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Cards designed by older people’s charity Alive as conversation starters for those living with dementia and their families and friends, or for intergenerational projects activity. Please follow link:

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Parlours of Wonder are community spaces in care settings where older people can interact with evocative objects designed to spark interest and intrigue, encouraging the sharing of memories and life histories. They are an ideal place to run intergenerational, creative and community-focused activities.  Developed as part of the Parlours of Wonder project, in collaboration with Bristol University and Stand + Stare, Alive has produced two downloadable resources to help you set up and run your own Parlour of Wonder. Link below:

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Developed by the British Gymnastics Foundation, this is an age and dementia friendly seated gymnastics programme which is transforming the lives of people living with dementia.

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Great example of an activity that benefits the pupils & residents, because it is so regular and encourages interactions & relationship building! Film courtesy of Swansea & Brecon diocese: https://swanseaandbrecon.churchinwales.org.uk

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An intergenerational choir in Brynmawr is going from strength to strength, with a new programme for the new year. Fifty children from St Mary’s Church in Wales Primary School visit United Welsh...

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Grants from The Coalfields Regeneration Trust 

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Grants from The Coalfields Regeneration Trust 

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For former mining areas in Blaenau Gwent

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The Coalfields Regeneration Trust works with partners to redirect resource and funding into the communities. There are many ways that we do this and we ensure that residents are aware of the opportunities, applications and grants that they can access. Please find details in the tiles shown below of those that we are currently working alongside and offering.

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Centre for Innovative Ageing - Swansea University

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As Wales' leading centre for ageing studies, the Centre for Innovative Ageing puts a positive view of ageing and older people at the core of its business

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Are you interested in Care Home research?  Join the ENRICH programme:

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ENRICH Cymru considers Care home managers and staff as the experts in research. Staff often identify areas for improvement, try out a different way of working and change practice. Essentially this is the foundation of research.

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Fitness activity sessions

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Following the Couch To 5k program, we are a group that support each other along their Couch to 5k journey and beyond. NEW - September 2017 we have a ladies bootcamp starting Monday Pm & Tuesday AM...

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Fun singing and activity sessions

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Welcome to the Goldies Cymru website - part of the Golden-Oldies Charity - our daytime FUN Sing&Smile sessions bring joy to the lives of older isolated people through the singing of popular pop…

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Digital heroes gives training to pupils to use technology as a converstaion starter with the elderly. Delivered by Digital Communities Wales.

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Have a look at our gallery of Digital Heroes in action across Wales...

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Activity guide to teach dance sessions to older people.

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Activity ideas to do with people living with dementia.

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Generations Working Together has put together a guide on how to create meaningful intergenerational mentoring programmes.

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Arts activity ideas to do with people living with dementia.

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Some great ideas for hands on activities!

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This guide explains how to improve the efficacy of your intergenerational activities by focussing on regularity and relationship building.

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Animation activities for intergenerational activities with people living with dementia.

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Memories with Grandma animation activities

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Apply for these to help your intergenerational community gardening group.

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We have two delivery periods per year, one in March and the other in November. We are currently taking applications for trees to be delivered in NOVEMBER 2019.

Choose your pack(s) from the list below and fill out our application form. If you can't wait until then, or your application is unsuccessful, you can buy packs in our shop all year round.

Before you start you'll need to:

Know the six digit grid reference for the land you wish to plant using the grid reference finder

Have permission from the legal landowner

Read through our short list of FAQs. They are packed full of important and useful information which will help your application.

For more help and advice Tree Tools for Schools has everything you need to plan, plant and care for your tree pack, whether you are a school or community group.

Tree packs
Please note, species may vary from advertised.
Thanks to generous funding from our lead partners.

Sainsbury's

Players of People's Postcode Lottery

Yorkshire Tea

Additional funding from DEFRA means we can also give away a further 100,000 trees a year until 2020 to eligible schools.

Tree Tools for Schools

Our online resource has everything you need to plan, plant and care for your tree pack. All activities are linked to the KS1 and KS2 curriculum. They include a planning tool, planting advice and interactive quizzes, designed initially for schools but a fantastic resource for anyone considering planting Free Tree Packs.

► Launch Tree Tools for Schools.

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We have two delivery periods per year, one in March and the other in November. We are currently taking applications for trees to be delivered in NOVEMBER 2019. Choose your pack(s) from the list below and fill out our application form.

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For participants to record how an activity session made them feel

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This handy guide by the Alzheimer's Society gives useful tips on how to make your school/group more dementia friendly and prepare for intergenerational activities.

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Activities and organisations for well-being in your locality

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Activities and organisations for well-being in your locality

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A Health and Well-being Wales Partner Find local and national organisations and services that can help you... Find help, services and information near you. Use the options below to refine your search. Focussed or broad Focussed or broad search Services provided mainly or wholly for... What matters to you?

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Funding for All does not directly fund organisations or individuals. We do however mentor you to apply for funds from other trusts and foundations to increase your chances of success. Below you can find the latest available grants currently open to applications.

