Five more years! RAT achieves multi-year funding to keep two regular programmes running
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- Aug 7
- 2 min read
Almost exactly a year after the first anniversary of RAT’s first ever core group session, we are squealing with excitement to share that we have been awarded funding from City Bridge Foundation - London’s biggest independent charity funder.
This funding guarantees the continuation of RATS!, our core group sessions - our monthly opportunities to check in with our post-traumatic community, share creative techniques for self-exploration and -expression, and co-create ideas for our future plans - for at least the next five years.
So there’s no better time to join us and find out what we’re about!
To give survivors who might be considering coming along and idea of what to expect, we’ve put this video together:
Our next session is this Sunday, 10th August. If you’d like to come, or if you’d like to register your interest for future sessions, it would help us if you could fill in this form. However, we know there are all sorts of reasons why you might not want to do that, so if you just want to rock up on the day, that’s fine too.
The funding also allows us to start a basic version of our upcoming professional development programme, RAT LAB, designed to support survivors who are putting together a theatre-based project aiming to make a difference in a topic that matters to them. We are treating this year as a pilot to learn precisely what survivors will find most useful in this programme, and will be starting on Sunday 24th August with an introduction to the considerations that go into building a lived experience-inspired theatre and/or arts project with an activist bent. Whether you already have some experience of making this kind of work, or have been trying to get something started for a while now, or wouldn't even know where to start but are curious and keen to learn, you are very welcome to join us.
Again, it would be useful if you could register your interest by filling in this form - but for at least the first session, you are welcome just to turn up if that works better for you. We'll be sending another blog post about it shortly.
This is a crucial moment for RAT and the survivor arts community. If you’re a survivor who believes in the power of theatre and arts to affect change, and want to be in community with others sharing ideas, we would love to have you with us as we shape our next five years together.
About City Bridge Foundation
London’s biggest independent charity funder.
Since 1995, the charity has awarded over £840 million to charitable organisations working to tackle inequality and injustice across London.
City Bridge Foundation has been bridging London and connecting communities for over 900 years. Its sole trustee is the City of London Corporation – the governing body for the Square Mile.
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