CREATIVE LIVES CHARITY LIMITED 

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Shout Out!
£9,900	10/03/2023	The funding will be used to deliver a range of cultural creative and wellbeing activities for people from African and Caribbean communities. The project aims to increase participation raise cultural ....more The funding will be used to deliver a range of cultural creative and wellbeing activities for people from African and Caribbean communities. The project aims to increase participation raise cultural awareness and build skills and connections across Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Creative Lives
£6,000	30/01/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Everyday Heritage: "Northern Souls - Going Down the Welly"
£7,000	24/08/2022	The project will focus on Easington Social Welfare Centre, built in 1929 to support miners welfare and referred to locally as The Welly. Together we will run a series of workshops to record and ....more The project will focus on Easington Social Welfare Centre, built in 1929 to support miners welfare and referred to locally as The Welly. Together we will run a series of workshops to record and celebrate the significance of Social Welfare Centres to working class communities locally and nationally.
Leeds Community Foundation - ‘Lift the lid' - Up For Arts - Leeds
£18,000	14/01/2021	Grant to Voluntary Arts Network (operating as Voluntary Arts)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voluntary Arts Network
£15,000	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Cumbria Community Foundation - Earth and Fire
£3,750	23/04/2020	Earth and Fire
DCMS - Voluntary Arts NPO Application 2018-22
£168,878	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Celebrating Age Loneliness Projects
£28,928	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voluntary Arts Network
£120,000	22/01/2020 48	Towards unrestricted core costs to enable Voluntary Arts Network to fulfil its strategic aims of building stronger cultural connections, deepening public understanding of everyday arts and opening up ....more Towards unrestricted core costs to enable Voluntary Arts Network to fulfil its strategic aims of building stronger cultural connections, deepening public understanding of everyday arts and opening up more public space for arts.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Voluntary Arts Network
£9,700	23/05/2019	Last Diaries
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Community Wellbeing
£9,723	21/09/2018 12	Creative Community Wellbeing
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Voluntary Arts Network
£9,900	28/03/2018	Past and Present
National Lottery Community Fund - Put Something Back
£9,600	24/01/2018 12	The project will run volunteer campaigns and media training for small organisations to match older people to local volunteering opportunities. This will encourage older people to be more active in ....more The project will run volunteer campaigns and media training for small organisations to match older people to local volunteering opportunities. This will encourage older people to be more active in the community, improving community cohesion and reducing isolation.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Putting the Social into Social Media: a digital literacy campaign for the voluntary arts
£9,979	06/01/2017 36	'Putting the Social into Social Media' will address five key digital skills of communicating, transacting, managing information, problem-solving and creating through a 9 month programme of needs ....more 'Putting the Social into Social Media' will address five key digital skills of communicating, transacting, managing information, problem-solving and creating through a 9 month programme of needs assessment, training in 4 geographical locations with an expert, and ongoing, practical support for leaders of voluntary arts groups. These participants will mostly be older people (>50 years WHO definition) who can be relatively time-rich, often seeking leadership opportunities and well placed to be digital champions for peers in their communities of place and interest. Three stage process will be delivered - firstly a review to assess skills needs then a planning & implementation phase before rolling out the training across Scotland. Stage 3 will involve participants sharing learning with peers and getting follow up support from the trainer, through closed Facebook groups. During this phase, they will also produce a series of learning outputs including a digital Briefing on Digital Literacy and a series of ‘how to videos’ featuring participants.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voluntary Arts Network
£60,000	04/04/2016 24	Towards core costs to support Voluntary Arts work to promote and increase active participation in cultural activities across the UK.
Spirit of 2012 - Voluntary Arts
£832,825	30/10/2013	Improve opportunities in arts participation, effect positive changes in the management of, recognition for and participation of creative cultural activity. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ ....more Improve opportunities in arts participation, effect positive changes in the management of, recognition for and participation of creative cultural activity. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
National Lottery Community Fund - Voluntary Arts Week - celebrating and developing the legacy
£167,014	04/09/2013 36	Voluntary Arts Week - celebrating and developing the legacy

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Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 30/11/1995, number: SC020345
• Registered at Companies House on 02/07/1992, number: SC139147

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Main office

The Melting Pot , 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 8DL

Objectives

(i) To promote amateur arts and crafts'· generally and in particular (ii) To develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and practice of amateur arts and. crafts through the recognition and development of amateur arts and crafts both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere (a) By providing encouragement, advocacy and support for amateur agencies, their members and other individuals showing particular talent, expertise or interest in the field of amateur arts and crafts (b) By acting as consultants and advisors to amateur organisations or other: groups and by making available to them the results of research and studies and information of any kind which may be relevant to their activities.