resources

Here you'll find FREE resources we've made for freelancers working in the creative and cultural industries - if you find any of them useful, please share on social media.


Funding templates
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
All the ones we use on one page.

- Under £30k Project Grants app and budget
- Over £30k Project Grants app and budget
- DYCP - app and budget
Awards for all england
Template for the under £20k application

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​Tools
FINANCIAL PLANNER
Excel template ​based on the one we use to ensure that we can make enough money in a year to cover what it costs us to be in business (our overheads) and cover what it costs us to live (our "wage").
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
This Guide to Answering the Environmental Responsibility Questions is for individuals and small organisations who are applying to Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants.
This Guide to Making Your Artistic Practice More Environmentally Friendly (in the form of a flow chart) helps you think about different areas of practice and how you might shift approaches to lessen the carbon impact of art making.
PROGRAMMER RELATIONSHIP TRACKER
2 Excel templates to manage your relationships with programmers - single and multi-artist versions.


​Advocacy resources
PRODUCING LIVENESS IN INTERESTING TIMES
Each of the 12 texts speak from, to or about the experience of producing liveness during and since the pandemic.

Guest contributors and cheatsheets included.
OPEN DOORS
This report collates the data from our 2021 survey which explored barriers to sustainability in artist-led spaces. Created in collaboration with East Street Arts and the Guild programme, and presented as part of the Hive conference, you can now download the report from East Street Arts' website.
A FREELANCE SUPPORTERS MENU
During our time on the Freelance Task Force, we worked to collate this resource to reflect some of thinking and research that could offer provocations to arts organisation to think about how freelancers can be better supported in the arts sector. 
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Version 2 available for download now. ​
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 experiencing burnout through eight commissioned writings from producers, facilitators, and wellbeing specialists. It encompasses personal insights, practical reflections and useful signposting to offer a tool that specifically considers the role and intricacies of working as a producer right now.
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Download for free now. Audio and plain text versions available.​
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