Estimated Price

£500

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In relation to the identified priorities in the Guidance & Essential criteria what will your idea achieve and who will benefit from your project?

We are seeking support for Arts and Crafts materials as we have none anymore. The objective is to engage the young people at our service using their creative expression, support their artistic skills, and utilise the arts skills of our staff to benefit our pupils. We used to have materials but the service nearly closed due to rising costs. We increased our fees, cut our staffing and had to ask parents of our young people to bring in scrap paper from home so they could draw.

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Please describe what you plan to do and what the money will be used for? (i.e., purchase equipment/resources)

We are committed to keeping an inclusive and supportive environment for all participants and the funding would be helping the 74 children who currently attend DASS (we're hoping more will join with the new P1 intake).  The project will be to purchase Arts and Crafts items.  Our young people currently freely use the outdoor spaces on the land for physcial activity but we greatly miss Arts and Crafts.  The objective is to help our young people enjoy their experience in our service whilst using their own expressive ways to communicate and have fun, learn and create. We like to give our young people freedom to be creative and to work on project themes directed by staff.  We will work on making items from our environment like tunnels and creating images and characters important to the individual for example; making a cat or a house out of crafts.  We will be offering painting, cutting and glue work, coloured card activities, clay work, string work, crayons, pipe cleaning and paper plates along with buttons, cotton balls, tapes, etc. We would greatly appreciate the chance to provide this service again.