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Creating opportunities and supporting development & growth in creative careers and business
Funding and Financial Support
Our Funding and Grants page has specific open grants available to you right now. Here is the information for you to plan where you will seek to fund your creative or heritage career from setting your budget to using templates and top tips on applying to funders.
A know-how base for visual artists looking for advice and insights.
Before investing lots of time in researching funding and finance options, work out how much and what kind of money you need.
Most funding applications will ask for a budget during the application process. So learn about what is a budget and all things to consider.
Fundraising can be a full-time occupation. What can you do if you want to get more effective at applying for grants without it taking over your life?
If you’ve not applied to Arts Council England before, there’s guidance online and you’ll need to set up a profile on the application portal, Grantium.
If you’ve not applied to Heritage Fund before, you can create your account before submitting a project enquiry or full application.
Arts Council England have delivered a workshop to North East Lincolnshire creatives around the Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants application form.
We would recommend opening it in Google Sheets then clicking File > Make a copy, in order to save it for yourselves so that you can edit it and use the full functionality. This includes percentages that will auto-calculate and figures that will auto-populate as you add things.
The Uncultured have replicated Arts Council England’s under £30k and over £30k application forms in Google docs. You can prepare your responses in Google docs before uploading to the Grantium portal.
Central to the Creativity Strategy is maximising potential, building capacity and developing talent for the local creative and heritage sectors
We will create opportunities and support development and growth in creative careers and business. We will encourage the development of new partnerships and help organisations and freelancers to become more resilient.