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:

Organisations

• The artist or organisation has a UK bank account with at least two signatories at different addresses.(We cannot pay money into an individual's account)
• The artist or organisation is not a Creative Partner of Warwick District Council.
• You have not applied for a WDC arts grant this financial year (we only accept one grant application per year).
• The artist or organisation is non-profit making (a registered charity, CIC, a voluntary or community group) and has a constitution and/or articles of association/terms of reference. (We cannot accept applications from individuals or profit-making businesses.)
• The artist or organisation is primarily based / works within Warwick District and has a trading track record of at least twelve months within the district. (We cannot award Arts Project Grants to start-up organisations)
• Arts, heritage, or culture is stated as a main objective within your organisation’s official governance documents or 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.)
• The artist or organisation has the following policies and procedures in place: safeguarding, health and safety, equality and diversity, data protection, environmental / sustainability, and public liability insurance. (You do not have to provide these as part of your application, but may have to supply copies if your application is successful)
• The artist or organisation has the capability, resources, and expertise to deliver the activity proposed by your grant application.
• 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 (any activity taking place in school hours will not be considered).

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

Section 2: Your Organisation

Organisation details

• Please provide the legal name of you or your organisation, as it appears in your Constitution, if you have one.
• Please provide the registered address of you or your organisation.
• Please provide your registration number if you have one (Charity Number / Company Number).
• Please provide your VAT Number if you are VAT registered.

Lead contact 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:

• Name:
• Role:
• Email address:
• Telephone number:
• Postal Address (if different to organisation address):

Work of the organisation

Tell us about the work of your organisation.

In this section, please briefly describe:

• the main focus of your artistic, cultural, or creative activities - your mission statement, aims and objectives.
• an overview of your activity plan
• the length of time you have worked within Warwick District and examples of activity. Your main creative achievements to date
• Include the number of paid staff employed by the artist or organisation and the number of volunteers.

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 of your organisation?

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.