B&NES Arts Newsletter

Arts Quarterly	Newsletter No.4 . April/May 1999 (online version) .
	Please submit information for the next newsletter (July/August edition) by June 4th. 1999. Send to Rebecca Quick at the Arts Development team, 16a Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ. Tel: o1225 396432 Fax 01225 396457 - email: rebecca_quick@bathes.gov.uk ( please mention your read this newsletter at 'The Process') .
Funding Information:

The 'Funderfinder' is a computer programme, providing a wonderful information source that automatically categorises your request (project, organisation, group) and matches it to appropriate funding bodies / trusts etc. It is well worth checking out! Your nearest terminal is held at the Bath Centre for Voluntary Service, 3 Abbey Green, (20 yards from the side entrance of Marks & Spencers) Bath. The CVS is a comprehensive resource centre, volunteer bureau, a membership organisation, giving advice and support, training and consultancy to all in the voluntary sector. They have a diligent and dedicated staffing and volunteers team who are all extremely approachable. To book time and learn how to use the programme to find your information, phone 01225 464015, speak to Jane Sturtz (Training and Resources Officer). Times available: Mon – Thu (not between lunch / 12.30 – 1.30).

The Arts Council of England has revealed its budget for 1999-2000. It aims to reward excellence and innovation through its grant allocation, and transferring significant decision making over arts funding to the regions. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has increased the Arts Council's core grant-in-aid budget from £189.6 million in the 1998 to £218.8 million in 1999-2000. The figure will rise again in 2000-01 to £228.9 million and to £243.7 million in 2001-02. The golden question in most peoples minds – who will receive this additional funding?

The Arts Council of England – Visual Arts Grants 1999/2000.
Applications are being invited for funding for projects taking place in England in 1999/2000 under the following schemes:
Architecture; Artists in Sites for Learning; Artists Film and Video National Fund; Exhibitions and Initiatives; National Exhibition Awards; National Visual Arts Publishing; National New Media Projects.

These funds are open to artists' groups and artist-run organisations, but individual artists wishing to develop or promote their own work are not eligible under these schemes.
Please note that these schemes may not be available beyond 1999/2000.
For more details send a A5 size SAE to the Visual Arts Department, Arts Council of England, 14 Great Peter Street, London, SW1P 3NQ, indicating the award you are interested in (categories above).
Tel: 0171 333 0100 Fax: 0171 973 6429 E-mail: info@artscouncil.org.uk

Awards for All

is a new Lottery funding programme designed to help support small groups which encourage local community involvement, through bringing people together to enjoy art, charities, sports and heritage. At the moment, this scheme is being piloted in the East Midlands with the main scheme available from April onwards. The scheme aims to reach 'disenfranchised' groups, to provide funding for people as well as buildings. The grants range from £500 to £5,000, with no mandatory partnership funding required in cash. To apply, groups must have a constitution and accounts, but could be a new group that formed for the purpose of applying. It has a simple application procedure. To log a request for more information and an application pack, call 0845 600 2040.

The Camelot Foundation's Community Support Programme aims to fund small organisations in community settings, to work with specific issues affecting disabled and disadvantaged individuals aged 16 years or over – prioritising projects offering an innovative approach to disability in a nationally significant way (arts project would be a really appropriate). Grants up to £5,000 available. Send a SAE to The Community Support Programme, The Camelot Foundation, 1 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY. Tel: 0171 937 5594.

The Baring Foundation's Small Projects Fund is open to constituted, non-profit making organisations in the UK, with a proposal for a small scale arts project or event in education and the community. The Knowledge & Skills Exchange Fund is for applications that will result in sharing knowledge and skills among arts practitioners working in an educational or community context. Value £500 - £3,000.
Deadline: 30th June 1999
Contact: The Baring Foundation, 60 London Wall, London, EC2M 5TQ.
Tel: 0171 767 1348

The Wingate Scholarship offer grants of £6,500 to £10,000 to people undertaking original work of artistic, social or scientific value. For details, send SAE to;
The Administrator, Wingate Scholarship, 38 Curzon St, London, W1Y 8EC.

£17m Dance and Drama Awards scholarships package announced by Culture, Media and Sport. Money will provide vital help with fees and maintenance costs for approx 800 students a year, for three years. From September 1999, the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils will provide courses accredited by the Council for Dance Education and Training and the National Council for Drama Training with allocations of funded places. Successful students auditioning for these, will not be required to contribute more that £1,000 towards cost of their fees, with the average funded support being over £6,000 pa. Special help will be available for students from low-income families. Further information for students is available from the individual schools. Colleges interested in offering degrees should contact Derek Hicks or Tracy Allen at HEFCE Tel: 0117 931 7460, or for non-degree courses Theresa Herron on 0114 259 4946.

The Laura Ashley Foundation awards grants to organisations with arts projects, and to students on a range of arts courses. For more information contact: The Laura Ashley Foundation, 3 Cromwell Place, London, SW17 2JE. Tel: 0171 581 4662.

Help the Aged Millennium Awards offer grants of between £1,000 to £10,000 to people over the age of 60 who live in rural areas and would like to set up a local project of benefit to the community. For more information contact: Help the Aged, Millennium Awards, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R OBE.
Tel: 0171 250 4477.

