Deadline: 12-May-23
Applications are now open for the Stoke-on-Trent Culture & Events Project Grants to enable organisations in the sector to deliver a diverse range of cultural activities that will enable more Stoke-on-Trent residents and visitors to participate in the cultural verve of Stoke-on-Trent.
Vision
Funding is available for projects that meet the strategic priorities and help contribute to the Stronger Together vision:
- Increase participation in cultural activities, especially amongst those who are underrepresented in the cultural life of Stoke-on-Trent.
- Protect and improve mental and physical health and wellbeing. Evidence that cultural life makes a real impact on the health, wellbeing and aspirations of local people.
- Improve quality of life, independence and choice for vulnerable adults.
- Work with residents to make the towns and communities great places to live.
- Preserve and enhance the unique heritage of the city
- Celebrate and promote the great city and increase the number of visitors.
Funding Information
- This fund will make £75,000 available in 2023/2024, with grants available to eligible cultural activities. Funding awards are not guaranteed and will be assessed through a robust application process after which successful applicants will receive some or all of the amount bid for.
- Culture & Events Project Grants are for cultural organisations seeking a grant up to £10,000 to fund a cultural event or activity.
What they won’t fund?
- Projects which do not involve or engage Stoke-on-Trent residents and visitors as participants or audiences
- Projects which do not deliver against Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Stronger Together priorities
- Projects which have already happened or are going to happen before the decision date for the grant application, or projects which are due to finish after the closing date of the grant
- School or college courses or items already within the curriculum delivery.
- Prizes, competitions or fundraising events
- Projects without activity and outcomes that can be measured and evaluated
- Grants for property maintenance, office equipment, and operational services
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a Culture and Events Project Grant, organisations must:
- Be formally constituted in the UK and have their own bank account with at least two signatories (registered at different addresses)
- Be able to provide 2 years financial accounts
- State arts or culture as a main objective within their official governance document or have substantial experience of delivering arts or culture activity in the past 2 years
- Not already be in receipt of monies from the council for the provision of a service or project suggested in the bid, unless the proposal clearly evidences sustainability and increases outcomes for the residents of the city
- Have or be willing to have Public Liability Insurance in place up to a minimum value of £5million cover
- Be able to provide Safeguarding Policies if you intend working with potentially vulnerable residents, including children
- Be seeking funding from this grant programme of no more than £10,000
- Link to the council’s priorities in increasing participation in cultural activities for residents and helping to meet Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Stronger Together priorities
- Be able to deliver the activity or event by the end of March 2024
- Organisations applying should be based in North Staffordshire but activity must be delivered within Stoke-on-Trent
- Grant payments will be made in instalments: an initial payment of 70% is payable at the project start date (subject to grant award conditions) and a final 30% is payable following delivery of the activity, and on receipt of all outstanding information including a satisfactory evaluation report demonstrating that the outputs and outcomes stipulated in the bid have been satisfactorily achieved.
For more information, visit City of Stoke-on-Trent.