Deadline: 15-Jul-22
The Elmley Foundation is offering 2022-23 Small Grants Scheme – Event and Activities for community groups who want to pay professional artists to open up new opportunities to create new work, reach new audiences and enable people from all walks of life to take part in arts and cultural activities.
Priorities
Priority will be given to projects which address one or more of the following:
- Are locally generated and controlled
- Demonstrate artistic vision and imagination
- Happen in areas where there is little or no existing arts activity
- Encourage and develop participation in new arts activities
- Encourage new audiences to experience high quality arts activities
- Enable the involvement of people who might otherwise be prevented or deterred from participating.
Funding Information
Although you can apply for up to £1,000, it is anticipated that most grants will be less than this.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a grant from this Fund, your application must:
- Take place within the Counties of Herefordshire or Worcestershire
- Involve expenditure on professional artists in its creation or development
- Have a total cost of no more than £10,000
Exclusion
Please note that they will not fund:
- Applications from schools or other educational organisations; Local Authorities or other statutory bodies
- Activities exclusively for school children or college students in school/college time
- Capital grants (you may be eligible to apply for the Arts Equipment grant)
- Applications from individuals
- Projects where the person submitting the application will get paid from the grant
- Projects with a total cost of over £10,000
- Projects which have already started or taken place
- Events intended to raise funds for non‐arts causes
- Requests to pay offloans or deficits
For more information, visit https://www.elmley.org.uk/small-grants-scheme/