Deadline: 4-Mar-22
The Freelands Foundation is pleased to announce the Space to Dream Fund that supports small and medium-sized Black-led visual arts organizations to realize projects and programmes by, with, and for Black and Brown artists and practitioners, and to support organizational development or arts ecosystems.
Aims and Priorities
They are looking for projects that are ambitious and will create impact in one or both of the following areas:
- Creativity and Artistic Practice
- Delivering high-quality visual arts programmes by, with, and for Black and Brown artists and practitioners.
- This could include:
- Artistic practice, developing artists and creatives
- Developing exhibitions or public commissions/events
- Curatorial development
- Delivering high-quality visual arts programmes by, with, and for Black and Brown artists and practitioners.
- People and Organisational Culture
- Developing and strengthening organizations, to contribute positively to the experiences of Black and Brown artists and practitioners in the art sector.
- This could include:
- Diverse leadership, skills, and routes to leadership
- Strengthening infrastructures for long-term success and organizational growth, such as the development of boards and leadership or reviewing and improving processes
- Arts ecosystems, i.e. supporting Black and Brown practitioners in the sector, including those working in fundraising, marketing, research, as technicians, etc. alongside wider organizational goals
- Developing and strengthening organizations, to contribute positively to the experiences of Black and Brown artists and practitioners in the art sector.
- They are open to supporting new projects or developments of existing models that have the ambition to achieve a real impact.
- You may have always wanted to programme an exhibition or create space for an artist to work with you in new ways, or see the potential for a pilot to grow and build to increase its impact on participants or tackle a specific need.
- This fund aims to support organizations to take action to tackle the needs they see in the visual arts.
Funding Information
- Grants of between £35,000 and £95,000 over two to three years are available to single organization applicants.
- They are also accepting applications of up to £150,000 by groups of organizations as a consortium of two or more members.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations applying to the Space to Dream Fund must meet all the following criteria:
- Be a visual arts organization, or have a significant focus on visual arts as a primary activity
- Be a Black-led organization (run by, with, and for Black and Brown people, those of African, Caribbean, and Asian heritage. This could include the organizational leadership, trustees, senior management, principal creatives/ project managers, or artists who will lead your project)
- Be a UK Registered Charity, Exempt Charity or Community Interest Company, or part of a consortium with a lead applicant who is a UK Registered Charity, Exempt Charity or Community Interest Company
- The project must have a clear public benefit
- Your organization must have an income of less than £750k per year
- You must have three years of accounts produced for your organization
- You must have a registered bank account
- The activity you are applying for must take place in the UK
- Projects must have a start date no earlier than October 2022
- Projects must be new activity or a clear development or expansion of existing activity
For more information, visit https://freelandsfoundation.co.uk/grant/space-to-dream-fund