Arts development grant: individual applicant.

Section 1: eligibility criteria

In order to proceed with your application, you must first confirm that you eligible to apply and that your proposed activity meets all of the following criteria:

Individuals

• You have a UK bank account.
• You are primarily based / work within Warwick District and have a trading track record of at least twelve months within the district. (To check if your organisation is located within the district’s boundaries, you can find an interactive map of Warwick District on the Council’s website).   
• Your practice is based upon the arts, heritage, or culture and you are able to evidence substantial experience of delivering arts or cultural activity in the past 2 years. (By ‘cultural activity’ we mean dance, combined arts (including festivals), literature, music, museums and collections, theatre and visual arts.)     
• You have the capability, resources, and expertise to deliver the activity proposed by your grant application.
• You have not applied for a WDC arts grant this financial year (we only accept one grant application per individual each year).
• The funds will not be used to directly subsidise living costs or overheads or fund capital costs such as care, repair or enhancement of a building or purchase of assets.
• The funds will not be used to meet the direct or indirect costs of statutory education, further education, or higher education.

If you are able to comply with all of the project eligibility criteria, then you may continue with your grant application.

Section 2: About you

Individual details

This person is responsible for completing the application, providing additional information if requested, receiving the grant, signing the Grant Funding Agreement, providing evaluation / feedback.

• Please provide your full name
• Please provide your registered address
• Please provide a telephone number
• Please provide an email address
• Please provide your National Insurance Number

Your Work

Tell us about your work.

In this section, please briefly describe:

• the main focus of your artistic, cultural, or creative activities
• an overview of your career to-date, including key achievements, awards, other development funding you have received or programmes you have been involved with.

You have a maximum of 2000 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 250 - 400 words.

Section 3: Proposed funded activity.

What is the development opportunity and how will the grant be spent?

In this section describe what the investment will fund, what your main aims are, why this is the right time for the development. 

You have a maximum of 2000 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 250 - 400 words.

What is the potential impact of the investment upon the development, resilience, or growth on your work?

Describe what you want this development to lead to and what will be different as a result in the longer term. 

You have a maximum of 2000 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 250 - 400 words.

How will the development meet our strategic priorities for the district?

Describe what the wider impact of the activity and its impact upon the organisation will have upon one or more of the following three Creative Framework’s priorities:

• Innovation
• Placemaking
• Pathfinding

*Please be aware, your application will not be favoured for covering more than one of the strategic priorities*

You have a maximum of 2000 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 250 - 400 words.

What are the planned timescales of the activity?

Include start and ends dates, any key milestone dates, and a summary of your activity plan. 

You have a maximum of 2000 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 250 - 400 words.

How much funding are you requesting from Warwick District Council?

Describe how you will spend the funds you’re applying to us for. Include details of any match funding or activity that is as yet unfunded. Provide a clear breakdown of your costs and make sure that you show how your figures have been calculated. 

Item	Description	Cost Breakdown	Total Amount

Section 4: Supporting attachments.

If you would like to include a document to give us a sense of the proposed activity, you can do it here.

You must also upload a copy of your organisation’s latest Bank Statement(s) for all accounts held (showing account details and balance).

Please have these documents ready to hand to upload, preferably in a PDF format, when starting your application. You can either ‘drag and drop’ the documents into that section of the form or click the button upload them.