Arts Council England - Funding Decision
For some arts and cultural organisations Oct 26th is an important day when decisions about 3 year strategic funding from Arts Council England are made. Successful organisations will make up the National Portfolio becoming National Portfolio Organisations (NPO's) or Investment Principles Support Organisations (IPSO's).
CG is one of this group waiting to hear if we are successful with our application to become an IPSO for Gloucestershire.
Our mission has always been to grow, diversify and support a wide range of different individuals, creative and civic organisations, enterprises, collectives and freelancers who make arts every day for everyone in Gloucestershire.
If we receive this Arts Council funding we will continue to connect and support communities across the county and prioritise engaging those people who are left out, and are furthest away from arts and cultural infrastructure. If we are unsuccessful in our application, we will regroup and focus our resources to be as efficient and effective as we can in pursuit of our mission.
We will be here, so whether you have apply and are successful, not been successful or not applied in this round, the CG team and network will continue to be a champion for your work and look for innovative and radical ways to to ensure that together we can identify & meet the needs of our Gloucestershire communities during the challenging years ahead.
Useful links
You may like to take a look at these resources created by Arts Council England for applicants so they can prepare ahead of the announcement.
Applicants offered funding:
Resources, next steps, contact details along with information on how to share the news of your investment will all be found here. Take a lookApplicants not offered funding:
For applicants not offered funding, we understand that this will be difficult news. The following webpage contains a toolkit to support organisations through change, along with links to other funding opportunities and resources these organisations might fund useful. Take a look
Contact us
Please do contact the team if it's helpful. The CG team is working around half term and caring responsibilities next week but will endeavour to respond as quckly as we can.
Contact us at hello@creategloucestershire.co.uk until Tuesday 25th and after that Pippa will be available to answer any emails on pippa@creategloucestershire.co.uk.
Many thanks,
Pippa, Create Glos Founder and Director
Image Credit: Imogen Harvey-Lewis @plimpsole_girl