Who was WB Yeats? What makes him unique in twentieth-century world literature? And unique among so many Bedford Park writers & artists? 

And how does Conrad Shawcross RA‘s Yeats-inspired #EnwroughtLight, to be unveiled this summer, symbolise and celebrate progressive, aesthetic, multi-cultural, 19c Arts-&-Crafts Bedford-Park’s fostering of a Chiswick schoolboy from an Irish migrant family – a fostering that led to some of the world’s best-loved poems, to a Nobel Prize, and to Yeats’s status as Ireland’s national poet!

WB Yeats Bedford Park project leader, Cahal Dallat, conjures up the Bohemian/Utopian atmosphere that made Yeats a poet, explores the meanings of Shawcross’s dazzling Yeats/Bedford-Park vision and its significance at the gateway to Yeats’s boyhood London neighbourhood, and describes the visitor experience currently under development which will share Bedford Park’s unique history and Yeats’s poetry with the local community, future generations, and poetry/arts-lovers worldwide.

With readings from Yeats’s poems (and life) by poet Anne-Marie Fyfe. With music. Introduced by Fr. Kevin Morris. 

Ealing Council is pleased to launch a grant to develop a programme of community strength and balance provision for people in Ealing that will improve outcomes for people at risk of falls. This is a one-off funding opportunity that will run until 30 April 2023.

If you are interested in finding out more, the criteria and an application form are available

Please note that the closing date is 12 noon on Friday 22 April 2022.

The London Borough of Hounslow are hosting a market engagement event for the forthcoming procurement of the integrated Health & Wellbeing service. The event will enable providers to receive information about the Council’s commissioning intentions and share their thoughts, ideas, and feedback. There will also be an opportunity for organisations to network with each other.

The Council plans to offer a portfolio of services including physical activity, exercise on referral, smoking cessation, health and wellbeing coaching, weight management (children 5-18 years and adults 18 years and above), and community NHS Health Checks, within a single point of access delivery model. Individual organisations, partnerships, or consortia with experience in any of these areas are welcome to attend this engagement event, which will take place on 9th May 2022 from 11am to 4pm at Hounslow House.

To find out more and register for the event, please visit: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=150f7248-5fb6-ec11-8113-005056b64545&p=2241eb95-058a-e511-80f7-000c29c9ba21

BBC Children in Need, in partnership with the #iwill Fund and The Hunter Foundation, has announced they are delivering a £3million fund to support organisations to embed youth social action across the UK.

The BBC Children in Need Youth Social Action Fund will help to build children and young people’s confidence and skills and will empower them to take an active and leading role in developing solutions to issues which affect their lives and their communities. Social action involves activities such as influencing, fundraising and volunteering, all of which enable young people to make a positive difference in their communities as well as develop their own skills and knowledge.

The partnership has been made possible with thanks to £1,290,300 from the #iwill Fund (a £54 million joint investment between The National Lottery Community Fund and The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), £490,000 from The Hunter Foundation and £2,239,000 from BBC Children in Need.*

The fund is open to not-for-profit organisations who currently work with children and young people aged 18 and under and will help prevent or overcome the effects of the disadvantages that they face. Grants will be funded for up to 18 months, with an initial development phase of up to six months so that projects can design and develop their work with the help of the children and young people that they are working with.

For more information and dates for information sessions click here https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/grants/the-work-we-do/our-focussed-funding/youth-social-action-fund/

Information sessions will take place on the following dates:

5 April 10am
6 April 2.30pm
7 April 5.30pm
8 April 9.30am
11 April 12pm

The fund especially aims to reach:

· organisations who focus on addressing issues of disadvantage affecting children and young people

· children and young people who have some experience of social action and want to develop their skills and experience to do more.

· children and young people who have no experience of social action work at all but want to find out what it is all about.

Fozia Irfan, Director of Impact at BBC Children in Need said: “We are launching the Youth Social Action Fund alongside the #iwill Fund and The Hunter Foundation so that we can give children and young people the opportunity to make a positive difference and drive change in their communities and the world around them.

“Through youth social action, children and young people are able to use their voice and their lived experience to tackle subjects that affect them and matter to them. We encourage organisations who are interested to apply and find out more information through our website.”

Helen Whyman, Head of the #iwill Fund, said: “Thanks to National Lottery players and government funding, we are able to support the Youth Social Action Fund, ensuring young people have the opportunities to use their voice to make a real difference to the communities they live in, to their peers, and to the young people of the future.

“The work of the #iwill Fund has had an incredible impact on young people across England and this new funding will ensure that even more young people feel empowered to take an active role in driving positive change and ensuring their communities prosper and thrive.”

Sir Tom Hunter, founder of The Hunter Foundation said: “Putting the voice of young people at the heart of change is precisely right – too often policies and practices adopted to support young people are not tailored to their needs, this will empower their voices in impacting on delivering the right interventions to support them. As ever – ask the customer!”

The Youth Social Action Fund is one of two programmes being launched by BBC Children in Need focused on sharing power with children and young people. The second fund – the We Move Fund – will be especially aimed at Black-led organisations and organisations that work with Black children and young people and will open for applications in the coming weeks.

The #iwill Fund is made possible thanks to £54 million joint investment from The National Lottery Community Fund and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to support young people to access high quality social action opportunities. BBC Children in need is acting as a match funder and awarding grants on behalf of the #iwill Fund.

For more information on the Youth Social Action Fund and how to apply, please visit www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey.