Creative Industry Fund (open call 4)
Open call 4 focuses on the UKSPF investment priority ‘supporting local businesses’. The call is designed to allocate £160,000 to develop creative industry networks.
What type of bids do we encourage?
We would like to see applications which will:
- Support a minimum of 4 Peer Networks within various creative industry sectors that have capacity to grow
- At a maximum value per network of £40,000
- Networks could be around music / visual arts / film and tv / other creative industry sectors
- All networks need a shared identity and purpose and evidence of a supportive membership
These networks will help support the growth of creative businesses through improved productivity, knowledge and expertise.
Before you bid
Please read the following documents prior to putting in a bid:
- Invitation to bid (PDF)
- Creative industries workforce analysis (PDF)
- Focus CRF and EU evaluation report (PDF)
- Appendix A - lessons learnt (PDF)
- LCC outputs/outcome definition and monitoring requirements (PDF)
The documents provide information on the objectives of the UKSPF Leicester, the specific grant call, the types of projects we intend to support, and the process and section criteria that will be used to assess bids.
What funding is available?
This will be an approximately 10 month contract from May/June 2024 to March 2025 for revenue funding.
We are anticipating allocating this funding to between four to six organisations.
Eligibility
Any legally constituted organisation can make an application. This includes local authorities, public sector organisations, higher and further education institutions. Private sector organisations and registered charities can also submit bids and be project deliverers where they are providing a service to benefit other organisations or individuals. They cannot receive support if the intention of the project is to further their own business or organisation, for example, through the purchase of equipment or offsetting additional staffing or other costs.
How to apply
To bid, you must must complete and submit the following documents by email to ukspf.programme@leicester.gov.uk.
Bids submitted in any other format will not accepted.
Deadline for bids
Bids must be submitted by midnight, 8 March 2024.
The UKSPF Leicester is a competitive process and we will not enter into discussions with bidders.