We want audiences across Wales to be able to access the very best arts activity, so the artistic work we support must be suitable for presentation in arts centres, galleries, theatres, concert halls, outdoors and non-traditional venues, either as part of a tour or at a single venue or gallery.   

If you’re making an application following the completion of a research and development phase, we will expect you to have left a reasonable period of time for learning, reflection and evaluation before starting an application for a further phase of funding. 

 

We're keen to support: 

  • The creation of high-quality work that is innovative and compelling in any artform, including combined or multi-artform. 

  • Work that is new and contemporary, with a clear artistic vision, that seeks out and engages audiences who don't normally engage in the arts / those who are least represented. 

  • Focussed proposals for projects that will clearly develop creative practice.  

  • Projects that demonstrate value for money. 

  • Projects that bring together a cohort of individual artists or creative freelancers, maximising the impact of our funding.  

  • Projects that have the clear support and collaboration of partners. 

  • Projects that have partner support to act as a “critical friend” during the planning, development, creation and / or delivery of work. 

  • Projects that involve working collaboratively with venues or galleries to co-commission and present work.  

  • Projects that involve the creation of work by or for D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent people, Black, Asian and Ethnically diverse people, and other protected characteristic groups. 

  • Projects that focus on the creation of Welsh language work for Welsh learners and speakers of all levels. 

  • Wales-based projects that include a distinctive UK/International dimension. 

  • Projects created and led within Wales that include the participation of an international artist or company. 

 

We will not support: 

  • Projects that haven’t considered the audiences they are trying to reach, or the barriers that might prevent them engaging.  

  • Projects that haven’t demonstrated a commitment to deliver high quality work.  

  • Projects that do nothing to encourage opportunities for under-represented, new or emerging talent.  

  • Projects that deliver work in isolation with no outside critical voice or partner support. 

  • Single stranded proposals with no clear longer-term benefit to creative practice or the wider sector.  

  • Projects that have no clear audience for the work.  

  • Projects that focus entirely on paying yourself to deliver work with no wider beneficiaries. 

  • Projects that are primarily focussed on creative collaborations with international artists or companies taking place either outside the UK or digitally - (For these types of projects, please refer to the International Opportunities Fund).