Specialising in Arts Council bids and other arts funding bodies.

Arts fundraising

Hi! I’m Amy.

I am a fundraiser working in the Arts, with 7 years experience writing funding bids for circus/ dance/ theatre projects.
I have a particular interest in projects for social justice or cultural change.

I love hearing about people’s ideas and helping them come to life and enjoy bid writing (honestly!)
I write bids, provide strategy consultancy, and run fundraising workshops. See more detail on each below.

Bid writing

You know the project, you know it is worth funding, but you don’t have the time to dedicate to writing the application. Or maybe fundraising feels like a foreign language and you didn’t get into the arts to write funding applications.

This is where I can help.

I have worked on small, mid and large scale funding applications, ranging from £1k to £300k. In 2024 thus far, I have raised roughly £250k for arts organisations.

I’ve written applications for Levantes Dance Theatre, The Revel Puck Circus, Make Space Circus, Flying Fantastic, Lavrak Circus, Tamba Africa Social Circus, Temple Cloud Circus, Aircraft Circus, Incandescence Circus as well as a range of primary schools.

I have experience writing;
-ACE project grants
-ACE capital investment grants
-ACE NPO
-ACE DYCP and other personal development grants
-Unlimited
-British Council
-Jerwood Foundation
-Trusts and foundations such as Paul Hamyln Foundation
-Smaller arts organisations, funding bodies & councils such as Peckham Settlement, SISPAN & Southwark Council
-West of England Combined Authority (WECA)and Quartet

Lavrak Circus’s Next Generation Outreach Programme

She Said Jump’s Dirt in Flying Fantastic’s Residency Programme Year 2

Strategy

Consultancy

I can provide strategy support, and have a particular interest in disability access development. I can help organisations to develop new strategy from fundraising specific strategy to access strategy.

I have developed strategy for arts organisations e.g. She Said Jump.

The Dot Collective’s Alice’s Adventures in Aerialand in Flying Fantastic’s Residency Programme Year 1

Levantes Dance Theatre’s RUN RABBIT RUN

Photo: Oliver Ibbotson (Wayne Sables Projects)

Fundraising

workshops

For those more interested in learning about fundraising; you can hire me to run a workshop to give you/ your staff/ your students the tools to write their own applications.

I recently provided these workshops as part of Flying Fantastic’s residency programme and for The Revel Puck Circus staff.

Levantes Dance Theatre’s High Tea (With a Twist)

Photo: MB Snapshot

Lavrak Circus’s Reach

Photo: Adam Gasson