Deadline: 4-Jan-22
Applications are now open for the Wandsworth Arts Fringe (WAF) 2022 Grants Program to support the cultural life of the borough and plays an important role as a testing ground and marketplace for new ideas and audiences.
Priorities
Applications should demonstrate arts content and meet one or more of the following strategic priorities:
- Communities and Partnerships: To support residents and communities to build stronger neighbourhoods and enhance community cohesion.
- Economic Growth: To ensure that town centres and shopping parades are vibrant and culturally rich places to explore and enjoy.
- Health and Wellbeing: Using arts, culture and creativity to inspire and support people to live healthy, fulfilled and independent lives.
- Access for all: to actively work to improve accessibility for all their residents (in particular, reaching new and hard-to-reach participants) both to enjoy culture and to join the borough’s creative workforce.
- Learning/Education: To support their young residents to access creative outlets, nurturing talents and establishing pathways into the cultural and creative industry sector.
- Sustainability: To utilise culture as part of Wandsworth’s drive to be the greenest inner London Borough and carbon neutral by 2030.
Funding Information
Grants fund up to 70% of the total project cost. The maximum award is £2,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are open to organisations, partnerships and individuals that demonstrate how they meet the criteria of the grant, provided the proposed activity takes place or culminates during WAF and is fully budgeted.
- The fund is unable to support profit making ventures, fund-raising activities, capital, core costs and course fees.
- Applicants do not have to be based in Wandsworth. However, the proposal must take place in the borough and benefit Wandsworth residents. They recommend that you include a carefully considered marketing and audience development plan in your application.
- Applicants who were awarded a WAF grant in the past 3 years but failed to produce an evaluation report may not apply.
For more information, visit https://www.wandsworthfringe.com/get-involved/grants
