Application Questions
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Section 1 - Your Organisation or Group • Your organisation or group name
• Please provide the legal name of the organisation or group that is applying. • What type of organisation or group are you?
(Please select all that apply - check box selection) o Unincorporated Association (Group)
o Not-for-profit Limited company o Registered Charity
o Community Interest Company (CIC)
o Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) o Other (open field)
• Give any registration numbers you have, i.e. a charity registration or company number
• Please upload a copy of the governing document for your organisation or group (Also known as a constitution, trust deed or memorandum and articles of association etc.)
• Please provide the registered or official address for your organisation or group. You must have a Birmingham postcode.
• Please provide the correspondence address of your organisation or group, if different from the official address.
• Your social media (Please provide details of any social media channels for your organisation/group, i.e. website, blog, twitter, Facebook page)
Section 2 – Your Community • (300 words)
We would like to know more about the community you will work with. A community can be defined by geography, characteristics or common interests. Your community might share a common interest, have a common characteristic or live close to each other. For example:
o Communities with common interests: i.e. a litter picking group, a rock choir, a support group or local history society
o Communities with common characteristics: i.e. a group for new parents, a youth group for 12-14 year olds, an adult disability social group, members of an LGBTQI+ centre
o Communities that live close to each other: i.e. residents of a neighbourhood, a local community centre group, community library visitors
Tell us about the community group:
o Why, when and where the group normally meets. o What are the group's main activities?
o Who takes part i.e. the people in the community group?
• (300 words)
We are interested in the artist(s) your community want to work with. (You do not need to have prior experience of engaging with creativity or artists to apply.)
o Who is the artist(s) the community will work with?
o Why do you want to work with them and why do you they excite you? o How will your community and artist(s) work together?
o Please include a social media profile or weblink about your chosen artist(s) if you have one.
• How many artist(s) do you want work with?
Section 3 - Your Project and the Co-created Artwork(s) • (500 words)
This is your chance to tell us about your creative project and how it will be delivered. For example, your youth club may work with a singer/songwriter to empower young people to write and perform their own song, to be performed during the cultural
programme. Or your LGBTQI+ centre may work with a visual artist and your users to create a graphic mural to display in Southside.
Please consider how you will make sure your activities are open to everyone in your community.
This is your chance to tell us how you have been inspired by the moment of the games.
The projects realised through the Creative City Grants Programme will become part of the Birmingham 2022 Cultural Programme. For more information about the Cultural Programme visit www.birmingham2022.com/culture.
• Where will your project activities take place?
This could be where your community normally comes together such as a church hall, a community centre or a local park. Please provide the full postcode of where your project will take place. If your project will take place across different locations, please use the full postcode where most of the project will take place.
• When will your creative project start?
Your start date must be at least 12 weeks after you send us your application. If you’re not sure when your project will start, please provide an estimate.
• When will your creative project end?
Please provide the end date for your project activities and sharing of created artworks; this should be no later than the 31st August 2022.
• (300 words)
Tell us about the exciting new artwork(s) your community and artist(s) will bring to life. By new artworks we mean the ‘creative works’ artists and communities will work together to co-create and present. The new art produced could be from a wide range of artforms. For example, this might be a dance performance, an art exhibition, or a community cinema moment.
o When and where do you think your artwork will be shared?
Some artworks may be presented in a single day (i.e. at a carnival) and others may be over a long period (i.e. a month-long exhibition)
o How many times do you think your artwork be shared?
o How long do you think your artwork will be shared with audiences? For example, one hour, one day or one month.
Section 4 – Participants and audiences • (300 Words)
We would like to know more about the people (members of your community) that will take part in your project activities i.e. members of your community taking part in creative workshops with the artists working on your project.
o When will people take part and what will they do?
o What artistic experience do you want to give the people who take part? How might their experience improve:
o Their health & wellbeing o Their level of physical activity o Their connection with others o Their creativity
• How many people do you estimate will take part in your project activities (participants)?
• (300 words)
Tell us about the audiences that will experience your co-created exciting new artwork and the artistic experience they will have. We expect most people will experience the project artwork first-hand in a live setting. For example, as exhibition visitors or live show audiences. Some people may experience the art in a non-live setting for example by watching a live-streamed or recorded performance.
• How many people do you estimate will experience the artwork created in a live setting (live audiences)?
• How many people do you estimate will experience the artwork created in a non-live setting (broadcast, online and print audiences)?
Section 5 - Project Management & Budget • How much are you applying for?
Although you can apply for up to £20,000, most grants awarded will be around £10,000 to ensure we can make as many grants as possible across Birmingham. Please consider this when deciding how much to apply for.
• (100 words)
Do you have any other funding for your project? i.e. from your own group or from other partners or funders. You can apply to us to fund 100% of your project. We recommend that you have most of your 'other' money confirmed where possible as this will make your application stronger.
If you do have money from your own group or from other partners or funders, please tell us;
o if it is confirmed or expected o where it will come from
o if it will be spent on a specific part of your creative project
• If your organisation/group or anyone else is providing money to make your project happen, please tell us the total amount.
• How will you spend your project budget? Please tell us how you will spend your project budget i.e. the money from us, your organisation/group, other partners and funders.
You can add details by adding new items under each of the project spend headings. We are committed to making sure people are properly and fairly paid and expect that fees and salaries should match the Real Living Wage. For information about the living wage please visit www.livingwage.org.uk
Budget heading Amount Payments to artists 1) 2) 3) etc £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Payments to people (not artists)
1) 2) 3) etc £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Costs relating to materials and hiring equipment
1) 2) 3) etc £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Costs relating to places and spaces
1) 2) 3) etc £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Costs to make your work accessible
1) 2) 3) etc £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Other costs 1) 2) 3) etc £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
• (100 words)
Will your organisation/group or anyone else provide any free support to the project? If so, please tell us here. (This could be time, space, materials, or equipment.) • (300 words)
We would like to know more about your organisation or group and the people who will manage the project and the budget.
o What are your main activities?
o Do you have any prior experience of managing projects and activities? o Who will be involved in managing the activity?
Section 6 - Evaluation • (300 words)
How will you evaluate your project, its progress and its outcomes? o How will you evaluate who has taken part?
o How will you evaluate the experience people have had as participants & audiences?
o How will you know that the project has had a positive effect on your community & audiences?
We want to see:
o increased wellbeing o reduced loneliness
o increased physical activity levels o pride in local communities
Section 7 - Skills Development
• What type of skills development would you be interested in? We are planning to run a free skills development programme to support community leaders alongside this grants programme. This skills development programme would be free of charge to take part in.
(Please select all that apply - check box selection) o Project planning
o Fundraising o Evaluation Skills o Partnership Working o Working with artists
o Marketing, PR & social media
o Operational Delivery - i.e. Health & Safety o Other (open field)