Ninesquare Charitable Trust awards grants for general charitable purposes. It is a new trust, so that is all we know right now!
Contact: Ninesquare Charitable Trust, KPMG, Richmond Park House, 15 Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3BG.

The Arts Council of England's networking Scheme
offers grants of up to £500 for individuals to facilitate communications and exchange information between disabled people working in the arts sector. The information gathered should 'substantially add to what applicants already know in the area of work involved. Applications can be submitted on tape or in braille.
Contact:The Policy and Planning Officer (Disability), Arts Council of England, Tel: 0171 333 0100

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The Johnson & Johnson European Fund for Children's Health
offers grants of approximately £3,450 - £34,485 (paid in euro). Information packs and application forms are available from: Johnson & Johnson European Fund for Children's Health, c/o Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), 46 Rue Dejonckerstraat, B-1060 Brussels, Belgium. Tel: 00322 2 544 0050, Fax: 0032 2 544 0880.

See (Jan/feb) Arts Quarterly Newsletter No.3. for two other European funding opportunities (Rahpael Programme and kaleidoscope 1999). See (Jan/feb) Arts Quarterly Newsletter No.3. for two other European funding opportunities (Rahpael Programme and kaleidoscope 1999).

If you are seeking funding from the EU, the following information provides a primer on the euro:
1. The euro is always written in lower case, there are no Euro.
2. euro is both singular and plural, it's ten euro not ten euros.
3. euro consist of 100 cents.
4. euro became legal tender in all participating countries on 1st Jan 1999. All transactions across the EU and participating countries need to show the euro symbol and should seek to offer payment options in euro. All the EU Member States except the UK, Sweden and Denmark are part of euro-land.
5. euro notes and coins come into circulation by 1st Jan 2002.
6. Anyone receiving ECU grants will now get then in euro. As well as causing accounting problems, it, as expected the Pound strengthens against the euro, the Pound will become worth more euro. So when you change your grant into Pounds, you will get less that you expected.
7. Any charitable trust making grants within Europe needs to think about the euro option.
8. Anyone getting donations through the Internet needs to understand the options too.
This information was taken from 'RTI Publications: Funding Digest '99 issue 93 January'.

Training and Workshops:

Destination Europe.
The seminar series continues to help arts practitioners and groups launch into Europe. South West Arts presents six seminars looking at key cultural issues, specific European regions and funding sources. The series is aimed at Managers, policy writers, fundraisers and others working in arts, media and cultural organisations. Seminars will take place at the Brewhouse Theatre, Swindon.
Cost: Individual sessions, £27.00.
Dates: 30th April 1999 28th May 1999
Contact: Sarah Dawson, South West Arts, Tel: 01392 218 188

Saturday Drawing Workshops
These drawing workshops are loosely based on Henry Moore's observation that there are at least six different approaches to drawing. Each session is intended as a journey to give participants a taste for the wonder and magic of exploring some of the differences. The workshops are thematic and can be approached singly or as a whole.
April 17th Drawing for making…
Looking at drawing as a working tool for exploring ideas and gathering information.
May 16th In the Footsteps of a Leonardo doodle…
Looking for inspiration in a piece of lichen, a flaking stone…
June 12th Taking a few lines for a dream…
Working with the observed and the imagined. Life model in the morning.
July 10th Abstraction.
Looking at rhythm and form while playing with media and those drawings you were about to throw away.

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Sunday Life Drawing Workshops
Each day is an opportunity to practice and extend life drawing skills. It is particularly
geared for those just embarking into the life-room situation. It is also available for
those who want some guided practice whatever your experience. With some
unexpected challenges to enhance your observation and drawing potential. Also a
chance to fill your portfolio with many drawings…
18th April 16th May 11th June 10am – 5pm (bring a packed lunch!)
Tutor: Caroline Waterlow - BA Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art, now specialising in the disciple of drawing and sculpture. She regularly exhibits in the UK and runs workshops based around drawing skills.

Venue: Widcombe Studios, Alton Place, Bath. Widcombe Studios are between Holloway and St. Marks Road, off Lyncombe Hill. Five minutes from Bath Spa station and Bus Station. Limited car parking on Holloway Road or St.Marks Road. Studio Tel: 01225 482480. Cost: £20 per day (£10 deposit). £57 for three days (£28 deposit). Advanced booking essential.
Contact: 01225 422223 for further information and booking.

Submerged
Commissions of New Work for The Old Royal Baths Bath Festivals Trust/DA2
Bath Festivals Trust seeks temporary invigilators for an exhibition which will take place during the 1999 Bath International Music Festival. The project is a collaboration with DA2 the digital arts development agency based in Bristol, presenting new commissions made by four artists working with film, video and digital imaging in response to the spa building in the period prior to its restoration as part of the Bath Spa Project.
The exhibition will run from 20 May - 6 June 1999, and will be open daily from 12 noon to 5pm.
If you would like to know more about temporary work opportunities associated with the project please send an SAE marked `Submerged: Invigilation' to Bath Festivals Trust, 5 Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ.
Deadline for applications will be Monday 19th April 1999.

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