Artists' Marketing Grants

Arts Derbyshire provides Marketing Grants to new and emerging artists to help boost the county’s creative economy and both support and promote Derbyshire’s local artistic talent.

Individual professional artists and small arts based businesses based in Derbyshire and working in any artform are eligible to apply. The grant supports visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers and performers and can contribute towards a wide range of marketing including new publicity material, photography, advertising and website development.

Applicants must be resident in Derbyshire, excluding Derby City, or the majority of work must take place within the county boundary. If you only have an administrative base in the county you will not be eligible. Due to the high number of applicants, preference will be given to those who both live and work in Derbyshire, are new or emerging businesses and who have not received an Arts Derbyshire marketing grant previously.

Please note that if you wish to apply for costs relating to web development, you must explain how it is additional to the web presence that you are able to get for free on artsderbyshire. For instance, you may wish to add video or the ability to sell work through your existing website. We are unlikely to fund the creation of websites where they duplicate or add little to the web presence you can gain through getting a minisite. We also encourage you to consider the most cost effective approach to developing a web presence - if you commission a site, will you be able to maintain and update it yourself? There is good advice on developing a website for your business on the Business Link website.

The scheme is administered through the region's leading creative development agency, Design Factory, a not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting the development and success of designer/makers in the East Midlands, on behalf of Arts Derbyshre.

Deadlines

The deadlines for the Derbyshire Artists’ Marketing Grants are:

• 1 March 2012 

• 1 November 2012

For further information

Contact Rachel Kneale at Design Factory (email: rachel@designfactory.org.uk) or telephone 01529 414532

Application Form

The application form can be downloaded from the related documents below.

About the application forms

Contact Arts Derbyshire if you require the application form in different formats or languages. Email arts.team@derbyshire.gov.uk or call 01773 831385.

If you are unsure how to complete the budget section, there is an example budget available in the related documents section below to help you.

The scoring sheet in the related documents section below explains how the grants panel make their decisions. 

We get more good applications than we have funding to support, and make decisions according to how well the applications meet these criteria.

If we have a lot of high scoring applications, we will prioritise applicants that have not received funding from Derbyshire Arts Partnership before, and new and emerging arts businesses (those who have been trading for less than two years).