The Lund Fund

More than a Teacher

As this selection of photographs shows, alongside his English teaching, and his achievements as University College School’s jazz and comedy impresario, David Lund also brought distinguished visiting speakers to the school – including Harold Wilson and Glenda Jackson – and devoted a great deal of energy to the charitable activities that UCS called Voluntary Service.

David Lund always encouraged pupils to help raise funds for the local community and would don shorts and trainers for the annual charity fun run.

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“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

Maya Angelou

THE DIFFERENCE YOUR FUNDS MAKE

Every penny, pound or gift you donate helps young people in a number of ways.

Lund Fund donations directly support the delivery of artist-led workshops in the most deprived neighbourhoods across London and the UK. Your donations work in many ways including the following:

£50 enables Eastside to offer a bursary to a student on one of our films and digital media courses, supporting travel, childcare or other costs that may be a barrier to participation
£250 enables a school to join Eastside Online, our digital platform giving free access to schools across the country to high quality creative educational videos, lesson plans and live-streamed artist-led workshops for students and teachers.
£1000 enables us to run spoken word poetry workshops for schools that have never had access to artist lead creative learning opportunities
£10,000 enables 5 schools to have a fully subsidised place on our Creative Schools programme, a long term whole school artist in residence initiative engaging up to 900 students and upskilling the whole teaching team in creative learning
£50,000 enables us to run a year-long development programme for up to 60 diverse young aspirant filmmakers drawn from the most deprived communities, giving them the tools and platform to create the films that matter to them and a pathway to enter the industry.

In addition, Eastside uses the Lund Fund as vital match funding to help us leverage much bigger grants from trusts and foundations thereby helping us scale up our creativity to offer to young people across the country and beyond.

Dave Lund’s generous legacy gift has already created a truly significant impact on thousands of young lives across the country.

For example, in 2019, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Eastside bid to the Arts Council England to run a national spoken-word poetry project reaching the most disadvantaged young people across the country and beyond. The Lund Fund gift, offered as match funding in the bid, unlocked £110,000 of funding from the Arts Council to make this incredible project a reality. Over 3,100 young participants from 82 schools across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, France, Spain and Nigeria took part to generate 1100 new spoken word poems which can be found in the wonderful I know I wish I will book.

Watch the I know I wish I will trailer here, find out more about the whole project here.

Eastside is proud to have committed a further £10,000 of Lund Fund resource as match funding in a bid to secure 3 more years of precious funding from the Arts Council England (value £310,000) to extend our incredible spoken word work with young people across the nation in a new project entitled WORD POWER due to start Autumn 2021.

Watch this space for further updates.

For all of these remarkable achievements, we say ‘Thanks a million Dave! ‘