Deadline: 23-Apr-2024
The Baring Foundation is pleased to announce to a new open round of funding for arts organisations who would like to develop new participatory arts opportunities for men with mental health problems.
The Baring Foundation is looking for projects which provide new and attractive creative opportunities for men who are not already taking part, and target those men who are least likely otherwise to take part.
Projects should take place over at least one year, and preferably two or more years.
Purpose
- To fund activity to redress the under-representation of male participants in participatory creative activities in the UK for people with mental health problems and to learn what works in this regard.
Funding Information
- Grants of £20k to £50k are available for either of the following approaches, or a combination of the two:
- Work which finds ways to achieve equal representation (or a significant increase) of men in mixed gender creative activities;
- Men-only creative activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will only be considered from arts organisations with all the following characteristics:
- an established arts organisation of any kind (including museums), whether a charity or a regulated social enterprise, e.g. a Community Interest Company, operating in the UK. By arts organisation, they mean an organisation whose primary purpose is around the arts and creativity broadly defined. Importantly, some applicants will wish to work in partnership with relevant community groups or other organisations and to share resources which they encourage;
- arts organisations that have delivered creative opportunities to people with mental health problems for at least two years and have had an annual income of over £75,000 for the last two years.
- Current grantholders are eligible to apply for this fund. However, overall, they wish to expand and diversify the group of organisations they are funding and may use this as one factor to consider in assessment.
For more information, visit The Baring Foundation.