 Date: Thursday 28th March
Time: 9:30 - 11:30am
Location: Conference Room, Qube, Oswestry
Price: FREE for Vibrant Shropshire Partners
On Thursday 28th March, Community Resource will be running a FREE training workshop on 'Working with Volunteers' for partners.
The workshop will cover:
- volunteer recruitment
- appointing a volunteer coordinator
- policy documents
- support for volunteers
- retention of volunteers
- creating a volunteer handbook
- any additional training that may be required
This workshop is aimed at Shropshire organisations that have volunteers or may be looking to recruit volunteers.
Please note you must be a partner of Vibrant Shropshire: A Cultural Compact to attend this training. This is free and you can sign up here. If you sign up to this training without being a partner, your registration may be cancelled/removed.
If you have any queries about this event, please email culturalcompact@shropshire.gov.uk.
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Vibrant Shropshire, the county’s Cultural Compact, has secured funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to support organisations across Shropshire to deliver cultural projects that help address some of the county’s cultural priorities.
A total fund of £100,000 was secured, approximately £50,00 was distributed in the first round of funding and approximately £50,000 will be distributed in round two.
Applicants can apply for a grant of between £1,000 to £5,000 for cultural revenue projects during 2024/25.
Projects must meet the criteria of this funding and address at least two of the funding priorities.
Vibrant Shropshire's next round of funding for cultural projects will open 25th March 2024 and must be submitted by 12pm on Monday 22nd April.
Further details about Round 2 of the funding will be shared next week.
We will share details via this mailing list and on our webpage:
If you have any queries, please email Alice Machin, the Cultural Compact Officer, on culturalcompact@shropshire.gov.uk
 Do you want to help inform the development of a new space for creativity?
Rural Art Hub has received funding from the UK Government through the Vibrant Shropshire Grant Scheme as part of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Throughout March, they will be running a series of 'Creative Discussion' Workshops in order to develop the work and activity offered at Rural Art Hub.
The workshops will consult with the community, creative practitioners and potential participants in order to explore the interest and need for a creative cultural hub and the practical steps needed to make it happen.
During the workshop there will be:
- Creativity: storytelling, drawing and model-making activities to support imaginative thinking
- Discussion: questions asked about the type of activities people would be interested in attending
- Practical thinking: considering what is needed to enable inclusive participation
The aim of the workshops is to establish a steering group to help inform the next steps of the Rural Art Hub.
The next workshops will take place on:
- 16th March at Babbinswood Farm
- 23rd March at Ellesmere Yard
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The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.
DASH is a Disabled led visual arts charity. It creates opportunities for Disabled artists to develop their creative practice. These opportunities take many forms, from high quality commissions to community based workshops, the work it creates is centred around its vision and mission.
DASH is currently recruiting for 2 posts:
- Director (New Art West Midlands) (Application deadline: 15th March)
- Curator (Application deadline: 10th April)
To find out more and apply, click the buttons below:
 Young wildlife photographers and artists are urged to showcase their skills in a popular University Centre Shrewsbury competition for the chance to win top titles and prizes presented by an award-winning naturalist, TV producer and author.
Entries are now open for the Young Nature Photographer and Young Nature Artist of the Year 2024 competition run by the University Centre.
Prizes will be presented by Stephen Moss, original producer of BAFTA award-winning TV series Springwatch among many other accolades, at a special ceremony in Shrewsbury.
Anyone aged five to 22 is invited to send in their best wildlife photographs and images of their finest wildlife art, for the opportunity to win nature-inspired prizes, including a handmade trophy by artist Angela Sidwell.
Entrants should send in their photographs by midnight on April 30, 2024, to: naturephoto@chester.ac.uk.
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As part of Tanya Raabe-Webber’s ACE funded project Futures in Practice, she is running a Creative Enabler training pilot project.
A Creative Enabler is an artist/creative person who supports the creative practice of a disabled artist/creative.
Tanya is looking for 2 Shropshire/Midlands based visual artists/creatives to undertake a short training programme that will involve online training sessions and in real life visits.
You will receive a training fee (£480) plus travel expenses.
The training will be 4 days in total:
- The equivalent of 1 day of online training sessions.
- 1 day studio visit to Tanya’s studio in Pontesbury, Shropshire.
3. 1 day visit to a supported studio.
4. A visit to a disabled artist in Shropshire.
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Change Tracks is a songwriting and production project introducing music technology and popular music composition to children and young people (between 11 and 18 years) in Shropshire.
