The Uncultured have produced two templates for the next round of ACE Project Grants which are now open.

Download their templates below or click here to find out more via The Uncultured.

• Word doc template for under £15,000 applications
• Word doc template for over £15,000 applications

Smashing it – working class artists on life, art and making it happen. Edited by Sabrina Mahfouz.

Download ‘Smashing It – A Guide to Applying for Funding’ here

This page tells you more about claiming Universal Credit if you’re self-employed. If you’re self-employed and already claiming certain benefits like Tax Credits or Housing Benefit, you will be eventually moved onto Universal Credit. Find out more about what to expect and what you can do to be prepared.

Visit the Universal Credit page of The Money Advice Service here.

Creative Access is a leading diversity organisation in the UK.

We combine provide progressive career support and development for talent from communities under-represented in the creative industries. 

Find out more here

Creative Access has a highly experienced team, with a strong track record of delivering exceptional training for organisations across the UK.

We run a range of training designed to help organisations become more inclusive; from diversity and inclusion, to mental health and wellbeing; and leadership. Training can be anything from a company-wide programme to a one-off session.

All of our diversity trainers have held senior posts in the cultural and creative industries. Our mental health and neurodiversity training is run by senior clinical psychologists.

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Guidance aimed at addressing the under-representation of people from working-class backgrounds in the creative industries published by the Social Mobility Commission.

The toolkit, created by the government-backed commission in partnership with businesses across the creative industries, is intended to offer practical support to employers on how to “identify and remove barriers” in sectors such as music and performing arts, in which just 23% of the workforce comes from a working-class background.

Toolkit

Funding applications are forms you complete and submit to funding bodies, organisations or trusts in the hopes of gaining money to support something you would like to do. In the arts, funding covers all sorts: a gallery’s running costs and programming, artist fees, staff payment, materials, money for research and development, marketing, printing, production, archiving, organisational development, travel… everything really. The arts relies on it. Artists and groups apply for themselves and if they’re lucky, they’ll get something; and big galleries apply to lots of different private and public funders in order to make up their big budgets. But knowing where to start when writing an application can be difficult; knowing who to apply to can be tricky as well. 

This library is a resource of successful funding applications that you can learn from. Look at what is being applied to and where, and check out the funders these are addressed to see to if they are appropriate for your project. The library will grow and we’ll try to furnish this page with even more information so that everyone can hopefully secure themselves some £££. 

Visit the page here

Arts Map from The Public Campaign For The Arts, a new online platform and interactive UK map that enables anyone to

View The Map Here

Here’s a video explaining the recent changes to the fund so it can be more responsive to the needs of smaller independent organisations and individual practitioners during Covid-19.

If you are thinking of applying for Universal Credit, we have created a step-by-step guide showing you how to get started.

Download our guide here.

What is Universal Credit and who can apply for it? We’ve created a simple guide to show you the basics of what it is, how payments work and what you are entitled to. It also includes links, videos and useful numbers

Read our Universal Credit Guide here