WOMAD Foundation is the charitable arm of the WOMAD Festival. We provide grants up to £5000 to support those who use music, art and dance from all cultures as a catalyst for change. We seek to support projects where participants from different backgrounds, including those from marginalised groups, come together through collaboration, performance or other outcomes.
Past Projects
Dance Roots Africa
Swindon based Dance Roots Africa won a hard-fought competition between over fifty arts organisations across the UK to be selected for the WOMAD Foundation 40th Anniversary project.
Sounding Bath: Forest of imagination
The Forest of Imagination created the ‘Sounding Bath Project’ in Bath June 2019. This project was a collaboration between the composer Stevie Wishart and researcher Richard White which enabled people to engage with interactive sound-making on a guided walk through Bath.
Music for Wellness
Music for Wellness delivered six workshops at Davidson’s Mains Primary School in Edinburgh, featuring refugee musicians from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Chile.
‘Beyond Skin’ and ‘Heartbeat’
Uniting musicians in conflict areas, worldwide. In 2023 a collective of Palestinian and Israeli musicians, Heartbeat, played at Charlton Park. They talked about how music can create conversations in conflict areas.
Music Action International
WOMAD Foundation funding was used to deliver Harmonise – a national schools programme inspiring empathy between refugees and children from all backgrounds , improving wellbeing and fostering understanding.
AMJ and Toto La Momposina: Musical Adventure
The Foundation is proud to have supported an inspiring project organised by Astar Artes which is a collaboration between Toto La Momposina, AMJ Collective and Bristol schools, based at May Park Primary School.
