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The Imagine Collective

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community
london

Connects & supports local people, projects and ideas in the City of London.

About


The Imagine Fund

The Covid-19 pandemic prompted the Barbican Centre's Communities & Neighbourhoods Team to deepen their interaction with the surrounding area, forge new relationships and support its communities to create projects that would benefit the area and the lives of its residents. The Imagine Fund was developed out of this and offered 5 grants of £2000 and 5 grants of £500 to support local people to develop new ideas - creative, cultural or community based. All projects were welcome to apply and were judged by a panel of local representatives with a strong local interest.

We learnt a huge amount from this process and, building on this, we are excited to launch year 3 of the Imagine Fund.

Our team

Jacqueline Sw...

Core Contributor

Elena Symeou

Core Contributor

Jennifer Colwell

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Laura Rees

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Spare Ribs Club

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Leyla Tabrizi

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Aida Lahlou

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Jewellery Mak...

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Lula Mebrahtu

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Caroline Kennedy

Core Contributor

Madhumita Bose

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Marissa Mirel...

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Projects

Support the following initiatives from The Imagine Collective.

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An affordable film club with dynamic workshops and group discussions, supporting low-income and u...

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Founded by two POC queer women, WXMNS WORLD provides fitness & wellness workshops designed to cre...

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Creative workshops supporting underrepresented communities to spark conversations, raise awarenes...

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A survivor-led 12 month programme for those who have experienced domestic and sexual violence to ...

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A magazine reading group bringing people together to engage with local social issues. The group f...

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A local chess club at Portsoken Community Centre, encouraging community participation through tea...

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A drama and improvisation group at Golden Lane Estate community centre to support positive mental...

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Self-archiving & storytelling workshops to explore participants memory and identity through perso...

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Programme of music events, covering educational, social, performance and wellbeing areas. Aim is ...

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Fusing oral testimony of current residents with local, black-history narratives.

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Sustainable photography workshops for asylum seekers living in Barbican and Whitechapel.

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Discussion group on community, commons and collective action

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A series of creative workshops for diaspora from the Global South around climate awareness raisin...

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BGMIE's first networking event, at Soho House. Celebrating the accomplishments of black gay men i...

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Opera singer Caroline Kennedy will deliver a programme of personalised Operatic performances for ...

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The Golden Lane Jewellery Making Club is weekly, 3 hour evening class teaching local menopausal l...

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A show exploring what it takes to be a professional musician, from parental expectations to the c...

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Spare Ribs Club is a feminist book and supper club based in central London (SE1).

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A visual lexicon of life on Golden Lane Estate. With just five words each what will our word clou...

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A group for beginners/intermediates meeting regularly to share creativity and friendship while se...

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The Fidget Wrist Cuffs project creates fun, colourful and tactile sensory objects for children su...

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Creating a diverse, supportive and inclusive platform for community voices.

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10 sensory art workshops with the City Memory Group based at the Golden Lane Community Centre.

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Budget


Transparent and open finances.

Contribution #844045
Contribution #844045
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Today’s balance

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Total raised

£106,040.63 GBP

Total disbursed

£106,040.63 GBP

Estimated annual budget

£43,500.00 GBP