£15,000 to further establish the model developed by ‘And Other Stories’ to promote the work of contemporary Portuguese and PALOP writers in the UK.
Arvon Foundation
£60,000 to consolidate the creative
writing programme '(M)Other Tongues',
establishing a replicable model to be
used by organisations engaged in the
educational and social welfare of bilingual
young people from emerging
communities in the UK.
The British Centre for Literary Translation
£6,400 for a programme of public events to bring translated literature to new audiences at literary festivals and venues across the UK.
The British Centre for Literary Translation
£14,000 towards the costs of the first fullscale BCLT/Translators' Association mentorship programme.
East Street Arts
£7,300 for the development of a new
model of residency built on shared
resources to create a unique international
network of organisations and individual professionals for artists to work with.
Ffotogallery
£15,000 to present the first UK solo show
by Portuguese photographer Daniel
Blaufuks, a parallel programme of public
events, and a bi-lingual publication
featuring newly commissioned texts by
internationally established authors.
Fishmarket Arts Collective
£12,000 for a curated programme of work
by Vasco Araújo to be presented at a
number of venues across Northampton as
part of the 'Fishmarket at...' programme.
Glasgow School of Art
£4,000 to show selected works by Helena
Almeida and Ana Jotta, as part of an
international group exhibition of work by
over-60s artists in the Mackintosh
Museum, Glasgow School of Art, in July
and August 2011.
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
£30,000 to cover the costs of
disseminating the findings of a
pioneering research project to map UK
madrassas and initiate productive debate
about their role in and beyond the Islamic
community.
Literature Across Frontiers
£15,000 to consolidate the Literary
Translation Centre as a permanent
feature at the London Book Fair by
supporting the participation of a
consortium of three leading organisations
in the field of literary translation.
Literature Across Frontiers
£10,000 towards the costs of two pieces
of research: a study on the position of
translated literature in the UK, and a
feasibility study to establish an optimal
mechanism for collecting data and
generating statistics on the publishing of
translated literature in the UK.
Maslaha
£65,000, the first of two payments, for the
development and pilot of a toolkit that
illustrates Maslaha's approach to tackling
social issues affecting the Muslim
communities on an international scale. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
International Department, Lisbon,
and Paris Office.
Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange
£14,000 for two shows featuring
emerging Portuguese artists and a
programme of events aimed to lay the
foundations for a new enduring
international relationship.
Outside In
£11,500 to create a series of translationrelated
web resources to support and
promote international children's literature
by addressing the specific needs of
different audiences: teachers, librarians,
translators, publishers and the children
themselves.
The Photographers’ Gallery
£130,000 for the completion of The World
in London, a high profile public art
project which will take place in London
during the Olympics in 2012, and for an evaluation of its impact.
Society of Authors
£6,150 for the 2012 Portuguese Prize for
the translation into English of a full length
work of literary merit and general interest
originally written in Portuguese.
Story Museum
£45,000 For Tea with Alice, an exhibition
of contemporary illustrations of Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland from around
the world, curated by Portuguese
organisation Ver Para Ler.
Tate
£10,000 for setting up a Portuguese
Visual Art Archive at the Tate with
material donated by the Foundation.
Turner Contemporary
£15,000 for a third and final visit to
Portugal by a group of UK curators, to
help promote Portuguese visual art in the
UK and Ireland.
Age UK Oxfordshire
£25,000 on behalf of Charity Evaluation
Services to monitor and evaluate the first
18 months' operations of the Campaign
to End Loneliness.
British Council
£8,000 to host a foresight workshop on
migration and locality exploring areas for
future intervention in partnership with
Clore Social Leadership Programme.
Centre for Social Justice
£15,000 for the Vital Connections
conference, co-hosted with the
Campaign to End Loneliness, exploring
public/voluntary sector partnerships
tackling social isolation in later life.
Counsel and Care
£100,000 for the second year of a twoyear
grant to establish and operate a
Coalition Against Loneliness.
DEMOS
£49,300 to publish a report which demonstrates how private sector
companies can use their space and
existing operations to provide
opportunities for older people to build
social connections.
Drugscope
£9,500 to the Making Every Adult Matter
Coalition (Drugscope) in partnership with
Revolving Doors Agency (RDA) to
produce a Vision Paper for Government
on multiple needs and exclusions.
Homeless Link
£61,000 to develop the pilot programme;
support and part-fund three local areas to
implement pilot coordination-style
services for people with multiple needs
and exclusions; and coordinate learning,
evaluation and dissemination.
Independent Age
£120,000, the first of three payments, to
support the core work of the Campaign to
End Loneliness, including a local
awareness raising project and repository
of what works for voluntary sector
organisations in tackling loneliness in
older age.
