Creative Black Country (CBC) micro-commissions exploring and delivering creative ideas in the Black Country. 

What is it?  

More to Explore supports people in designing and delivering opportunities with communities to experience great creative and cultural experiences in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 

You can apply for up to £2,000, to help you to test out a new creative idea with and in your local community, or you can deliver a complete project.  

We are not prescriptive about how this is done, what is important to us is that local people are involved in the design and delivery of the project, and that it reaches people who may not normally have this kind of creative opportunity. 

We believe there is more to explore in the Black Country and would like to invite creative ideas to explore the following themes within the micro commission. 

  • Home (family, places, neighbourhoods, identity, tradition, celebration, trends) 

  • Environment & Nature (Green spaces, climate action, activism, wellbeing, growing) 

  • Hidden Black Country (unseen and unheard stories and places, reimagine fact or fiction, share secrets) 

The themes are broad and open to interpretation, your ideas could be a digital or analogue solution (e.g. in person, print) or a combination of both. The activity must be new and must not have been previously delivered as a pilot/taster session. 

Update:  

We are no longer accepting submissions for the More to Explore micro-commissions.

If you have submitted a proposal, please read the section below regarding the next steps.

 

If you are successful 

If your activity is commissioned, we will notify you by: Tuesday 04th June 2024. 

  • Your activity will need to take place between: June – November 2024. 

  • You will need to undertake a mandatory evaluation of your activity using our monitoring templates. 

  • You will need to provide basic documentation of the activity. This could be photographs, film or online documentation. 

  • It will be your responsibility to ensure you have all the necessary consents, risk assessments or permissions in place to undertake your project. 

 

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding the micro-commissions

Email: info@creativeblackcountry.co.uk 

Tel: 07736 275547 / 07736 275552