Deadline: 12-Jul-21
Coventry City Council is accepting applications now for its Arts project grants.
They have an objective to increase opportunities for residents to engage with arts and cultural activities, especially amongst those least likely to participate.
To support this objective, the Arts and Culture team has launched a grant scheme for organisations in the sector to deliver projects that will enable more Coventry residents to participate in the cultural life of the city in 2021-22.
Projects must engage with Coventry residents in one or more of the following groups:
- from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds
- have a disability
- living in one of the ten Coventry wards that have been identified in the Coventry Cultural Profiler as having the lowest level of participation in cultural activities which are: Binley and Willenhall, Cheylesmore, Earlsdon, Foleshill, Holbrooks, Longford, Radford, Upper Stoke, Wainbody and Westwood
Funding Information
- This fund has a total value of £75,000, with anticipated awards of between £5,000 and £12,000.
- Funding is available for projects that meet our strategic priority of increasing participation in cultural activities, especially among those who are already under-represented in the cultural life of Coventry.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects must:
- Be seeking funding from this grant programme that is between £5,000 and £12,000
- Be primarily focussed on engaging the public in arts or culture. This can be through a variety of means (including online and digital activity)
- Link to the council’s priorities in increasing participation in cultural activities for residents in one or more of the following groups: with a disability, from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background and/or living in an area where residents are least likely to participate in cultural activities as identified in the project brief.
- Be delivered by the end of March 2022
- Have a minimum of 20% of the project total match funded of which a least 5% of the project total must be cash match. (eg Project budget £10,000 requires £2,000 total match funding, of which a minimum of £500 would need to cash funding.)
- Involve professional artists.
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted not-for-profit organisations
- Must have a trading track record of at least twelve months.
- State arts or culture as a main objective within their official governance document or substantial experience of delivering arts or culture activity in the past 2 years.
- Be formally constituted in the UK and have their own bank account with at least two signatories (registered at different addresses).
For more information, visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/artsprojectgrants