The Mighty Creatives have supported 50% of East Midlands schools to develop their cultural provision and are working with over 900 arts and cultural partners. Our commitment to children and young people (CYP) and their creative voices, their communities, and the cultural sector remains the same as we move towards, and enter, a new exciting era post our role as a Bridge organisation.
Programmes like Arts Award have proved crucial in creating better access to arts and culture – we want to support you now so that you can continue to embed these opportunities across your school and organisations as part of everyday life for the young people you work with.
The Arts Award Futures Fund provides grants of up to £1,500 to organisations currently registered as Arts Award Centres (and their connected trained advisers) to support them to pilot, embed or develop Arts Award and creative activity across the current year and beyond 2023. Creativity is essential in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of both young people and staff and we want to help ensure the continued inclusion of arts and creativity in school and organisations both now and in the future.
It is expected that the young people you work with through this grant will successfully complete their Arts Award through this fund. Meaning completing a successful moderation for Explore, Bronze, Silver or Gold levels and submitting names to Trinity for Discover certification.
Please note: The Arts Award Futures Fund is supported by ACE Bridge funding. TMC’s funding contract with ACE ends in March 2023, by which all monies must be spent. No contract extensions can be provided. It is recommended that all activity, including booking moderations, takes place before 31st January 2023.
We welcome applications from cultural organisations, schools and individuals currently registered as Arts Award Centres and have at least one trained adviser within your setting.
You can be at any point along your Arts Award delivery journey. You must:
We welcome joint applications from schools and individual artists/organisations who plan to work together to deliver as part of this funding.
You will be responsible for your own tax and national insurance requirements. You must be aware of appropriate safeguarding training, on and offline and agree by TMC’s Safeguarding Policy.
If successful in your application, you must be able to attend the following meetings with TMC and other successful grant recipients:
Cultural organisations, schools and individuals can apply for up to £1,500. Value for money will be considered when assessing applications. We will also consider the level of planned delivery, amount of young people involved, requirements of the young people involved and the individual plan of each setting to develop and move forward with Arts Award during the current challenging climate and beyond 2023.
The grant can be spent on activities including:
You will be expected to set your own deadline for completion of your supported activity and will be asked to provide an end-point evaluation. All activity must be completed by 31st January 2023.
More information on certification and moderation costs can be found on the Arts Award website.
Please complete our online application form by clicking the button below.
The deadline for applications is Monday 25th July 5pm.
If you have any questions about this offer or wish to speak to someone within the Arts Award team for any further information, you can reach us on 0116 2616 834 or artsaward@themightycreatives.com
If you are finding it difficult to apply via our application form online, please get in contact via the email above for alternative ways of applying.
