Strategic Funding Programme

Targeted Grant Programmes

Artists’ International Development Fund

Touring Catalyst Arts Capital

Supports Goal one Achieving

Great Art for Everyone : Talent

and artistic excellence are thriving

and celebrated.

Supports Goal two Achieving

Great Art for Everyone : Seeing

more people in England

experience and be inspired by the

arts.

Supports Goal three Achieving

Great Art for Everyone : The arts

are sustainable, resilient and

innovative.

Delivers on Goal 3 Achieving

Great Art for Everyone: the arts

are sustainable, resilient and

innovative

Small grants from £1,000 up to

£5,000

• to cover travel, daily needs,

some material costs and

accommodation where not

supplied by a host

organisation.

• time period is flexible to meet

artists’ needs

Only apply once in any financial

year

One or two international visits for

English applicant to travel

overseas or overseas

partners/collaborator to visit

England or both.

31 May ’12 – first round

5 October ’12 - second round

1 February ’13 - third round

£45 million touring programme

over three years.

Awards of £10,000 or above to

support a wide range of high

quality work in all artforms to tour.

More work by and for children and

young people, and more work by

and for people from diverse

backgrounds.

The strategic touring programme

has six funding rounds for

applications between March 2012

and February 2013.

• Catalyst arts: Capacity

Building & Match Funding

£30 million.

Announcement of decisions in

May.

• Catalyst arts: Fundraising

Capacity Building Grants

£7 million

Grants of between £15,000 and

£25,000.

For more information go to :

www.catalyst-

artsandheritage.co.uk

Over 4 years total £200m split into

two strands.

1. £180 million – Large scale

grants for above £500k

2011-12 = £80 million

2012-13 = £50 million

2013-14 = £50 million

Next round of the large scale capital funding programme to open in the summer 2012

2. £20 million – Small scale

grants for under £500k

More information about smaller

scale capital grants to be

published alongside a number of

other new strategic funds, in the

coming months.

Specific Grant commissions

Audience Focus Artsmark Creative People and Place

Grant commission to deliver on Goal two:

“seeing more people in England experience

and be inspired by the arts”.

Grant commission to deliver on Goal five:

every child and young person should be able

to experience the richness of the arts.

Grant commission to deliver on Goal two of

“seeing more people in England experience

and be inspired by the arts”

The £7.5 million fund is designed to

help cultural organisations understand,

retain and grow their audiences.

We have announced three major

commissions which are large-scale, exciting

and ambitious and cover the three aims of

our Audience Focus fund:

• understanding audiences – Audiences

Plus

• collaborative action – the Association of

British Orchestras

• best practice – the Arts Marketing

Association (AMA)

£2 million – second round of applications.

£4.5 million investment from April 2012 to

March 2015.

Trinity College London has been selected as

the national provider for Artsmark:

• To develop a sustainable business

model

• To allow the scheme to grow to be

recognised as a quality kitemark.

£37 million will be invested over three years

in around 15 programmes of activity that use

radical new approaches to developing

inspiring and sustainable arts experiences

for communities not currently engaging with

the arts.

The Arts Council England has used the Active People survey to identify 71 areas of the country which fall into the lowest 20% in relation to arts engagement – the SW region has no areas included in the lowest 20%, therefore, SW organisations are not allowed to apply unless working with organisations from other regions.

Two funding rounds with grants of between £500,000 and £3million.

General Strategic Grant programme

South West Regional focus:

• Priority areas: Plymouth and Torbay

• 2012 legacy and links to cultural tourism

• Supporting outdoor arts sector

• Consortium working Dorset and Gloucestershire.

• Creative Apprenticeships – LEPs

The budget for 2012/13 and 2013/14 is projected to be about £16

million, rising to a projected £27 million in 2014/15

Open access – Launch in Spring 2012.