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Email news bulletin November 2005If you have any comments on this e-bulletin, then do let us know by emailing bulletin@esmeefairbairn.org.uk Contents:Foundations and Social Investment report published 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 calling 020 7297 4700. Foundations and Social Investment report published Conventional wisdom is that grant-making charities are required to keep their money in two silos, for investment or for grant-making. It is often assumed that trustees should maximise returns by investing only in mainstream financial products, without regard to the match or mismatch with their charitable purposes. Social investment challenges this model. Over the last thirty years or so, practitioners in the UK and US have engaged in a range of social investment activities, defined as investments which generate a social as well as a financial return. A group of funders commissioned research on this subject. The participating foundations found the lessons of the research valuable and were keen to encourage a rigorous debate on this subject. The resulting report and a shorter briefing document have now been published and are available on the Esmée Fairbairn website. Supporting Regional Museums This autumn has seen the opening of the latest exhibitions funded through Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s Regional Museum Initiative. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery’s Fashion and Fancy Dress: The Messel Family Dress Collection 1865-2005 is a unique exhibition of the extensive wardrobe of four generations of Lord Snowdon’s family, the Messel-Rosse-Linley-Sambourne-Snowdons. It represents the story of the evolution of stylish English dress from the late nineteenth century through to the 1970s, and is brought up to modern times through items loaned by living family members. The exhibition runs until 6 March 2006. www.brighton.virtualmuseum.info/ York Museums Trust’s Celebrating Ceramics runs until 15 January 2006. Concurrent exhibitions are also taking place at Scarborough Arts Gallery (until 8 January 2006) and Wakefield Arts Gallery (until 4 January 2006). The trio of exhibitions showcase some of the13,000 pieces in York Museums Trust’s world-class ceramics collection, which ranges from pre-historic pots to the outstanding WA Ismay and Milner-White collections of 20th century studio pottery. Creative Tension is also continuing at Touchstones in Rochdale until 8 January 2006, when it will move to the Fine Art Society in London. www.rochdale.gov.uk/Leisure/Attract.asp? Rethinking Crime & Punishment – implementing the findings Rethinking Crime & Punishment (RCP) was the Foundation’s four-year, £3.2 million programme that aimed to raise the level of public debate over the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK. In December 2005, a focused programme looking to implement some of RCP’s findings will be launched. The programme aims to increase public and judicial engagement with community-based sentences, in order to promote confidence in their use as an alternative to prison. A small number of targeted grants have been made to support this. The programme will not be open to grant applications. Information on all work supported and publications, research and reports emerging from the first phase of Rethinking Crime & Punishment can be found at www.rethinking.org.uk This site will be updated with news of the second phase of the programme as it develops. The Foundation was ‘highly commended’ by the judges in the UK Charity Awards final earlier this year for the work on Rethinking Crime & Punishment. Time for Growth Time for Growth was a challenge established by a £1 million grant from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to Community Foundation Network in 2000. Ten community foundations each received £100,000 in core-cost support, in order to enable them to achieve a combined total of £20 million in new endowment investment over a three-year period. By the end of the challenge, the total raised in new endowment was nearly £19.5 million. An evaluation of this programme took place and this, along with a shorter briefing document, can be found at: http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/grants_reports.html Carbon Disclosure Project Report An important environmental report was published in September, with support from the Foundation. The work of the Carbon Disclosure Project draws on data requested from FT500 companies on behalf of investors whose combined assets total $21 trillion. The report outlines the key issues that make climate change an investment-relevant issue. It draws upon company responses to highlight important trends, quantify the risks and direct attention to new investment opportunities. The report demonstrates that the answer to reducing greenhouse gas emissions lies as much with companies and investors as it does with governments, international agencies and the public: http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/docs/cdp_report3.pdf Independent Museums Sustainability Grants Scheme The Foundation is supporting a £200,000 grants scheme to help smaller and medium-sized museums improve their financial sustainability. The three-year scheme is being administered by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) for the benefit of their members. Grants are likely to range between £3,000 - £5,000. AIM will also be running a series of workshops on financial sustainability to help museums who might wish to apply under the scheme. For further details contact: aimadmin@museums.org.uk PEEP Founded in 1995, Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) was set up in response to poor levels of literacy achievement among children in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. PEEP’s concept is that by working effectively with parents/carers and their children from birth to five years, children are given a firm foundation on which to base educational as well as wider social development skills, helping to raise their attainment. Many parents have limited literacy and social skills and the learning together approach gives them confidence as well as, in many cases, access to further training. The Foundation has made four grants to PEEP that total £1.9million. An independent evaluation Birth to School: A Longitudinal Study of Peers Early Education Partnership, by the University of Oxford, has now been published. www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/ Archives Cataloguing Grants Programme There is a large and growing backlog of uncatalogued collections in the nation’s archives. In response to this, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Pilgrim Trust, in conjunction with The National Archives (TNA), has established a £200,000 Cataloguing Grants Programme. Initial pilot schemes will run in Scotland, North West England and London in 2006. If the pilot is a success, additional funders will be sought and the scheme may be extended to other regions. The programme is being administered by TNA. Digital Beginnings New research carried out by the University of Sheffield and part funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has shown that television, video and other elements of the media and popular culture can have a positive impact on the lives of young children from birth to six years old. The study found that children are immersed in new technologies and the media from the day they are born, and that contrary to popular opinion they can play an important role in childhood development and can be used to great effect to promote early learning in children. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Director Dawn Austwick starts work as Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Director on 1 December 2005. Dawn joins the Foundation from the British Museum, where she has been Deputy Director since 2002. Before that she was Project Director at Tate Modern, responsible for realising the new gallery. Her previous roles include management consultancy with KPMG, Manager of Half Moon Theatre, and Projects Co-ordinator with Arts and Business. New Arts & Heritage and Environment Programme Directors Danyal Sattar has been appointed Programme Director with the Foundation’s Environment Programme. After working at organisations including New Economics Foundation, UK Social Investment Forum and Aston Reinvestment Trust, Danyal joined Charity Bank, working in the lending team. In 2004 he joined Esmée Fairbairn as a Grants Manager in the Social Change programme. Amanda Jones commences work as the Arts & Heritage Programme Director at the Foundation in January 2006. Amanda is currently Executive Director Fellow with Rambert Dance Company, having previously been at the Barbican Centre where she was Director of Media and Public Relations. Prior to this she was Head of Press at the Royal Opera House and at the Royal Ballet. Data protection Any information you provide to us will be used only for the purposes of providing requested email updates. The next Esmée Fairbairn e-bulletin will be published in Spring 2006. Published by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, 11 Park Place, London SW1A 1LP. Contact: bulletin@esmeefairbairn.org.uk 16 November 2005 Please email bulletin@esmeefairbairn.org.uk to unsubscribe. |
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