Funds Closing Soon

Sports
Football Foundation: Grow the Game

The Football Foundation's Grow the Game Scheme provides grants of up to £1500 for the creation of new football teams and coaching...
Read More Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Local Grants Youth
Dulverton Trust Fund

The Dulverton Trust Fund, administrated by Kent Community Foundation, awards grants of between £500 to £5,000 to small charities and charitable organisations, normally with an annual income of under £200,000.
Read More Education & Employment Health & Social Care Local Grants
Kent Coalfield Community Fund

The Kent Coalfield Community Fund awards grants of up to £5,000 to community focussed projects seeking to align with The Coalfields Regeneration Trust's strategic themes of:
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Grow Wild: Youth-led Creative Projects

Grow Wild are awarding up to £500 to creative projects, led by a 14-25 year old, that celebrates UK native wildflowers and fungi in exciting and engaging ways. They are particularly interested to hear from projects inspired by fungi. The funder wants projects to reach and inspire lots of people in the applicant's community, school or youth...
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Funding for All does not directly fund organisations or individuals. We do however mentor you to apply for funds from other trusts and foundations to increase your chances of success. Below you can find the latest available grants currently open to applications.

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Use this lesson plan from the children's commissioner for Wales before starting an intergenerational activity to prepare students for entering a care setting & working with older people

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The Activity Pack provides creative ideas for care home staff and residents that can be adapted for IG activities.

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cARTrefu is a two year programme run by Age Cymru which aims to improve access to arts experiences for older people in residential care.

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This can be used in care settings before intergenerational activities to gauge what residents are interested in doing.

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Community arts organisation based at the Llanhilleth Institute in AbertilleryThey also have a directory of local artists that can run IG activities.

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On Wednesday 31st October, Head4Arts attended a House of Commons event hosted by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), celebrating...

Three of Caerphilly's Welsh-medium schools have embarked on an exciting project under the Arts Council of Wales' Creative Collaborations programme...

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Head4Arts - Community Arts in the Heads of the Valleys (Wales)

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Working with Head for Arts has given me an amazing opportunity to participate in something I would never otherwise be able to do. It has been an unforgettable experience.

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Woffington House and Georgetown primary: Digital Heroes in action

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Woffington House and Georgetown primary: Digital Heroes in action

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Ken's experience is typical in the care home, where anti-psychotic medication on an "as required" basis has been reduced by 100%. Falls have also been reduced significantly and ambulance call outs (which cost the NHS £300 a time) have been reduced by 28%.

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Make sure you have Dementia Friends & Digital Heroes Training

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Make sure you have Dementia Friends & Digital Heroes Training

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Please get in touch with us if your school wants to become dementia friendly or to access Digital Heroes training!

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Treasury of arts activities for older people

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Treasury of arts activities for older people

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This is an amazing collation of arts activities by the Baring Foundation!

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Treasury of arts activities for older people - The Baring Foundation

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Resources to help children prepare for interactions with dementia patients.

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Order resources for young people to help create a dementia-friendly generation at your school or youth group. Our resources also create Dementia Friends.

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Magic Me have nearly 30 years’ experience of intergenerationa practice. Have a look at their projects for ideas or to look at commissioning them for help/training! Their most recent project is 'cocktails in care homes'.

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Magic Me is an arts charity that brings the generations together to build a stronger, safer community.

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Trac is a folk development organisation in Wales looking to do IG work In Blaenau Gwent. They have directory of amazing local freelance musicians and are in the process of putting together some exciting IG projects, so watch this space!

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trac is Wales' Folk Development organisation. We're all about celebrating Wales' music and dance traditions, developing performers from beginners to the international stage, stimulating interest, and making sure our traditional arts remain a relevant, core part of our vibrant cultural life and identity.

Looking to hire professional folk artists? Our DIRECTORY provides contact information on musicians and storytellers, instrument makers, dance groups, workshop leaders and tutors.

What's on? For locals and visitors alike, our EVENTS section provides information about both regular and one-off folk events taking place in Wales

Like to know more about the traditional arts of Wales? You can see videos, learn tunes and songs and read about their background in our RESOURCES zone.

On Facebook and Twitter we provide up to the minute news about folk arts in Wales, so like and follow us to keep in touch, and sign up for our "e-news" email list too.

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trac | Folk Development for Wales | Music, Dance, Events

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trac is Wales' Folk Development organisation. We're all about celebrating Wales' music and dance traditions, developing performers from beginners to the international stage, stimulating interest, and making sure our traditional arts remain a relevant, core part of our vibrant cultural life and identity. Looking to hire professional folk artists?

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Singing workshops

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Committed and experienced natural voice practitioner, Celia has been leading all sorts of voice and singing groups for 20-odd years. She brings a blend of relaxation, focus, depth and lightheartedness to her work.

