Deadline: 11-Jun-21
The Arts Council England invites applications for its Creative People and Places programme that focuses on parts of the country where involvement in arts and culture is significantly below the national average.
Their vision for Creative People and Places is to support the public in shaping local arts and cultural provision and, in so doing, to increase attendance and participation in excellent art and culture. This investment will encourage longterm collaborations between local communities, arts organisations, museums, libraries, amateur groups, the voluntary sector and others.
It aims to support new and different approaches to developing cultural programmes that deliver excellent experiences, genuinely engage people in shaping provision and involve a variety of partners.
Aims
The central aims of the fund are:
- To empower communities to take the lead in shaping and/or co creating local cultural provision
- To regularly engage more people from the identified places so they can experience, create and be inspired by arts and culture, both as audiences and/or participants
- For both the process of engaging communities and the art and culture itself to be excellent
- To learn from past experiences (including learning from the current Creative People and Places programme) and create an environment where the arts and cultural sector can experiment with innovative approaches to engaging communities
- To learn more about how to establish sustainable and relevant arts and cultural opportunities and make this learning freely available across the cultural sector
- To encourage partnerships across the subsidised, amateur, voluntary, and commercial sectors as well as collaborations across community, arts organisations, museums and libraries
- To demonstrate the power of arts and culture to enrich the lives of individuals and make positive changes in communities
- To enable cultural activity that is radically different from what has happened before in the eligible places, prior to any Creative People and Places programme
- Where possible and appropriate, to maximise digital opportunities for cultural engagement and empowering the public
Funding Information
- Investment of £750,000-£1 million is available to projects to run for a three-year period.
- Activities must start 1 April 2022.
- Activities must end 31 March 2025.
Outcomes
Alongside the central aims of the fund as outlined above, the programme is driven by three key questions:
- Are more people from places of least engagement regularly experiencing and inspired by arts and culture?
- To what extent is the aspiration for excellence of art and culture and excellence of the process of engaging communities achieved?
- What approaches are successful and what are we learning?
Who can apply?
- Applications must be made by a lead applicant on behalf of a consortium for eligible places only.
- Only specific areas in England can apply for this funding – those with the lowest levels of engagement in arts and culture.
- Existing Creative People and Places consortia can apply to this round, as well as new groups of organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-people-and-places/creative-people-and-places-2022-25-joining-national-portfolio
