Deadline: 14-Jul-23
Applications are now open for the Cultural Education and Learning Support Fund to deliver cultural education and learning projects that promote engagement in free to access high-quality cultural experiences in the borough through grants of up to £25,000 cash per project.
Priority Aims
- To increase participation and engagement in cultural experiences in Camden by children and young people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds
- To create more accessible opportunities for learning, career pathways and talent development
- To nurture and cultivate sustainable delivery models embedded within cultural organizations.
Priority Outcomes for Camden’s Children and Young People
- More children and young people will have opportunities to experience and participate in the arts, particularly those who currently do not engage in arts and culture projects
- More creative projects in schools and youth settings
- Cultural projects that are informed and influenced by children and young people and address their needs and interests
- Projects create opportunities for career pathways in the cultural and creative sectors or ignite an interest in developing a career in the arts and culture sector
- Participants learn new creative skills and gain knowledge and confidence to seek and access cultural experiences, training and mentoring
- Participants benefit through personal enrichment and wellbeing from participating in arts and cultural activities.
Priority Outcomes for Camden’s Cultural Organisations
- Projects will have a reach beyond organisations’ current established audiences and will engage children and young people from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds who may currently experience barriers to participation
- Organisations will have an ongoing strategy for sustaining engagement with newly engaged children and young people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds beyond the life of the project
- Organisations will have developed deeper relationships across school, community and youth settings and a clearer understanding of local needs, to inform future delivery
- Organisations will embed learning from this project into their audience strategy to strategically nurture diverse audiences going forward, including both community outreach and on-site participation at cultural venues.
Funding Information
- The fund will run from June 2023 to March 2026 and will open for applications across 3 funding rounds, with a total pot of £100,000 available within each round. Organisations can apply in all 3 rounds, however projects cannot run concurrently and the maximum combined grant total across all 3 rounds will be £45,000 per organisation.
Project Eligibility
- What type of projects can I apply for?
- The project must have a strong creative/cultural/arts element, and can include (but is not restricted to) the following:
- Workshops or performances at your venue or in a school, youth provision setting or community setting
- Visits to your venue (e.g. to view an exhibition)
- Online projects
- Events, performances or festivals co-produced with or for young people
- Continued Professional Development (CPD) / training for staff in Camden maintained schools, youth centres and community organisations (with a demonstrated link to outcomes for children and young people)
- Creation of new learning resources (print or digital) with a strategy for how these will be shared/used and by whom.
- The project must have a strong creative/cultural/arts element, and can include (but is not restricted to) the following:
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund is open to Camden-based cultural organisations (including Private Limited Companies, Public Limited Companies, Unlimited Companies, registered charities, CICs and CIOs) with a track record of delivering arts and cultural projects for children and young people in school or community settings in the borough.
For more information, visit Cultural Education and Learning Support Fund.