Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)



Analysis of Grants Made
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In this period 43 donations have been made totalling £365,830 to 41 organisations

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Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) 44% 68%
Department for Work and Pensions 15% 2%
The National Lottery Community Fund 9% 15%
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport 5% 7%
John Lyon's Charity 5% 7%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation 4% 7%
City Bridge Foundation 4% 5%
Sport England 3% 5%
Wolfson Foundation 3% 2%
The Tudor Trust 3% 2%
Sole supporter: 29% by number, 41% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount Annual
Spending
Grantee To be used for
19/03/2023 £54,975 WEST LONDON BUSINESS LTD. This funding is to employ the Park Royal Business Group manager, as well as running the PRBG events series.
31/03/2022 £2,315 FRUITION PROPERTIES Fruition Properties, owners of 2 Scrubs Lane, looking to redevelop the site, sought and were granted planning permission in June 2018.
11/12/2021 £5,000 LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING The London Borough of Ealing wants to use the Christmas Market for North Acton Square as a one-day, weekend to provide a collaborative opportunity for local businesses, artists, makers and entrepreneurs to market their offer to the local and wider west London community.
01/09/2021 £7,000 LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING The London Borough of Ealing Council have asked OPDC to help kick- start their activation of North Acton Square by grant funding and taking part in the North Acton London Festival programme.
16/07/2021 £4,770 £141,323 URBANWISE LONDON A series of projects, including walks and workshops, designed to showcase the ecology of Hammersmith and Fulham's largest green space (Wormwood Scrubs). We will use the list birds found in Wormwood Scrub compiled by renowned bird watcher David Lindo, also known as the Urban Birder, and deliver a series of walks and art workshops for children, families and adults where they will be encourage to explore wildlife (birds, trees, etc) and make art. The art workshops will be based either at Old Oak Community Centre, Old Oak Primary School, Burlington Dames or similar venue close to the Scrubs and easily accessible for walks. The workshops will be delivered by professional artist Renata Fernandez whose studio is in the Old Oak and Park Royal area (Acava, Hythe Rd.)
14/07/2021 £25,000 RIGHTRAIN LTD T/A BILL AMBERG STUDIO Funding to support the establishment of the inaugural Park Royal Design District
22/06/2021 £5,000 YOUR CANAL BOAT CIC Three weekends of performances on a canal boat at various locations along the Grand Union Canal
31/05/2021 £5,000 FOR BRIAN CIC Old Oak Lumiere will support For Brian CIC's mission to tackle loneliness and isolation, involving a series of light installations and pageants across the Old Oak Estate - these will be co-produced with local residents, with the aim of unifying local communities during such challenging circumstances.
31/05/2021 £4,980 KEY CHANGES Key changes are a charity who utilise music to support the wellbeing of people living with long-term mental health conditions. Music Studio Discovery will be based out of Central Middlesex Hospital, and will offer participants access to equipment and programming in order to create their own original composition. We are currently running the music activities on the wards at Park Royal Centre for Mental Health. These are taking place every Tuesday at the hospital and have maximum engagement. The studio sessions are taking place in W10 as there was a change of location due to COVID
28/04/2021 £5,000 LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT To support the development of next phase of the artist network which will see us bringing together creative organisations to form a collective to take it forward
28/04/2021 £5,000 LIQUID VIBRATIONS Liquid Vibrations will create a unique underwater listening arts experience for SEN students at the JackTizard School. Taking place at the school's hydrotherapy pool, the students will be treated to a relaxingunderwater sound experience as they are supported weightlessly on the water surface.
28/04/2021 £4,902 £4,891,240 LYRIC HAMMERSMITH THEATRE An access fund to give young people in and around Old Oak and Park Royal the opportunity to discover their local theatre and new skills and talent through free classes as part of the Young Lyric creative classes programme.
28/04/2021 £5,000 PIP HACKETT I want to pay tribute to the 'Canary Girls' . The plucky Munitionettes of the Park Royal area of London. These women played a vital role in Industry during both World Wars and were never recognised for their sacrifices to our country. I intend to create a Millinery collection of 1940's hats inspired by these courageous women.
28/04/2021 £5,000 PORTOBELLO LIVE CIC  Our vision is to create affordable, community led performance programmes, in the heartof our local communities. We aim to be inclusive and engage people from a range of backgrounds. Weprovide local people with the opportunity to access live arts and music in their community and toincrease their participation in a range of arts activities. We promote the creation of new music and arts,to enable talented local music and arts creators to realise their potential. We will provide an annualmusic, arts and spoken word festival in the OPDC area.
28/04/2021 £3,900 GANG OF VIRTUE - QUEENSROLLAHOUSE Generation & Display is Queensrollahouse Artist Studios’ in-house, not-for-profit gallery & event space.We are respectfully applying for a £3,900 grant to support our 2021/22 exhibition programme: 4exhibitions and related events, working with emerging to mid-career artists.
28/04/2021 £5,000 £434,661 SHUBBAK FESTIVAL The project will connect local businesses with local communities and external visitors through a public art project that creates and displays bilingual English & Arabic literature texts by two emerging Palestinian writers from Hajar Press, designed by young Palestinian designers in key local locations, particular locations frequented by the Arab diaspora inc. Beit El Zeytoun, Levant Book Café and others. It is part of Shubbak, London’s largest festival of Contemporary Arab Culture, but specifically designed for the ODPC area. The project will create a map for festival attenders highlighting the locations and businesses in the ODPC area.
