Email news bulletin January 2005
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Contents:
Improvements to our website
Rethinking Crime & Punishment
Arts & Heritage Initiatives
Coulsfield Inquiry
Grants Made
New Application Guidelines
Loans Programme
Meeting Room Hire
New Trustee
New Staff Members
Improvements to our website
We have a new section on our website providing more information on grants we have made and the learning to come out of them. Under grants made, recent reports showcases evaluation and research reports for work we have funded, and grants progress outlines the development of a number of significant grants we have made in recent years. This will be added to over the coming months. Alongside these are our grants lists, detailing all grants made by the Foundation since 2000.
Recent reports from funded organisations you can find on our site include After the War on Drugs Options for Control, a report by Transform Drug Policy Foundation, which examines the drug policy reform debate. It details how legal regulation of drug markets might operate, and provides 'a roadmap and time line for reform'. Also included is Stakeholder accountability in the UK supermarket sector, the final report of the Race to the Top project, which charts this project's work to track the performance of supermarkets in their promotion of a greener and fairer food system. For further information please visit recent reports on our website.
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Rethinking Crime and Punishment (RCP) is our largest strategic initiative; it aims to raise the level of public debate about the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK. In December 2004 it published a report setting out the key findings and recommendations from its four years of work. The report was launched to 160 policy-makers, practitioners, funders and others at an event at the Tower of London, chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby. Speakers included Prisons Minister Paul Goggins. A Scottish launch event was held in Edinburgh with speakers including Cathy Jamieson, Minister of Justice. You can download a copy of the RCP report , which was described in The Times as "refreshingly rational", and in the London Evening Standard as "a remarkable study", from recent reports on our website.
We have also published "I Would Rethink Crime & Punishment by....", a collection of contributions from well-known figures from inside and outside the criminal justice system. What would ex-footballer Tony Adams, peer Lord Archer, business guru Anita Roddick and broadcaster Nick Ross do to improve the way we respond to crime? A copy of the publication is available from recent reports on our website.
Arts & Heritage Initiatives
The Regional Theatre Initiative (RTI) was set up to give eight new theatre directors in regional theatres the opportunity to create work on the main stage. Worth £450,000, the project was developed in association with Arts Council England, in order to develop those involved as potential artistic directors. Previous directors to benefit from the scheme included Rufus Norris, whose play Sleeping Beauty was recently staged at the Barbican and whose production of Festen is currently in the West End.
The final RTI play is The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt, directed by Martin Danziger at the Dundee Repertory Theatre. It opens on 16 March 2005. For further information please visit their website or see the strategic initiatives pages of our website.
The Regional Museums Initiative (RMI) is an £800,000 initiative to enable regional museums to strengthen their exhibition programmes, as reported in the last bulletin. It now has a series of colloquia underway, which are designed to share and develop skills between participating museum professionals. These will include sessions on publications, cataloguing and ICT, collaborating with other museums and marketing and advocacy skills.
The next RMI exhibition, Creative Tension: British Art 1900 to 1950, is based on the rich collections of the municipal galleries in North West England. It opens at Gallery Oldham in March and is a joint project with Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Touchstones (Rochdale) and Bolton Museum & Art Gallery.
For further information please see the strategic initiatives pages of our website.
Coulsfield Inquiry
In November 2004 'Crime, Courts and Confidence - Report of an independent inquiry into alternatives to prison', by the Independent Commission of Inquiry chaired by Lord Coulsfield, was launched. It contains a number of proposals to increase the effectiveness of and confidence in alternatives to prison. The inquiry was commissioned by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation as part of the Rethinking Crime & Punishment initiative. A copy of the report and the summary document is available from recent reports on our website.
Grants Made
Highlights of grants approved by Esmée Fairbairn's Trustees at their latest meeting include:
A grant of £101,688 to The Women's Library, towards touring an exhibition about the Women's Institute, made jointly by the Arts & Heritage and Education programmes.
£271,000 to the Nuffield Foundation towards the costs of a national commission on pre-school and primary education in England.
A grant to Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group of £117,254 to continue farm conservation work in Wales.
A grant of £60,200 to the Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health, to provide support and training to clients with mental health problems who are engaged with the technical side of this recycling social enterprise.
In 2004 we made 578 grants. The average size was £44,008. Only 7% were for over £100,000. For further information on other grants we have made please visit grants lists on our website, where we regularly publish a list of the grants we have made.
New Application Guidelines
The Foundation will be publishing revised Application Guidelines in May 2005. For up-to-date information please always check our website or telephone us before making an application to the Foundation. The website will include updates from programmes on any changes to their priorities. Please visit our website for further information on our guidelines.
Loans Programme
Our loans programme was launched in 2003 to offer loans to the UK voluntary sector. The loans fund is worth £3 million over three years. It is a pilot programme to help test demand for loan finance in the voluntary sector.
A loan can be an alternative way of giving support when we are unable to make a grant. We are also open to new ideas for making loans.
The programme is run in co-operation with Charity Bank, who provide us with due diligence, collecting agent and loan administration services.
For further information, go to the loans programme page on our website.
Meeting Room Hire
The Foundation has meeting room facilities on the ground floor of its building in Central London, which are available free of charge for use by organisations in receipt of a current grant or loan from Esmee Fairbairn. For further information please download a leaflet from our website.
New Trustee
James Hughes-Hallett has been appointed a Trustee of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation from 17 January 2005. James is Chairman of Swire Pacific Ltd, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and of John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Ltd. He is a council member of the University of Hong Kong and the HK Academy for Performing Arts.
New Staff Members
Tereasa Robinson has joined the Foundation as Receptionist. She joins us from an events promotions company, where she performed a similar role. Nikki Thompson continues as Administrative Assistant.
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