Deadline: 22-Jul-2024
Applications are now open for the ReNEW Small Grant Programme to provide funds for groups and individuals with creative ideas for bringing Redditch and Bromsgrove’s redundant and unusual spaces back to life or for better use.
Projects include a touring exhibition to showcase the history of Bromsgrove’s button making trade, launched in the original factory building, yarn bombing, pop-up craft workshops, tree art and churchyard planting in Feckenham, decorating blank walls in Rubery Park, & decorative allotment fencing in Redditch. All will make a visible difference to a range of places across Redditch and Bromsgrove.
The projects will be part of the ReNEW programme, run by the North-East Worcestershire Cultural Compact, a partnership of business, arts, heritage, environment, youth, and community groups.
Funding Information
- For 2024-25 the maximum limit per project/activity is £2,000 although please only apply for the amount actually needed so that they can support as many projects as possible. The minimum amount available is £500. Evidence of spend will be required.
Eligible Projects
- The types of projects that will be funded are:
- Projects that work with artists or creative practitioners.
- Projects where visual, performing, combined or digital arts are part of the process and outcomes.
- Projects making an effort to involve people from groups less likely to be involved (young people 16-25, people from minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, mental ill-health, on lower incomes).
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals and groups can apply.
- Proposed activities must involve those aged 16 years of age and above.
- Projects need to target areas in either Redditch Borough or Bromsgrove District.
- There are a finite number of grants available, they will be allocated based upon strength of application and balancing criteria.
- All groups must hold a bank account and/or individuals must be set up as self-employed.
- They welcome projects that:
- Create new partnerships, especially those that sees local businesses and local groups collaborating.
- Link with established participatory activities in the area e.g. choirs, craft groups, youth group, clubs etc.
- Link with environmental and heritage sites in the area.
- Are new projects from applicants who were in receipt of a grant from the first round of ReNEW Small Grants.
Ineligible
- Applicants and activities that cannot be funded are:
- Applicants that do not provide activities directly to the community but use funds to campaign, fundraise, signpost or solely for promotional reasons.
- Activities or projects that promote a political party.
- Evangelising or preaching activities or projects for religious activities such as acts of worship or religious buildings (this does not exclude applications from faith-based groups who want to deliver community-based projects).
For more information, visit Redditch Borough Council.