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Welcome to the UK website for Culture Programme 2007-2013 provided by EUCLID, the UK Cultural Contact Point (CCP).

The next deadline for the Culture programme for other projects is likely to be 31 October 2008 - visit www.culturefund.eu for the latest updates.

Flying Start

Flying Start Programme for the Arts

Performing, Visual, Fine and Participatory arts)

The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, Arts Council England and the Northern Edge

What exactly is the Programme?

This programme is for those who are interested in setting up a business or being self employed in the Arts field. The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, Arts Council England and the Northern Edge have joined together to offer this free programme to graduates.
Web:flyingstart-ncge.com

Arts Council

Arts Council England, North West is now inviting nominations for these valuable and prestigious awards celebrating the outstanding work in the arts in the North West.

Web: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk

Department for Culture Media and Sport

Legacy Trust Fund details - 2012

An independent Legacy Trust Fund, jointly funded by the Big Lottery Fund, the Department for Culture Media and Sport and Arts Council England will have £40 million to support cultural and sporting engagement across all nations and regions of the UK, throughout the run-up to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics Games. Around 70 per cent of this total will go to cultural provision, with the rest being invested in grass roots sport. In addition, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has stated that she believes that this figure will rise dramatically with commercial sponsorship.

Speaking in Liverpool, next year’s European Capital of Culture, Ms Jowell said:
”A Legacy Trust - £40 million to support cultural and sporting engagement across the UK in the run-up to, and during, the 2012 Games – will leave a lasting legacy across the whole of the UK. The majority of the money in the fund – around 70 per cent – will be spent on cultural projects. There’ll be one major arts project, running for five years, and a handful of large grant programmes each year.

“But this will be no top-down affair. We will make sure the core is strong, but the cultural magic occurs elsewhere – in cultural organisations, and in the imagination and creativity of individual artists. I also want to see how we might give support for Cultural Festivals in the cities of Britain in the four years leading up to the 2012 Games, giving the possibility of the cultural sector further realising ambitions to do things that would not otherwise be possible.“

Further details of the projects comprising the Olympiad, being organised by LOCOG, will be announced next month.

www.culture.gov.uk

Awards for All is a Lottery grants scheme for local communities. There are different schemes for each of the four countries of the UK.
To find out about Awards for All in your country Click Here .

For more details visit www.awardsforall.org.uk.

Awards for All lowers award threshold..
...to assist voluntary arts organisations

A major shake-up of the Awards for All scheme, the small grants programme run on behalf of Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England, has led to a lower entry point for applications at 300, down from 500 previously, recognising the value that smaller grants can bring to community groups and voluntary arts organisations.
The maximum awards payable has also changed, rising to 10,000 over a two-year period, from a previous ceiling of 5,000 in any 12-month period. 60m of Lottery funding has been earmarked for the scheme in 2006/7 - an increase of 10m on last year.

Arts Council

Arts Council England - is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.

Further details are appearing on the arts council website at: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk

Web: www.artscouncil.org.uk

The Rayne Foundation

2008 onwards.

The Rayne Foundation

The Rayne Foundation offers grants to organisations in the areas of arts, education, and social welfare ranging from £5,000 to £200,000. The Foundation will make grants to organisations with a charitable purpose which are registered and working in the UK (to include registered charities, companies and universities amongst others), including national or umbrella organisations. The Foundation will fund:

- capital costs of buildings and equipment (unless the Foundation has more specifically said it is unlikely to support this in some sectors);
- salaries and all types of project costs;
- reasonable contribution to overheads (there is no fixed percentage);
- general running or core costs (normally for a maximum of three years).
Applications should meet all of the Foundation's aims:
- helping the most vulnerable or disadvantaged in society;
- providing direct benefits or services to people;
- achieving excellence;
- supporting neglected causes;
- assisting in levering funding from other sources.

For further information please contact: The Rayne Foundation
Carlton House, 33 Robert Adam Street, London W1 3HR
E: info@raynefoundation.org.uk W: www.raynefoundation.org.uk

Co- op Foundation

2008 onwards.

The Co-operative Foundation is keen to support community and voluntary sector activity through grants to local groups and organisations across its trading area. Grants from £500 to £30,000 are available for part or total funding for one year projects.

For more details, contact the Charity Manager at foundation@coop.co.uk or by phoning 01706 202032 or the Foundation Office to discuss your project and request an application form and guidelines on 0161 246 3044

East Lancashire Creative Industry Awards

CREATIVITYWORKS AWARDS 2008

Lancashire Creative Industry Awards

Jobs, contracts, commissions for artists of all media. All here and regularly updated. If you want to put your commission on our website just email us..

Now in its fourth year these awards have really taken off and attracted a huge array of creative talent from the region. Application forms are available through http://www.creativityworks.info/ , whilst you are there why not register to receive the regular newsletter and updates on the Awards.

Previous winners of awards have included Tony Wilson and partner Yvette Livesey for their work with Elevate, Frankland and Duxbury one of East Lancashire's oldest foundries and Horse and Bamboo Theatre, one of Europe's leading visual theatre companies.

For more information regarding the awards please either email mailto:creativityworks@ntlworld.com or call 01254 660360.

Foundation for Sports and the Arts

2008

The Foundation for Sports and the Arts

The Foundation for Sports and the Arts (FSA) was established in 1991 to distribute income generated by the football pools promoters. Grants can be awarded to a wide range of projects, including support for individual sports people. The Foundation's aim is to enhance the quality of life for the communities to encourage and fund sports and arts at every level. The FSA consider promoting participation and enjoyment by everyone is more important than promoting sporting or artistic excellence or success.
Funding is available for capital and revenue projects. Grants are available for a wide variety of sports and arts purposes, such as football maintenance, play areas, museums, arts projects, drama centres, etc.
For more details, visit www.thefsa.net, phone 0151 259 5505 or email contact@thefsa.net.

Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards

FUNDS: Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards

The Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards, sponsored and organised by the Commonwealth Foundation, aim to increase mutual understanding between people from different Commonwealth cultures through artistic exchange.
Every two years, around ten awards of up to 8,000 are made to craftspeople and artists from Commonwealth countries who show promise and initiative in their own country but who have had little opportunity of working in another country. The Awards are intended to help winning artists explore their art in another Commonwealth country by working alongside other artists or within an arts institution.
Through the Awards awareness and appreciation of different cultures is increased and artists and craftspeople acquire artistic, personal and organisational skills, while sharing their own skills and talents. Further information, guidelines and application forms can be found at www.commonwealthfoundation.com

Arts Fundraisers.org

The AAF was founded in 1994, and has grown steadily to encompass fundraisers from arts organisations large and small, local authority arts officers, regional arts boards, freelance fundraisers and other interested parties.

BBC Arts News

How the UK's arts funding is spent
Old article but still of interest

Crafts Council Development Award

The development award has been re-launched and is now open to designer-makers . The scheme has 4 deadlines each year, in March, June, September and December.
Those in receipt of an award get a 2,500 maintenance grant, equipment grants of up to 5,000, a residential course in business training and 1000 promotional postcards.
For further details please see the website - www.craftscouncil.org.uk/guide or email reference@craftscouncil.org.uk

FUNDS: Creative industries loans

A dedicated loan fund for Creative Industries across the North West seeking to raise finance to start or grow a business

The fund offers loans of up to £10,000 for new businesses and loans of up to £20,000 for existing businesses

For more information contact BBV Ltd, Bolton Business Centre, 46 Lower Bridgeman Street, Bolton BL2 1DG. T: 01204 391400 F: 01524380076 E: info@bbvonline.net www.bbvonline.net