Arts Council NI: Creative Industries Seed Fund

Arts Council Of Northern Ireland

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Overview

Programme Objectives:

1. Encourage Cross-Sectoral Collaboration;
2. Drive innovation in technologies; and
3. Creating new content, products, services and experiences.

The aim of this project is to assist arts organisations, entrepreneurs, and creative businesses to undertake projects that:

1. Contribute to the growth of the creative industries; and
2. Unlock future income generation.

All applications must be partnerships between an arts organization or artist and a creative business or academia.

Who can apply?

All applications must be a collaboration between two or more applicants. The lead applicant – that is, the applicant in whose name the application is submitted and who, in the event of an award, will be the group or individual responsible for managing the grant, and monitoring and reporting on the project - must be based in Northern Ireland.

Eligible lead applicants to this scheme are as follows:

Arts organisations
Individual Artists registered as sole traders
Creative Businesses

In order for your application to be eligible your project must meet the following criteria:

Involve a partnership between an artist or arts organisations with a creative business and/or academia
Use new and emerging technology to advance artistic practice to enhance the experience of arts audiences, create new digital artistic products, or allow for digital distribution of existing arts products or services

You will be required to provide confirmation that all project partners are legally constituted:

All sole traders must be registered with Revenue and Customs and provide a copy of their Unique Taxpayer Reference along with evidence of a business bank account.
Limited companies and Partnerships must also be fully constituted.
Start-up businesses can apply but must be fully constituted and registered prior to applying for an award.

How much funding is available?

The budget for the programme is £50,000.
The maximum award value will be £25,000.

How much partnership funding do you need?

No partnership funding is required, but if your proposal cost is greater than the award value you must detail the total cost of your project and all other sources of funding in your application.

Eligible Costs

Content/product development costs, including reasonable material costs
Freelance/short-term contracts • Existing staff costs, positions or roles as they relate to the proposed activity
Essential digital equipment and software up to a max 20% of Total Request Amount (ie. 20% of the total amount you are requesting from us in the application). All requests for hardware or software must be integral to project delivery and will be reviewed on a case by case basis by assessors.
Reasonable travel and subsistence costs
Reasonable advertising and PR costs
Networking and cooperation costs associated with collaborative activity
Export advice and assistance
Appropriate and reasonable market research costs

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