The Shropshire Council Community Arts Grant Scheme has now closed.

All arts funding will be distributed through the Local Joint Committees (LJCs). Please go to the LJC webpages on this page for further information.

The Community Arts Grants Scheme has been a great success. Over £80,000 has been awarded over the past two years to 139 applicants.

The funding has supported artists, arts organisations, community and voluntary organisations involved in arts activities, arts festivals and arts events in Shropshire.

Details of the applicants who were awarded funding in the last grant round, September 2010 are:

• Arts Alive, Dance Xplosion!, £700
• Avalon, Avalon Card Productions, £400
• Birchmeadow Centre, £100
• Bobby Britnell, Playing with mixed media, £250
• Border Singers, Spring Concert at St Alkmund's Church in Whitchurch, £200
• Bridgnorth Festival Ltd, Arts Consultation, £595
• Bridgnorth Players, Training workshops for Theatrical Lighting, £500
• Broseley Christmas Lights Committee, Chinese Arts experience, £490
• Ditton Art Group, Art Group weekly meetings and tutorials, £300
• Flaxmill Arts, Flaxmill Arts, £700
• Footloose, Musical Migrations, £700
• HMYOI Stoke Heath, Champions Project, £700
• Indra Khanna, Research & Feasibility Study for 'Statue Dressing', £250
• Jazz Club 90 Ltd, Help towards running costs of Jazz Club 90, £500
• Keith Ashford, Opening up Space, £250
• KinoKulture, Kinocafe - The Art of Cinema, £700
• Ladies Wot Sing, Ladies Wot Sing, £493
• Made in Shrewsbury, The Knockout Summer of 69, £500
• Marcher Glass, Border Fusion, £700
• Minsterly & District Eisteddfod, Minsterely Eisteddfod, £450
• Otherwise Engaged, Winter Inspiration, £500
• Pentabus Theatre, Transport to Touring, £1000
• Re-Act Youth Theatre Company, Mumming, £500
• Shrewsbury Jazz Network, Jazz Salopia, £413
• Shropshire Music Trust, Shropshire Music Trust 2010-2011, £500
• Shropshire Youth Theatre, The Cherry Orchard, £560
• Strettons Mayfair Trust, A-Z of the Strettons, £500
• The Ironbridge Society of Artists, Developing Arts Society, £400
• The Kingswell Centre, FACES, £700
• The LADS, £500
• Tuneworks, Tuneworks Intensive Sessions, £637
• Vicki Norman & Jennifer Bone, Lazy by Bone, £679
• Whitchurch Photographic Society, Festival Drayton Photographic Exhibition of members work, £268
• WRVS, Art Therapy For People With Dementia, £700
• Wyldwood, Mix it up, £498
• Janet Cross, Community Choir, £200

Image by Phil Mountford

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