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Arts independents Ash Bowmott & Laura Sweeney work together to 〰️produce〰️curate〰️facilitate〰️advocate〰️ Mostly known for making them templates 🔗https://linktr.ee/theuncultured

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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’re looking for 12 freelance artists + arts workers to join a 2-hour group discussions on either scarcity or rejection and their impact on hope. You’ll be paid £50 to come. Participants will be chosen by random number generator. www.the-uncultured.com/blog/creativ... Closes 14th October.
Pale yellow background with black text reading “wanna come chat with us about scarcity and rejection in the arts? (yes, we’re fun at parties)” with the words scarcity and rejection highlighted in blue with a cursor pointing towards it.
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Find out more about the Framework and three objectives to support excellence, deliver for everybody, and reach everywhere. www.artscouncil.org.uk/our-strategy
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Our strategy
Learn more about our strategy and our delivery plans.
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Introducing our new Strategic Framework: it sets out how we will make it easier for applicants and partners to work with us, as we start work developing a new longer-term strategy later this year.
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Our strategy
Learn more about our strategy and our delivery plans.
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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Touring is in a critical state – it’s time for a reset, writes Lyn Gardner in this week's @TheStage. Read more: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/tour... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
ACE PROJECT GRANTS ACCESS SUPPORT We’ve got a few spaces for under £30k applications to be submitted before June 2026. If you’re deaf, disabled, neurodivergent and/or experiencing poor health, you qualify for access support. Interested? Get in touch on contact @ the-uncultured .com
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We had our first ever 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙯𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙨 Board Game Night last week Bradford Arts Centre along with @bdproducinghub.co.uk. It turns out exploring freelance working conditions with some dice & a bag of frazzles is exactly what we all needed on a wet January night! Photos: @tomwoollard.bsky.social
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Frazzled in Bradford
We had our first ever Frazzled Freelancers Board Game Night last week B radford Arts Centre  along with Bradford Producing Hub. It turns out exploring freelance working conditions with some dice and.....
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thanks for sharing ✨
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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. producergathering.com/resource/pause-for-producers/ @the-uncultured @producergathering
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Find out more www.the-uncultured.com/blog/frazzle... Made with thanks to @cassettewitch.bsky.social, Rob Sweeney, @sarahferraridesign.bsky.social, Connor Bowmott, @paulavarjack.bsky.social and Regan Mott. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We’ve only gone and made a bloody board game! After years of researching and experiencing freelancer precarity and burnout, we’ve stepped out from behind our spreadsheets to design ‘Frazzled Freelancers’ - the fast paced roll-and-move board game for burnt out freelancers! Game Night coming soon 🔥
Two versions of the same white person with mid-length brown hair, sitting playing a board game that is on fire. Both people look engaged but in jeopardy, Game pieces are flying out of the fire. The logo, and title of the board game, read: Frazzled Freelancers
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Are you a Black, Asian or ethnically diverse theatre maker in the North of England looking to make ambitious new work? We’ve just launched the £2 million Theatre Breakthrough Fund - find out more 👇 buff.ly/MjwaSsk Image credit: Shadows In Different Shades by Oladipo Agboluaje © Smart Banda
A Black, female actor performs on stage. Red strips of fabric hang behind her as part of the set, and she holds a large round bowl. Her eyes are closed.
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Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk · 18/11/2025
Parents in the arts sector work in a system that fails to support them adequately. Here, producer and new mother Nora Laraki shares her experience of taking a baby on tour.
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Touring, parenthood and the art of making it work - Arts Professional
Parents in the arts sector work in a system that fails to support them adequately. Here, producer and new mother Nora Laraki shares her experience of taking a baby on tour.
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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. producergathering.com/resource/pause-for-producers/ @the-uncultured @producergathering
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thanks for sharing ✨
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
ACE NEWS: if you're planning to go in for the new R&D NLPG, they will be adding a new dropdown next week so you can say you'd like your application to be considered for this strand, instead of the general NLPG. It's already technically open, but there is no way to denote it's for that strand now...
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I wrote a small thing for this. Burnout is hard and tricky to find the edges of. Instead of looking directly at it I wrote about those bits around the sides.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
ICYMI ✨
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
You can apply to this funding now, or if you would prefer, you can wait for the next round of Developing Your Creative Practice next April. Take a look at the information on our website to learn more about this temporary change, and why we’ve made it 👇 buff.ly/AYO3QFu
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DYCP change: New Research and Development funding in National Lottery Project Grants
All the information you need about the changes to Developing Your Creative Practice and National Lottery Project Grants
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
NEW FROM ACE: "We’re pausing the next round of DYCP, until April 2026 + using this year’s remaining DYCP budget to immediately launch a ringfenced £7.5 m Research&Development (R&D) fund within National Lottery Project Grants (NLPG)." www.artscouncil.org.uk/dycp#t-in-pa...
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Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP)
Find out more about Developing your Creative Practice
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
NEW RESOURCE! Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a new free resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting. Co-produced by @the-uncultured.bsky.social @producergathering.bsky.social
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Pause: A self-care support for producers - Producer Gathering
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 exper...
