Email news bulletin May 2005
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Contents:
Our new Application Guidelines
Annual Report and Accounts
Rethinking Crime & Punishment
HEARTS website launched
Recent reports we have published:
Street (UK) Learning from Community Finance
An Enquiry into Continuing Professional Development for Teachers
Regional Theatre Initiative publication
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Director
Our new Application Guidelines
We have published new Application Guidelines, which are now effective. A new programme, Social Change: Enterprise and Independence, is launched, replacing Social Development.
Our Arts programme will focus, for a three year period, on the contemporary visual arts, including architecture, crafts, design, fine art, new media, photography, public art and sculpture. The Heritage programme retains its focus of preserving and providing public access to our national heritage, particularly outside Greater London.
The Education programme will continue to cover our two broad areas of interest: New Approaches to Education and Hard-to-Reach Learners.
The Environment programme guidelines develop and further focus our previous areas of interest. The programme now supports three interrelated themes: UK Biodiversity, A Low Carbon Economy and Sustainable Food Systems.
The new Social Change: Enterprise and Independence programme aims to enable people and communities facing disadvantage to improve their lives. We will prioritise those at greatest need through our two areas of specific focus: Enterprising Communities and Financial Independence.
We expect our grant-making in 2005 to total £28 million. The programme budgets are: Arts & Heritage - £6.2 million, Education - £5.7 million, Environment - £5.7 million, Social Change: Enterprise and Independence - £9.4 million. We also look to support, in exceptional cases, proposals that are in tune with our wider Foundation interests but fall outside our specific programme funding priorities through our ‘Fifth Fund’.
If you are interested in applying to the Foundation, you should first read our Application Guidelines in full. These are available on our website or by telephone: 020 7297 4700.
Annual Report and Accounts
Our Annual Report and Accounts are now published and available on our website. The Report gives a full account of our grant-making in 2004. It puts the spotlight on decisions we have taken, ideas we have backed, and learning from past funding. Following on from last year, we have continued to focus on ‘What our grants are achieving’, highlighting key past grants and what has resulted from them.
Rethinking Crime & Punishment
Rethinking Crime & Punishment, the Foundation’s strategic initiative to raise the level of debate about responses to crime, has reached the end of its first phase. Trustees are reviewing the learning of the last four years and deciding how best to commit any future resources to this area. We are considering a practical follow-up programme, provisionally entitled ‘Justice and Community – Implementing the findings of Rethinking Crime and Punishment’. We hope to make further announcements in the summer about this and launch the programme in Autumn 2005.
HEARTS website launched
HEARTS – Higher Education, the Arts and Schools – is one of our Education programme’s strategic initiatives. A partnership between Esmée Fairbairn, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Teacher Training Agency and NESTA – the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, it aims to strengthen the position of the arts in schools. We have recently supported the development of a HEARTS website.
Recent reports we have published
In our last bulletin we reported on a new section to our website showcasing evaluation and research reports for work we have funded. In recent months, we have published three publications that outline the learning from significant grants that the Foundation has made:
Street (UK) Learning from Community Finance
In recent years community leaders, charities, business people and politicians have championed the development of ‘community development finance’ as a way of getting finance to people and organisations that struggle to gain access to mainstream financial services. In 2000 the Foundation made a grant of £1.329 million to Street (UK) to create a national organisation to provide permanent access to finance for low-income self-employed people and very small businesses not seen as creditworthy by banks. This work has been evaluated by the New Economics Foundation and we have published a briefing based on the results of this evaluation.
An Enquiry into Continuing Professional Development for Teachers
This one-year research project by Dr Sandra Leaton Gray of Cambridge University, funded by Esmée Fairbairn and the Villiers Park Educational Trust, was published in April 2005. The main aim of the research was to review current subject-based professional development opportunities, to identify gaps in provision and to make recommendations for improving future provision.
Regional Theatre Initiative publication
Esmée Fairbairn’s Regional Theatre Initiative (2001-05) aimed to give emerging directors the chance to direct on the main stage of key regional theatres. An initiative of the Arts & Heritage programme, the project was worth £500,000, and was developed in association with the Arts Councils. We have published a document celebrating the achievements of the ten directors who were supported through the RTI, which was launched at the Theatre 2005 conference on 19 May.
There reports are all available on our website.
Esmée Fairbairn Fairbairn Foundation Director
Margaret Hyde, the Foundation’s Director since 1994, is stepping down at the end of September. Under her leadership the Foundation has been transformed into a modern and effective grantmaker, with transparent systems and increasingly making available the learning from its grant-making. Margaret will continue to put her voluntary sector experience to good use, alongside more time for personal interests.
The Foundation is currently recruiting her successor. Please see our website for further details.
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25 May 2005
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