Community Creatives fund
Apply for an £800 grant from our Community Creatives fund and training to develop your skills to teach creative and cultural activities in your local community.
Community Creatives is an Arts on Estates project to encourage Islington Council tenants and leaseholders to share creative passion and skills with their community.
You can apply for a small grant to create a four to six-week creative project, based in one of Islington's community spaces.
You will get support and training to develop your skills and resources to run arts, cultural and creative classes.
What we will offer you
- Space - A free community space so that you can deliver your four-to-six week course to residents.
- Funding - Financial support of up to £800 per successful project that covers running your activity and materials.
- Teaching workshop – Skills to help you bring your activity to residents, or a refresher if you have already taught this before.
- Safeguarding training – Lessons on safeguarding residents over 18 and what to do if there are any queries while running your activity.
- Data protection training – Training to enable you to look after residents personal data.
- Support - Help and advice, throughout the project.
What you will need to do
- Teach residents your skills over four-to-six weeks
- Attend the Safeguarding, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and teaching courses.
- Get an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check - all our tutors teaching arts and creativity must have this to work with residents. We can help you with this.
- Give us feedback so that we can keep this project going and help us improve it so that people want to apply again.
Who can apply
This project is open to Islington Council tenants and leaseholders.
Islington Council tenant and leaseholders means a person who either:
- rents a council house or flat from Islington Council
- owns the right to live in a property through a lease agreement with Islington Council
- lives with someone who is a council tenant or leaseholder
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as we are actively seeking to better represent the diverse community we live and work in. We may prioritise applications that have been previously underrepresented in this grant scheme.
We are looking to support arts, creative and cultural projects through this grant. Unfortunately, we are not able to support the following activities:
- Sport
- Cooking
- Gardening
How much you can apply for
The total amount you can ask for is £800 per applicant.
How to apply
The application window for the Community Creatives fund has now closed and we are no longer accepting applications.
If you have a question about the scheme, contact partnerships@islington.gov.uk.
Community Creatives is delivered in partnership between Arts on Estates and our new Growing Culture Fund, part of our culture strategy.
Terms and conditions
- Applicants must be over the age of 18.
- Grantees must be, or be living with, an Islington Council tenant or leaseholder.
- Grantees should not be receiving funds from any other sources for the delivery of their activity.
- The grant can only be used to purchase items and cannot be used to pay the grantee for their time.
- The activity must be delivered through an Islington community space.
- The activity must be available to residents aged 18 and above.
- All activities to be risk assessed - we can help you with this.
- You must purchase public liability insurance – we can help you with this.
- To meet audit requirement all purchases should be agreed with Islington Council before purchase and proof of purchase must be made available.
- Decisions made by the assessment panel are final.
- GDPR statement for data provided by the grantee to be made by the council.
- Must play a full and active role in assessment and feedback.