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Public Funding - What we learned

Education was the name of the game at our panel discussion on Monday night. Our latest information session was all about public funding, with a five-strong panel setting out what is available and how to apply for it. But it was a two-way interaction, too, with the audience telling our panel about their experiences of funding applications - not all of which were positive. Some had found the process time-consuming and labour-intensive and the end result not relevant, so we hope the talk went some way towards reassuring people that public funding can work for them. 

Annie Warburton from sponsors, Skillset, Norris Myers OBE from UK Trade & Investment, Chris Simpson from Business Link, Mehjabeen Price from South West Screen and Nick Appleyard from the Technology Strategy Board described the funding and training needs their organizations are seeking to meet. By making presentations and answering questions from our chair, Greg Ingham, and members of the audience, we hope they helped break down some of the perceived barriers to accessing funding and training: barriers of fear of process, lack of knowledge and a feeling that this simply won’t work.

By the end of the night, a quick show of hands showed that over half the audience had had their opinions on public funding schemes reversed and were now encouraged to give it a second look.
 
If you missed the session, that, according to one Creative Bath member, taught her about ‘the mindset and planning needed to apply for the available pots of money and assistance to grow and develop as an arts organization’, then you might want to download the presentations we have below.

Download the Skillset presentation
Download the UK T&I presentation
Download the South West Screen presentation.
 

Photographs kindly supplied by Jo Wright (www.photosbygiovanna.co.uk) are now up on our flickr page. Take a look.

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