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Funding update 📢 Our National Lottery Project Grants strands for Major Projects, Place Partnerships, and Touring will be fully reopened on Monday, 20 October. Access Support is available now. Find more information in our Q&A 👇 buff.ly/uPUmaK6
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Live Art Development Agency @thisisliveart.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Are you a live artist or practitioner eager to explore how and why you make? Applications for Do It Together are now open! tinyurl.com/49ce24w4 ⏰Deadline to apply: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm #DIT2026
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is what is says on the tin, but also: paying artists, creatives, producers & crew fairly & on time would deflate the false profit margins of *every* creative industry. Paying workers fairly wd "kill" industry *as an endless profit machine*. Not defending AI, saying this problem is baked in.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ACE funding: If you're applying for Arts Council England under £30k Project Grants and use our templates, make sure you download the newest version rather than using an old one as we've updated it to reflect the new form www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar...
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We've updated our templates ever so slightly to reflect the changes so download the newest ones here: www.the-uncultured.com
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
✨That's all for our first day of play with it✨
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
When you press submit, it just submits!! There's no chance to pull off a PDF or to check through your answers - it's just gone! TERRIFYING.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I kept getting an error box that just said "null". I don't know what that was related to, but it felt slightly comforting because a random "null" was such a fixture of Grantium I'm hoping it's just one for the nostalgia fans.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
In the budget personal access costs doesn't show up automatically anymore, so make sure you fill that in like any other budget line - they suggest you should add it as "a line" so maybe keep it to just one (?!)
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You have to enter an end date as well as a start date to every entry on the timeline now - so put the same start and end date if it's just one day.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You now need to know the local authority that work is taking place in, rather than it auto-populating.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You can no longer tick that work is happening in one or more place and there's work happening nowhere specifically - you used to be able to tick both if you were doing an event and some non-location-specific research, but now you can't
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Some of the character counts are lower - eg 300 instead of 800 for "Information used on who will experience your project" and 100 instead of 500 for "Who are you working with"
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You need your example to be a weblink - doesn't seem to be optional, you have to enter a weblink.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
After a while of inactivity it times out, not sure how long yet - but because there's no save function if you're halfway through a page it's just lost. More important than ever to do it offline first!!
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It won't copy and paste something that is over word count. Like it just will leave the whole box blank rather than only copying the bit that will fit. So if you have a blank box after pasting, it's probably over word count. Reduce and try again.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
There's no save button...we *think* clicking Next acts like save. However you can't click Next unless everything on the page is complete! This is a big deal on some of the pages where there's potentially lots of detail such as "Who are you working with"
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You have to complete each section in order. No clicking around to different areas of the application and coming back to other bits later. Start at the beginning and relentlessly click "Next" when finished to get to different sections.
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thoughts and tips on the seemingly unnamed ACE under £30k application portal...
Screenshot of the submission page of Arts Council England's new under £30k portal. It shows the ACE logo and the words "Thank you for making an application to National Lottery Project Grants" can be seen
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Will share some thoughts and tips later on - just submitting an application now...
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Unlimited @weareunlimited.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
💥 Applications are now open for our Open Awards 2025/26! 💥 We’re offering £413k to disabled artists in England, Scotland and Wales. Got a bold, brilliant idea that’s ready to shake things up? Applications are open now until Monday 29 September 2025. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4mHxqRZ
A graphic introducing our open call. Text reads 'Open Awards. Supporting bold creative visions from disabled artists.' Next to this is a photo of three performers in colourful costumes dance on a circular, illuminated stage under a large ring of lights suspended from the ceiling. The theatrical set resembles a futuristic nightclub or cabaret venue with neon signage, curved architectural elements, and vibrant purple and blue lighting throughout the space.
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We are very sorry for the disruption this causes, and we are working as quickly as we can to accept applications again. Please see more info here: buff.ly/8gdTBxY (3/3)
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In the meantime, we are building a bespoke digital application form for the fund, which will be open again by mid-September at the latest. (2/3)
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Grant management system update: We continue to make alternative solutions available to users, while our usual system is unavailable. As part of this, we are pausing new applications to National Lottery Project Grants. (1/3)
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The Uncultured @the-uncultured.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
ACE Grantium update: Project Grants temporarily closed, opening the programme again no later than mid-September 🤯 www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-mat...
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Update on Grantium: It will remain unavailable to users until next Weds, 6 Aug. We've shared more information in relation to our different funding programmes online today. Once again, we're very sorry for the frustration this is causing. Info here: buff.ly/iOZtzqQ
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
An update before this evening: We’ve now emailed all DYCP applicants directly with their funding decisions; and we have confirmed a new deadline of 3pm Monday 4 August for Creative Foundations Fund and Libraries Development Framework funds. More info here> www.artscouncil.org.uk/creative-mat...
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Statement: an update on our application portal Grantium
An update on our application portal Grantium
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We have emailed applicants awaiting their decision for Developing Your Creative Practice to confirm we plan to let them know decisions early next week.
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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Update: 5pm Friday 25 July Grantium is still not available for users. We’re continuing our work to resolve this issue over the weekend. We’re very sorry for the frustration that this has caused people.
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