Arts Council England has published guidance for anyone thinking about applying for Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant funding for arts, museums and library projects in Creative Health.
The information pack includes additional information for your Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants application. Make sure that you have also read the main Guidance for applicants. See ACE’s website for more information about Project Grants.
What can you apply for in relation to Creative Health?
Creative health projects vary in size, location, discipline, audience, and outcome. They can address specific conditions or wider issues which impact on health and wellbeing. As the development agency for creativity and culture in England, it is important to us that the creative and cultural content and purpose of the project is a valued, core component. National Lottery Project Grants is about making a difference to the creative and cultural lives of people in England. We’d expect to see creative and cultural practitioners involved in the design and delivery of any activities we support, and that people participating in and benefiting from a project are having a high quality creative or cultural experience. Creative and cultural outcomes sit alongside health and wellbeing, clinical or medical aims and outcomes in a creative health project, but to be eligible for Project Grants: – the focus of your activity and your application must clearly be on the creative or cultural content of the project; and – the creative or cultural focus of the project must sit within our supported disciplines.
Examples of the types of creative health project ACE can generally support include:
- Public programming including displays or exhibitions in which creativity or culture is used to address a health condition or group of people.
- Outreach activity or community engagement projects which are linked to addressing a health or wellbeing condition, or reaching a specific group of people, through use of creative or cultural activities.
- Provision of creative or cultural activities in a clinical setting in which creativity is an integral outcome.
- Group based projects which use creativity or culture that address a health condition or are aimed at a specific group.
- Projects which are delivered to people in their own homes or one to one.
- Digital and technology-based projects which address a health condition or are aimed at a specific group of people.
- Provision of creative or cultural projects for people in the community using social prescribing services.
- Participant led creative or cultural projects in cultural, community or clinical settings.
- Touring activity or activity which is focused on scaling up existing creative health provision.
- Research and Development projects which develop a new idea or explore a new way of working in creative health. For example, projects which identify gaps in provision, developing and testing new ways of working.
What you cannot apply for:
- Any creative health activity where health or clinical outcomes are the only or primary outputs of the project, or where the creative and cultural focus of the activity is not clear.
Access the resources:
- Access the full resource downloadable as a PDF here
- Or view the resource on the Arts Council’s website here
