Find out more about the Framework and three objectives to support excellence, deliver for everybody, and reach everywhere. www.artscouncil.org.uk/our-strategy

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Introducing our new Strategic Framework: it sets out how we will make it easier for applicants and partners to work with us, as we start work developing a new longer-term strategy later this year.

Our strategy

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Touring is in a critical state – it’s time for a reset, writes Lyn Gardner in this week's @TheStage. Read more: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/tour... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

ACE PROJECT GRANTS ACCESS SUPPORT We’ve got a few spaces for under £30k applications to be submitted before June 2026. If you’re deaf, disabled, neurodivergent and/or experiencing poor health, you qualify for access support. Interested? Get in touch on contact @ the-uncultured .com

We had our first ever 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙯𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙨 Board Game Night last week Bradford Arts Centre along with @bdproducinghub.co.uk. It turns out exploring freelance working conditions with some dice & a bag of frazzles is exactly what we all needed on a wet January night! Photos: @tomwoollard.bsky.social

Frazzled in Bradford

We had our first ever Frazzled Freelancers Board Game Night last week B radford Arts Centre  along with Bradford Producing Hub. It turns out exploring freelance working conditions with some dice and.....

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Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. producergathering.com/resource/pause-for-producers/ @the-uncultured @producergathering

We’ve only gone and made a bloody board game! After years of researching and experiencing freelancer precarity and burnout, we’ve stepped out from behind our spreadsheets to design ‘Frazzled Freelancers’ - the fast paced roll-and-move board game for burnt out freelancers! Game Night coming soon 🔥

Are you a Black, Asian or ethnically diverse theatre maker in the North of England looking to make ambitious new work? We’ve just launched the £2 million Theatre Breakthrough Fund - find out more 👇 buff.ly/MjwaSsk Image credit: Shadows In Different Shades by Oladipo Agboluaje © Smart Banda

Parents in the arts sector work in a system that fails to support them adequately. Here, producer and new mother Nora Laraki shares her experience of taking a baby on tour.

Touring, parenthood and the art of making it work - Arts Professional

Parents in the arts sector work in a system that fails to support them adequately. Here, producer and new mother Nora Laraki shares her experience of taking a baby on tour.

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Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. producergathering.com/resource/pause-for-producers/ @the-uncultured @producergathering

ACE NEWS: if you're planning to go in for the new R&D NLPG, they will be adding a new dropdown next week so you can say you'd like your application to be considered for this strand, instead of the general NLPG. It's already technically open, but there is no way to denote it's for that strand now...

I wrote a small thing for this. Burnout is hard and tricky to find the edges of. Instead of looking directly at it I wrote about those bits around the sides.

The Uncultured@the-uncultured.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW RESOURCE! Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a new free resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. Co-produced by @the-uncultured.bsky.social @producergathering.bsky.social

ICYMI ✨

The Uncultured@the-uncultured.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW RESOURCE! Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a new free resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. Co-produced by @the-uncultured.bsky.social @producergathering.bsky.social

You can apply to this funding now, or if you would prefer, you can wait for the next round of Developing Your Creative Practice next April. Take a look at the information on our website to learn more about this temporary change, and why we’ve made it 👇 buff.ly/AYO3QFu

DYCP change: New Research and Development funding in National Lottery Project Grants

All the information you need about the changes to Developing Your Creative Practice and National Lottery Project Grants

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NEW FROM ACE: "We’re pausing the next round of DYCP, until April 2026 + using this year’s remaining DYCP budget to immediately launch a ringfenced £7.5 m Research&Development (R&D) fund within National Lottery Project Grants (NLPG)." www.artscouncil.org.uk/dycp#t-in-pa...

Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP)

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NEW RESOURCE! Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a new free resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. Co-produced by @the-uncultured.bsky.social @producergathering.bsky.social

Pause: A self-care support for producers - Producer Gathering

PAUSE: A Self-Care Support for Producers. Co-produced by The Uncultured and Producer Gathering, with support from Artsadmin and Marlborough Productions, this resource offers a supportive lens on exper...

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Funding update 📢 Our National Lottery Project Grants strands for Major Projects, Place Partnerships, and Touring will be fully reopened on Monday, 20 October. Access Support is available now. Find more information in our Q&A 👇 buff.ly/uPUmaK6

Are you a live artist or practitioner eager to explore how and why you make? Applications for Do It Together are now open! tinyurl.com/49ce24w4 ⏰Deadline to apply: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm #DIT2026

This is what is says on the tin, but also: paying artists, creatives, producers & crew fairly & on time would deflate the false profit margins of *every* creative industry. Paying workers fairly wd "kill" industry *as an endless profit machine*. Not defending AI, saying this problem is baked in.

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

ACE funding: If you're applying for Arts Council England under £30k Project Grants and use our templates, make sure you download the newest version rather than using an old one as we've updated it to reflect the new form www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar...

Thoughts and tips on the seemingly unnamed ACE under £30k application portal...

Will share some thoughts and tips later on - just submitting an application now...

Arts Council England@artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Now open for applications: National Lottery Project Grants (NLPG) £30,000 and under 📣 Find out how to apply: buff.ly/P4w218J The NLPG £30,001 - £100,000 strand will open for applications by Tuesday 30 September.

💥 Applications are now open for our Open Awards 2025/26! 💥 We’re offering £413k to disabled artists in England, Scotland and Wales. Got a bold, brilliant idea that’s ready to shake things up? Applications are open now until Monday 29 September 2025. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4mHxqRZ

We are very sorry for the disruption this causes, and we are working as quickly as we can to accept applications again. Please see more info here: buff.ly/8gdTBxY (3/3)

In the meantime, we are building a bespoke digital application form for the fund, which will be open again by mid-September at the latest. (2/3)

Grant management system update: We continue to make alternative solutions available to users, while our usual system is unavailable. As part of this, we are pausing new applications to National Lottery Project Grants. (1/3)

ACE Grantium update: Project Grants temporarily closed, opening the programme again no later than mid-September 🤯 www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-mat...

Update on Grantium: It will remain unavailable to users until next Weds, 6 Aug. We've shared more information in relation to our different funding programmes online today. Once again, we're very sorry for the frustration this is causing. Info here: buff.ly/iOZtzqQ

An update before this evening: We’ve now emailed all DYCP applicants directly with their funding decisions; and we have confirmed a new deadline of 3pm Monday 4 August for Creative Foundations Fund and Libraries Development Framework funds. More info here> www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-mat...

Statement: an update on our application portal Grantium

An update on our application portal Grantium

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Arts Council England@artscouncilengland.bsky.social · last yr.

Update on our application portal: Grantium is still unavailable, and we’re working hard to put this right. We are deeply sorry for the frustration this has caused, particularly for people hoping to submit applications, or awaiting funding decisions.

We have emailed applicants awaiting their decision for Developing Your Creative Practice to confirm we plan to let them know decisions early next week.