Youth Arts Open Fund Round 4

Fund ID

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Eligibility

Are you currently receiving multi-year funding from Creative Scotland?

Please be aware that while eligible, your application to this fund must be for work that is separate and distinct from anything supported via your multi-year funding. If you would like to discuss this please contact Creative Scotland.

Are you applying for a project that is predominantly a music project?

If you are a non-arts organisation, please confirm that arts activity will be delivered by a professional and experienced artist and that you can provide the CV/s or job descriptions/s required to be submitted as part of your application.

If you are a freelance artist, please confirm that you can provide a CV as part of this application

Note that applications cannot be considered without this information.

I understand that arts activity must be delivered by a professional and experienced artist and that I must provide the required CVs or job descriptions required as part of this application:

This fund is no longer able to support music projects. Please refer to the fund guidance for information on applications to Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative.

Section 1 - About You

First name

Last name

Your contact telephone number (work)

Your work email address

Section 2 - Your Organisation or Freelance Practice

Are you an organisation or freelance artist?

OrganisationFreelance Artist

Please describe your freelance practice and your experience of working with children and young people (300 words max)

What is the name of your organisation (or your Freelance Professional Name)?

For Freelance Artists, this will either be your name, your professional/artist name or any other name if you have set up a business that you operate under

What is the name of your organisation?

Legal status

Other type of organisation

Charity number (please enter n/a if not applicable

Company number (Please enter n/a if not applicable)

Please tell us about the governance arrangement for your organisation (200 words max) (please enter n/a if not applicable)

Registered Office Address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

Address Line 3

Town/ City

Local Authority Area

Postcode

What is the vision/ mission of your organisation (Max 200 words) (please enter n/a if not applicable)

Senior Manager Details

Please give details of a senior manager that has approved this application or that we can contact if required

First Name

Last Name

Position

Email

Phone Number

Section 3 - About Your Project

*Please note that young people will be involved in assessing applications and your answers in this section should be as accessible as possible*

Youth Led Approach

Your proposal must be for youth-led arts activity. By this we mean that children and young people will be fully involved in shaping the project. It will respond to their needs and concerns and empower them as partners in their own learning experience. This is a central theme of the fund and a core assessment criterion. A pre-defined curriculum is unlikely to meet this criterion. Equally, highly speculative approaches whereby “young people will decide what they want to do” post-award are unlikely to meet this criterion. Please refer to the guidance for further information and examples of this approach.

Please describe how the young people involved in the project will directly shape their own experience, have their voices amplified and input to the design and delivery of the project. (200 Words max)

Project Description

Please give a short overview of the programme you will deliver. What will young people be doing? How many sessions will you run? How often? If you are an organisation working with a freelance artist/s tell us about this. What makes this a high-quality experience for young people? It should be clear how the programme you describe will support the outcomes for young people that you select in the next section (300 words max)

Area that will benefit

Please give further information

Please select the most appropriate art form from the list below:

Project start date

Project end date

Section 4 - Participant and Programme Details

Number of children and young people you will work with:

Number of face-to-face delivery hours:

Please indicate the total number of children and young people you will work with and the number of sessions you plan to deliver.

What age do anticipate the children and young people you’ll work with will be?

Order	Fund Indicator ID	Age Group	Expected Number

This fund supports arts experiences for children and young people that face additional barriers to accessing these opportunities. Please tell us about the barriers faced by the children and young people you hope to support.

How will you reach the young people you will be working with?

We expect you to be specific about your engagement plans and if you are working with partner organisations to facilitate this, we expect that you will have agreed this in principle. (100 words)

Specific safeguarding obligations and legal requirements apply when working with children and young people, and we expect you to take steps to reduce the risk of harm or abuse. This should include having a Safeguarding or Child Protection Policy and PVG membership.

Please describe how you will apply a safeguarding approach to this specific project. (max 100 words)

Section 6 - Finance

Please detail what funding you require (Please refer to the fund guidelines for information on eligible cost).

If you have match or in-kind funding, please do not include this here, you can tell us about in the next question. The amount shown here should not exceed the maximum amounts available (£20k for organisations and £10k for freelance artists)

Please enter only numerical information in the "amount" box - do not add a £ sign)

Staff time

Amount (£)

Breakdown

Venue costs

Amount (£)

Breakdown

Activity costs

Amount (£)

Breakdown

Other Costs

Amount (£)

Breakdown

Total requested amount (£)

Does the amount requested represent 100% of the total cost of the programme?

Total amount of match funding.

Total amount of in-kind funding.

If project delivery is dependent on match or in-kind funding please confirm that this is secured.

Section 7 - Bank Details

Account Name

Name of Bank

Address of Bank

Account Number

Sort Code

Section 8 - Supporting Documents

Has your organisation been established in the last year

Please attach electronic copies of the following document(s):

Upload Public Liability Insurance Certificate

Upload Audited Accounts/ receipts and Payments or Bank Statement for Organisations operating less than 1 year

Upload CV's for freelance/delivery artists here (please combine into one document)Your application will be considered ineligible without this information.

Section 9 - Sustainability

Please briefly describe how you have considered environmental sustainability in the planning and delivery of your project. (max 100 words).

Section 10 - Compliance

Organisations:

Does your recruitment procedure include membership to the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme, or, the use of Disclosure Scotland Enhanced Checks, as appropriate for staff and volunteers who are working unsupervised with children and protected adults?

Or

Freelance Artist:

Are you a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme, or taken a Disclosure Scotland Enhanced Check, as appropriate for staff and volunteers who are working unsupervised with children and protected adults related to this type of work?

Organisations and freelance artists:
Please confirm that you have an up to date Safeguarding or Child Protection Policy.

Organisations:

Can you confirm that you will pay the Real Living Wage to directly employed staff, apprentices, 16–17-year-old workers and contracted and agency staff, from the start of the funded period? If you cannot confirm this, please contact us before submitting your application.

Data Protection
YouthLink Scotland is aware of its responsibilities in ensuring the security of the data you have provided in this application. We confirm that we will only use this data to fulfil our duties in relation to this grant programme. However Youth Arts Open Fund is a Scottish Government programme and is therefore subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and we may have to provide information to fulfil this obligation. Personal addresses are not subject to Freedom of Information so it is important to tick the box in section 1 if you are using a personal address for correspondence.

I confirm that I have read the above information regarding Data Protection and the Freedom of Information Act.

YouthLink Scotland is the national agency for youth work. We provide information, training and support to youth work organisations across Scotland. If you would like us to contact you with information about support opportunities (including other funding opportunities,) please let us know.

Yes, I'd like to hear about opportunities that may be of benefit to my organisation.