AESOP
AESOP (Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose), which trains professional dancers to deliver routines designed to prevent falls among the elderly.
AESOP’s (Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose) vision is of a future when arts solutions for society’s problems are valued and available for all who need them. Currently the organisation is focused on the health and social care sectors.
In 2015, the Foundation awarded AESOP a grant of £91,880 over one year towards the early development of its flagship Dance to Health initiative - an older people’s falls prevention programme, combining evidence-based physiotherapy with the creativity and energy of dance.
The grant was used to support the codification of the practice; the evaluation work and the Research and Development for the next stage of the project.
The following sustainable model was developed and piloted as a result of this support:
In 2016, the Foundation a second grant of £31,472 towards three pilot Maintenance Programmes that would take place in Abingdon, Banbury and Southend.