Arts Funding

There are a number of funding opportunities for the Arts within Wychavon from local, regional and national organisations. Your Arts Development Officer can advise or assist in the completion of arts grant forms and on any project ideas that you may have.

These are some of the grant schemes available for arts related projects.

Wychavon Community Grants Scheme 2011/12

The Wychavon Community Grants Scheme is now closed for this year. If you are thinking of applying next year then click on the link for the criteria for Community Grants and how you can apply.

You could also take a look at our Funding Directory Page or Other Sources of Funding page which will direct you to other potential funding that you may apply for.

Elmley Small Grants for the Arts   

The Elmley Small Grants Arts Fund is a scheme designed to open up new opportunities to create new work, reach new audiences and enable people from all works of life to take part in arts and cultural activities. The fund is intended to support small, local projects. Although you can apply for up to £1000, it is anticipated that most grants will be less than this.

For further information, or an application pack, contact:
Heather Leeks at heatherl@comfirst.org.uk or
Ruth Christie at ruthc@comfirst.org.uk or telephone: 01684 580860

Grants for the Arts (Arts Council England)

These grants are for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work. They are for arts-related activities that benefit people in England or that help artists and arts organisations in England carry out their work. Your project must take place mainly in England.

For general enquiries please phone: 0845 300 6200 or visit http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/

Awards For All (Lottery)

Following a review of the Awards for All England programme, changes are to be made to the small grants scheme’s existing format when it comes to an end in March 2009.
Currently Awards for All England is a joint Lottery grants programme supported by Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.

From 1 April 2009 each of the lottery distributors supporting the scheme will have their own small grants programmes up and running. Applications can still be made under the current arrangements until 31 March 2009.

The change will mean that each distributor can better address the needs of their applicants and the themes they support. Overall, across all the distributors, it is anticipated that new money available for small grants in 2009-10 will be comparable to money that was available to community groups through Awards for All in 2008-2009.

To ensure this change will be as seamless as possible, the distributors will each run their own small grants programme as follows:

• Big Lottery Fund will launch a new small grants programme on 1 April 2009 awarding grants of £300 to £10,000 to local communities in 2009-2010.
• Sport England will provide small grants for sports ranging from £300 - £10,000 from 1 April 2009.
• Arts Council England will provide small grants through their existing ‘Grants for the arts’ programme, supporting awards between £1,000 and £100,000.
• Heritage Lottery Fund small grants will be provided through the existing 'Your Heritage' (£3,000 to £50,000) and 'Young Roots (£3,000 to £25,000) schemes.

For an application pack please phone: 0845 600 2040 or visit: http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/

If you would like more information on funding please go to Funding Directory which will give you many other organisations that offer funding for various projects

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Jenny Davis
Arts Development Officer
Wychavon District Council
Telephone: 01386 565396
Email: jenny.davis@wychavon.gov.uk
(hours of work 9-5pm Tues, Wed & Thurs)