MARCH 2020
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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
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
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:
Engage with groups, participants and audiences otherwise without easy access to or participation in the arts
Benefit individual artists, creative practitioners and performers who are currently in difficulties due to work restrictions imposed by COVID-19 protocols
Propose new or newly-imagined projects as interventions of high artistic quality
Are planned to reach significant audiences through ‘live’, ‘as live’ or recorded digital performance, publication, broadcast, reading, recording, and/or other audience channels
Provide for an extended life and/or extended public reach and impact for the work or project that has been created.
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?
Constituted organisations/companies
Broadcasters (excluding community service broadcasters)
Central Government Departments.
Local authorities etc
Those who have not made a contribution to artistic activities in Northern Ireland for a minimum period of one year within the last five years.
Applicants who have broken the conditions of any previous award within the previous 4 years (taken from the date of the letter of offer) and applicants who remain in breach of any previous letters of offer.
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?
You can request financial support for initiation, development and delivery costs incurred during the period of the project, including your own creative time
Disabled artists can include support worker costs
Requests for capital equipment such as cameras, sound equipment, IPad etc. will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
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?
Work that forms part of under-graduate or post-graduate study or is intended to be assessed as part of an academic course
Study leading to a professional qualification
Applications for projects/commissions already in receipt of Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery funds.
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.
Completed Expression of Interest form
Your CV
CVs of other artists, creative practitioners and performers involved, if any
A budget outline
Previous experience of delivering work for public benefit would be important to evidence.
Equality & Monitoring Information – a template for your completion is available on the Arts Council of NI’s website – http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/.
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
The Arts Council will acknowledge receipt of your Expression of Interest.
The expression of interest will be assessed by a relevant Officer. This will be based on the information contained in your Expression. Moderation of all recommended applications will take place on a regular basis at the appropriate level.
The final decision will be communicated to you by email within TWO WEEKS of receiving an eligible Expression of Interest.
If your Expression of Interest is not funded, the Council will provide you with feedback.
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
Publicity
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.
Openness and accountability
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 protection
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