Deadline: 24 February 2025
The Ards and North Down Borough Council is seeking grant applications to enhance professional development across all art forms through funding for short term courses/residencies/development opportunities.
What Type of Course/Training or Residency is suitable?
- Those:
- that improve technical skills which relate to the artist’s professional art practice
- that improve the artist’s ability to manage their professional art practice
- that develop new skills which support the artist’s professional art practice
Funding Information
- Individual Artist Grants of up to a total of £250 max. are available to individual artists per financial year. The Individual Artists Grant can represent up to 90% of the total course/residency/development opportunity costs.
- Duration: The course/residency/development opportunity cannot start before 1 April 2025 and must be completed by 31 March 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible you must meet all the following:
- Resident within the Ards and North Down Borough Council Area.
- A practicing professional artist in any art form including; visual art, applied art, multimedia, music, dance, drama, literature, etc.
- Applying to or have been accepted or invited onto a course/residency/development opportunity.
- The applicant must be able to:
- Demonstrate a quality professional practice.
- Have sufficient experience in their creative art form.
- Be able to clearly show what the course/residency/development opportunity will involve, by providing the course programme, details of facilitators and its benefits to the applicant.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Grants will not be given for costs relating to courses/residencies/development opportunities that form part of the curriculum for long term or full term opportunities.
- Grants are not available for equipment.
Application Requirements
- Please provide the following essential documentation with your application:
- Up-to-date Artist’s CV
- Support materials of your artistic practice (Images and other supporting materials where applicable: publications/examples of writing, audio recordings for examples of music, short video footage of performances, etc).
- Course/residency/development opportunity programme/information
- Receipts/invoices/evidence of costs
- Further information relating to the course/residency/development opportunity such as: course facilitator biography/venue information, advertisement, acceptance letter, or invitation.
For more information, visit Ards and North Down Borough Council.
