If your project or activity includes creating new work (especially digital content), then you should be clear in your application about plans for how intellectual assets and intellectual property (IP) will be managed. The latter relates to formal ownership (like patents, trademarks, copyrights and designs) and whereas assets extend beyond formal IP. Your project may well produce some of both. Plans should consider which project elements are assets that could be used in other ways after the project. (An asset could be a story, a character, music, graphic elements, software, a methodology or a whole range of other things.) An (...)Read more
No - you can only have one application in the assessment process at any time. The assessment process means the period from submitting an application to the point when the funding decision is communicated to you. If you want to make another application to this fund, you must wait until you have received your decision from your first application before submitting your next application. If your application is unsuccessful, you can reapply once more with the same project. If you have already been funded by the Open Fund for Individuals , you can submit one additional application for a different (...)Read more
Yes – you can have up to two separate projects that have been awarded funding at any time. We sometimes refer to this as having two ‘live’ projects. If you have been awarded fund for a project/activity through the Open Fund for Individuals, you can make one additional application for a different project or activity before you complete the first project. We consider a project to be complete when we have received and processed your End of Project Monitoring Form, including making any outstanding payments to you. We expect you to clearly outline how you will be able to deliver (...)Read more
Once you have submitted your application, you have the right to withdraw it from consideration at any time before it is considered by a Funding Panel. You can request to withdraw your application from your online account, and do not need to tell us why you are withdrawing it. If you withdraw an application and later decide to apply for the same project/activity, you will be able to view your withdrawn application in your account and copy/past any of the text in it into a new application. This new application will not count as a reapplication because the original application (...)Read more
No, an individual may only have one application in the assessment process at a time. As a producer working with different artists, you can either support each artist to make an application in their name, or you will need to wait until you have been informed of the outcome of the first application before you may make another. You can only have two funded Open Fund for Individuals projects at any time (including the previous version of the Open Fund for Individuals). This means that if you have been successful with two applications for separate projects/activity, you must complete at (...)Read more
Having previously received funding from the Open Fund for Individuals or another funding programme run by Creative Scotland or its predecessor, The Scottish Arts Council, does not make you any more or less likely to receive funding.
You may need to have fully completed and submitted all paperwork relating to a previous funding award before you are eligible to apply again.
SEE ALSO: Can I have more than one project at any one time funded through the Open Fund for Individuals? Read more
No – we are not able to fast track any applications to the Open Fund for Individuals, including reapplications. You should apply early enough to ensure that there is sufficient time for this assessment period, and for a suitable planning period between receiving your funding decision and the activity starting. If your application request is between £500 and £5,000 then we will usually inform you of the outcome in 8 weeks. If your application request is between £5,001 and £20,000 then we will usually inform you of the outcome in 8 weeks. If we need to request Additional Information from (...)Read more
We do not have an upper limit for how far in advance you can apply for a project, and we appreciate that different projects will require different periods of planning. We do, however, have to take into account the timing of projects when making our decisions. For example, if the decision-making panel is considering an application for a project that has been submitted very far in advance, without clear rationale for this, then they might prioritise another project that was taking place sooner. In general, we would normally expect applications to be submitted in time to allow one to six (...)Read more
Yes- you can reapply for the same project once. We strongly recommend that you read and consider the feedback you have been given, including reading the assessment of your first application, which you can access through your online account. When you make your reapplication we will ask you how you have addressed the feedback from your original application, and if you have made any other significant changes to your project. Your reapplication will be assessed in the same way as all other applications, and cannot be fast-tracked. If you are unsuccessful a second time, you cannot apply to the Open (...)Read more
A CV or biography is a short document which summarises a person’s background, skills, experience and achievements. It is useful to put the newest things first and take out anything that is not relevant to the project/activity you are proposing. Read more
