a creative contemporary dance workshops and performance. The grant will pay for staffing, performers, venue hire and materials.

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