Resources for your funding application
Up on the blog this week, Team Lit has started a series of FAQs to help Writers and other Literature Artists/freelancers navigate their way through an application to the new Open Fund. Resources currently available cover:
i) Publishing contracts, advances, agents and more
ii) Self-publishing and contribution models
iii) Development — jumping market categories, describing creative practice and more
iv) Describing the work and supplying samples
v) Endorsements, reviews and sale data
We’ll be adding more next week. Use the comments at the end of this post or email viccy.adams@creativescotland.com to let me know what you’d find helpful in our next round of info pooling.
As well as your friendly neighbourhood Literature Specialism Leads & Officers (Mairi, Alan, Harriet & myself), the rest of Creative Scotland are also working hard to find different ways of reaching out to artists to offer developmental support and to make our processes more open, accessible and inclusive.
The Open Fund aims to enable individuals and organisations to explore ways of working that will help them to adapt and respond to the current changing circumstances
Creative Scotland recently held two pilot ‘An Introduction to the Open Fund’ online events (limited to 40 attendees each). You can catch up on highlights from those and keep your eye on dates for follow-up sessions on the main CS website.
This fund is designed to support you to sustain your practice in a changing world. We are asking you to tell us what you want to do, and how it will help you and/or others in the months and years to come.
We have a kind and exceptionally knowledgeable Enquiries Team, who act as the first port of call for applicants wanting to find out if their project fits into the Open Fund or one of our other Targeted Funds. They work across all artforms and types of activity and are often able to point applicants towards other sources of funding if their work isn’t a fit with our fund criteria. They’ve put together a list of FAQs on the CS website, and the best way to contact them while we’re all remote working is by filling out the online contact form or by email.
The Open Fund began accepting applications in April 2020, replacing the pre-pandemic Open Project Fund. As part of a quarterly review process, several hundred pieces of feedback on the Open Fund have been reviewed and incorporated. As a result, the application forms, FAQs and Guidance documents have been have been changed slightly so that the rationale for the questions being asked is clearer, there is greater clarity on eligibility, and there are more resources for applicants to turn to for support.
