Deadline: 23-Feb-22
The Leeds Community Foundation is offering grants under “Mohn Westlake Arts Engagement Fund” to support projects engaging with:
- young people up to the age of 20; and/or
- young people up to the age of 25 with disabilities
Art and the arts a can be defined in a number of ways. In this case they define art and the arts in a broad sense to include a range of activities including but not limited to; film and graphic design, slam poetry, graffiti or DJing. Please see a list of various Arts forms, please note this is not a comprehensive list:
- Visual Arts – This includes painting, sculpture, photography, art galleries and film
- Combined Arts – This includes festivals, carnivals, and multidisciplinary arts.
- Literature – This includes poetry, fiction, Libraries, life writing (recording of memories, and experiences), spoken word and other forms of creative writing.
- Dance – This includes Contemporary, Modern, Hip hop and Ballet amongst various other forms of Dance.
- Music – This includes Vocal and Instrumental, song writing and performance
- Theatre – This includes plays, musicals, pantomime, performance art, contemporary theatre
Funding Information
- The minimum grant request is £2,500. The maximum is £30,000. Applicants can apply for funding for one, two or three years, and can apply for £2,500-£10,000 per year. The grant can be used to part-fund or fully-fund a wide range of activities.
- Two or three-year grants will be released in yearly payments subject to satisfactory interim reporting.
- Priority will be given to organisations with an income of under £500,000 where a grant of up to £10,000 can make a significant difference.
What can the Fund support?
Leeds Community Foundation is committed to making Leeds a city where everyone can experience and play, and alongside The Mohn Westlake Foundation see the value in engaging young people to experience art. They are keen to see some of the following themes and outcomes from this Fund and projects should meet at least one of the following:
- Increased exploration and expression of identity and self, using art and the arts
- Increased collaboration between traditional and non-traditional arts institutions across Leeds
- Partnership working between third sector organisations focussing on arts engagement for young people
- Increased awareness of the range of arts and cultural offer within the city amongst young people
- Increase in the number of visits to arts and civic institutions by young people
- Increase participation in ongoing arts provision by young people
Eligibility Criteria
Incorporated community groups such as CIOs, CICs and charitable companies from the third sector that:
- Are registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutuals Public Register (FCA)
- Have a constitution or other relevant governance document
- Have a management committee/board of directors/trustees of at least three unrelated people, none of whom have significant control
- A copy of your most recent annual accounts or financial records showing your organisation’s balance of funds, income and reserves.
- Have a bank account under the name of the group with at least two unrelated signatories
- Are based in or supporting people living in the Leeds Metropolitan District Area
- Have a Children and Young People Safeguarding Policy and an Equal Opportunities Policy or similar
- If organising or running public events, festivals etc groups will be expected to have relevant insurance and comply with all required health and safety, food handling/preparation and other local and national statutory regulations for such activity.
For more information, visit https://www.leedscf.org.uk/grants/the-mohn-westlake-arts-engagement-fund/
