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MISSION STATEMENT
"We will build on Warwick District’s culture of creativity by stimulating accessible, diverse and innovative arts provision to enrich the quality of life.”
What are the services?
- Advise and support artists, creative businesses, amateur and professional arts groups and organisations on the development of their work.
- Provide support (including grants) for the development of arts activity in the community, and to facilitate opportunities for participation in the arts.
- Advocate for and raise the profile of the District’s arts activity.
- Work in partnership at a strategic level to identify gaps in provision and develop arts initiatives that will help to meet local priorities.
- Support the development of the local creative economy.
If you would like to join our mailing list to receive information about Warwick District Council’s Arts Development Service and newsletters about arts events and opportunities across the county please contact the Arts Development Officer.
Contact: Arts Development Officer Mair Evans on 01926 456231 or email mair.evans@warwickdc.gov.uk
Resources Available
Funding is available for a wide range of artforms including visual arts and photography, crafts, 3D arts and sculpture, film and digital arts, dance, theatre, music and opera, street arts, and creative writing. The District Council offers two types of funding:
- Key Client awards
- Arts Development Grants
Applications for Key Client status are considered annually in conjunction with the Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Arts Partnership.
Arts Development Grants
Current Criteria
Grants are available to Arts and Heritage Organisations within Warwick District for any amount up to £2,500. Funding will be considered for:
- Original, high quality imaginative projects which take place within Warwick District.
- Projects that clearly demonstrate development and increased access to arts/heritage.
Priority will be given to projects which:
- Increase participation / attendance in the arts in the Warwick district.
- Contribute towards / celebrate the Cultural Olympiad.
- Help creative businesses contribute to the local economy.
- Help create stronger, safer, healthier communities.
- Help revitalise and enhance public spaces.
- Increase / enhance cultural tourism.
- Raise the profile of arts activity in the district.
- Facilitate / develop networking or partnership working.
- Help develop a thriving cultural quarter in south Leamington.
- Help develop international links.
Funding will not be available for:
- School based activities which take place during normal school hours.
- Projects which only benefit an individual.
When can I apply?
The deadlines for 2011-12 are:
- Monday 27th June 2011
- Monday 26th September 2011
- Monday 12th December 2011
Please note that late applications will not be considered.
Please allow four weeks for a decision on the application and enough time to prepare and plan for the activity. We recommend that the activity is planned to start no earlier than seven days after the date you can expect the Council to make a decision.
To apply for an Arts Development Grant you will need to complete a Warwick District Council Grant Application Form. Contact Mair Evans (WDC Arts Development Officer) on 01926 456231 or mair.evans@warwickdc.gov.uk for more information.
An Arts Strategy for Warwick District Council, 2009-13
The Arts Strategy for Warwick District was published in Spring 2009.
The Arts Strategy presents an overview of current arts provision within the District and includes an Action Plan based on public consultations carried out over summer 2008. The Action Plan is intended to provide a framework for the delivery of the Council’s Arts Development Service until 2013. A full version of Warwick District Council’s Arts Strategy is available for download in 2 parts: Part 1 (PDF, 481kb) and Part 2 (PDF, 479kb).
Warwick District Council wants to work with a wide range of partners at local, regional and national level to achieve the objectives set out in the Arts Strategy. We hope that it will be useful to our partners and potential partners, and to local residents and artists, in understanding our priorities and how we might work together.
Our Key Clients
Warwick District Council’s ‘Key Clients’ are all professional arts organisations based within Warwick District and delivering activities locally. They are Hybrid:arts and Live and Local.
Snapshots!
Warwick District is home to lots of exciting arts activity, here are just a few examples of recent developments and what is happening in 2009-10...
Warwick District Music Promoters’ Forum to launch a new website
WDMPF have produced their ‘anti-clash’ diary and ‘Music To Your Ears’ since the mid 1990s – these invaluable resources are now available through a new interactive website www.musictoyourears.org.uk. WDMPF report that their diary “is a tremendous help in publicising musical events, enabling promoters to make known their concerts and assisting regular concertgoers and visitors to exercise their wish to listen to beautiful, live music.” It is hoped that the site will provide an online ticket booking system through a direct link to Oxboffice in the future.
Leamington Music
Leamington Music is currently running its winter season of concerts. Keep an eye out for the September - March 2010 concerts including the series of international String Quartet concerts in the Royal Pump Rooms Leamington, the Early Music series in St. Mary’s Church, Warwick and after Christmas Music in the Round in Warwick.
Please visit www.leamingtonmusic.org for further information.
LEADER Project – Get funding to support your rural community!
A Central Warwickshire Villages bid has successfully secured £1.5m funding for rural parishes in Rugby Borough and Warwick District areas. It will provide seed funding for local projects that fall into the following broad categories:
- Events and activities that encourage communities to come together to create artworks and performance.
- Support for communities to develop their own local food production through community gardens.
- Developing links between communities and the land based industries in and around them.
This project is being led by Garden Organic, Ryton.
Visit www.warwickshireleader.net or email ideas@warwickshireleader.net for more information or to register you idea for a project.
Arts Development Research
To find out more visit Policies & Strategies.
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