'Painting for Pleasure' celebrates after receiving £34,920 from the
National Lottery Fund to help adults living with disability and illness.
Local community art group ‘Painting for Pleasure’ is today celebrating after being awarded almost £35,000 in National Lottery funding to support its work reducing isolation of vulnerable adults in the community, including carers. The group, based at the Westbury Centre, Kingsway, South Leamington, will use the cash to run weekly art sessions, trips & exhibitions for local adults.
Painting for Pleasure has been
running since 1995, has recently become a charity, and is run by a committee of
members. The funding provides two art sessional workers to help members achieve
their full artistic potential.
This Lottery project is called
'Individuals Together'. The whole emphasis is to get participants to socialise,
make friends, and create imaginative artworks encouraging members to go beyond
their perceived limits. The classes run for one day a week on a Wednesday during
the school term, with separate morning and afternoon sessions.
The new funding from The National
Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery
players for good causes and is the largest funder of community activity in the
UK, will mean 'Painting for Pleasure' can provide regular art sessions for the
next three years.
At the same time, the group will be
able to put on exhibitions of members' work giving individuals greater
confidence whilst promoting the group in the wider community.
Jayne Canning, Chair of
painting for pleasure, says: "We’re glad to be back and
are both delighted and grateful that The National Lottery Community Fund has
recognised our work and has supported us in this way. Now, thanks to National
Lottery players we will be able to press on with our plans to help reduce isolation
for local people".
About The National Lottery Community Fund
We are
the largest community funder in the UK – we’re proud to award money raised by
National Lottery players to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland. National Lottery players
raise £30 million each week for good causes throughout the UK. Since June 2004, we have made over 200,000 grants and awarded over £9
billion to projects that have benefited millions of people.
We are passionate about funding
great ideas that matter to communities and make a difference to people’s lives.
At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when
people are in the lead, communities thrive. Thanks to the support of National Lottery players, our
funding is open to everyone. We’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of local groups right up to UK-wide charities,
enabling people and communities to bring their ambitions to life.