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MARCH 2020 ARTISTS EMERGENCY PROGRAMME GUIDANCE NOTES THIS IS

MARCH 2020 ARTISTS EMERGENCY PROGRAMME GUIDANCE NOTES THIS IS



Artists Emergency Programme


GUIDANCE NOTES


THIS IS A ROLLING PROGRAMME SO CAN BE APPLIED TO ANY TIME FROM MONDAY 27TH APRIL 2020

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE


Please Note:

Awards available up to a maximum of £5,000





Please read these Guidance Notes before completing and submitting your Expression of Interest Form





PROJECT DELIVERY OPPORTUNITY


The Arts Council recognises that that our artists are amongst the most creative, flexible and industrious individuals in society; we therefore invite them to respond creatively to the challenges facing Northern Ireland.


Mindful of the serious impact the COVID-19 crisis has had on the opportunities for employment of individual artists, creative practitioners and performers, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland invites Expressions of Interest from individual artists, creative practitioners and performers to deliver innovative arts projects designed to take place by March 2021.


In meeting current immediate need this scheme is also consistent with the three major themes of the Arts Council strategy and the three Outcomes of the Programme for Government, as identified for the arts sector. These are:


Outcome 5: We are an innovative, creative society, where people can fulfil their potential.

Outcome 9: We are a shared, welcoming society that respects diversity.

Outcome 10: We have created a place where people want to live and work, to visit and invest.


CONTEXT


The Arts Council has designed this programme to support individual artists, creative practitioners and performers


There are two primary objectives of the programme

  1. to support proposals for the research, design and future presentation of specific showcases, performance(s) and/or other forms of public presentation aimed at groups and communities otherwise facing barriers to the arts on a range of platforms

  1. to engage the arts sector in employment by providing individual artists, creative practitioners and performers with financial support to create work and make a vital contribution to the well-being of communities.



There is an expectation that funding from the Scheme will lead in the future to some form of meaningful public engagement and/or other forms of public access opportunity, in large or small scale.


This programme prioritises applications that:



WHO CAN SUBMIT AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST?


The Arts Council welcomes Expressions of Interest from freelance individual artists and creative practitioners and performers of all disciplines, genres, skills and practice. Applicant artists, creative practitioners and performers can also choose to work with arts organisations on projects where the leaders and principal beneficiaries are individual artists, creative practitioners or performers.


In addition to practicing individual artists, creative practitioners and performers as freelancers, included in the call are those who work in the arts as curators, editors, directors, creative producers, originators, among other roles. Each potential applicant should seek to evidence their eligibility for the scheme as an active creative.


Individual artists, creative practitioners and performers who have proven successful models of practice can make proposals based on adaptations or variations of such work.


A successful Expression of Interest to this scheme does not affect current or future applications you may make to the Arts Council.


The Arts Council welcomes Expressions of Interest from individual artists, creative practitioners and performers who can evidence up to date Access NI checks in relation to working with children and vulnerable adults. It is up to the applicant to provide evidence to the Arts Council and the Arts Council will make a decision based on the judgement that proper protections are in place.



WHO CANNOT SUBMIT AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST?



HOW MANY EXPRESSIONS OF INTERESTS CAN YOU SUBMIT?


You may submit only one Expression of Interest. If the total cost of your project exceeds the maximum award of £5,000, you will need to tell us how you will meet the additional cost.


The Council may choose to fund all, some, or no elements of your Expression of Interest.


WHAT can you APPLY FOR?






Please note tax affairs of award recipients are their own responsibility but we advise all recipients to contact HMRC and seek further information on their tax status and liability.



WHAT CAN YOU NOT APPLY FOR?






what shape can art form proposals take?

 

Proposals can be single artform-based, however we encourage cross artform projects. Projects will need to be inventive, new or newly-imagined and probably digital and/or online, using contemporary non-traditional platforms.

 

How Much Funding is Available?


The budget available for the programme is £500,000. The maximum award available is £5,000.


How to submit your expression of interest?


Interested eligible artists must submit the following by email to [email protected] from Monday 27th April 2020 until further notice.








When submitting your Expression of Interest by email, please clearly identify in the subject line, the programme to which the Expression of Interest relates.


All of the information you provide will be held on computer. This information will be used for the administration of applications and grants, for producing statistics and information on successful applicants. Remember to keep a copy of the completed form and enclosures for your own records.


Arts Council of NI’s Child/Young People/Adults at Risk Protection Policy Statement is available on our website. By signing the Programme’s Expression of Interest Form, you are confirming that you have agreed to the Arts Council of NI’s Child/Young People Adults at Risk Protection Policy Statement.


GENERAL GUIDANCE NOTES


These guidelines govern all schemes for individual applicants and you should read these before preparing an expression of interest.


The emphasis will be the quality of the work submitted in support of the Expression of Interest and the potential of an award to be high quality, with levels of engagement to be evidenced subsequently.


In promoting these award schemes, the Arts Council particularly welcomes Expressions of Interest from those referenced in Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.


Assessment and Decision Making Process






IS THE ARTS COUNCIL DECISION FINAL?


If you are not happy with the way we handled with your application, you can access a copy of our complaints procedure on our website. Please note that you can only complain if you believe we have not followed our published process when dealing with your application. You cannot use the complaints procedure to appeal against the decision.


ASSESSMENT CRITERIA


All Expressions of Interest will be assessed against the following criteria.


The Applicant


1. Evidence of your quality as an individual artist, creative practitioner, performer

Assessed against your C.V.

2. Evidence of your contribution to the arts

Assessed against the evidence of your past practice and its audiences.


The Proposal


3. The artistic quality of the proposal and its future delivery

4. How you propose to evidence the eventual delivery and impact of the work.


OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION



Full listings of all the grants we award are published on our website.  You will be required to acknowledge Arts Council of Northern Ireland funding in all your publicity. Failure to credit the Arts Council of Northern Ireland will affect payment of your grant.


Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 any information held by us (which will include your application) is potentially accessible by the public.


Information supplied by you will be held in manual files and on a computer-based grants management system. Reports from the information you supply and from comments made on your application by staff members and external assessors, where relevant, are also on both manual and computer-based systems. The information you supply will be made available to those assessing any grant applications you make.


By submitting your Expression of Interest, you waive any right to raise any type of proceedings against the Arts Council of Northern Ireland as a consequence of, or in contemplation of, any disclosure of the contents of your application in response to an information request made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.


Data held on our grants management system is used for all of the following purposes: statistical reporting, application assessing, accounting purposes and for contacting you. The details of your grant will be public information (see Openness and Accountability). However, any personal details will be held within our grants management system and our paper files, and accessed only by our staff; appointed auditors and individuals or organizations that may help us assess or monitor grants. You have a right under the Data Protection Act 1998 to access the data held on you by Arts Council of Northern Ireland.


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