Northern Scottish Touring Fund - Round 2 Now Open
Northern Scottish Touring Fund (NSTF) 2010 - 2012
Round 2 now open for applications
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Second Call for submissions |
1st December 2010 |
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Application submissions deadline 2 |
9th February 2011 |
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Award announcement 2 |
13th April 2011 |
About NSTF www.nstf.org
The Northern Scottish Touring Fund (NSTF) is a new interactive fund which awards production and touring grants to performing companies. It also supports the selected projects with marketing (social networking, printing and distribution) and tour booking services. The NSTF’s aim is to encourage future potential artistic collaborations and the commissioning of indigenous theatre and dance in the North of Scotland.
The Northern Scottish Touring Fund (NSTF) is managed by a consortium made up of:
HITN (Highlands and Islands Theatre Network, representing 23 professional theatre companies and venues in the Highlands and Islands).
NEAT (North East Arts Touring, representing promoters in Moray, Aberdeenshire and Angus).
PAN (Promoters Arts Network, representing promoters in the Highlands & Islands and Argyll & Bute).
HI~Arts (the Arts development agency based in Inverness, providing marketing support).
The NSTF offers an opportunity for Theatre and Dance companies to work with Promoters in rural venues to develop and deliver high quality small-scale touring performances in the North of Scotland. This will include the shared ambition of introdcuing new audiences to the experience of performing arts, especially young people. The NSTF will support 8 performance projects over two years.
Each project will tour to 10 venues, each with a catchment area of under 3000 people. These venues will be in the NSTF Region. For the first year these areas are: Highland, Moray, Aberdeenshire, and Cairngorm. It is possible that Argyll & Bute and Western Isles will be added to the Region in the second year, as defined by EU LEADER areas.
Who can apply
The funding scheme is open to theatre and dance companies based in Scotland with previous experience of delivering professional performances.
Companies in receipt of Creative Scotland Flexible or Project funding may apply as long as
a) touring in the Region is additional to any already funded and
b) some or all of the work is made within the Region.
Companies may submit proposals which will also tour outside the Region as long as that external portion of the tour is funded from other sources.
Companies based elsewhere in the UK cannot directly apply to the Fund but may develop a project in partnership with an eligible Scottish company which will apply for the Funds.
Projects employing non-UK artists will be eligible providing the applying company is an eligible Scottish company.
The scheme will offer grants of up to £45,000 per project, support with marketing under the NSTF brand, 10 guaranteed tour dates in the NSTF Region, and the possibility of a further showcase outside that area.
The Fund aims to encourage work to be produced as far as possible in the North of Scotland, involving artists from, or based in, the NSTF area, and other artists.
NSTF is being funded by the CREATIVE SCOTLAND RURAL INNOVATION FUND, HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS ENTERPRISE and PART-FINANCED BY THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY HIGHLAND LEADER 2007-2013 Programme, CAIRNGORMS LOCAL ACTION GROUP LEADER 2007-2013 Programme, RURAL ABERDEENSIRE LEADER 2007-2013 Programme. MORAY LEADER 2007-2013 Programme. An application to Western Isles LEADER is in progress.
An Application Form, Guidance Notes and FAQs can be downloaded from www.nstf.org
Stuart Brownlee
p/t NSTF Administrator
Highlands & Islands Theatre Network Limited