2024 CREATIVE PRACTICE GRANTS

LBBD Culture and Heritage Service is looking to support local artists to explore new ways of working, and connecting to their local lived environment - this could include responding to local places (e.g. Eastbury Manor House, the Women’s Museum, Valence House Museum, Barking Abbey, Barking Town Centre, the Heathway) or to experiences which root you as an artist in your locality.

We are offering two grants of £5,000 to enable practitioners to try out new ways of making and sharing their work. The work made will be shared at Eastbury Manor House. This could for example take the form of a talk, screening, performance or exhibition.

We are open to applications from individuals and collaborations between artists or makers. Please note that receiving this grant could affect your entitlement to benefits.

The grant could pay for:

  • Your time to focus on your creative practice.
  • Experimenting with new ways of working.
  • Costs of materials and equipment.
  • Costs of sharing the work publicly.
  • Costs of collaborating with other practitioners for the first time.

We welcome all forms of creative activity including:

  • Poetry
  • Sculpture
  • Food
  • Craft e.g. knitting, pottery.
  • Performance
  • Photography.

We cannot support:

  • Applications from organisations or companies inc. charitable entities.
  • Proposals focused on marketing or promotion.
  • Capital costs e.g., building repairs.
  • Studio or other rental fees.
  • Purchases of equipment over £500 in value.
  • Commercial enterprises such as art fairs or selling work.
  • Organisational costs such as staffing, premises, utility bills.

How to apply:

Attend the online info session if you can and then submit your application below.

Selection Criteria:

  • Will this opportunity make a significant difference to this practitioner?
  • Would this be possible without this funding?
  • How will they share the work?
  • Is this proposal rooted in their ongoing research, thinking or experience as an artist or maker?

Conditions of the funding:

  • The grant must support new work.
  • Applicants must live in LBBD.
  • The funding must be spent by March 31, 2025.
  • The work must be shared publicly.
  • The grant must cover all costs of the project including costs of public sharing at Eastbury Manor House.

Timeline

  • Online info workshop June 26th 5-6pm
  • Application deadline: July 15th 12pm
  • Interviews: Aug 1st 10am-2pm
  • Grant period: Sept 2024 – Feb 2025
  • Public sharing between Feb 1 – March 31, 2025
  • Grant instalments: Sept 2024, Nov 2024, Feb 2025.[DL2]

Application Process

Please attend the online info workshop 5pm 26/06/24. Sign up for this session here.(External link) We will offer advice on how to plan your budget and timeline and what your project proposal should tell us.

Submit your application by 5pm on 15/07/24 to the One Borough Voice website Eastbury Manor New Practice Grants portal:

1) CV

2) Project proposal

3) Budget breakdown

4) Estimated timeline for your project.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interview in August. Due to our limited capacity. We are not able to offer all applicants an interview.

LBBD Culture and Heritage Service is looking to support local artists to explore new ways of working, and connecting to their local lived environment - this could include responding to local places (e.g. Eastbury Manor House, the Women’s Museum, Valence House Museum, Barking Abbey, Barking Town Centre, the Heathway) or to experiences which root you as an artist in your locality.

We are offering two grants of £5,000 to enable practitioners to try out new ways of making and sharing their work. The work made will be shared at Eastbury Manor House. This could for example take the form of a talk, screening, performance or exhibition.

We are open to applications from individuals and collaborations between artists or makers. Please note that receiving this grant could affect your entitlement to benefits.

The grant could pay for:

  • Your time to focus on your creative practice.
  • Experimenting with new ways of working.
  • Costs of materials and equipment.
  • Costs of sharing the work publicly.
  • Costs of collaborating with other practitioners for the first time.

We welcome all forms of creative activity including:

  • Poetry
  • Sculpture
  • Food
  • Craft e.g. knitting, pottery.
  • Performance
  • Photography.

We cannot support:

  • Applications from organisations or companies inc. charitable entities.
  • Proposals focused on marketing or promotion.
  • Capital costs e.g., building repairs.
  • Studio or other rental fees.
  • Purchases of equipment over £500 in value.
  • Commercial enterprises such as art fairs or selling work.
  • Organisational costs such as staffing, premises, utility bills.

How to apply:

Attend the online info session if you can and then submit your application below.

Selection Criteria:

  • Will this opportunity make a significant difference to this practitioner?
  • Would this be possible without this funding?
  • How will they share the work?
  • Is this proposal rooted in their ongoing research, thinking or experience as an artist or maker?

Conditions of the funding:

  • The grant must support new work.
  • Applicants must live in LBBD.
  • The funding must be spent by March 31, 2025.
  • The work must be shared publicly.
  • The grant must cover all costs of the project including costs of public sharing at Eastbury Manor House.

Timeline

  • Online info workshop June 26th 5-6pm
  • Application deadline: July 15th 12pm
  • Interviews: Aug 1st 10am-2pm
  • Grant period: Sept 2024 – Feb 2025
  • Public sharing between Feb 1 – March 31, 2025
  • Grant instalments: Sept 2024, Nov 2024, Feb 2025.[DL2]

Application Process

Please attend the online info workshop 5pm 26/06/24. Sign up for this session here.(External link) We will offer advice on how to plan your budget and timeline and what your project proposal should tell us.

Submit your application by 5pm on 15/07/24 to the One Borough Voice website Eastbury Manor New Practice Grants portal:

1) CV

2) Project proposal

3) Budget breakdown

4) Estimated timeline for your project.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interview in August. Due to our limited capacity. We are not able to offer all applicants an interview.

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