Deadline: 6-Oct-22
The Leeds Inspired Small Grant Scheme accepts applications for art projects.
Leeds Inspired aims to promote access to the arts. The scheme aims to achieve a balance of creative opportunity across the city for the benefit of all communities.
What they fund?
- Leeds Inspired aims to promote access to the arts. The scheme aims to achieve a balance of creative opportunity across the city for the benefit of all communities.
- They fund activities which increase access to arts and enable people to take part fully and with greater confidence. Funds are for new activity or additions to existing events. They do not fund repeat activity.
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You can apply for grants for arts related activities for example:
- Events, performances, exhibitions & workshops
- Participatory arts project work
- Online arts based activity
- Research and Development.
Funding Information
- Grants are between £100 and £1200.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are welcome for non-profit making projects or events that work with artists.
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These projects may be organised by:
- Individuals (you will need to demonstrate your previous experience of running similar projects and budgets)
- Arts organisations
- Community or voluntary groups
- Commercial organisations who wish to run a non-profit arts project
- Groups of organisations (one will need to take the lead and have the main responsibility for managing the application and any grant).
Ineligible
- Educational establishments (schools, colleges, universities)
- Organisations resident outside the UK
- Closed membership groups whose activities do not reach a wider public
- Leeds City Council – unless working in partnership with an outside organisation.
What they don’t fund
- Activities not related to culture
- Activity taking place outside Leeds
- Activity with no artists involved
- Activities with insufficient planning time
- Activities that provide no benefit or engagement opportunity to the people of Leeds
- Activities or events that take place in schools/colleges/educational establishments unless they are open to the wider public
- Student projects that are part of coursework
- Core costs for festivals or events such as stages, generators, toilets, fencing etc
- Feature or short fiction film
- Activities, including buying goods or services, which take place before we have decided about your application
- Activities or events that duplicate existing work
- Core organisational costs, including general running costs, that are already covered by other funding or that should be covered by the organisations own resources
- Applications where the main focus is capital spend for equipment
- Charity fund-raising events
- Individual tuition, training or research
- Sports kit or equipment
- Applications for party political or religious purposes
For more information, visit Leeds Inspired Small Grants.
For more information, visit https://www.leedsinspired.co.uk/grants