NAAPS
£61,000 to replicate the Tyze model in the
UK, an online tool which builds secure
networks of friends, family and
professionals who support vulnerable
people experiencing life challenges.
UnLtd
£40,000 to develop the Ageing Challenge
Fellowships programme that aims to
promote social entrepreneurship to
address issues of an ageing society,
particularly encouraging older social
entrepreneurs.
Action in Rural Sussex - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to train young people in historical
research skills including oral history, and
to support them in looking back 50 years
into their community's history alongside
older people. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Age Concern Kingston-upon- Thames - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to partner older male volunteer
mentors with secondary school boys in
order to alleviate the sense of alienation
and isolation often experienced by both. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Age Exchange - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to create an ongoing
intergenerational programme for the
communities of Enfield Island and
Edmonton. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Beth Johnson Foundation
£72,000 to provide sustainability support
to the pilot projects of the Ageing and
Social Cohesion Programme -
IntergenerationAll - to be delivered by
thinkpublic, in collaboration with Beth
Johnson Foundation in the United
Kingdom. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Beth Johnson Foundation
£40,000 towards the costs of establishing
a European-wide network of
intergenerational practitioners to share
and thereby improve best practice within
the field of intergenerational learning. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
City Gateway - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to set up an innovative scheme
to break down barriers between cultures
and generations in Tower Hamlets
through a combination of corporate
responsibility and ethnography. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Grandparents Plus
£148,300 to support an in depth
comparative study of the role of
grandparents in family life across a
number of EU member states, with
research conducted by the Institute of
Gerontology, King's College London. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Lambhill Stables - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to set up a programme of
intergenerational activity with three
themes: community garden and local
food, community art and heritage and
community space and leisure. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Oxford Institute of Aging
£40,000 for the evaluation of the
IntergenerationAll (Entre Gerações)
programme in the UK and Portugal. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Relationship Scotland - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to develop an intergenerational
mediation service, focused on bringing
grandparents closer to their
grandchildren where contact has broken
down. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Urbivore - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to develop a social enterprise
model of ornamental and urban food and
agricultural production which can be
scaled through parks and public spaces. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
We Are What We Do - IntergenerationAll pilot
£13,000 to recognise the value and
experiences of older people and
reconnect them with others in their local
community by bringing generations
together around their shared history and
cultural heritage. New Interventions Fund
Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
10:10
£25,000 to pilot 'Solar Schools' in ten
schools in Reading, a new scheme to help
schools generate their own solar energy
by providing them with an innovative
toolkit to raise the cost of funding solar
panels through small donations from the
local community - cutting carbon,
providing extra income for the schools,
and enabling many new communities to
engage with and benefit from clean
energy.
Artsadmin
£5,000 to support the dissemination of
What on Earth?, a series of six 3-minute
artists' films which draw attention to
environmental issues in innovative and
surprising ways.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
£132,000 to consolidate and expand work
to develop the 'social role' of botanic
gardens, by supporting five new projects
identified through a nationwide call for proposals, and by the production of a
'How to' manual available online for all
gardens.
Capacity Global
£25,000, the first of two payments, to help
establish the Academy, a new initiative
to provide a) a green jobs hub across
London and b) to support 'non green'
industries in the transition to a green and
fairer economy, initially through Skin, a
pilot project to 'green' the hair and
beauty sector.
Carbon Leapfrog
£25,000 to help develop Speedfrog, a
rapid response advice service, and an
open source 'Online Documentation
Library', two new services which will
expand the reach and diversity of the
professional pro bono support Carbon
Leapfrog can offer to communities and
social entrepreneurs embarking on
carbon reduction projects.
Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN)
£20,000, the first of two payments, to
support the second phase of the
'Defending Rights - Environmental
Migration' programme, building a
platform for political and civil society
engagement on environmental migration.
Galapagos Conservation Trust (GCT)
£30,000 for an evaluation of the impact of
the Gulbenkian Galápagos Artists'
Residency Programme 2007-11, and of
the Galápagos exhibition tour to
Liverpool, Edinburgh and Lisbon
2012-13, taking artistic and
environmental aspects into account.
The Geffrye, Museum of the Home
£30,000, the first of two payments, to
develop and run a new adult learning
programme for older, vulnerable people in
the local area, inspired by the museum's
gardens, encouraging a creative
engagement in the natural world, and
linking biodiversity concerns more
centrally to the museum's core work.
Green Alliance Trust
£50,000 to explore how to maximise the
potential of local action in a world of
global environmental challenges,
particularly in the context of the UK
government's new emphasis on
'localism', and the current development
of a National Planning Policy Framework
(NPPF).
