We are seeking applications from community arts organisations or artists collectives to run two separate community arts projects, one in Abington, and the other in South Oxfordshire’s Garden Communities.

We have been fortunate enough to receive funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to create community arts engagement programmes for South Abingdon and Garden Town Communities in Didcot and Berinisfield. The projects are specifically designed to address inequalities in opportunity, health, and skills through and engaging art programme.

We would like to appoint a lead artist/ arts organisation to create community art programme that celebrates local identity, creates artwork that is tactile accessible and interactive and establishing community arts practise to engage the wider community.

To apply for this commission, you MUST log on to the South East Business Portal , where you will find further details for each project and an explanation of the application process.

1. For Abingdon project (contract value of £65,000) please refer to the reference is DN655751
https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert...
Deadline 8th March 2023

2. For the South Oxfordshire Garden Communities project (contract value of £32,000) please apply through the portal using the reference is D657814
https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert...
Deadline 15th March 2023

You will be asked a series of mandatory compliance questions about the status of your organisation and other questions that respond directly to this artistic brief, where you could also upload your CV/ portfolio of previous work.

We are not able to accept any applications that do not come through the South East Business Portal.