Dorchester Events and Experience Funding
Henge Fest by Dorset Bays
This funding is now closed to applications
Do you have an idea for an event or project that you’d like to try out in Dorchester?
We’re working in partnership with Dorchester Tourism Partnership who are investing £5000 in new projects that bring life to the town.
These could be artistic events, pop-up festivals, celebrations, or creative experiments.
We’re interested in new activity, things that haven’t happened before, and things that have a good chance of happening again without (or with different) funding or income streams.
We’re interested in supporting people who don’t normally access funding, people with ambition and people who want to make Dorchester more vibrant and alive.
What’s the criteria?
We wanted to keep the criteria very simple.
Your activity must:
Be in Dorchester (including Poundbury)
Take place in 2024
Whilst we’ll accept applications from those outside Dorchester, preference will be given to those within the town.
Your organisation must have a turnover of less than £50,000
And that’s it.
Process
We want to know answers to the following questions:
Who you are
What you want to do
Who it’s for
How you’ll do it
How much it’ll cost
We want to make the process very simple. Do not send in more than one side of A4 (around 400 words). Or, if you’d prefer, a video no longer than 3 minutes.
The deadline for applications is 9am Monday 4 December 2023.
Please mark applications Dorchester Events and Experiences and send to hello@theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk.
We’ll aim to be in touch with everyone by 14 December 2023.
If you’ve never received funding before, we’re happy to have a conversation with you about your idea to advise on how best to present it. Just give us a shout on hello@theartsdevelopmentcompany.org.uk.
If you’re project is one that we’re interested in supporting, we’ll invite you to a meeting to hear more about your project at the Corn Exchange in December.
At this stage, we’ll want to know more about:
Why do you want to do it?
How will you manage any risks associated with the event or experience?
What are your plans for continuing the event or experience?