The workshops take place on:
- Tuesday 28th May
- Wednesday 29th May
- Thursday 30th May
- Friday 31st May
Cost: Free
The first two dates will be held at the SMS centre in Bayston Hill. These sessions will cover lyric writing, the fundamentals of songwriting and pre-production.
The final two dates will be delivered at Telford College’s industry-standard recording studios, where attendees will be introduced to tracking, mixing and mastering - and will complete the workshop with a fully mixed track!
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PRS Foundation's Open Fund for Music Creators
Funding is available to support the development of outstanding UK songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds, at different stages of their career.
PRS Foundation's Open Fund for Music Creators can support projects by songwriters, composers, artists, bands, producers and performers who are writing their own music or commissioning others.
Grants are available to assist with the following costs and activities:
- Creation of new music.
- Music Creator fee (to cover time and work).
- Touring and live performances.
- Recording and release.
- Creative residency costs.
- Fees to creative collaborators.
- Promotion and marketing (when there is also an element of creation and/or performance).
- Equipment or software costs which enable creation or new types of performances where those costs represent up to 20% of the total project budget.
Grant amount: up to £5,000
Deadline: 8th April 2024
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Vibrant Shropshire: A Cultural Compact Grant Scheme Round 2
Vibrant Shropshire, the county’s Cultural Compact, has secured funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to support organisations across Shropshire to deliver cultural projects that help address some of the county’s cultural priorities.
Projects must meet the criteria of this funding and address at least two of the funding priorities.
Grant amount: between £1,000 to £5,000
Deadline: Applications open 25th March 2024 and close Monday 22nd April at 12pm.
Keep your eye on the link below for further information about Round 2 of the funding, available next week:
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Museum Estate and Development Fund: Round 4
The Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) is provided with funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered, awarded and monitored by Arts Council England (ACE).
The fund will be investing in the following broad categories:
- Protecting fabric/longevity of the structure.
- Protecting the exhibits and collections.
- Upgrading building services.
- Dealing with equality and accessibility issues.
- Improving environmental performance of museum infrastructure through repairs.
Grant amounts: between £50,000 and £5 million.
Deadline: expressions of interest open on 4th March and close on 18th April
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People's Health Trust Nature For Health Grants
People’s Health Trust has launched its Nature for Health funding programme which is part of its Health Justice Fund.
Grants are available to improve mental health and provide greater access to natural spaces and nature-based activities for people (aged 11-18) experiencing mental health problems, socio-economic disadvantage, discrimination and marginalisation in West Midlands.
For the purposes of this funding programme:
- Natural spaces can be in towns and cities, the countryside, or the coast, such as parks, community gardens, woodland, canals, lakes, rivers, beaches, and greened/reclaimed urban spaces.
- Nature-based activities can include creating, maintaining, accessing and using natural spaces.
Grant amounts: £20,000 and £40,000
Deadline: 20th March 2024
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The Hinrichsen Foundation
The Hinrichsen Foundation is offering grants to charities and other organisations across the United Kingdom to support the performance of contemporary music, which may include the commissioning of new work, non-commercial recording, or publication.
There are two levels of funding available:
- One-off small grants typically between £500 and £2,500 (for new applicants and former beneficiaries).
- Larger projects or concert series generally £2,000 and over.
Deadline: 31st March 2024
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2024 Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs
The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise (DBACE) help creative entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. Aspiring individuals who want to go into business in the creative industries and require practical and financial support are being targeted.
Applicants will be able to explore, develop and establish their creative ideas into sustainable ventures – through business planning training, mentoring and capital funding for starting-up.
DBACE welcomes applications from UK entrepreneurs aged 18 and over, who have a strong idea or an existing business in the creative industries.
Grant amount: up to £20,000 of investment
Deadline: 2nd April 2024
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ChurchCare
The Church of England offers grants for the conservation of their historic churches. This includes the restoration of:
- paintings
- stained glass
- monuments
- decorative metalwork
- textiles
- wooden objects
- clocks
Grant amounts: various
Deadline: various
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The Baring Foundation: Attracting new male participants into creative mental health
programmes
Through its Arts and Mental Health Programme, the Baring Foundation is making available grants of between £20,000 and £50,000 for work seeking to achieve improved or equal representation of men joining mixed-gender creative activities, or for men-only creative projects.
The Baring Foundation has recently published a new report, Creatively Minded Men, which has helped inform their current funding round.
The purpose of the 2024 call is to fund activity to redress the under-representation of male participants in participatory creative activities in the UK for people with mental health problems and to learn what works in this regard.
Grant amounts: £20,000 and £50,000
Deadline: 23rd April 2024
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British Council International Collaborative Arts Projects
The British Council is offering grants for arts and culture organisations across the UK to work in partnership with international organisations from selected countries to support arts projects that help artists to make and develop creative artwork and encourage new international partnerships and innovative ways of collaborating.
