MORE than £50,000 worth of Arts Council England grants have been awarded to ten arts projects in Wiltshire, including Salisbury, celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The money, originally from the National Lottery, have been distributed by Wiltshire Community Foundation.

It is one of the network of UK community foundations supporting the Lets Create Jubilee Fund, a £5 million nationwide programme to develop creative and cultural activities as part of the celebrations.

Among the recipients is Age UK Wiltshire, which will use a £9,900 grant to create a record of old peoples’ jubilee memories through music, poetry and art. The charity will run workshops across Wiltshire, including Salisbury and Amesbury, with artists to record their memories and use them to inspire songs, poetry and artwork.

Project leader Emma Walker said the Jubilee Chronicles is being run in partnership with the Wiltshire Music Centre’s Celebrating Age team of artists.

The completed material will eventually be presented to the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham.

Muse SW in Salisbury will use a £5,795 grant to organise a day-long jubilee garden party over the bank holiday weekend in the Cathedral Close for people living with dementia and their carers, as well as the wider community.

Director Jane Ebel said: “We plan to have music, entertainment, stalls and games for adults and children, which will appeal to the groups we have worked with over the last two years, as well as being able to welcome passers-by.

“The centrepiece of the project will be creative sessions (both musical and artistic) and intergenerational performances with two opera singers from Celebrate Voice) and community musicians from Music for Wellbeing), using a backdrop of work done by participants attending art workshops in various parts of the gardens.”

Roche Court Educational Trust in East Winterslow, near Salisbury, has received a £6,495 grant for a series of inclusive arts celebrations, including workshops and live performances with dance company Surface Area Dance, which specialises in working with deaf and hearing-impaired dancers.

It will also run a multi-sensory art project working with children with profound disabilities and devise a singing sculpture with low-income families.

Wiltshire Community Foundation joint chief executive Fiona Oliver said: “We are especially proud that our position as a key funder for the county has brought this money into Wiltshire so that these celebrations can go ahead. We the thank Arts Council England for the trust it has placed in us to ensure its National Lottery funding makes the most impact at a local level.”

 

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