After spending years forcing her friends to learn harmonies round the dinner table (before feeding them), she began to get requests to create 'Instant Choirs' out of unsuspecting conference or party guests. She has encountered and trained with many highly regarded voice and performance experts, including Enrique Pardo, Frankie Armstrong, Kristin Linklater, Phillip Zarilli, Song of the Goat and Gardzienice Theatres, as well as many traditional singers from Brittany, Sweden and Wales and of course the wonderful comrades of the Natural Voice Community.

She is running two permanent, open, inclusive Natural Voice community singing groups with more on the way. Some of her 'Local Vocals' singers are original members, still coming after 20 years!

She also runs all sorts of one-off workshops such as 'Singing for the Terrified' Seasonal Wassails, Caroling and 'Wild Singing'; 'Age Positive Singing for Well-being', Natural Voice Sessions for established choirs, Voice technique for theatre and performance including circus; and as the 'Voice Ninja' with ground-breaking 'InspireMe' company she offers highly effective corporate team-building and voice care with business and charity professionals.

In 2014 she began leading singing holidays and teaching regularly abroad in Bavaria and with the superb 'Maison Anglaise' in Morocco (Click here for 2019 details!). 2018 saw the start of a new adventure, with a stunning Mediterranean coastal singing holiday aboard a luxury wooden 'Gulet' which was fantastic fun and we shall be doing that again! Click here to find out more.

Past work includes inventing creative voice play and singing programmes for children and adults with special needs, and those with depression or mental health issues as well as university drama students. For 5 years (until Feb 2017) she also ran Cardiff's only 'Singing for the Brain' sessions for people with dementia and their carers.

She is currently hoping to cram in some more time for performing opportunities, having spent 5 years till 2016, as a performer and a member of the sassy ' Fanfare of Strumpets ', a talented female a cappella group specialising in the singing of eclectic repertoire and the wearing of fabulous frocks..

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Committed and experienced natural voice practitioner, Celia has been leading all sorts of voice and singing groups for 20-odd years. She brings a blend of relaxation, focus, depth and lightheartedness to her work. After spending years forcing her friends to learn harmonies round the dinner table (before feeding them), she began to get requests to create 'Instant Choirs' out of unsuspecting conference or party guests.

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Literature Wales has years of experience in supporting intergenerational activities and can provide access to local writers and match funding for projects (https://www.literaturewales.org/funding-for-events/). Please see below for example costings of projects they have done before.

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Seated and somatic exercise for well-being and movement

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Virtual reality and tabletop gaming facilitation.  Education, engagement and enrichment for young and old.

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Lewis Comp in Caerphilly has been running their luncheon club for over a decade with as many as 100 pensioners joining them for lunch on a weekly basis. They go on regualr trips, including abroad, and an annual Christmas dinner, attracting 250 retirees!

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See where you are in relation to other schools, care settings and local services

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See where you are in relation to other schools, care settings and local services

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This interactive map shows all the care settings and schools in the area. Please feel free to add additional layers with nurseries, youth groups, services etc.

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This organisation offers resources to run your own film club - which can be adapted for Intergenerational Activities.

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Read about our wide and varied activities in Wales, including dedicated Welsh-language resources.

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This scheme by Equal Arts brings a chicken coup, chickens and a co-ordinator to your school & care home partnership, to deliver hen-related activities with and intergenerational theme. https://equalarts.org.uk/our-work/henpower

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Creatively engaging older people through poultry keeping and painting.

We cultivate creativity and offer hen-keeping in residential care settings at a time in life when most people are slowing down, and not stepping into wellies or making masterpieces.

To HenPower your care home get in touch at information@equalarts.org.uk

You can find out more about our work at www.equalarts.org.uk or https://www.facebook.com/henpowerproject

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Keep an eye out for the latest grants.

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Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations

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The GAVO Community Development Team can help you find local funding opportunities!

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Grants to improve your local community - groups age 14 - 25 years 

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Grants to improve your local community - groups age 14 - 25 years 

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Low Impact Functional Training has been developed as a light exercise class for older people. Age Cymru offers training to people who are interested in running LIFT sessions.

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This guide from the Scottish centre for Intergenerational Practice gives useful case studies and handy tips.

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Aimed at older people, this guide by the charity responsible for 'Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds' gives best practice tips and ideas to get you started.

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Funding of up to £1000 from Arts Council Wales to visit high-quality arts events

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Theatre space in Tredegar, open to intergenerational work and with filming equipment.

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The official website of Tredegar Thespian Players at The Little Theatre, Upper Coronation Street, Tredegar, NP22 3YA, Wales, United Kingdom.

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The Welsh branch of this organisation helps to support community gardening groups. They can also offer support setting up a garden/group and arranging visits to see other successful garden/groups.

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Social Farms & Gardens is the result of a merger between the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG) and Care Farming UK. It is a registered company and registered charity. Registered Address: The GreenHouse, Hereford Street Bristol BS3 4NA. Company number: 2011023. VAT Number: 520 2825 82.

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Cards designed by Alive as conversation starters for dementia patients but can be used for other activities.