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Housing Percent for Art Project Criteria
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The former Housing Percent for Art 'application process' has been replaced by a more proactive service. Housing Arts Officers will work with customers, colleagues, partners and other stakeholders to develop arts projects that focus on neighbourhood issues identified through the respective Neighbourhood Action Plans under the themes: Healthy; Achieving; Prosperous; Safe; Cleaner and Greener; Strong and Confident.
Each Neighbourhood has been allocated a Housing Percent for Art budget and funding will be allocated to projects that meet the existing Housing Percent for Art Criteria as well as Neighbourhood Action Plan targets.
For more information on Neighbourhood Action Plans see http://www.bolton.gov.uk/website/Pages/NeighbourhoodRenewal.aspx
To qualify for Housing Percent for Art funding, projects need to fulfill
certain criteria.
In the past, the Housing Percent for Art service has adopted a predominantly
'reactive' role, with residents or community groups contacting the team to
request funding for particular projects through a formal application
process.
Housing Arts Officers now work as part of the Neighbourhood Team framework
to develop projects that focus on the Neighbourhood Renewal themes:
and help to meet targets set out in Neighbourhood Action Plans.
All Housing Percent for Art projects must meet a set of Project Criteria,
the framework for Housing Percent for Art funding since 1997:
1. There must be a social housing link – there must be some benefit to council or housing association tenants
The main beneficiaries of the project should be council or housing association tenants.
2. There must be an element of customer participation in the scheme that maximises community involvement – there needs to be ownership by tenants and the local community
The level of participation by the community can vary depending upon particular circumstances and the nature of the project. However, there must be a meaningful involvement by the community with active participation and every effort should be made to ensure this is as great as possible.
3. The project must contribute to the regeneration of Bolton’s communities – this can be physical, social or economic
Regeneration is seen in its broadest possible sense and can be thought of more simply as improving the quality of life in areas of need. Projects can have an impact in physical ways such as art works in the environment or streetscape and improve the image or profile of an area.
In social terms, projects can include group and community development and economic aspects such as training and skills development. Projects can offer a variety of wider benefits alongside their main aims and objectives.
4. There must be a named project manager and an identifiable steering group which involves all relevant partners – this is to ensure commitment and that all responsibilities are met
The success and sustainability of a project is dependant upon a strong, committed and representative steering group established at the start of a project with a designated individual taking the lead for project management.
5. The project must involve a creative arts based process led by a professional artist and anything produced by the project must clearly be a creative work
An artist with the appropriate skills and experience, particularly with
regard to working with people, is essential in the successful implementation
of any project. They must also have additional requirements such as
insurance and police checks as necessary and appropriate to the project.
Percent for Art funding can only be used for the art element of the project.
Very often we’re involved in a regeneration scheme where the art work is
just one element of a larger scheme, for example to improve a streetscape or
develop a new community facility. Any other elements in the scheme have to
be paid for from other budgets.
6. The project should build on existing or proposed activity
Funding from Housing Percent for Art cannot be used for a group’s usual or ongoing activity, clubs, or day to day costs. Proposals should be submitted for new or additional activity and core costs may only be claimed if they can be shown to be a relevant part of the costs of the project.
7. The project should receive some funding from other sources and link into relevant local and corporate development and funding strategies
Particularly with regard to partnership work, it is important that a project secures some financial commitment from partners or other sources. Projects should not take place in isolation and need to be seen in relation to other relevant initiatives in the area. These can be other regeneration plans and projects or funding schemes for particular neighbourhoods or activities.
All Housing Percent for Art funded projects that meet the project criteria outlined above are approved by the relevant Bolton at Home Neighbourhood Manager.
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