Hampshire County Council

Executive Member - Recreation and Heritage

6 September 2001

Arts Development Project Grants 2001/02

Report of the Director of Arts, Countryside and Community

Contact: Michael Fuller Ext: 6016

1. Introduction

1.1 This report presents details of applications received for project development grants from groups planning to organise arts projects for Hampshire. A wide range of project proposals have been received for 2001/02. Publicity has sought to attract applications involving the priority artforms namely visual arts, crafts, literature and lens based media. The full list of applications received is attached in Appendix 2. The budgets provided by each applicant are detailed together with funding from other bodies where relevant.

1.2 The County Council continues to run the Two For One Award Scheme, a very successful initiative that fosters a positive relationship between business and the arts as well as making the grant funding stretch further. The scheme works by matching new sponsorships valued between £200 and £500 and, thereby, provides a useful incentive to arts organisations to find more sponsors. This also encourages more local businesses to sponsor the arts in Hampshire. Applications for this scheme are detailed in Appendix 3.

2. Financial Details

2.1 The budget agreed by Recreation and Heritage Committee allowed for a roll

forward of similar sums to support arts grants as for last year. The budget of £67,000 is allocated as follows:

£

Project Development Grants 22,000

Festival Grants 11,000

Annual Programme Grants 24,000

Two for One Grants 10,000

2.2 A financial summary is shown in Appendix 1. Prior to this meeting an overall sum of £5,150 is available for distribution.

3. Project Development Grants

3.1 The applications for the support of arts projects are listed in Appendix 2 and include specific requests for £5,100 together with unspecified requests from applicants relating to projects with deficits of £1,150. Funding recommendations totalling £3,400 are proposed as set out in Appendix 2. The papers in the Appendix show details of all applications and they are prefixed with the letter A.

4. Two For One Award Scheme

4.1 Applications totalling £450 have been received and the details of these are shown in Appendix 3. These grants can be made retrospectively for arts events where an organisation has attracted first time sponsorship from a company. It is recommended that full matching amounts be made to the two applications due to the great success of this scheme in attracting other revenue funding for the arts. Funding recommendations totalling £450 are proposed and the details of these are shown in Appendix 3.

Recommendation

That the grants recommended in this report be approved.

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background papers

The following documents disclose facts or matters on which this report, or an important part of it, is based and has been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report.

NB the list excludes:

1. Published works

2. Documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.

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Detailed grant application forms County Arts Office