In the second round of the International Collaboration Grants Programme, a total of £1 million is available for UK groups working in partnership with one or more organisations from eligible participating countries to deliver arts projects.
Priority will be given to partnerships that show clear benefits to artists and international partners and genuine international collaboration. The Council is particularly keen to work with organisations that they have not previously worked with, especially those based outside Greater London.
Grant amount: between £25,000 and £75,000
Deadline: 30th April 2024
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Postcode Local Trust (West of England)
Back for another year, the Postcode Local Trust is supporting organisations across the West of England with unrestricted funding in 2024.
The funding is for projects that have a clear alignment with one of the Trust's themes for 2024:
- Enabling participation in physical activity
- Enabling participation in the arts
- Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
- Supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality
- Improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency
- Improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors
- Providing support to improve mental health with a focus on organisations that are actively supporting specific mental health issues rather than general mental wellbeing activities.
Grant amounts: dependent on the organisation's not-for-profit legal structure, grants between £500 and £2,500 or between £500 and £25,000
Deadline: the next application opens 27th May and closes on 3rd June, there will be another application window 26th August to 2nd September.
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Theatres Trust: Small Grants Programme supported by the Lindbury Trust
This grants programme funds small projects that make a big impact to a theatre's resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences.
This scheme provides grants of up to £5,000 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future.
Eligible projects include small capital works, the installation of key plant and machinery and works which make theatre buildings digital-ready.
Grant amount: up to £5,000
Deadline: 7th June 2024 at 12 noon
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Youth Music NextGen Fund
The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £2,500 to make their ideas happen.
The Youth Music NextGen Fund is for early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest up to £2,500 in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.
It's open to 18–25-year-olds (and up to 30-year-olds who identify as d/Deaf or Disabled) who live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Grant amount: £2,500
Deadline: 28th June 2024
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The Radcliffe Trust
The Radcliffe Trust continues his charitable bequest through the support of Music and Heritage & Crafts. Grants are currently open for both.
Music: The Radcliffe Trust supports classical music performance and training, especially chamber music, composition and music education.
Particular interests within music education are music for children and adults with special needs, youth orchestras and projects at secondary and higher levels, including academic research. The Trustees respond to applications and also initiate their own projects.
Heritage & Crafts: The Radcliffe Trust supports the development of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK's cultural heritage and crafts sectors. This includes support for emerging craftspeople of high quality, craft and conservation projects and training, projects demonstrating creative outcomes by designer-makers, projects with potential for capacity building within the sector, and some special needs projects focusing on the therapeutic benefits of skills development.
Grant amounts: £2,500 - £7,500
Deadline: 31st July 2024 for consideration in December
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Greene King IPA Proud to Pitch In Fund
Grants of up to £4,000 are available for registered charities, community groups, social enterprises, community amateur sports clubs, and other organisations across the UK to deliver grassroots sports activities that positively impact local communities.
Grant amount: up to £4,000
Deadline: 1st November 2024
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Historic Houses Foundation
The Historic Houses Foundation gives grants for the repair and conservation of rural historic buildings and structures in England and Wales, including their gardens, grounds and outbuildings. They also give grants for the restoration and conservation of works of art in historic house collections open to the public.
Grants are made to owners (charities, institutions, local authorities and individuals) who demonstrate a sustainable and long-term commitment to the care, management and public access of the historic country houses in their care.
They aim to make grants for projects which either do not qualify for funding from any of the mainstream sources or have been awarded only partial funding. They will also consider making grants to kick start a project but will expect further funding to be in place within 1 to 2 years.
Grant amounts: The minimum grant amount is £1,000, the maximum is £250,000 though awards of this size are only made in exceptional circumstances. Most grants are less than £50,000.
Deadline: rolling
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National Lottery Heritage Grants
National Lottery Heritage Grants form part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund's new 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033, that aims to invest £3.6 billion across the UK with grants ranging from £10,000 up to £10 million.
The strategy is centred around a simplified framework of four investment principles:
- Saving heritage.
- Protecting the environment.
- Inclusion, access and participation.
- Organisational sustainability.
Grants are available to support projects of up to five years that care for and sustain heritage in the UK. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories.
Grant amounts: there are two levels of grants available £10,000 to £250,000 or grants from £250,000 to £10 million
Deadline: rolling
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To read more funding opportunities available, take a look at the VCSA Funding Opportunities Roundup.
Know about an arts or cultural funding opportunity that isn't listed here? Please contact us
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