The Otesha Project UK
£16,000 to design and scope a
demonstration pilot for an East London
Greener Jobs Pipeline, working in
partnership with employers, training
providers and support agencies, to
provide pathways into 'green'
employment for disadvantaged young
people.
The Otesha Project UK
£10,000, the first of two payments, to
support the second stage of a
demonstration project in East London, in
which the East London Green Jobs
Alliance will be working in partnership
with employers, training providers and
support agencies, to provide pathways
into 'green' employment for
disadvantaged young people, and
develop an effective model for replication
elsewhere.
New Economics Foundation
£32,000 to review existing evidence of
the health, education and other benefits
of contact with nature, to inform
Foundation strategy and increase its
impact on government policy.
Transition Network
£25,000 towards the costs of exploring
the most effective ways to help Transition
Initiatives (local communities working to
reduce carbon emissions and improve
community resilience) to engage with
local businesses to develop more
sustainable local economies.
WWF-UK
£50,000 to support a new innovation
stream in WWF's Finance Innovation Lab
which will help to incubate the policies,
frameworks and collaboration across
sectors necessary for reshaping the UK
financial system so that it supports a
greener economy.
University of Plymouth
£44,650 to document the current status of
the analysis of the social and economic
value of ocean based ecosystems in
Portugal and internationally and to make recommendations to the Foundation on
the scope and objectives of a five-year
Programa Ambiente focused upon the
economics of ocean biodiversity and
ecosystem services. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
departments in Lisbon, Instituto
Gulbenkian de Ciência, and Paris
Office.
Centre for Social Justice
£30,000, the first of two payments, for the first year of a two year grant to deliver a 'Voluntary Sector' volume in Breakthrough Britain II exploring the role of the voluntary sector in tackling poverty and social breakdown.
Civil Exchange, consortium with DHA Communications and Democratic Audit
£15,000 towards the delivery of a 'Big
Society Audit' report providing
independent, evidence-based
measurement and analysis of whether a
genuine transfer of power from
government to civil society is occurring,
and to stimulate further action to make it
happen.
Clore Social Leadership Programme
£50,000 to further develop the Clore
Social Leadership Programme and fund a
Fellowship award.
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland
£10,000 to support the European
Foundation Centre (EFC)'s Annual
General Assembly (AGA) and Conference
2012 taking place in Belfast, Northern
Ireland and entitled 'Peace Through
Social Justice - a Role for Foundations?'
Duckie
£25,000 support in kind and through a
research grant towards the development
of an eventual performance spectacle on
the subject of addiction, homelessness
and male disenfranchisement.
Grassmarket Vision
£15,000 support to enable the completion
of a study of the mechanisms behind
Grassmarket Vision's approach in using
drama to integrate the most disaffected
young people and to ensure wide
dissemination and implementation of the
research findings.
London South Bank University
£15,000 towards research and
development of the Virtual Institute on
collaboration - a virtual space designed
to facilitate collaboration and shared
learning between organisations
delivering public services whether
public, private or third sector.
Manchester International Festival
£100,000 towards the next stage of the
participatory performance projects, That
Day We Sang and Sacred Sites, taking
place in July 2011.
National Theatre Wales
£75,000 two-year support towards a
performance project led by young Somali
men from Cardiff and National Theatre
Wales.
Streetwise Opera
£70,000 for an 'Open Mic' all day event
during the 2012 Cultural Olympiad
Festival to platform the skills of homeless
people from around the world.
Big Society Network
£6,000 to scope the range and focus for a
major new research project to identify
and compare innovative models of
community ownership and practical
forms of delivering community-led
services, including mutual and
cooperative models, across Europe. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon, and Paris Office.
Big Society Network
£20,000 towards the costs of a major new
research project to examine innovative
models of community formation and
ownership of local services, including
mutual and cooperative models, through
comparison across Europe, focusing on
practical forms of establishing local
community ownership and delivering
community-led services. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon, and Paris Office.
The Wheel
£20,000 to enable social enterprises and
voluntary non-profit organisations in
Portugal, England and Ireland to deliver
positive social impacts and outcomes for
the people they serve through adopting
an increased focus on
evaluation/measurement. Collaboration with Gulbenkian
Human Development Department,
Lisbon.
Image: O Sonho (The Dream), by Pedro Amaral, a chamber opera that re-imagines the story of Salome, is a powerful musical adaptation of an unfinished play by Fernando Pessoa. Commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and premiered in Lisbon and London in 2010. Photo: Kevin Leighton