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Arts Council Under £30k Grant Application Supporting Information

Project: Securing Future Programming & Supporting Arts Eco-system v2

Creative Innovation Centre CIC; also known as CICCIC (kick-kick); is not-for-profit Community Interest Company and social enterprise established in 2012. Company No. 08140784. Any profits made go back into our community projects and services.

CICCIC Impact

To give you a sense of what our project looks like and sounds like, and a flavour of what previous work has looked like or sounded like, you may watch the video below (with photographic evidence published Oct 2023) or read the transcript below:

Video transcript:

  • Invested over £200,000 in venue resources for arts, culture, and community use.
  • Delivered 1,020 art workshops with 1,960 people taking part.
  • Delivered over 1,500 live music events.
  • Supported over 7,000 musicians.
  • Au audience over 100,000 people.
  • Over 160 arts and heritage exhibitions, with over 6,800 pieces of art and over 200 people exhibiting for the first time.
  • Delivered over 240 poetry and creative writing events.
  • Delivered over 200 film and documentary screenings.
  • Delivered over 120 dance events and 10 local festivals.
  • Delivered 60 rural outreach art events and activities.
  • 96 comedy events.
  • Over 3,000 young people involved in creative activity.
  • 800 club and community gatherings supporting over 8,000 people.
  • Provided community and business advice to 240 orgs and help create 10 new orgs.
  • Donated over 7,800 venue hours for free for community use to the value of £312,000.
  • Helped raise over £80,000 for other charities and local arts organisations.
  • Paid out nearly £1m for musicians and artist fees with 80% going to local artists.
  • Delivered over 65 community projects (see link on this website).
  • Opened a new Arts Hub building for community arts and youth projects. See www.artshub.uk

Arts Hub Impact

At our other building The Arts Hub, which was initially supported by the Somerset West & Taunton council, have in just two years delivered 154 events and activities with 2,503 people involved as audiences and 1,193 young people involved in art-based activities and more data can be viewed in an impact video (4 minutes and 18 seconds in) made for the SWT council:

Letter of Support from Local Council

Our local council supports our project and a letter for support can be found here.

Financial Evidence

CICCIC operates two buildings, which is Memorial Hall in Paul St, and Arts Hub at Flook House. We are solely responsible for all operations, running costs and financially responsible for each of these buildings.

Should you require financial information to evidence our financial status we provide the following documents:

Event Delivery

Based on future programming we will deliver the following activities over the 3 month period of the project, which would include:

  • 30 live music events, with 5 community based music collaboration events (part of project)
  • 6 comedy events (delivered but we are not asking for funding for this part but should we close this part would be affected)
  • 6 dance events (delivered but we are not asking for funding for this part but should we close this part would be affected)
  • 75 art workshops, (life drawing, painting, drawing, printmaking and part of project)
  • 3 art exhibitions, (based on workshop attendee work and wider community networks but we are not asking for funding for this part but should we close this part would be affected)
  • 30 youth-based theatre, music and art activities (part of project)
  • 12 rehearsals, (delivered but we are not asking for funding for this part but should we close this part would be affected)
  • the support of 8 arts related community meetings known as Creative Club (delivered but we are not asking for funding for this part but should we close this part would be affected)

More evidence can be found throughout this website or requested.

Practitioners involved which relates to our project & have websites: