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Arts Grants SchemeIndividual Artist2020/21 Application Form

CONTENTS

PART ONE: ABOUT YOUPass / Fail

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Section A: Contact information 2

Section B: Nature of your arts practice 4

Section C: Running your arts practice 5

PART TWO: ABOUT YOUR PROGRAMME OR PROJECTWeighted score

Section D: Planning to meet needs 6

Section E: How you will deliver 8

Section F: Funding to deliver 9

PART THREE: MAKING A DIFFERENCEWeighted score

Section G: Making a difference

Section H: Grant Targeting

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PART FOUR:DETAILS and DECLARATIONPass / Fail

Bank, acknowledgement and signature 19

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Section A: Contact information 1. Name/Professional Name (if applicable)

2. Contact details

Address

Postcode

Telephone

Email

3. Artist Studio/Premises contact details if different to above

Address

Postcode

Telephone

Email

4. Current Occupation _______________________________

If you are currently a practicing artist, but also a student, please detail your course and place of study ___________________________________________

5. Education /Qualifications / Training

PART ONE: ABOUT YOU

Part One is made up of sections A, B and C. Each is marked ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ based on your answers and supporting documentation.

All sections must be rated ‘pass’ for an application to move on to the next phase of assessment. The boxes will expand as you type into them.

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Provide the name and dates of third level institutions attended and qualifications gained, including specialist training and related qualifications. Indicate ‘not applicable’ if you did not attend a third level institution.

Name Dates Attended Qualifications gained

6. Employment Provide details of your relevant employment starting with the most recent.

Name of employer Dates of employment

Position held

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Section B: Nature of your Arts Practice

All of these need be true. You need to provide the supporting documentation indicated.

1. Artform

Drama Music CraftsLiterature Film/video ArchitectureOpera Visual Arts Circus/Street Theatre/CarnivalDance Traditional Arts Other (please specify) …………………………………………….

1. You have been operating for more than 12 months. Give month and year formed in MM/YYYY format

2. You were born in, reside in or have your main base and deliver services in the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council area. Tick if true.

3. What is the main purpose of your practice? (Briefly describe in a couple of sentences)

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Section C: Running your Arts Practice

1. Your arts practice has adequate insurance cover in place (where applicable). Please read our Information and Guidance Notes. Tick if true and copies of insurance certificates (and quotations if for a forthcoming event) have been sent

2. You have appropriate policies (where applicable) for

Health and Safety Tick if true and copy of policy provided

Safeguarding Tick if true and copy of policy provided

List any other policies directly relevant to the work to be funded. We may need to see these,but you need not send now.

3. Your arts practice has a nominated bank or building society account

4. Your most recent annual accounts (if applicable). Tick to show signed copy of latest checked or audited accounts provided AND summarise below

Accounts for year ending. Give date MM/YY

Total income for the period £

Total expenditure for the period £

Income minus the expenditure £

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Section D: What do you plan to do and for whom?

1. a. Name of your project or programme

b. A short overview of the activities in your

programme. Max 200 words

c. How many people, do you hope will take part over the timeline of your project?

d. Please complete the timetables below.

Name of activity, short description and location Start and end months

Number of direct participants or users*

PART TWO: ABOUT YOUR PROGRAMME OR PROJECT

Part Two is made up of sections D and E. These seek to find out what you plan to do, for whom, and why.

Each element is scored as shown in the evidence criteria. Applications must score over 50% of the maximum in order to move on to the next stage of assessment

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Total number of participants or users during the timeline of the grant (do not include those delivering services)

Total

* By direct, we mean the people who use or directly benefit from your activities or services during the timeline of the grant. Do not include other people who may subsequently benefit (indirect beneficiaries).

2. Is your work targeted at a particular section of the community? Tick just the main groups relevant.

This helps us to better understand your work.

It is not scored.

Age: Everybody – no targeted group

Children under 16

Young people 17 to 24

Adults aged 25 to 64

Older people over 65

Community:Everybody - no targeted population

People living with low income

Disabled people

People who are unemployed

People from minority ethnic groups

Other specific community or group

Please state

Please give short and clear answers of 50 to 200 words for each question below.

3. Please describe the need behind your programme and how you know it is in the interest of and will benefit local people

4. How does the work fit in with or complement what others are doing?

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Section E: How will you deliver?

Please give short and clear answers of 50 to 200 words for each question

1. How will you deliver this work?

What skills and experience do you have to ensure the delivery of high quality arts and cultural experiences?

2. Will you need to work with any other artists or organisations to make parts of your project a success?

If so, please describe which individuals or groups and what they will be doing. And, if not, please state why.

3. How will you get word out and encourage people to engage with your work?

If relevant, please address how you will attract people from diverse backgrounds or excluded groups.

4. What barriers might there be and how will you try to address these?

5. What, if any, issues might prevent or hinder success and what steps will you take to avoid or overcome these?

Some of these may be relevant: Lack of funding Health and Safety

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Section F: How much money do you need?

1. Please give all programme expenditure and identify the elements that make up your grant request to LCCC. Group similar costs together and round to the nearest £50.

Item / Activity Total cost Amount requested of LCCC

Total Costs £ £GRAND TOTAL £ £

2. Below list any funds you aim to raise from donations, fees or sales, giving the source where known.

Source Cash or In kind? Value Target date

Total £

3. If you expect grants from other funders please list below any applications planned or made.

Name of funder Total requested

Date applied

Sum approved or date will know

TOTAL £ £

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For this grant, the differences we are interested in are the direct results you expect to happen while the work is taking place or soon after.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council recognises the value of the arts and is committed to supporting artists and arts organisations to develop high quality arts activities within the Council area.

This commitment is reflected in four key ambitions:

1. Support a stronger and more sustainable creative and vibrant economy

2. Demonstrate excellence in ambition, creativity and delivery through strategic partnership working

3. Support cultural and digital activity that increases community engagement in culture.

4. Establish LCCC as an area where creativity is at the heart of everyday life, and every person has access to arts based activities to enable culture led regeneration.

Outcomes for the Arts Grants Scheme – Individual Artists are listed below.

We recognise your programme may contribute towards all of the ambitions and outcomes, however, we do not expect grants to contribute to all of them and are most interested in the two to

four key ambitions that best fits your funded work. Once you have selected the most relevant, we ask you to complete an outcomes statement for each ambition, you can respond to one or both outcomes in relation to the selected ambition.

You will not be penalised for only two outcomes as we use your average score across all you select.

We do expect the sophistication of the information you provide in your outcomes statement(s) to be proportionate to be proportionate to the capacity and the scale of the funded work.

We will be basing our assessment on how clearly the ambitions and outcomes you select link to your activities and how realistic your plans are for showing that outcomes have happened – or if not, to understand why not. (Please see the assessment criteria).

Further on, we provide guidance on what we are asking for in the outcomes statement, and a completed example.

PART THREE: THE DIFFERENCE YOU AIM TO MAKEPart Three is made up of sections G and H. These seek to find out the beneficial difference you plan to make through the work you want the grant to support.

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Section G: Making a difference 1. In the list below, please tick a minimum of

TWO ambitions.Then tick ONE OR BOTH of the outcomes beneath it. You may not select less than two ambitions.

Once ticked, please complete an outcomes statement for the outcome(s) selected. See next page for an example.

Ambition 1 Support a stronger and more sustainable creative and vibrant

economy

Outcome 1:1 Demonstrate an approach to arts sector specific business that champions innovation, sustainability and creativity.

Outcome 1:2 Demonstrate the production of ambitious high quality work and showcase Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council’s reputation as a creative area locally, nationally and internationally.

Or

Ambition 2 Demonstrate excellence in ambition, creativity and delivery through

strategic partnership working

Outcome 2:1 Encourage and support the creation of qualitative work that demonstrates collaboration across a wide range of diverse backgrounds, organisations, disciplines and perspectives.

