Below is a COPY and PASTE from Gwynedd Councils
EVENT PLANNING HELP NOTES
Prepared by Gwynedd Council Events Unit
I hope this is of help of some kind
GRANTS - (Start looking for grants as soon as possible at least 9 months before your event)
Start looking for grants as soon as possible and make sure you note their deadlines and how long it will take for your application for support to be assessed.
Search thoroughly for suitable funding avenues – The event needs to find schemes with criteria matching the type of festival or event.Also remember to prepare a business plan that includes a marketing plan.
There are many bodies and charities which award grants to a wide variety of people and groups. Grant awarding bodies and trusts have to be sure that the money they may award to your event is going to be put to good use.
They will have to be sure that yours is a sound organisation with a good structure and a real understanding of what it is doing.You should have an established committee and a bank account before applying for grants. It is useful too to have a ‘business plan’ that gives the information grant awarding bodies need in a professional format, though most bodies will still ask you to fill in one of their own forms.You can also find information and templates for business plans on fs4b.wales web site.
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Don’t depend on getting grants.Try to make your event self-funding, particularly if you’re thinking of running the event in future years. Simply by searching under ‘Grants’ on the Internet you may be able to find grants that could be available to your event.Any awarding body will ask to acknowledge the source of the grant on any publicity material or literature you produce.
Below are details of some organisations who either distribute information on funding or who administer grants for which you may be able to apply:-
Arts Council for Wales - Awards for All A lottery grant scheme for local communities.
Directory of Social Change (DSC)
is a good place to start looking for trusts to which you may be able to apply.The DSC produces useful Publications, such as:-
The Directory of Grant Making Trusts
A Guide to Major Trusts.Vols. 1,2 & 3.Visit their website to order these.
GRANTfinder
The UK's leading searchable database on EU and UK Government grants and loans, charitable trusts and corporate sponsors.
Gwynedd Council
find information by visiting their websites – and search under ‘grants’.
National Association for Voluntary and Community Action
Including advice, information, funding, publications, training, events, news and resources. Includes a directory of local groups throughout the UK.
National Lottery
A joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK.This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.
Performing Rights Society (PRS) Foundation Awards
Funding for music at festivals.
Sports Council for Wales
Grants for Sporting Events
Voluntary Arts Wales (VAW)
VAW has a detailed funding section on funding for arts activity.Through them you can also sign up to received the Voluntary Arts Network(VAN) email newsletter which includes updates on funding.They also produce a whole series of free ‘briefing’ documents which include ‘Applying to trust funds’ and ‘How to write a successful funding application’.These are useful even if you are not an arts organisation!
Welsh Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
The WCVA has a regular email newsletter that gives updates on available funding.
Welsh Assembly Government Major Events Unit
TheWelshAssemblyGovernment MajorEventsUnitwillconsiderfinancialsupportofmajorevents in and visiting Wales - which meet their criteria.
