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Sunday 5 February 2012
Thursday 26 January 2012
Ideas Fund Innovators now open for submissions
If you're aged between 16-25 and have a creative project that could do with a cash injection, this is the fund for you. We’re offering 10 projects £1,000 each to help get them off the ground.
This round of Innovators is open until 22 March 2012, so make sure you get your entries in before then.
In the past we've funded everything from dance and film projects to music videos and photography collectives. Whatever creative field you work in, we'll consider your application.
We're looking for projects that are inspiring, original, innovative and that we think you can deliver. Visit the website and read application tips from previous winners and download our PDF about creating a project budget.
So here’s the boring bit. You MUST read the Ts&Cs in full before you apply – we get loads of applications we have to make ineligible because people haven’t read the terms.
You must be aged 16 to 25 on the closing date (22 March 2012) and be resident in the UK. Your project must take place between April and December 2012. For more information and details on how to apply click here.
Monday 16 January 2012
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Student designers wanted for new Creative Times Design Brief series
Creative Times is looking for articulate and ambitious student designers to take part in a series of five design features, devised and coordinated by Manchester-based graphic designer Dan Shannon, to be published on the site in the first half of 2012.
Thursday 15 December 2011
Win over £5000 worth of advice & support to help your company grow internationally
The Exporting for Growth Prize - UK Trade & Investment is looking for the UK’s best new export ideas and on 10 November launched ‘The Exporting for Growth Prize’ competition.
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Arts Council England Invitation to Tender
WE PLAY, the North West’s cultural legacy project for London 2012 and the Cultural Olympiad and the Northwest Steering Group for the 2012 Games wish to commission the design and build of a single destination website, that consolidates the London 2012 offer for the England’s North West.
The website will increase public awareness of all official 2012 activity in the region, with a special emphasis on the diverse and high quality cultural offer made possible through the Cultural Olympiad. More specifically, the site will bring together audiences from a variety of backgrounds and interests to engage them in Cultural Olympiad events and other official London 2012 activity.
For full details and downloads of tender documents click on the link.
Northern Soho launches innovative Mentor Match scheme
Following extensive consultation with its members, Northern Soho will be launching an innovative Mentor Match scheme on Thursday 24 November 2011.
The scheme will give members the unique opportunity to work with experienced mentors working in the creative industries, who have earned their stripes in organisations varying from the largest agency group in the North of England to the smallest freelancers working on their own.
Click on the link to find out more and get involved.
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Creative England receives Regional Growth Fund investment
The Government has announced Creative England as one of the successful bidders to receive investment through the second round of its £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund.
Creative England has secured c.£5 million RGF funding for ‘Digital Champions’, a private sector-led scheme providing development funding and market expertise to small creative and digital businesses working in cross-platform content and services.
‘Digital Champions’ will provide match funding and additional support to creative and digital SMEs in the North and North West, Birmingham and the West Midlands, and the far South West, areas identified as vulnerable to public sector job losses and with lower levels of enterprise and private sector growth.
Funding will help high potential businesses in these areas overcome market barriers and gain competitive advantage from the continued explosion in demand for cross platform content.
Thursday 27 October 2011
Film Culture Fund now open
Creative England’s Film Culture Fund is now open for applications, with a total of £490,000 delegated Lottery funds from the BFI to distribute in its first round.
The Fund is looking to support the provision and interpretation of both specialised and mainstream film in England, by investing in: - audience development within the film exhibition sector- film education activities which are linked to and support film exhibition infrastructure (e.g. cinemas, film festivals, film societies and other platforms)
- the acquisition, preservation and conservation of and access to regional screen heritage
Applications are invited from cinemas, film archives, film festivals, mobile cinemas, film societies and other eligible organisations working in the English regions outside of London.
Awards will range from £2,000 - £50,000 depending on the project. Funded activity can include programming, education, reaching under-served audiences and regional screen heritage.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
IP and Copyright - what do you need to know?
The last in the series of 'essential media law advice' seminars takes place tonight. Has copyright reached its sell by date? What is Creative Commons? and 18 other frequently asked questions will be answered by Keith Arrowsmith in his introduction to arguably the most valuable and flexible of the intellectual property rights. Click on the link for more information.
Thursday 6 October 2011
Sheffield's Sensoria festival calls for submissions
Now in its fifth year, Sheffield’s festival of film, music and digital is calling for submissions.
Sensoria, the UK’s festival of film, music & digital, will be back for nine days of fun and festivities from 21 – 29 April 2012. The festival crosses musical genres and has celebrated everything from Americana/folk, indie and electronica through to rockabilly.
Sensoria is now looking for exciting new work in the realms of music, film and digital – this can include fiction features or short films with an innovative soundtrack or score, music related biopics, music documentary and truly exceptional music video. Films should have been completed after 2009.