Fabric Fund Proposal Form - Film Hub Scotland

Complete your Fabric Fund Proposal Form.

Please complete the form below to submit your proposal for the Fabric Fund.

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Section 1: Key details

Name of Applicant*

First Last Pronouns

Email address*

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Organisation Name*

Organisation Address & Postcode*

Legal status of organisation (e.g. charity, CIC, non profit limited by guarantee)*

Organisation website*

Section 2: Proposed activity

Let us know where you intend to work, what activity you are planning, who you intend to reach and how.

Total amount of funding requested*

List the total amount: for example, if you're applying for a two-year project (£15k in Y1 and £20k in Y2), write £35k.

Number of years of support requested*

You can apply for up to three years of support.

Where are you planning to deliver your Fabric project?*

If you will prioritise specific locations within the region, please include that detail below.

Activity start date*

Activity end date*

What are your estimated admissions?*

Please provide estimated admissions for this project in each year of activity. If you have specific demographic targets, please list the your target admissions of Young Audiences (under 25), Black and Global Majority Audiences, Deaf and Disabled Audiences, and LGBTQIA+ Audiences.

How many screenings and events are you planning to organise?*

Please specify numbers per each year of activity.

Proposal Summary*

Tell us, in as much detail as possible, about your planned activity. Please add information about the film/event programme, the venues and partners you will be working with, any capacity-building activity you will undertake, and any training you are planning to provide. (Up to approx. 500 words).

Priority Outcomes*

Tell us how your activity will develop audiences within cultural film. Please include information and data on how your activity meets one or more of the Fund's key focus areas. These are: 1) Engaging with Children and Young People, 2) Accessing a wider choice of film, 3) Tackling social, economic and geographic barriers and 4) Engaging with screen heritage. (Up to approx. 300 words)

Which groups/organisations do you intend to work with?*

Where possible, please provide details about these organisations and their capacity. (Up to approx. 300 words)

Marketing strategy*

Tell us who the target audience is for your project. Do you have a plan to reach them? If you are targeting a new audience, how will you expand your existing marketing plan to reach them? Please include information about the platform(s) you will use, who will complete these tasks, what your budget is for this (if any) and what your marketing timeline will look like. (Up to approx. 300 words)

Please attach a marketing/audience development plan if applicable.

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Section 3: BFI Diversity Standards*

Tell us how your activity responds to the BFI Diversity Standards. You should provide information on each relevant Standard. These are: A) On-screen representation B) Project team C) Industry access D) Audience development and E) Access. You should especially focus on Standards A, D & E. Please refer to the Funding Guidelines for examples of the type of information you should share. (Up to approx. 300 words)

Section 4: Experience*

Have you delivered a similar project before? Tell us about your experience in developing local community cinema activity. Give examples of how your organisation has previously grown audiences for independent film in your proposed location and indicate whether you have an existing network in the area. (Up to approx. 300 words)

Section 5: Legacy and Evaluation

Tell us what you hope to learn from this activity. What does success look like and how will this be measured? We will provide a report and survey template; how do you plan to ensure that you maximise the number of collected surveys? Do you plan to have any additional methods of collecting feedback, such as focus groups or 1:1 feedback sessions? (Up to approx. 200 words)

Section 6: Environmental Sustainability*

We are committed to minimising the negative environmental impact of the work we support and ask all proposals to contribute to this aim. Please summarise steps you are taking to minimise the environmental impact of your activity and improve audience awareness of the climate and biodiversity crises. (Up to approx. 300 words)

Section 7: Bullying, Harassment and Racism*

Please read the BFI’s Bullying, Harassment and Racism Guidelines and circulate them among your organisation. These are available at: bit.ly/BFIBullyingPrevention. Please confirm that you have, or intend to put in place, an anti-bullying, harassment and racism policy for your organisation:

Yes

Section 8: Safeguarding for initiatives involving children, young people aged 18 or under, or vulnerable adults*

We ask that you to confirm if you have safeguarding and child protection policies in place. This is a requirement for projects focusing on Young Audiences and Access projects as stated in the guidelines. If you do not, please inform us and we can signpost you to resources such as Inclusive Cinema.

Yes - I have a policy in place

No - I require assistance

My project does not involve children and/or vulnerable adults

Section 9: Please attach a completed Budget Document*

Please complete your activity budget using the template provided on the Film Hub Scotland website. Please let us know if you have applied for funding from other distributors of National Lottery awards for this activity (such as other Film Hubs, BFI Audience Fund, Screen Scotland, National Lottery, Heritage Lottery Fund, or similar). If you are unable to upload your Budget Document, please email it to: info@filmhubscotland.com.

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Section 10: Conflict of Interest*

BFI, Screen Scotland and Glasgow Film (Film Hub Scotland) are required to identify all relevant financial or personal interests that may exist between board members or employees of BFI, Screen Scotland and/or Glasgow Film (Film Hub Scotland) and applicants. This is to ensure that measures can be introduced to prevent a conflict of interest arising between those persons assessing the application for BFI, Screen Scotland and/or Glasgow Film (Film Hub Scotland) and such applicants. If you have any financial or close personal relationships with any trustee, board member or employee of BFI, Screen Scotland and/or Glasgow Film (Film Hub Scotland), please give details of the nature of the relationship/s:

Did you use Artificial Intelligence, or a tool based on it, to help you complete this proposal?

Film Hub Scotland would like to gather some early data on the use of AI in funding proposals. This will help us to better understand where and how it is being used by our members.

Yes

Are you seeking funding for a project that contains outputs from Artificial Intelligence, or a tool based on it?

Yes

Unsure

If you answered Yes or Unsure to either of the above questions, please include further details here:

Data Protection

Please note that the information you supply will be held in computer files. It may be used to prepare statistics and summary data. We may be obliged to share information under the Freedom of Information Act.

Applicant Confirmation*

I confirm that all of the information provided on this form and in any material submitted in support of it is truthful and accurate. I agree that this information can be stored by Film Hub Scotland and used for statistical and monitoring purposes.

I agree to the above confirmation

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