Arts Council: Intercultural Arts Grants Programme
Overview
Improving relationships between and within communities and building a shared and better future for everyone, is a vital element of the Arts Council’s vision, which is to place the arts at the heart of life in Northern Ireland. That vision applies to everyone. It is absolutely inclusive and means ensuring that everyone living here - regardless of social, economic, community or ethnic background - has the opportunity to access and engage fully with the arts, and enjoy the many benefits of doing so.
The Arts Council proposes to meet the creative and social needs of minority ethnic communities through a set of Strategic Themes. Projects must meet one or more of the Strategic Themes:
1. Supporting intercultural collaboration and engagement
Promoting exchanges and collaborative working between new and existing communities.
2. Using the arts to increase awareness of diversity and developing Good Relations
Promoting understanding of diversity and developing good relations between new and existing communities in Northern Ireland.
3. Supporting anti-racism through the arts
Working to tackle racism between new and existing communities in Northern Ireland.
Who can apply?
The programme is aimed at;
- Constituted community and voluntary groups working at a local level across local ethnically diverse communities with minority ethnic communities;
- Arts organisations with a proven track record of working in the area of Intercultural Arts and for this project, with a confirmed prospective partnership in place with community/ voluntary group (s) to engage in Intercultural Arts Practice.
How much can I apply for?
Grants from £10,000 to £20,000 are available. You can apply for up to 75% of the eligible costs of the project. Projects can be up to 2 year duration. If you are seeking funding for less than £10,000, please refer to the Arts Council’s Small Grants Programme. Information for this programme is available on the Arts Council website.
Do I need Partnership Funding?
The ICAP Grants Programme requires match funding from other sources – either your own money or money raised from another funder. The minimum partnership funding you need to demonstrate from non-Lottery, non-Arts Council sources is 25%, at least half of which, (i.e. 50%+ of the partnership element), must be in cash. However, the assessment process takes into account the other funds you are able to bring to the project.
What you can apply for
(These are examples only)
- Projects and events
- Commissions and productions
- Artists’ fees up to £35 per hour or a maximum of £150 per day for workshop-based activity.
- Artists’/volunteers’/essential administrative travel expenses within Northern Ireland at 25.7p per mile
- Venue hire for workshops
- Language translation costs
- Materials/equipment
- Equipment hire
- Publicity and marketing costs
- Co-ordination costs (Which are not already part of an existing salary)
- Premium payment costs – any additional costs you are likely to incur through the involvement of Section 75 groups, e.g. carers costs, visual aids (e.g. Braille), sign language and hearing assistance. Note: these costs must be accounted for separately and will be paid retrospectively at the end of the project.