Deadline: 06-Jul-20
The Art Fund is inviting applications for the Respond and Reimagine Grants Program with an aim to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the Covid-19 crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working for the future.
This programme has been developed in response to the sector consultation which identified the priority areas for support: Audiences, Collections, Digital and Workforce. You told them what you needed; this is the funding to support you and your ideas as they adapt together.
Art Fund will fund
The Art Fund will consider funding projects that meet the overall aim and connect to at least one of the four priority areas for support.
The Fund have listed some of the outcomes they might expect from funded projects in the short to medium term, but this is not an exhaustive list. In your application the main thing to think about is how your idea or project activity connects to a priority area or areas.
The priority areas for support are:
- Audiences: The Fund wants you to connect with audiences now (including online) and be supported to encourage visitors to return as they reopen, including helping manage the practical and financial challenges of changes to access and operations. Possible outcomes might include:
- Your core audiences remain engaged and return when you re-open
- You will have the opportunity to engage new audiences online or in person
- You will be able to understand any changes to your audience profile, and develop new strategies in response
- Your organisation will be better equipped to manage changes to visitor access and operations
- Collections: The Fund wants to support the future of your collections through exhibition programming, touring and research; safeguarding collections at risk and helping you adapt and improve how collections are managed and cared for. Possible outcomes might include:
- Your museum will better understand your collections through research, and through this activity will be able to continue previously planned, or plan new activities such as exhibitions
- You will be able to identify and safeguard collections at risk; for collections, including those not at risk, you will have the opportunity to improve how they are managed and cared for
- Your collection will be strengthened through collecting or commissioning works of art and objects related to the COVID-19 crisis or other contemporary societal shifts
- Your organisation will be able to ensure that collections-based skills continue to be supported
- Digital: The Fund wants to support you to develop adaptable digital skills and the infrastructure needed to open-up collections and reach new and existing audiences online, now and in the future. Possible outcomes might include:
- Your organisation will be supported in creating engaging digital content
- Your organisation will gain improved digital skills or infrastructure
- You will have the opportunity to be more experimental in your use of digital, moving beyond promotional activity to developing audiences and relationships
- Your organisation will be able to increase income raised through online activities
- Workforce: The Fund wants to support you and your colleagues, as an expert and passionate workforce, through a period of uncertainty and change, and encourage collaboration and the sharing of resources and expertise. Possible outcomes might include:
- Your organisation’s staff or volunteers feel confident to adapt to new ways of working
- You will be able to enhance, contribute to or participate with new and existing professional networks
Funding Information
Respond and Reimagine Grants offer grants from £10,000 to £50,000. They will consider 100% funding.
Eligibility Criteria
Art Fund is happy to receive applications from UK public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries and archives that:
- ordinarily have spaces for the public to visit and experience the visual arts or other object-based collections. This could include natural history, maritime and transport, archaeology and social history.
- can demonstrate that you usually operate to best practice standards or have a good track record in delivering high quality public activity.
If you are an organisation that is a visual arts agency or festival, they will be happy to hear from you providing you can meet the above and have a strong visual arts focus. Sadly, they can’t support theatre, music, dance or other art forms.
For more information, visit https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/programmes/respond-and-reimagine-grants
