The City of Cape Town is extending funding via its Performing Arts Working for Youth at Risk and Street Children Programme to NGOs and organisations that care for street children and youth at risk.

The programme provides funding to equip participating youths with a range of skills in dance, music, circus and backstage logistical and technical skills. It also covers the cost of any logistical arrangements necessary to ensure that participants attend training sessions and provides for ongoing developmental support to assist in creating and maintaining a stable and consistent environment for them.

To access the funding, such organisations will need to be in a local network of care (LNOC) and sign a collaboration arrangement with the City to provide the youths in their care with access to the programme.

The programme aims to build participants’ self confidence and equip them with the necessary skills to find employment in the performing arts and its related industries. Adults involved in teaching the skills will serve as positive role models to the youth, and it is hoped that the impetus created by the programme will help establish a ‘new, self sustaining community’ in the performing arts with its own support base.

The funding will not cover administration, operational/input or running costs, capital expenditure or previously incurred expenditure.

The City aims for the project, which is ongoing, to serve as a working model for the formation of future partnerships between the City, the Provincial Government, NGOs, the private sector and individuals and organisations across the arts and culture sector.

Applicants must submit a completed Grant-in-Aid application form together with a Business Plan by 17 December to: Projects, Strategy and Support Department, Ground Floor, Paul Sauer Building, 1 Adderley Street, Cape Town.

Application forms are available for collection at the same address.

Enquiries may be directed to Monica Cleinwerck, tel 021 400 9521, e-mail monica.cleinwerck@capetown.gov.za 

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