Jersey Community Foundation: Arts Fund (United Kingdom)

Deadline: 29-Sep-23

The Jersey Community Foundation has announced the Arts Fund.

Arts and heritage are important and valued in Jersey and are key to the sense of identity as an Island. Cultural participation is known to bring benefits including learning and education, good health, social inclusion and satisfaction with life. Boosting arts opportunities for the community, improving skills and creativity in the arts and culture sector and continuing to develop community cohesion are key priorities of the Arts & Culture Fund

Disciplines

• Music
• Theatre
• Dance
• Visual arts
• Crafts
• Design
• Literature

Funding Information

• The current maximum grant size is £50,000 per applicant per financial year. Multi-year grants will be considered.

Outcomes

• Enjoying:
  • A wider range of people will be involved in the arts and cultural sector
    • What this outcome means:
      • If your project is a success, then the range of people benefiting from arts and cultural activities will be more diverse than before your project started and/or the number of people attending and participating in arts and cultural activity across the Island will have increased.
    • What they are looking for:
      • Signs that you will be able to show that your audience or volunteer profile has expanded between the start and end of the project.
      • It might include, for example, identifying opportunities to allow a broader range of ages, ethnicities and social backgrounds, more disabled people, or groups who have never engaged in arts and culture before to access opportunities to develop their skills
• Education and Upskilling:
  • Creating opportunities for individuals to fulfil their creative potential and providing skills that the economy of the future will require
    • What this outcome means:
      • If your project is a success, then more opportunities will have been created for individuals to develop skills and creativity in the arts and culture sector.
    • What they are looking for:
      • People will be able to tell you what they have learnt as a result of your project, and what difference this makes to them and their lives, after experiencing your project.
    • Projects may:
      • Engage children at a young/er age
      • Ensure the well-being of the community is better supported through creativity
      • Help people fulfil their creative potential and acquire new skills
      • Support initiatives that encourage people into the Arts
      • Develop a digital culture & creative media
• Enabling:
  • The funded organisation will be more resilient
    • What this outcome means:
      • If your project is a success, your organisation will have greater capacity to withstand threats and to adapt to changing circumstances to give you a secure future.
    • What they are looking for:
      • You might have new volunteers who increase your capacity and skills, or new sources of income through commercial activity.
• Development
  • Funding will support the capacity and development of the arts ecosystem
    • What this outcome means:
      • Applicants would ideally demonstrate how they will work with and add value to other areas of arts development, indicating how the fund will boost their capacity and ability to make a difference for communities / audiences (e.g. social cohesion, health and wellbeing).
    • What they are looking for:
      • The fund may support the commissioning of works of art or R&D as part of projects which fulfil the criteria of engagement/diversity and/or education/upskilling. Applications must clearly demonstrate the relationship between the commissioned work and its benefit to the community.
• Partnerships (Additional outcome)
  • Improving partnership and collaboration across the arts and cultural sectors
    • What this outcome means:
      • If your project is a success, your organisation will improve partnership and collaboration across the arts and cultural sector and contribute to the wider arts ecosystem in Jersey, including its overall capacity, sustainability and innovation. You will work in partnership to share services, ideas, people and resources.
    • What they are looking for
      • Your project may:
        • Bring other arts organisations together to achieve a shared objective
        • Develop an effective approach to how the Arts can be used in supporting and achieving outcomes in health and well-being (such as Arts in Healthcare, in Prison and in the community and in conjunction with Back to Work initiatives/long-term incapacity)

Eligibility Criteria

• Charities, not for profits and community groups may apply.
• Successful applications will relate to a project, service or initiative to be undertaken within Jersey or a project where the outcomes would be directly transferable to Jersey for local benefit
• All applications must fit one or more charitable purposes as per the Charities (Jersey) Law 2014
• Grants may fund existing services, new initiatives or can contribute to ongoing operating costs
• Grant recipients must report to the Foundation on how the Grant has been spent and the extent to which the funded activity has achieved the desired outcomes. The Foundation will provide the grant recipient with a reporting template.
• Grants should be spent within one calendar year of receiving funding or as agreed otherwise with the Foundation.

For more information, visit Jersey Community Foundation.