Access Support | Fundraising
Some funders provide bursaries to pay for access support when you make an application to them, including Arts Council England (ACE) and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Curiosity Productions can provide that access support if you are looking for an access support worker for your application.
How We Can Help
We can work with you to request support from ACE to pay Curiosity Productions to support you if you’re disabled or have a physical or mental health condition, or neurodivergence that makes their information and systems less accessible to you.
This support can include help with reading their guidance or making an application.
We mainly have experience in providing access support for neurodivergent applicants.
What We Can Help With
Please note this support can only be logistical support such as note-taking and entering your application onto Grantium. This support cannot include assistance in developing the content of your application.
We only have limited capacity for the number of applicants we can support for grants where there is a specific deadline, such as ACE’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grants. Please get in touch with us before you request access support from ACE if you wish to name us as your support worker:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01902 427033
Mobile (call/text/WhatsApp): 07376 020819
Our Experience
Our Creative Director Jenny Smith has been working in the arts and cultural sector since 2000. She has assessed grants at Arts Council England and created grant programmes and assessed applications at local authorities. She has also done a lot of bid writing, raising funds of up to £500,000.
Our Assistant Producer Isaac Boothman was part of the first Creative Black Country Fundraising Fellowship and actually enjoys entering data onto Grantium!
We are committed to skills development in the sector and to equity, access and inclusion. We hope that providing this support will enable more brilliant creatives to access funding to do their important, beautiful and inspiring work. We particularly aim to provide support to people who have experienced barriers to developing their work due to inequality and prejudice in our society, including ableism and racism.
