Could your community benefit from a grant of up to £10,000?
Big Lottery Fund and Watford Council for Voluntary Services are working together to bring you this free Awards for All Funding Fair.
Come to Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford on Wednesday 21st March to find out more about the Awards for All small grants programme and talk to lottery distributors and funded groups.
Call Miranda McCoy on 01223 449000 or send us an email to
regionevents.ea@biglotteryfund.org.uk for more details & to book a place on either the morning or afternoon session.
The Crafts Council has announced that it is seeking applications for funding through its Development Award scheme. The scheme is open to designer-makers who are about to set up their business in England, or who are within three years of doing so. The award is for a year and offers a maintenance grant of £2,500; equipment grants up to £5,000; a residential course in business training, aimed at small creative practices; 1,000 promotional postcards; and inclusion on the Crafts Council's Photostore online database. The deadlines for applications in 2007 are the 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and the 1st December.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/guide/ccda.html
The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts. Applications can be through the small awards programme for projects up to £30,000 or the large awards programme for projects over £30,000. The aim of the awards is to support arts projects that reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science. The next deadline for applications to the small awards programme is the 16th March 2007 and the 27th April for the large awards programme.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node2580.html
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced that the Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards 2007 are now open for application. Artists and craftspeople from all Commonwealth countries are encouraged to enter the awards, and from mid 2007 as many as ten winners will receive a grant of up to £8,000 to travel and study in another Commonwealth country. The Awards are built around two-way sharing. Award winners undertake a residency period with an artist or arts institution in their chosen country where they develop their artistic and personal skills, and share skills and knowledge with artists and the wider community from the host country. The closing date for applications is the 1st May 2007.
Please visit the Commonwealth Foundation website for further information.
The Greenheart Partnership is working with all the Hertfordshire local authorities, supported in partnership with the Arts Council England, East, to develop exciting new ways of working on community projects which call for the intervention of artists at an early stage.
They are looking for artists who are interested in:
* Developing innovative methods
* Creating high-quality end products
* Collaborating with professionals outside the arts
* Identifying the creativity and value in others
* Reaching the marginalised members of the community
If you would like to acquire the new skills involved, Greenheart offers bursaries, (expenses at £50 per day) which offer the opportunity for you to shadow a lead artist in an interdisciplinary team for 10 days as the project evolves.
For further details and to discuss your interest, contact: Sherry Dobbin, Projects Manager, Landscape+Arts Network Services. sherry@gunpowderpark.org, 01992 762 128
at Gunpowder Park, The Field Station, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3GP
An agency for artists wishing to tutor workshops in schools, marketing its database of innovative visual artists directly to schools across the East Anglia region & London.
From one day workshops to five day residencies, a wide variety of visual arts are represented - textiles, ceramics, photography, painting, drawing, kinetics, sculpture etc
Contact sarah@artistsinschools.co.uk or 01954 268013
for more details visit Artists services pages on http://www.commissionseast.org.uk/
or info@commissionseast.org.uk
Tel 01223 356882
St Giles Hall, Pound Hill, Cambridge,CB3 0AE
Mentoring, apply to work with a more experienced artist in a one-to-one mentoring relationship Escalator Visual Arts, selected artists benefit from financial investment, career development support & opportunites to show to new audiences,
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Essential Artists Training - EAT, developed by Commissions East and delivered with the support of Business Link for Cambridgeshire, EAT (Essential Artist Training) is tailored for visual artists. It will provide you with:
EAT is open to artists living or working in the East of England (Beds, Cambs, Essex, Herts, Norfolk and Suffolk). All the sessions are free, and will be held throughout 2007 in venues around the area. Note – there are plans to use venues in Hertfordshire.
For details visit our website or contact Business Link on 01480 846415
Grants for the arts is the national funding scheme for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work.
Grants normally range from £200 up to a total of £30,000 for
individuals, and up to £100,000 for organisations, and can cover activities lasting up to three years.
Most grants will be under £30,000. There are no deadlines
- you can apply at any time.
The documents you need to make an application are available to download from the Arts Council's website, http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/.
You will need to download the application guidance notes, as well as the application form. There are also specialised information
sheets which may be helpful for your project.
You can also phone to have an application pack sent to you, and for basic advice The ACE National Contact Centre. If you need more specialist or regional advice the Contact Centre staff will be able to transfer you to an appropriate person in your regional office.
You can also send in a draft of your application for a reading
– please allow a minimum of 3 weeks for feedback.
Information services - lottery roadshows and funding information days are hosted by the Joint Lottery Distributors:
For future locations and dates, contact ACE Contact Centre
Grants for the arts seminars: hosted by Arts Council East in Cambridge on a monthly basis, seminars are open to all prospective applicants.
Our Arts Development Officers guide those attending through the
aims of the scheme and the criteria used to assess applications.
To book places, please contact the ACE Contact Centre.
Arts Council East Contact Centre,
tel: 01223 454400, E: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk
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