Funding Opportunity

The Feeney Fellowships

Feeney Fellowships are open! Apply for up to £5,000 to support your development! 

The objective of our Fellowships strand is to enable you to make progress in your work or practice, supporting you to increase your skills, knowledge, networks and expertise, all with the aim of advancing your career journey. The outcome that interests us most is seeing the clear development in you as an individual.

The Fellowships are intended to support a step change or a pivot along someone’s already established career trajectory, rather than providing support for someone to establish a career in their chosen sector.

What we can fund

Proposals must include a budget, which demonstrates realistic costs for work, goods or services such as:

  • some cost recovery for your own time 
  • mentoring, coaching, training, consultations from other people
  • travel, accommodation and related expenses
  • materials
  • capital equipment
  • memberships and subscriptions
  • admission costs for venues, conferences, etc.
Requirements

The Fellowships programme is for individuals living in Birmingham whose work or practice sits within Birmingham’s arts, heritage or open spaces sectors.

Applicants will be expected to have had a minimum of three years’ professional experience working or practising within their relevant sector. (Those three years of experience do not include time spent in higher or further education.)

The Fellowships are primarily geared towards supporting the development of freelancers, rather than individuals who are in full-time salaried positions within organisations. (We may consider applications from individuals in full-time employment, but we would recommend contacting us first before you submit such an application.)

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