Youth Arts Training Grant 2024/25 (Ards and North Down Borough Council)

Overview

Ards and North Down Borough Council 

YOUTH ARTS TRAINING GRANT 2024/25

For opportunities taking place between 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025.

The Ards and North Down Borough Council’s Youth Arts Training Grant has been established to help improve access to youth arts training or development opportunities for young people.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

To be eligible you must meet all the following criteria:

• Resident within the Ards and North Down Borough Council Area.
• Aged 11 – 25 years. 
• Applying to, or have been accepted or invited onto, a youth arts training course or youth arts development opportunity.

WHAT IS AVAILABLE?

A maximum grant of £250 is available. 

CRITERIA

Please read the full Youth Arts Training Grant Guidance Notes document below before completing your application. You may also download the Guidance Notes which are linked at the bottom of this page (under the headline "Related").

SUPPORT MATERIAL

It is recommended that you compile the essential documentation in the following formats before completing your application online, ready to be uploaded: 

• Evidence of the course/training/activity programme or publication (PDF document is preferable). 
• Receipts/invoices/evidence of costs (PDF document is preferable). 
• A letter of acceptance or invite onto course/training/activity if applicable (PDF document is preferable). 

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Monday 26 February 2024, 11:59pm (sharp)

Please Note: Application form will shut at 11:59pm sharp and incomplete applications will be lost.

We encourage applications to be completed by the youth applying for the Youth Arts Training Grant as this demonstrates the commitment of the applicant. 

Please allow plenty of time to complete your application ahead of the date of the deadline.

IMPORTANT

It is recommended that before submitting your application that you click the 'save and come back later' button at the bottom left of each page. This will save your work allowing you to return to it. You will need to complete each question on that page before you can save the work or move on to the next page. If you submit your application without saving your work, and you experience an IT issue or loss of internet connection, your work will be lost and you will have to start again. 

PLEASE NOTE

If you require special assistance with this application process, require a one-to-one telephone/video meeting for advice, or would prefer to complete a Word version of this application, please contact us before the deadline (no later than 12 noon, Friday 16 February 2024) so this can be arranged. 

Email: artsgrants@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk for more information.

What happens next

What happens to your Application?

• Applications to the Youth Arts Training Grant are assessed after each application round by a panel made of members of the Ards and North Down Borough Council Arts and Heritage advisory panel.
• The deadlines for receipt of applications are published on the cover of the application form. All training/residencies/courses must take place between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. Completed applications should be submitted via the online application form by the relevant deadline.    
• Applicants should note that while careful consideration will be given to each application, it may not be possible to assist every applicant even if all the criteria are met.
• You will be contacted by email/letter to inform you of the outcome of your application. This usually takes four weeks from the application deadline. 
• Please refer to the Council website regarding appeals procedure.  www.ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk