The Carers Music Fund We Webinar: 12 June 2019 About our plans We - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

The Carers Music Fund

We Webinar: 12 June 2019

About our plans

We will award grants across the UK that put women and girls with caring responsibilities front and centre, offering them

• pportunities for fun, creative

expression and (re)discovery of self through music-making

About Spirit

Set up as an endowed trust by the National Lottery Community Fund in 2013 Committed to funding projects that bring people together for fun, inclusive participatory activity that increases wellbeing, changes perceptions and attitudes towards disability and improves social connectedness We are not going to be around forever – so it’s really important to us that we advance learning about what works in achieving our outcomes We stay close to our projects, and our approach works best when grantees are curious, reflective and open

Outcomes

• 1. Increase the wellbeing of participants through active music-making
• 2. Reduce isolation and / or loneliness amongst carers
• 3. Increase self-esteem and / or carers’ sense of potential (optional)
• 4. Explore – and challenge – gendered dimensions of caring (optional)

Plus:

• 1. Test and evaluate approaches to increasing social connectedness for

carers

• 2. Test and evaluate the efficacy of music as an intervention mechanism for

this group

Learning & evaluation

5 learning events - the first will be held on 18 September 2019 Support from the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, the Behavioral Insights Team and your Spirit grant manager Up to 10% of your grant on monitoring and evaluation – mix of internal and external Contributing to the overall fund evaluation, by sharing your learning, data and reflections

Cohorts & numbers

• Cohort One: October – March 2020
• Cohort Two: January – June 2020
• Cohort Three: April – September 2020
• Cohort Four: July – December 2020

Might contain 4 song writing groups of 15 people OR 3 Choirs of 25 people etc Cohort 2: May set up more groups

• n a different day of the week or in

a different location. May continue with same groups but add a new intake.

Application top tips

Read the assessment criteria Risk assessment – be honest, and specific about what your mitigation is Think about the need, demand and reach carefully Sustainability – realistic and appropriate for your project Partnerships

Dates Deadline: 9am on 4 July 2019 Assessment will take place throughout July

Any questions?