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Funding
In order to fund your project you may need to raise money from various sources. More and more businesses, organisations and community groups, including schools, are finding they must raise funds to pay for various elements. Therefore more people are fighting to win smaller pockets of money, making the process time-consuming, difficult and often unrewarding. 
Allow time to secure funding before a project starts, some grants will not fund projects that have started.
You must keep at it and think of new ways and exciting ways that will attract funds to helping your particular project.
Small amounts of money are fundamental as match-funding to lever larger amounts into the budget. Some funders will only give money if they see that other avenues have been explored and won.
Many funders have a clear set of objectives that those applying need to fulfil: by browsing a website or making a telephone call you will ensure that your school/project fits their criteria. Elements to consider:
- Levels of deprivation
- Special needs of those taking part (excluded, gifted and talented, disabled, etc.)
- Provision of skills or experiences beyond curriculum
- Rural, isolated geographical position
- Cross generational impact
- Positive outcome for whole community
- Sustainability after initial project
Subscribe to Fundraising for Schools for more information and advice - www.fundraisingschools.co.uk
Other websites that may be of help include: www.grantsexpert.co.uk, which can help you find grants under a whole range of headings including Business, Education, Environment, Family and Home; and www.grantsforindividuals.org.uk, a website containing details of over 3,500 trusts operating both nationally and locally, willing to fund individuals.
Grants and Funds
Below is an extensive list of grants and funds suitable for arts education work, which can also be downloaded as an information sheet from the guidepack page.
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The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust awards grants to charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas, with a different focuses each year. In 2009 the focus is Community and disability, in 2010 it is Children, youth, the elderly and medical, and in 2011 it's Music and the arts and overseas.
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Awards for All, England offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects that improve communities, and the lives of people within them. It is for voluntary and community groups, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils. The programme aims to help improve the lives of people most in need.
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Awards for Young Musicians supports the UK’s most talented young musicians (aged 5 to 18), who, because of financial need, may be prevented from fulfilling their creative potential. Each year awards of between £200 and £2000 are made, based on evidence of musical talent and financial need.
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The BBC Performing Arts Fund helps aspiring music-makers and performers looking for a way to get ahead. To date the fund has allocated £2.4m to fund young musicians, from a range of genres, to help them pursue their careers in music.
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Bournemouth Arts Grants support small-scale arts projects taking place in or with clear links to Bournmeouth, which involve people working through creative ideas. Grants are for £100-£800, and have previously funded such projects as festivals and theatre groups, older people working with school children, artists’ residencies in day centres, arts in hospitals, writing, video, and much more. Open to individuals, charities, arts organisations and schools.
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The Youth Opportunities Fund is a pot of government money open for young people to use for local projects. In Bournemouth there is still money available to support the ideas and projects of young people aged 13-19! Ideas must be independent – not driven (but most likely supported) by adults, and ideally have a positive effect on the community as a whole.
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The Bristish Council offer funding to develop educational links with other EU regions, through the Comenius Programme. Open to local education authorities, schools, teachers, parents and other associations working in education/ youth work, the aim of the programme is to strengthen the European dimension in school education and to offer European learning experiences to teachers, pupils and administrators.
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CABE offer education grants of up to £1,500 to support imaginative teaching and learning about architecture and the design and use of buildings and public spaces. Successful applicants will create opportunities to involve pupils, aged from 5-19, in exemplary learning experiences. The deadline for applications is 9th Nov 09.
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New in 2009, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has launched the Innovation Fund, to support genuinely innovative ideas and unusual partnerships across our cultural, educational and social interests. This is now the only funding stream open to applications, which are welcomed from non-for-profit organisations only.
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Channel 4 has formed the 4 Innovation for the Public (4iP) fund to stimulate public service digital media (beyond television) across the UK. In plain English, that means supporting great ideas for websites, games and mobile services that help people improve their lives.
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The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts is an educational charity committed to helping children experience the arts in a high quality and sustained way. The main funding programme run by the Foundation is called Start, which supports cultural organisations to develop and deliver arts enrichment programmes for primary and secondary school students, particularly who have not accessed the arts or culture before.
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The Office of Communications (Ofcom) runs the Community Radio Fund, offering support to Community Radio Stations by helping with their core running costs. Areas that where funding can be used include: management; administration; fundraising to support the station; and community outreach work.
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