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We’ve just opened the second round of our Developing your Creative Practice fund. There was strong competition for funds in round one so Cate Canniffe, our Director of Dance and London, has some advice for those applying this time round. Whether you’ve already made an unsuccessful application and want to reapply, or if this is your first time, here are Cate’s top tips for making a successful DYCP application.

When we launched Developing your Creative Practice, we knew it was going to be popular. We received nearly 900 eligible applications requesting over £7.5 million.

We funded 103 projects across the country, investing a total of £891,913.  If we keep that up, it means we should be able to fund over 400 individuals each year.

To give you some idea of how that looked across the country:

Developing your Creative Practice was designed to be as light touch as possible – both for you to apply and so that we can make sure we fund as many projects as possible while keeping administration costs to a minimum. But that does mean that feedback on individual applications is limited.

We thought it might be useful to give you some pointers about how you can improve an application for round 2 – or have a successful first try. We’re excited about the projects we were able to fund this time and hope they can really make a difference to the way people practice, and what they’re able to do.

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