Deadline: 21-Apr-21
The Baring Foundation is seeking applications for its Art Programme.
This new fund is designed to support activity to redress the under-representation of participatory artists from ethnically diverse communities in arts and mental health. The Baring Foundation is an independent funder which promotes human rights and inclusion in all their work.
This funding round is being launched together with their new report – Creatively Minded and Ethnically Diverse – in which experts and practitioners with personal and professional experience explore the challenges and barriers in this field and draw out good practice.
In this round, they are looking for projects that:
- find ways to attract participatory artists from ethnically diverse communities into this area of work and to support them. Examples might include shadowing, internships or apprenticeships, or mentoring or free training opportunities
- undertake activity to offer creative opportunities to members of specific ethnically diverse communities who have mental health problems.
- or a combination of these approaches.
Funding Information
- Grants of between £10,000 and £40,000 are available.
- Their funding can support two approaches:
- The first approach is around positive action and is to find ways to attract participatory artists from ethnically diverse communities into this area of work and to support them. Examples might include shadowing, internships or apprenticeships, or mentoring or free training opportunities. Always ensure that you stay within the guidance of what is permissible under the law for positive action. If you feel unclear about what is legally permissible, their funding can pay for reasonable legal fees.
- The second is to undertake activity to offer creative opportunities to members of specific ethnically diverse communities who have mental health problems. There are a number of examples of such work in their report Creatively Minded and Ethnically Diverse. Their funding is not for qualified arts therapy.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications will only be considered from arts organizations with all the following characteristics:
- an established arts organization of any kind (including museums) whether a charity or a regulated social enterprise, e.g. a Community Interest Company. By arts organization they mean an organization whose primary purpose is around the arts and creativity broadly defined. Importantly some applicants will wish to work in partnership with relevant community groups and to share resources which they encourage;
- arts organizations that have delivered creative opportunities to people with mental health problems for at least two years;
- arts organizations that are committed to striving for racial justice in their work;
- an arts organization which has an extensive track-record in working with ethnically diverse communities or an arts organization with less experience but a commitment to improve.
For more information, visit https://baringfoundation.org.uk/news-story/new-funding-for-creativity-mental-health-and-people-from-ethnically-diverse-backgrounds/