The Big Idea from Paul Hamlyn Foundation

• Theatre and Drama
• music
• Dance

What’s The Big Idea?, launched in 2003, focuses on developing and supporting projects that give young people in Northern Ireland the opportunity to develop their creative potential.

Over the next year or so, until April 2006, What’s the Big Idea? aims to seek out and encourage projects that are developmental, risk-taking and have the potential for the greatest impact. Through the Foundation’s advisers on the ground, it will facilitate projects that aim to inspire young people to explore their creative potential and their relationship to the wider world, through high impact, long-term engagement with accomplished professionals from the creative sector.

For further details please contact the Foundation's advisers in Northern Ireland, Shona McCarthy and Frances Cassidy on: tel: 028 9077 3499 email: phfenquiries@rubyblue.org.uk

Greater Shankill Partnership (February 2004) - £62,000. The Foundation is supporting a long term public art project with the Shankill Partnership Board in Belfast.

Making Music Workshop (January 2004) - £29,250. Making Music Workshop was established in 1999 by a team of professional musicians.

Kids in Control (January 2004) - £23,840. Kids in Control is a specialist physical theatre and dance company, working with young people who have fallen outside formal education or who are coming out of the care or justice systems.