Developing your Creative Practice (Funding for Individuals)

Developing your Creative Practice (Funding for Individuals)
Funding Category: 
General
Grant amount: 
£5,001 - £10,000
Location: 
National
Deadline: 
Wednesday, 30 December, 2020

The fund supports creative practitioners thinking of taking their practice to the next stage to research, have time to create new work, travel, training, develop ideas, network or find mentoring.

We want this interim version of the programme to support wider creative development to enable more practitioners to reshape and redefine their practice in the new climate. Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) supports the development of independent cultural and creative practitioners. This programme will give individuals the opportunity to apply for £2,000 to £10,000, to take a dedicated period of time to focus on their own cultural and creative development, and take them to the next stage in their practice. For applicants with personal access costs, you can also include these on top of the £10,000 maximum.

Developing your Creative Practice supports activity focused on these artforms and disciplines:

  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Visual Arts
  • Literature
  • Libraries
  • Combined Arts
  • Museums practice
Who for: 

Individual artists and/or creative practitioners. You can find full eligibility criteria in the guidance for applicants. Organisations cannot apply.

We would like to see applications for development activities from practitioners working in any of our supported disciplines. To be eligible for this programme your application must identify a clear development opportunity. This could be for a period of research, time to create new work, travel (including international working), training, developing future ideas, networking or mentoring. Developing your Creative Practice encourages development by enabling people to innovate and take creative risks, work in new ways and to eventually reach new audiences.

You might find it helpful to look at our website to read about some of the creative practitioners we’ve supported through DYCP. These show examples of how this programme could support your work, but it is not an exhaustive list. We want to make sure that as an independent practitioner, you have the tools you need to innovate and to build a successful practice.

Applicants must show a clear development plan to be eligible for this programme. This is a competitive programme – we receive many more good applications than we are able to fund. Strong applications are those that can demonstrate a real impact on people’s cultural and creative development in England.

Anyone who applies to Developing your Creative Practice needs to:

  • apply as an individual, or as a small group of practitioners who usually collaborate in their work. Organisations cannot apply, and individuals cannot apply on behalf of an organisation
  • be based within (live in) England
  • have a UK bank account in the exact name they’re applying in (if you apply as a small group of practitioners, one person should submit the application and take the lead on managing the grant, and should provide their bank details)
  • be at least 18 years old
  • have one years’ creative practice experience outside a formal education context

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