Approach · For cultural clients

Thefunding comes first.

For libraries, museums, cities and cultural organisations, the project usually starts before the project starts. With the money.

01The problem

You have the idea. The budget isn't there yet.

Cultural and civic budgets rarely cover ambitious immersive work on their own. The money is out there, but it sits inside fund applications. Each one has its own criteria, its own deadlines, its own language. None of them are simple to navigate while you're also running an institution.

02Who runs it

Laura Holleman leads this work for us. Laura is a production and business lead in the Dutch cultural sector, with years of experience advising makers on how to actually get a project off the ground. Planning, communication, collaboration, and most of all making sure things happen.

She has secured funding for multiple cultural projects in her own work. When the funding phase starts, you're working with someone who has done it before and knows what the funds are actually looking for.

03The work

What we do

  • Map the idea against the funding landscape. Which funds fit, which don't, which combinations work.
  • Translate the creative concept into language funders recognise and respond to.
  • Write the application documents and supporting materials with you.
  • Build the project plan, timeline and budget the application needs.
  • Brief you on what the fund is looking for and how to present it.

What we don't do

  • Submit the application for you. The application is yours. Your institution signs it, takes legal responsibility, and owns the relationship with the fund.
  • Post-grant reporting. Once funded, reporting and compliance belong with you.
  • Take a cut of the funding. We bill our work as a separate service.
04The split
We're the guide. You make the formal moves. That keeps the legal and contractual relationship clean, and it leaves you fully in control of the application itself.
05How we charge

This is a paid service, separate from project delivery. You pay for Laura's time and ours during the funding phase. If the application is successful and the project moves forward, we deliver it.

If it isn't, the work we did is yours to keep.

06Track record

We're currently awaiting final confirmation on the funding for Dromen van Dordt with Bibliotheek AanZet, an immersive participatory installation in the Dordrecht library, written and applied for through this process. Laura has independently secured funding for multiple cultural projects across the Dutch sector.

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