Deadline: 15-Jun-21
Are you a creative and motivated young person aged between 16 and 25? Do you want to explore your own creativity and deliver a project? The Young Empowerment Fund invites you to use your creativity to help nurture positive change.
The Young Empowerment Fund invites you to use your creativity to deliver a project based on your imaginative ideas. Projects can cover any art form – all they ask is that you use your creative voice when formulating your idea.
They believe young people have the power to change the world and their aim is to ensure every child and young person can share their creative voice and make their creative ideas possible. Through this programme, young people will have the money, time and support needed to make their creative voices heard.
Funding Information
- Each young person can apply for £500 to develop their project.
Alongside funding, each successful applicant will have access to the following support as part of the online programme:
- 1-2-1 support with an individual Creative Coach
- Project Management Webinars
- Drop-in Sessions
- Artist-led Webinars
- Artist-led Drop-in Sessions
Eligible Projects
They are looking for creative projects that can do any of the following:
- Develops your skills.
- Allows for creative collaboration.
- Helps start a creative enterprise.
- That supports your personal and creative development.
- That develops and shares your creative voice
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for a Young Empowerment Fund, you must fit the following criteria:
- You are young person between the age of 16 and 25
- You live in the East Midlands. This includes the following locations:
- Leicester/Leicestershire
- Nottingham/Nottinghamshire
- Derby/Derbyshire
- Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
- Rutland
- You are creative, motivated, and committed to seeing through the development and delivery of your project.
- You use your creativity as a driving force behind the ideas and reasoning of your project.
- Your application should demonstrate the following:
- How your project helps you develop a broad range of skills.
- How your project helps your personal development.
- How your project helps you gain experience of working with others.
- How you think it will make a difference to people involved in the project (yourself, collaborators, businesses, audiences).
For more information, visit https://themightycreatives.com/what-we-do/programmes/young-empowerment-fund/