Deadline: 28-Feb-22
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is seeking applications for its Creative Industries Seed Fund.
Programme Objectives
- Encourage Cross-Sectoral Collaboration;
- Drive innovation in technologies; and
- Creating new content, products, services, and experiences.
Aims
This project aims to assist arts organizations, entrepreneurs, and creative businesses to undertake projects that:
- Contribute to the growth of the creative industries; and
- Unlock future income generation.
Funding Information
- The budget for the programme is £100,000.
- The maximum award value will be £25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applications must be a collaboration between two or more applicants. The lead applicant – that is, the applicant in whose name the application is submitted and who, in the event of an award, will be the group or individual responsible for managing the grant, and monitoring and reporting on the project – must be based in Northern Ireland
- Eligible lead applicants to this scheme are as follows:
- Arts organizations
- Individual Artists registered as sole traders
- Creative Businesses
- For your application to be eligible your project must meet the following criteria:
- Involve a partnership between an artist or arts organizations with a creative business and/or academia
- Use new and emerging technology to advance artistic practice to enhance the experience of arts audiences, create new digital artistic products or allow for digital distribution of existing arts products or services
- You will be required to confirm that all project partners are legally constituted
- All sole traders must be registered with Revenue and Customs and provide a copy of their Unique Taxpayer Reference along with evidence of a business bank account.
- Limited companies and Partnerships must also be fully constituted.
- Start-up businesses can apply but must be fully constituted and registered before applying for an award.
For more information, visit http://artscouncil-ni.org/funding/scheme/creative-industries-seed-fund-2022