Deadline: 13-Sep-21
The Mighty Creatives (TMC) has announced the Digital Development Grants to support organisations in the arts, cultural and education sectors to research and develop their digital practice with children and young people through participation (including remote participation), engagement and developing audiences.
Goals
Key strategies to achieving the goals include:
- Artsmark: supporting self-improving schools to build the strategies, partnerships and resources to improve teaching and learning through arts and culture
- Arts Award: supporting children and young people to access arts, culture and digital creation as audiences, participants, producers and leaders
- Partnership working: supporting leaders to work in partnership within, across and beyond schools, families and communities to create arts and cultural pathways
- Partnership investment: supporting partnerships to prepare for and secure sustainable investment, to mainstream and scale cultural education
Funding Information
- TMC have grants available for £4000 each to support organisations and individuals in the East Midlands. Applicants may work with partners from outside the region, but the main applicant must be based within the East Midlands.
- These grants are for organisations to trial and test ideas around digital delivery across a 12-month period.
What will I need to do?
- If successful in being awarded a grant, you will need to attend a pre-delivery meeting with TMC to discuss planned activities, timescales and any support needed.
- You will be expected to attend the Digital Development Network meetings, that take place once a quarter and share your learning at a final digital networking event.
- At the end of your research and development project you will be expected to submit a final report and budget summarising your findings and future plans.
What can I use the digital grant for?
This grant can be used to trial and test ideas, connecting with partners/digital experts to shape these. It can also be used to support staff time to build capacity and widen understanding of digital thinking, understanding and methods of delivery.
The grant can be used to fund:
- Creative digital development (e.g. piloting new technology or methods of delivery)
- Research visits (up to a third of the grant may be spent on this)
- Staff time-not including external support (up to a third of the grant can be spent on this)
Criteria
This must include:
- The digital research question you plan to investigate through the use of the grant
- An outline of your current use of digital within your organization and what you want to discover/develop across the next 12 months through use of the grant. How will your research respond to challenges they currently face as a sector due to Covid-19?
- How you will support activity related to Arts Award and Artsmark either during the duration of the project or in the future
- An explanation of how this work is focused on children and young people including developing audiences, participation or engagement. Also, how your digital developments will help broaden access to arts and culture for children and young people.
- A thorough budget explaining how you will use the £4000 Please provide details of any match funding.
For more information, visit https://themightycreatives.com/digital-development-grants-2021/
