Arts Council Funding Research

We decided to research two funding companies, The Heritage Lottery Fund and The Arts Council. We split the research two ways, and it was my job to research The Arts Council.

I managed to download a PDF explaining the process of submitting an application for a grant which was very helpful as it reduced the process down to 5 steps.

1) Read the PDF booklet as guidance on how to answer the questions.

2) Write a proposal detailing the activity that needs to be funded. We can use the proposal and rationale that we have already as a starting point and edit it to address it for funding.

3) Fill in the Application Form which tells The Arts Council how much funding we are asking for and information about ourselves. It also collects background and racial information so that The Arts Council can monitor the background information of people who receive grants.

4) Include any relevant extra information for example, in our case, we may like to add that this piece will be touring.

5) Send off the application either by post or online.

I downloaded the actual application form as well, and found it to be quite complex. There were 11 pages of questions about ourselves and our artwork. I feel that it would be very interesting to complete the form to the best of our ability in order to better understand our idea. I think the process of filling in the form and discussing each of the questions would bring up things that we might not have even thought of due to this being a hypothetical piece.