Deadline: 8-Jun-22
The Leeds Community Foundation is excited to announce a call for applications for The Ann Maguire Arts Education Fund.
The focus of the Fund is on arts education – activities that boost wellbeing and extracurricular arts to increase soft skills. The Fund can support young people up to the age of 20; and/or young people up to the age of 25 with disabilities.
Thematic Areas
Projects should meet one of the following themes:
- Arts activities to boost wellbeing/mental health in young people – particularly post-Covid and the effects of arts such as being therapeutic, evoking happiness, creativity, developing an interest in arts.
- Extracurricular arts (incl music) activities to increase soft skills such as communication, emotional intelligence, networking/connection/socialisation, problem solving and teamwork. This can also include the promotion of arts and creativity due to curriculum changes.
Funding Information
- Grants are up to £10,000 for 2 years (up to £5,000 per year).
- The grant can be used to fund a wide range of projects, core costs or a combination of both project and core costs.
- Only one application per organization can be considered.
Types of Activities
- Visits to institutions eg Leeds Arts University, Leeds Art Gallery
- Arts races
- arts training
- Running arts-based activities
Eligibility Criteria
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Incorporated community groups such as CIOs, CICs and charitable companies from the third sector that:
- Are registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutuals Public Register (FCA)
- Have a constitution or other relevant governance document
- Have a management committee/board of directors/trustees of at least three unrelated people, none of whom have significant control
- A copy of your most recent annual accounts or financial records showing your organization's balance of funds, income and reserves.
- Have a bank account under the name of the group with at least two unrelated signatures (if your organization doesn't have its own bank account, but does meet all of the other criteria
- Have an income of £200,000 or under in the most recent financial year
- Are based in or supporting people living in the Leeds Metropolitan District Area?
- Have a Children and Young People Safeguarding Policy and an Equal Opportunities Policy or similar
- If organizing or running public events, festivals etc groups will be expected to have relevant insurance and comply with all required health and safety, food handling/preparation and other local and national statutory regulations for such activity.
- Charities that are registered with the Charity Commission but are not an incorporated structure can also apply.
- Small unincorporated and unregistered community groups can apply for a maximum of £5,000. Unincorporated, unregistered groups can only apply if their annual income is less than £10,000.
For more information, visit CFPs.
For more information, visit https://www.leedscf.org.uk/grants/the-ann-maguire-arts-education-fund/