Bursary Recipients

2025 Bursary for Artists Recipients

To date, we have awarded sixteen £2,500 Bursaries to Artists. Run across nine months, these bursaries aim to support artists to engage children and young people across East Anglia, deliver projects to various communities and to help develop the artists’ socially engaged and/or community practice.

Applications for 2026 Bursaries will open in September 2025.

Recipient: Danny Braverman
Location: Suffolk

A Lifetime Achievement Award winner for Drama, I have worked extensively with young people, and with organisations like Theatre Royal Stratford East, Battersea Arts Centre and Spare Tyre. My critically acclaimed solo show Wot? No Fish!! toured globally and won the Brian Way Playwriting Award. My Norfolk & Norwich Festival bursary project will generate a new interactive play through workshops with young people in East Anglia.

Recipient: Kaitlin Ferguson
Location: Norfolk

My socially engaged arts practice explores climate change and the Anthropocene, aiming to reconnect people with nature through art. For the Bursaries for Artists, I will create a set of 3D-printed fossils for a local primary school using sustainable materials and lead in-school workshops blending art, science, and technology to explore East Anglia’s geological heritage.

Recipient: Amy Wragg
Locations: Ipswich

I am an events producer, spoken word expert, and zine maker based in Ipswich. At the end of 2024 I formed ‘SoapBox Spoken Word CIC’ – the first organisation of its kind in the East – to support the burgeoning community in the region. I am passionate about gender parity, empowerment, and tackling socio-economic barriers to participation in the arts. The Bursary will fund and support a series of spoken word sessions with young people from Ipswich.

Recipient: Sara Moreira
Location: Great Yarmouth

My name is Sara, and I am a community artworker, artist, and singer based in Great Yarmouth. I enjoy working with children and families, and my goal is to introduce Afro-Portuguese songs to diverse communities in the UK. I aim to promote awareness of multicultural music through nurseries, schools, and community organizations.

I believe that music is a universal language that connects all cultures, allowing us to communicate without words. Through this project proposal, I seek to teach new songs to children and families while sharing my vision and encouraging everyone to learn and discover together.

Recipient: Tom Roden
Location: Cambridge

I will lead a Stand-Up Comedy ‘Boot Camp’ for ages 16-21, culminating in a celebratory open mic performance at Cambridge Junction – one of the region’s leading stand-up comedy venues. The workshop will take place in a supportive environment with a community of young people who can learn from, understand and empathise with each other’s experiences. A safe space to talk about life and art via stand-up comedy and theatre practice, this will be a joyful and transformative project that will help support young people with skills and knowledge to take forward into the world. The process will be supported by artist, facilitator and co-director of Anatomical, Anna Williams.

Recipient: Moira Millman
Location: Fenland

I am an artist, illustrator and community arts practitioner based in the Cambridgeshire Fens. My project will run in partnership with the Wisbech and Fenland Museum and will offer creative workshops for local young people. The workshops will take inspiration from the Museum’s wonderful collection of vintage packaging and ephemera to create a new display of imaginary brands and products.

Recipient: The Nest Project (Bekah Boone and Claire Gebbett)
Location: Norfolk

Bekah Boone and Claire Gebbett run The Nest Project, an organisation committed to socially engaged art practice.  Using natural and recycled materials, we create collaborative installations with communities to foster nature-connection and wellbeing.  Bekah’s work explores memory, identity, neurodivergence and mental health, Claire is interested in the intersections between the human/more-than-human and representation of disabled bodies. Through the bursary we will be delivering workshops exploring these areas, that are accessible for deaf children. Bekah is an alumni of NUA with a Masters in Art & Education and Claire is currently studying MA Fine Art at Falmouth University.

Recipient: Dougie Evans
Location: Norwich

In collaboration with Bootworks Theatre, I am embarking on an exciting project that puts primary-aged children at the heart of the creative process. Through a series of three workshops at a local junior school, children will become writers, artists, and composers, shaping the foundations of a unique theatre show.

2024 Recipients

Recipient: Florencia Nannetti
Location: Cambridge

Florencia has partnered with Cambridge-based community organisations to offer migrants, aged 16 years+ in Cambridgeshire the opportunity to participate in a series of movement workshops. The facilitated sessions offered individuals the chance to connect with others and develop or articulate their stories in a creative and safe environment.

Recipient: Hannelore Smith
Location: North Norfolk

Hannelore partnered with Sheringham Museum to offer over a dozen workshops with young people aged 14-19 years. The sessions provided an outlet for young people to explore their connection with place in tandem with their local heritage, and were able to examine different historical pieces involving mental health, disability, classism, gender division, rural poverty, and enslavement. The workshops culminated in the young people’s takeover of the museum – a public event celebrating their engagement.

Recipient: Jack Wilkin
Location: Peterborough

Jack partnered with The Kite Trust to offer local LGBTQIA+ young people workshops testing different performance games and activities designed to catalyse their connection with place as well as one another. The sessions were designed as a pilot to test creative interventions, and through consultation with participating young people, Jack developed an engagement framework focused on young people aged 14 years+.

Recipient: Johann Don-Daniel
Location: Norfolk and Suffolk

Johann worked with two secondary schools to provide three workshops exploring decolonisation via the lens of shape, sculpture, drawing, collage, and text, ultimately reordering tangible materials and objects to represent a utopian society in the form of public art.

Recipient: Kara Jarrold and Rachel Sedgwick
Location: Suffolk

Kara and Rachel used the bursary to work with an Ipswich primary school and their Year 5, nursery, and reception pupils to co-create playscapes, structures, and sensory provocations suitable for under-fives, culminating in a series of play sessions with the students and their families.

Recipient: Kate Flurrie
Location: Ipswich

Kate partnered with local community groups in Ipswich to work with young people dealing with mental health stressors the opportunity to co-create a piece exploring what Ipswich means to them via film and digital mediums.

Recipient: Rosa Torr
Location: King’s Lynn

Rosa worked closely with young people in King’s Lynn to create an outreach toolkit, including a workshop plan and podcast, for touring theatre companies striving to engage young people in the East of England.

Recipient: Rose Feather and Zannie Fraser
Location: Norwich

Rose and Zannie piloted a collaboration between themselves and New Routes Integration – a refugee organisation based in Norwich – to offer young refugees, asylum seekers and their families a series of sessions in which they created short stories, puppets, mini shows, visual art, and ultimately a publication.