Deadline: 15-Jan-24
The Wandsworth Council is pleased to announce the Cultural Capacity Grant to support the strategic development of a small cultural organisation or artist collective who are based and work in the borough to help ensure their future sustainability.
Wandsworth’s Arts and Culture Strategy 2021-31 is focussed on ensuring that all residents have access to cultural engagement opportunities in order to lead happier and healthier lives, as well as support in identifying and nurturing creative talents, either as a means of employment or pleasure. As part of maintaining and growing a robust cultural sector, Wandsworth’s Cultural Capacity Grant recognises that small cultural organisations and collectives need to have a security net in order to be able to pilot new approaches in order to thrive.
The grant should be used by the successful applicant in such a way to help grow the organisation’s capacity in a sustainable way, for example:
- Create the space to be able to develop long term strategic planning
- Fund opportunities for existing staff to expand their skill sets
- Support audience development programmes
- Enable stronger and clearer communications and promotion of the organisation’s work and how Wandsworth residents can engage with their programmes
- Allow more effective evaluations and sharing of learning from projects
- Pilot new income generation strategies
Funding Information
- One award of £10,000 is be made annually. In addition to the grant, you will also be supported through:
- Quarterly meetings with a member of staff from the Arts and Culture Service to discuss and support the change being implemented through the cultural capacity grant.
- Opportunities to attend, and signposting of, various training and networking sessions provided by Wandsworth Council.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are open to artist collectives and small-scale non-profit arts and cultural organisations (5 or fewer employees). Cultural organisations or artist collectives must have a registered business account. Both artist collectives and small-scale organisations (either registered charity or CIC limited by guarantee) must be based in the borough of Wandsworth and directly engage Wandsworth residents.
For more information, visit Wandsworth Council.