28/04/2021 £2,400 STARDUST ARTS An interactive virtual music workshop that introduces young people to music and the joy of learning amusical instrument. It is aimed at all children aged 6 years and above where they will learn rhythms and timings on their own percussion instruments. It is hoped that the project will be in person in the final weekfor the final performance. This will depend on the government's COVID 19 legislation at that time
28/04/2021 £5,000 TALKING AND EXPLORING Walking tours of the industrial estate featuring local industry, businesses and buiidlings of architectural importance
28/04/2021 £4,995 ABUNDANCE ARTS A 12 week programme of study support for KS2 and KS3 students in the local area, using arts to engage students with subjects such as English and Maths
28/04/2021 £5,000 £106,021 DALGARNO PRE SCHOOL A programme of drama and arts sessions for local students in North Kensington, based out of the Dalgarno Community Centre
28/04/2021 £4,990 FRESH ARTS CIC A  programme of theatre activities for children aged 7-11, based out of West Twyford Primary School in Park Royal
28/04/2021 £4,800 FACTORY PROJECTS A series of workshops and exhbitions exploring the idea of utopia with local people in Old Oak and Park Royal
28/04/2021 £5,000 GOODWASTE Project involving the creation of street furniture using waste materials from the industrial estate, in turn encouraging engagement with residents surrounding the future of the area
28/04/2021 £5,000 KOMMUN SOUND A series of music events in Park Royal being delivered post-lockdown to help reinvigorate interest in live music locally
28/04/2021 £4,650 UNIAO DA MOCIDADE A series of free samba workshops during Summer 2021 at the Oti Mabuse Dance studio in Park Royal, culminating in a live performance
28/04/2021 £4,625 JOHN KEBLE COFE PRIMARY SCHOOL Additional support for a foodbank in Harlesden, alongside funding to support a gardening club at the school
28/04/2021 £4,990 MINDS UNITED CIC  volunteer programme for local people, using sports coaching to support skils development and routes into higher education and employment
28/04/2021 £5,000 SAAFI (SOMALI ADVICE AND FORUM OF INFORMATION) Support for a charity who specialise in working with the local Somalian community, offering online training and awareness courses
28/04/2021 £5,000 £92,514 US CHARITABLE TRUST A series of arts and culture activities held over Summer 2021, free for local young people
28/04/2021 £5,000 ALOOKINTO ALOOKINTO are an artist collective based in Park Royal who focus on platforming the experience of marginalised, often less-visible groups. With a grant from OPDC they will create a zine in collaboration with local artists, platforming the work of emerging creatives in London's largest industrial estate
28/04/2021 £4,320 ARC THEATRE Arc Theatre focus on creating immersive, interactive theatre that engages young people with challenging topics. No More Whispers will explore FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) in London, supporting students to understand the complexity of the issue in a safe, supportive environment.
28/04/2021 £5,000 BLAST STUDIO Blast Studio are an artist collective based in Park Royal who specialise in using waste materials to create artwork. "The Hive" will collect waste materials from the industrial estate to create a distinctive sculpture, to be installed outside of Excelsior Studios.
28/04/2021 £4,933 BUBBLE + SQUEAK Building upon their expansive local networks, Bubble and Squeak will work to create a new newspaper for people living in the Old Oak Estate - this will be circulated monthly, with content being co-produced with local residents and artists.
28/04/2021 £5,000 ANGELINA JESSON ARTS LTD - 1995 Facilitated by two local artists living in Old Oak, Earthseed will involve local students in the creation of an interactive performance and musical film inspired by "The Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler.
28/04/2021 £5,000 FASHION REBIRTH Building upon a grant awarded during the early phases of the Great Place Scheme, the organisation will create a temporary hub in Park Royal - through this local women working in the creative industries will be able to connect with one another and grow their personal network, supporting improved welbeing in the process.
28/04/2021 £4,600 GIRLS I RATE GirlsIRate work to create visibilility and opportunities for under-represented communities in the music industry. Girl Royal Oak will involve a series of radio broadcasts, providing a platform to showcase local talent - this will also culimate in a networking event for participants to support their career development further.
28/04/2021 £5,000 KIT THEATRE KIT Theatre specialise in delivering immersive threatre projects to engage young people with complex topics. Classbot 450 will involve three schools in Harlesden/Stonebridge, introducing students to AI/coding - this will entail a week "takover" using live actors and probelm solving activities. This project is match funded by a £25k grant from the John Lyons Foundation.
28/04/2021 £3,000 LOCALITY MATTERS A blog about the history of Old Oak and Park Royal with interviews and photography of notable reisdents.
28/04/2021 £4,902 £4,891,240 LYRIC THEATRE An access fund to give young people in and around Old Oak and Park Royal the opportunity to discover their local theatre and new skills and talent through free classes as part of the Young Lyric creative classes programme.
28/04/2021 £4,950 OLD OAK PRIMARY SCHOOL Buiding upon their expansive local networks, colleagues from Old Oak Primary will develop a series of podcasts in collaboration with residents across the Old Oak Estate.
28/04/2021 £4,940 REVO SECCUS The project will inform and capture the view of young people on the past, present and future of the OPDC area and the opportunities it will produce in terms of jobs and careers the young people could be learning for at present.
28/04/2021 £5,000 TITRA Annual Film Festival which supports the decades long filming history of our area and creates a community event for all residents in the Island Triangle conservation area. In addition to screening a selection of films over the weekend, children would learn about the history of our streets as a filming location, there would be opportunities to take part in cultural workshops and a street party for all to attend.
19/03/2021 £94,893 WEST LONDON BUSINESS Funding towards the continuation of the Park Royal Business Group Manager post for an additional two years.
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