CABE funding award
MADE has been awarded £53,000 in the CABE Regional Funding Programme for 2010-11.  The funding will support MADE’s activities in the West Midlands in 2010/2011 and is the third highest award in this funding round. The 2010/11 funding will support  MADE's education programme which includes involving students in the Building Schools for the Future process. The grant will also enable MADE to engage more people with its regional  Design Review service and to demonstrate the value of design review in improving quality of development in the West Midlands region. The funding is also targeted to MADE's work in assisting with the promotion and dissemination of  CABE's national standards: Building for Life and Manual for Streets.
 
Julia Ellis, Chief Executive of MADE, said: “CABE's Regional Programme Funding provides essential support to architecture centres across England. In 2010/11  it  will enable MADE to continue to increase opportunities for young people's involvement in the design of buildings and places and influencing the professionals to adopt a creative, and inclusive approach to place making in the West Midlands. The 2010/11 funding will support our education programme in a challenging economic climate. We look forward to working with CABE and with our other partners in the year ahead. Through education and engagement we will continue the delivery of our mission of improving the quality of life in the West Midlands by raising aspirations for excellent design in buildings and places.
 
Caroline Fraser, Head of regions at CABE, said: ‘What all these projects share is an ambition to inspire local demand for good design. We particularly like the way in which so many architecture centres have developed inspiring education programmes to involve young people with the spaces and places around them.’
 
The funding is part of £900,000 CABE is giving to 21 architecture and built environment centres across England for projects aligned with CABE’s core work: built environment education; promoting regional design review; and training for design and built environment professionals.
 
The regional funding programme has made awards since 2002 to help support and strengthen the centres. Applicants had to demonstrate that their proposal would increase public understanding and involvement in architecture and the built environment, and help create better designed buildings, spaces and places.