Writing proposals for cultural activities – how to ensure quality and effectiveness | workshop

Every person working in culture knows that autumn is an exceptionally hectic time in our industry… writing proposals. Deadlines for applying to grant programs are approaching, thanks to which cultural institutions and NGOs can obtain money for new projects.
In the current reality, the use of grants is often the only option to implement new ideas or simply carry out statutory activities.
However, writing a good application requires certain knowledge and skills in the field of project development, as well as knowledge of some small tricks and good practices that will make the committee better evaluate our application.

For whom.
The workshop is aimed at people who write proposals, but rarely or never manage to get a grant, as well as people who have not dealt with project development before.

Benefits:

you will learn what the project development process looks like with an emphasis on formulating goals, selecting appropriate methods, planning results and outcomes, and creating a budget and schedule

you will learn to go through the project planning process on your own using your idea as an example

you will learn to analyze the regulations of grant programs so as to extract the necessary information from them

you will learn how to transform a project idea into a grant application

you will learn how the process of evaluating an application looks like from the perspective of a person who was a member of expert committees, and you will learn simple tricks useful for writing

Methods:
The workshop will be conducted with active methods according to the methodology of experiential learning.
The starting point will be the ideas brought by the participants for specific projects they would like to implement in their institutions/organizations.

When and where:
November 7-8, from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm

WOAK, 75-77 Kosciuszko St., 4th floor

Fee:
PLN 150 if you buy a ticket by October 27, 2023.
200 zł in case of ticket purchase from October 28, 2023.

NOTE: Vat invoice for the company is generated automatically, please select this option when buying online and fill in the details of the delegating institution.

Host:
Katarzyna Pągowska – cultural manager, trainer, animator. Deputy director for content at the Provincial Center for Cultural Animation and operations director of the Realistic Theater Foundation. Creates projects and writes grant proposals – she has obtained more than PLN 3,000,000 in domestic and foreign grant competitions.

Łukasz Wudarski – art historian and librarian, a master of culture with which he has been associated for 16 years. Author of more than 20 grant projects from national and EU funds (for a total of PLN 4,000,000). He sat as an expert evaluating applications at the National Cultural Center and the Municipality of Torun. He is a certified consultant on strategies for the development of cultural institutions. In 2018-2022, he was director of the Artus Court Cultural Center in Toruń. In September 2022, he took the helm of the Provincial Center for Cultural Animation in Toruń. Privately a lover of good music, cinema, early painting… and provincial museums.