Deadline: 7-Dec-21
The Arts Council is pleased to announce Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) Grant Program to support individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.
The immediate beneficiary is you, and people will be able to engage with your work at a later date as a result of your grant.
Funding Information
This programme will give individuals the opportunity to apply for £2,000 to £10,000, to take a dedicated period of time to focus on their own cultural and creative development, and take them to the next stage in their practice.
What can you apply for?
- Activities can be up to one year in length.
- Some examples of things you can apply for are:
- building new networks for future development/presentation of work
- creating new work
- experimenting with new collaborators or partners
- international travel to explore other practice or work with mentors
- professional development activities
- research and development time to explore practice and take risks
- taking time to reflect on the impact of Covid-19 on your practice and practical steps to support your work to be more sustainable in future
Activities
- Research and development opportunities
- building new networks
- creating new work.
Eligibility Criteria
- They can support creative practitioners doing work related to the supported artforms and disciplines.
- Listed below are some examples of what they mean by creative practitioner. If you don’t see yourself in this list, get in touch and they can let you know if your practice is something they can support.
- Dancers, choreographers, writers, translators, producers, publishers, editors, musicians, conductors, composers, actors, directors, designers, artists, craft makers, curators, DJs, performer/creators, arts and cultural educators, community practitioners/engagement specialists, movement directors, cultural conservators, creative enablers, creative technicians.
- DYCP can’t support performers whose existing or planned way of working is to perform someone else’s work without providing creative input or leadership.
- Anyone who applies to Developing your Creative Practice needs to:
- apply as an individual, or as a small group of practitioners who usually collaborate in their work. Organisations cannot apply, and individuals cannot apply on behalf of an organisation
- be based within (live in) England
- have a UK bank account in the exact name they’re applying in (if you apply as a small group of practitioners, one person should submit the application and take the lead on managing the grant, and should provide their bank details)
- be at least 18 years old
- have one years’ creative practice experience outside a formal education context
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/DYCP