Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council: Youth Creative Skills Bursary

Overview

Awards up to a maximum of £200 are available.

This bursary scheme links to Strategic Theme 2 in the Cultural Strategy

- Investing in creative learning & skills development:

To support the creative development of our young people and creative practitioners through training, skills development and providing opportunities to showcase work

Criteria

Applicants must be able to:

• Clearly show what the training or development opportunity is by producing a course programme, details of facilitators etc.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the creative art form to which they are requesting the bursary
• Show sufficient experience in the creative art form
• Demonstrate how the training or development opportunity will be of benefit to them
• Allow, at least, a 2 month lead-in-time from the deadline for submission of the application and the date of the commencement of the training/development opportunity.

Who Can Apply?

To be eligible, the applicant must meet all of the following criteria:

• Resident within the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area.
• Aged 11 – 25 years
• Applying to, or have been accepted or invited onto, a youth arts training course or youth arts development opportunity and provide evidence in the form of an acceptance letter or similar.

(Please note you must provide proof/evidence that you have been accepted/offered a place, before any offer of assistance can be issued)

What can be funded?

Examples of the type of training/development opportunity which can be funded

• A young person undertaking a summer residential in, for example, music, dance, drama, literature, visual arts, heritage or traditional arts, or regional minority languages.
• A young person undertaking a visual arts or crafts training programme or residency.
• Short-term or one-off courses, residencies and development opportunities.
• Accredited or non-accredited training
• A young person who through a high level of competition has been selected to participate in an arts activity at provincial, national or international level.

Examples of eligible expenditure:

• Any aspect of the cost of a training programme or course in a related subject
• Travel
• Accommodation