Tuesday 28th June 2016

Creating a proposal

 

The Arts Council is an organisation that provide funding for the arts. A lot of the free galleries we go to art funded by the arts council. They aim to invest £1.1 billion of government money around £700 mil into helping to create art and cultural experiences between 2015-2018. You can also apply for jobs/volunteer through the Arts Council website.
To get funding for an arts project, you need to create a proposal for what you plan to do with the funding and give a detailed overview of your project. The Arts Council website can be used if you need funding for a project, and below are some art trusts you can also contact for funding:

Wellcome Trust

Jerwood Charitable foundation
Princes Trust

Lottery Trust

The Elephant Trust

Leverhume trust

Artsquest

Welcome Europe

Local Councils

Art Wales

Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Tate

Paul Hamlyn Foundation
http://www.rakshapatel.co.uk/index.php
http://www.victoriarance.com/

As part of our project we had to create a proposal for what we are going to do with our community partners in this project. Each member of our group focused on a certain part of the proposal and we came together to edit it and present it to the teachers and other classmates. We also presented it to our community partner.
I had to write about the time scales part of the proposal, covering these questions : How  long will it take to organise? How long will it take to plan? How long will the workshops last? Do you need to factor in any extra time?

I did an original draft which was then revised when talking to Matthew, my annotations show the revisions we had to make and we got new potential workshop dates from teacher Matthew Lamptey.

Each member of our group wrote and talked about a section of the proposal
1. Title of project- The whole group came up with this
2. Define proposed project- Tyreis
3. Summary of audience- Shahla
4. Time scales- Me and Jennifer
5. Costs- Maya K
6. Materials- Maya B
7. What problems may occur?(risk assessment)-Louisa
8. Team members, roles and experiences- Millie 
9. Past examples- Amber and Grace
10. Blaise and Jasmine  
 

This is a summary of all the different parts of the proposal.

For our introduction we thought it would be nice to put a quote from one of the students who came to the earlier workshop. The quote is a response from when we asked the student why he liked drawing and art.

This was revised from our first draft, where we thought we would only be working with Year 4, and we also found out we'd be working with a smaller group rather than the group of 30 we'd expected.



We were able to talk a bit more in depth about our community partner by referencing the workshop we had earlier that day which gave us something to personalise our proposal and talk about what working with the students was like. Overall the students really liked their time at our school and we also had a lot of fun hosting the workshop and getting them more familiar with creating art.

 

Feedback from the teachers about our proposal:

 

Everyone in the group spoke clearly and explained their topic well.

We needed to go into more detail about individual parts of the proposal , some were too vague such as define your proposed project.  

Some parts were a bit rushed, this is due to the fact that we had to prepare our workshop and have a first draft ready to propose to Matthew which we then had to edit again, which was a lot to do in a short period of time. If we were to do it again we would plan better in advance, making sure we could get everything done to a high standard.

The title could be more inventive to make our project more personalised and unique.  

They really liked the quote we put from one of the students at the beginning of the presentation and we explained our philosophy behind our workshops well

A lot of art subjects are being cut by the government, so our project is really nice opportunity to engage young kids with art at a time where arts are being restricted so much in this country.