Better Bankside ebrief, FEBRUARY 2006 |
CSR Group makes new grants
BRF, Southwark Playhouse, Southwark Mysteries among beneficiaries. Better Bankside's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) group has continued to form new partnerships with leading community and artistic organisations. In December the group made a grant of £9,500 to Bankside Residents Forum, to assist Better Bankside in sustaining its relationship with the residential community in the area. Specifically, the BRF will 1) give Better Bankside regular updates on local planning and development issues; 2) ensure that Better Bankside remains fully 'in touch' with the life of its local community; 3) assist Better Bankside in its communications with that community. At the same meeting in December, the group agreed a grant of £6,000 to Southwark Playhouse to fund the 14 daytime performances of 'Macbeth' - the Playhouse's annual 'Shakespeare for Schools' production. These performances have since been offered free to schools throughout Lambeth and Southwark. The group had previously supported the education programme attached to the promenade performance of 'The Canterbury Tales' earlier in the year. Since Christmas, the group has agreed two further grants - £3,000 to Emma Brooker, in association with London South Bank University, for a pilot 'Local and Family History Writing' project. Through four Saturday-morning workshops at the Southwark Local History Library in May, the project seeks to introduce primary school-age children and their families to the huge resources which exist for local and family history research. The children will then be encouraged to write their own stories, and to have them published on a new, dedicated website. At the January meeting the group also agreed to fund the first stages in the development of a new production of the Southwark Mystery Plays cycle, possibly to take place in 2010. The previous production of the Plays took place at Shakespeare's Globe and Southwark Cathedral in 2000, at which time MP Simon Hughes said that he hoped it might become a 'regular' occurrence rather in the style of Germany's Oberammergau. Local businesses - among them PriceWaterhouseCoopers - were among the first sponsors last time round. Better Bankside's grant of £5,000 will allow the Mysteries' artistic director, John Constable, to meet with all those who might facilitate another production, and to run a 'launch' event in the autumn, provisionally scheduled for Wednesday October 11th.
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