Outcome 2:2 Develop investment opportunities to enable creative cross-sector collaboration and risk taking and encourage growth of creative clusters.

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Or

Ambition 3 Support cultural and digital activity that increases community

engagement in culture.

Outcome 3:1 Embrace advances in technology as essential components of the cultural landscape maximizing the role of digital distribution to showcase and promote your work and reach new audiences.

Outcome 3:2 Demonstrate new opportunities for the interpretation and recognition of our cultural and heritage assets.

Or

Ambition 4 Establish Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council as an area where creativity is at the heart of everyday life, and every person has access to arts based activities to enable culture led regeneration.

Outcome 4:1 Provide exciting and challenging creative experiences that will have a long-lasting impact upon participants and audiences ensuring access for all groups.

Outcome 4:2 Collaborate with other sectors such as education and health, to embed the arts and creativity within their work, create models of good practice, and develop the knowledge and skills within the creative sector to deliver new programmes.

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Example Outcome Statement

Here is a made up example. It uses 135 words. You can use up to 200 words (not counting the outcome name itself).Complete one statement for each of the outcomes you selected.

A. Name of the outcome or benefit you aim to create and report on (from list)

Outcome 1:2 I will make connections with relevant organisations and agencies to gain access to training to develop my skills to ensure the production of the highest quality artwork/productions. I will coordinate opportunities to showcase the work locally, nationally and internationally specifically by…

B. Describe what will improve and for who or what during or just after the work

My professional practice, skillset and reputation will improve specifically….

LCCC will be showcased as a thriving creative economy and become a place where creativity is at the heart of everyday life through…..

C. Describe how you expect this change to arise from your project

Access to specialist services including access to finance, support for my arts business, smarter ways of working, and empowering entrepreneurship will ensure…..

D. Describe how you will show that this improvement is happening or happened (or will know that it is not so you can learn and improve)

I will design and implement different methodologies for collecting and evaluating information, but will consistently capture specific data throughout the life of the grant including: Creative outputs and outcomes, levels of investment, training and opportunities for volunteering, levels of participation, audience reach and engagement, press coverage, marketing and publicity specifically….

There are blank statements for you to use below Complete a statement for each of the outcomes you ticked in relation to the selected

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ambitions (minimum of 2).

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Your Outcome Statements

Complete one statement for each of the outcomes you selected.

Outcome Statement 1 – Ambition 1A. Name of the outcome you aim to create and report on (from list)


C. Describe how you expect this change to arise from your activities


Outcome Statement 2 – Ambition 1A. Name of the outcome you aim to create and report on (from list)




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Outcome Statement 1 – Ambition 2 A. Name of the outcome you aim to create and report on (from list)








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Outcome Statement 2 – Ambition 3 A.Name of the outcome you aim to create and report on (from list)




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B.Describe what will improve and for who or what during or just after the work


D.Describe how you will show that this improvement is happening or happened (or will know that it is not so you can learn and improve)


B.Describe what will improve and for who or what during or just after the work


D.Describe how you will show that this improvement is happening or happened (or will know that it is not so you can learn and improve)

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Section H: Grant Targeting

This information helps to identify and map where funding is allocated

1. From which postcodes do your directparticipants and users mainly come?

Use complete postcodes only please

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1. Your Bank Details

Account Name

Bank/Building Society Name

Bank/Building Society Address

Sort code

Account number

Roll number (Building Society only)

2. Acknowledgement Agreement

In signing below I undertake to acknowledge LCCC support in our promotional materials, including the logo on all print material

3. Declaration

PART FOUR: DETAILS and

DECLARATIONInformation in this form will be used for assessment and monitoring purposes. Some details will also be recorded on a database, which will be used to gather general information that may be made public. However, individual details will not be made public without permission. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact the grants team. By submitting this application, you are declaring that you have read and agreed to the above and has approved the content of the application.

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I declare that the information in the application is true and accurate

Name (Block capitals)

Signature Date

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