Deadline: 25-Aug-21
Applications are now open for the Coventry City of Culture’s Access Grants to develop their practice, support organisations to grow and build new networks, and enable new ideas in preparation for the city’s year of celebrations to begin.
As part of these preparations, the Foundation has worked with the City of Culture Trust to manage a range of grant programmes that have supported many great ideas from groups and individuals across Coventry & Warwickshire.
Priority Area
Coventry and Warwickshire-based individuals or organisations, with a CV postcode will be prioritised. Activities must take place within a ‘CV’ postcode area.
Funding Information
The Access Grants has up to £1,000 grants available to support arts organisations or individuals to make their activities accessible to D/deaf, disabled and/or neurodiverse artists, audience members and participants.
Eligible Costs
Cost could cover:
- Access provisions eg. captioning, BSL Interpreters or Audio Description Services, Touch Tours
- Disability Equality Training for staff or individuals
- Disabled artists or participants
- Cover costs of an Access Consultant
- Accessible marketing formats eg. Braille, Easy Read’s or BSL videos
- Equipment purchases eg. ramps, audio description kits or captioning units
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is open to:
- Individual Creatives and Artists (or those working within an artistic / cultural setting)
- Registered Charities and Community Organisations
- Social Enterprises
- Non constituted groups
- To be eligible to apply you must be able to provide proof of:
- As an individual or un-constituted group Individual applicants will need to provide:
- Two referees
- A bank statement
- Proof of address
- The relevant insurances including Public Liability Insurance and Public or Professional Indemnity Insurance
- As an individual or un-constituted group Individual applicants will need to provide:
- As an organisation
- Your organisation / company has a management committee / board of Trustees / board of directors with at least three unrelated people as members, a list of those directors will be required showing who has bank authorisation
- A written constitution / articles / set of rules
- A copy of your most recent annual accounts or financial records showing your organisation’s balance of funds, income, and reserves
- A bank account in the name of the organisation with at least two unrelated signatories
- A bank statement from the last 3 months
- Copies of your safeguarding policy (if you will be working with children or vulnerable adults)
- Equal opportunities policy
- Quotes for capital items over £300
- Relevant Insurances & DBS checks if appropriate
Ineligible
They are unable to fund:
- Any project which is discriminatory in any way
- ‘Business as usual’ activity
- Projects without clear link or benefit to the communities of Coventry
- Existing activity, projects or events that are lacking core funding
- Projects that do not include a clear artistic element (i.e. sporting tournaments)
- Street parties
- Capital projects
- Self-publishing
- Campaigns
For more information, visit https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/coventry-2021-grants/