Today is the day I began to put our show forward for further funding with Arts council England. This application was more of a ” see if I can do it for the future ” application.
I began researching into what it is Arts council England look for when making the decision to give funding or not with an application.
The first thing I looked into was the five ‘goals’ of the Arts council, them being:
- Excellence
- For everyone
- Resilience and sustainability
- Diversity and skills
- Children and young people
The Arts council look at Art and theatre as a way of bringing together people, people from different cultures and backgrounds, and this is a matter in which our final show fully intends to explore. if successful, with the correct amount of visual evidence our Company could be eligible for funding from £1000 to £10,000. Within my Application I will 0nly be asking for £800.
If granted this money will cover Marketing Costs, Small Venue Hire, and paying accommodation for the Actors. all props have already been bought and the show itself would be extremely ‘tamed down’ for touring purposes, meaning that we would not have the elaborate lighting states as seen in the main show and the performance would have a much more ‘D.I.Y’ aesthetic.
an example being;
rental of a venue- Skipton auction mart, Yorkshire – £150 per night of venue hire – seats 353 people (price includes staff on the night)
Hire of technician- £50 per night – supplied by Skipton auction Mart
cost of Accommodation for Actors – (£400 at skiptons travel lodge- includes breakfast)
Travel for company- £100 (From Lincoln central to Skipton Station) – Including rail cards.
van hire to transfer, costume, props and ‘D.I.Y’ lighting – In kind (We know a man with a van)
meaning that are total for touring this show to the other side of the country would in total cost us £700
if we sold tickets at £7 per ticket, and worst case scenario only selling 40% of the seats available we would make £987 from ticket sales
giving us a profit of £287 overall.
working this out provides reassurance that it would taking our show to the other side of the country and having a completely different audience could actually be completely possible!
When filling out the application form, I paid close attention to the ‘cheat sheet’ supplied by the arts council website. See below image.
(D’Arcy, 2017).
I Filled in the application relating our show to the Arts council guidelines as much as possible. an Example being significantly explaining how out show is of ‘excellence’ and is for ‘every one’ and can even apply to a ‘diverse’ set of people. that being three ‘Arts council goals’ already completed.
(see below photos of me at the beginning of the application for Arts Council Funding 2017)
(D’Arcy, 2017)
The application process takes a long long time, so who knows, but Maybe Fragment theatre will be making a comeback!
watch this space!
Citations
Artscouncil.org.uk. (2017). Individuals | Arts Council England. [online] Available at: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/why-culture-matters/making-case/individuals [Accessed 20 Feb. 2017].
D’Arcy. H. (2017) application of arts council : University of Lincoln library.
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