IdeasTap Launch The Pay Debate - Pay Debate launched as IdeasTap survey reveals 91% of young artists have worked for free London 14 JAN: Creative network IdeasTap today published the results of their annual survey, which reveal that 91% of the 2,167 IdeasTap members who responded have worked for free at some stage in their career. Nearly three quarters of those who’d...
Ideas Fund Edinburgh 2013 - IdeasTap offer £25k & mentoring from the Roundhouse, HighTide and Bush Theatre to young theatre companies For the second year running IdeasTap are working with Underbelly and performing arts partners – including the Roundhouse, HighTide and The Bush Theatre - to take a season of IdeasTap members’ best work to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. £25k of cash will be given...
IdeasTap Launch Uni Fee Fund - Youth arts charity offers to wipe £11k from arts students’ debt Creative network IdeasTap, who are funded by the Peter De Haan Charitable Trust, are offering to wipe £9,000 off the student debt of one of its members. IdeasTap will award the ‘Uni Fee Fund’ to the person who offers the best creative contribution to...
IdeasTap hits 80,000 members - Creative network IdeasTap reaches 80,000 members Creative network IdeasTap, the online arts charity launched by PDHCT in late 2008, has reached 80,000 members. The milestone marks a year of growth for IdeasTap, which has added over 25,000 new members to its community over the year. IdeasTap’s partner programme, which works with leading arts organisations to create...
IdeasTap Photographic Award 2012 Finalists Announced - £1,500 Awarded to Six Finalists Earlier this month IdeasTap, the arts charity principally funded by the Trust, announced the shortlist of the 2012 IdeasTap Photographic Award. The announcement was made at a private viewing of the longlists’ work at The Flower Cellars in London’s Covent Garden. IdeasTap...
IdeasTap community reaches 75,000 members - Young creatives flock to charity offering career support This month online creative network IdeasTap reached the 75,000 member mark, signalling the increased demand for support for young people at the start of creative careers. In the last financial year IdeasTap saw its community nearly double,...
IdeasTap and the Roundhouse form creative partnership - IdeasTap and the Roundhouse form partnership to support emerging creatives Creative network IdeasTap and north London cultural venue the Roundhouse today formed a new partnership to support young artists at the start of their careers. The two arts charities are recognised as leaders in the UK youth arts sector and as partners will collaborate to...
Community Arts Project Supported by PDHCT Receives Award - Epidemic Wins RSPH Award Old Vic New Voices’ community musical EPIDEMIC has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society for Public Health Arts Award. EPIDEMIC was supported by The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust as part of our Community Welfare and Arts Programmes. Staged in May 2012, EPIDEMIC explored the themes of public health, mental health and...
Peter De Haan Awarded Rothschild Medal - UK Wildlife Trusts Recognise Peter De Haan for ‘outstanding contribution’ to nature conservation Peter De Haan has been awarded The Rothschild Medal by The Wildlife Trusts in recognition of the outstanding contribution he has made to nature conservation over the last eight years. The support provided by De Haan has enabled an extraordinary range of...
IdeasTap and Sky Arts give £90k to Young Creatives - Sky Arts Ignition Futures Fund: Round two winners announced Sky Arts and IdeasTap have announced that Lawrence Payot, Drew Roper and Felix Mortimer are the latest winners of the Sky Arts Ignition Futures Fund. They each receive £30,000 to support their career and develop a creative project in the next year. The second round...
2012 IdeasTap Photographic Award Launched - Magnum Photos and IdeasTap launch new opportunities for emerging photographers Magnum Photos and IdeasTap open annual £20k Photographic Award Magnum Showcase in association with IdeasTap provides new monthly competition IdeasTap offer more bursary places for Magnum Professional Practice seminars Winners of 2011 IdeasTap Photographic Award Announced Internationally renowned photography agency Magnum Photos and leading creative...
The PDHCT 2012 Showreel - View highlights of projects funded by the Trust in recent years and find out more about how we work and the impact we’re having in the The PDHCT 2012 Showreel 
Peter De Haan and IdeasTap named in Britain’s 50 New Radicals - NESTA and The Observer identify De Haan & IdeasTap in Britain’s 50 New Radicals In partnership with the Observer, and using an expert panel of judges, NESTA have identified 50 people and organisations who are changing Britain for the better; those applying fresh approaches in practical and scalable ways, through social, technological, scientific and artistic methods. Peter De...
New Voices Edinburgh 2012 - Financial Support for Young People Staging Productions at Edinburgh Fringe IdeasTap have teamed up with Old Vic New Voices and Underbelly, to present five new plays at an Underbelly venue at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Successful applicants will be offered expert technical and marketing support and an ideal opportunity to get their work seen...
The 24 Hour Plays OVNV 2011 Supported by IdeasTap - IdeasTap Supports Most Successful OVNV 24hr Plays Ever In October 2011, thirty-one actors, seven directors, seven producers and seven writers staged the Old Vic New Voices (OVNV) 24 Hour Plays, sponsored by IdeasTap. You can read a report on the most successful 24 Hour Plays ever and its impact here Peter De Haan, IdeasTap Chairman “The way...
PDHCT funded IUCN Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands published - International Union for the Conservation of Nature Publish Peatlands Report The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published a Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands, which brings together experts in science, policy and practice to carry out a thorough review of key peatland issues. The report delivers a clear scientific consensus about peatland...
PDHCT awards LRWT grant to improve freshwaters - Grant to improve Freshwater in Rutland Water Nature Reserve The Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust has been awarded a grant from the Peter De Haan Charitable Trust for a project that will improve and enhance the quality of key areas of freshwater at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. This will be achieved through a careful...
IdeasFund Innovators offers £10,000 for 10 new creative ideas - PDHCT Funds Youngsters Bright Ideas Ideas Fund Innovators is IdeasTap’s funding scheme open to16-25 year-olds from all creative disciplines, all year round. If you’re aged between 16-25 and have a creative project that could do with a cash injection, this is the fund for you. IdeasTap are offering 10 projects £1,000 each to help get... Magnum Professional Practice Seminars in Birmingham - Professional Photography Seminars Subsidized by PDHCT Thanks to the ongoing success of IdeasTap’s partnership with renowned photography agency Magnum Photos, they’re offering photographers in the IdeasTap community another career-changing opportunity. IdeasTap have 10 heavily subsidised places to give away on Magnum’s next two-day Professional Practice seminar in Birmingham on 3 and 4 December 2011. This opportunity is...
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The Sidney De Haan Research Award into Vascular Dementia. - Age UK’s Disconnected Mind Campaign benefits from Sidney De Haan Research Award from PDHCT One of the most burdensome and feared aspects of old age is the threat of deterioration of cognitive skills, like memory, reasoning and other aspects of thinking. People who experience mental deterioration are less able to look after themselves and have...