Norwich City Council is once again launching its popular Small Culture Grants to help cultural groups and community enterprises to provide events, festivals and other activities in the city.
The grants are part of the council’s action plan to ensure the city continues to flourish as a creative and vibrant place over the next decade and a half, working with others in the arts and cultural sector as part of the Norwich Creative City Compact.
In the 2023/24 financial year, the council gave awards from a £54,500 grant pot to ten local theatre groups and projects. Recipients ranged from theatre and music companies providing creative activities for young people or those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, to others delivering activities promoting diversity and public participation or supporting creative practitioners.
For the 2024/25 year, organisations are invited to apply for grants of between £500 to £7,500 by completing the application form at Get Talking Norwich by the deadline of 5pm on 10 May 2024. Applicants should read the guidance notes alongside the application form.
Clare Hubery, leisure and cultural services manager, said:
“We’re proud of the support we give to those who create the cultural heartbeat of our city and are pleased to once again be offering support in the form of our Small Culture Grants. The culture grants will help our local creative talent to keep innovating and producing the sort of activities which enrich our society and bring people together to improve lives.
“We have a shared citywide aspiration in the Norwich 2040 Vision to build on the work to make our city creative, liveable, fair, connected and dynamic. We know cultural activities can give those participating a sense of wellbeing and we look forward to receiving applications from the amazing pool of talent which exists locally.”
Norwich City Council recently carried out a comprehensive citywide face-to-face and online consultation with over 700 participants. It found that 90% of respondents believed Norwich was a creative place and that festivals, arts and culture make the city a better place to live; while 95% said arts and culture were valuable to them and their community.
- 84% of respondents said they feel proud to live in Norwich.
- 80% said Norwich city centre is welcoming and feels safe.
- 80% said Norwich has a good range of creative arts activities and events, but needed even more.
- 88% said they would like to spend more time on such activities.
- Of the 35 Norwich venues and festivals mentioned in the consultation, 18 had general awareness rates of 90% or more among the respondents, with The Forum having the highest ratings with 99% awareness and 98% attendance.
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