Clore Performing Arts Awards

Overview

The Clore Performing Arts Awards will be worth a total of £1 million to the sector over a five-year period from 2005 to 2009. The Clore Duffield Foundation has launched these Awards with the chief aim of providing children and young people with opportunities to experience performing arts education at its best.

Organisations must be either a registered charity or a limited company to apply Early years settings, primary, middle and secondary schools, sixth-form colleges, SEN schools and voluntary youth organisations are eligible to apply. Both professional and amateur arts organisations are eligible to apply.

The Awards will fund project costs ranging from £1,000 to £10,000. The Clore Duffield Foundation prefers to be the major funding body. The total project budget should not exceed £30,000.

• The Awards make grants for creative projects with under 18s
• The Awards will fund education programmes that cover every aspect of the performing arts including opera, dance, music, musical theatre, the spoken word and theatre
• Organisations must be either a registered charity or a limited company to apply
• Early years settings, primary, middle and secondary schools, sixth-form colleges, SEN schools and voluntary youth organisations are eligible to apply
• Both professional and amateur arts organisations are eligible to apply
• Applicants must be able to demonstrate both artistic excellence and fully participatory experience for young people

The Foundation does not intend to be heavily prescriptive in terms of criteria. However, the following points should be noted:

• Applicants are encouraged to approach this funding opportunity in creative and imaginative ways
• Applications should be for a new project rather than for a repeat or extension of an existing project
• Grants will be made to single institutions, but the Trustees will happily consider funding partnership applications from two or more linked institutions
• There will be no requirement to seek match funding
• Projects which underpin Personal Social Education (PSE) and Citizenship are unlikely to be prioritised
• Beneficiaries of the proposed project will need to be clearly identified
• The assessment process will take into account the cost-effectiveness of the project
• The Trustees will be interested in the potential for projects to serve as models of good practice
• Grant recipients will be unable to re-apply for further funding within two years of the completion of their grant
• Applicants who are rejected may re-apply to the Awards with a different project

Example Grants

Art4Change: Dance4Change’. £9,125

This project involves a new dance company, Art4Change, and four secondary schools in County Fermanagh. Two or three pupils will be selected from each school to work with Art4Change to develop a dance education programme (a performance and associated workshops) that will then tour to eight primary and special schools in the county. This project will involve boys and girls of all faiths.

Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, Derry - £8,884

Youth Dance Development Course: This Derry-based youth dance development course will work with young people aged 16-18, from Northern Ireland. It is a partnership between Echo Echo Dance Theatre and the Dance Department of Ulster University, Magee Campus. It is in three phases. There will be dance workshops in schools across Northern Ireland in autumn 2008; a one-week course at Easter 2009; followed by a three-week, full-time summer school.

Indian Community Centre - £5,000

Youth Drama Spectrum Programme: The Centre, in North Belfast, is working to promote better understanding between different minority ethnic groups in Northern Ireland. It successfully applied to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for funds to support a post to develop its arts programme. The Centre believes that the arts (drama, dance, music) are particularly effective in tackling prejudice and bringing communities together. While it has a remit for Northern Ireland, much of its work has focused on schools in North Belfast.

How to Apply

Applicants should submit two fully completed copies of the application form to the Foundation, together with the following :

If you are a school:

• A project summary (max. 500 words)
• A detailed budget breakdown for the project
• School Governers' report, if available

If you are a registered charity or limited company:

• A project summary (max. 500 words)
• A detailed budget breakdown for the project
• Most recent audited accounts (of the lead organisation)
• Most recent annual report (of the lead organisation)
• Education policy document, if available

Application forms can be downloaded from the Clore Duffield website.

GT Team - 30 January 2012

From Clore Duffield website:

This programme is now closed. A publication covering the five years' of the Clore Performing Arts Awards (2005-2010) is available