Deadline: 21-Nov-22
The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is accepting applications for the Community Arts Fund supported by Ulster People’s College.
Objectives
- To support grassroots communities and those most marginalised, through engagement in community arts, culture and heritage projects and creative industries.
- To support community education and development that is aimed at tackling the challenges of social and economic disadvantage and overcome cultural and political division through the arts
- To help organisations and communities supporting vulnerable people, to use arts, culture and heritage, to #build back better; ensuring organisations and individuals thrive and continue to provide longer-term support to communities in need
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Projects should be seeking £2,000 towards community led responses that will:
- Enhance existing community services and activities that support engagement in arts, culture and heritage for marginalised communities and communities of interest
- Support innovation and creativity for those community organisations who support vulnerable people through engagement in the arts, culture and heritage
- Encourage collaboration and strengthen collaborative responses to issues affecting those most marginalised in Northern Ireland, in particular those with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community, black, asian and ethnic minorities, and those most at risk, including those suffering from domestic violence, and those living in poverty, rural communities, through arts, culture and heritage activity
Funding Information
To celebrate Giving Tuesday 2022 the Community Foundation intend to make 8 awards of £2,000.
Eligible Projects
- Pilot projects supporting grassroots communities and/or people with disabilities, to engage in the arts, culture or heritage. This might include craft classes, flower arranging, drama workshops, promotion of language and heritage, and participation in theatre productions
- Community theatre productions
- Projects that support rural access to the arts
- Youth art projects
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted organisations with charitable purposes, operating within Northern Ireland
Ineligible
- They are unable to fund organisations whose purposes include the advancement of religion
- Individuals
- Trips outside Northern Ireland, and holidays away
- Funding for retrospective project costs
- Organisations whose purposes or activities include advancement of religion
- Organisations which adopt a partisan political stance or activities which are party political
- CIC Companies Limited by Shares, or CICs without an asset lock clause. Eligible CICs must have at least three unrelated committee members, and/or the majority of the committee unrelated
- One-off conferences or workshops, as it is difficult to demonstrate what impact such events are likely to achieve
For more information, visit Community Foundation Northern Ireland.
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/community-arts-fund-supported-by-ulster-peoples-college/