The Sound Connects Fund is a multifaceted initiative aimed at developing the creative sector in Southern Africa – focusing on the broad creative sector including, but not limited to, performing arts (music, dance, theatre and other stage-based industries), visual arts, gaming, animation, film, photography and videography.
The Sound Connects Fund offers financial support in the form of grants of various sizes and a comprehensive capacity-building programme between 2021 and 2024 to eligible creative and cultural industry organisations operating in selected countries in Southern Africa.
WORTH
- Category A (€35 000 – €60 000) – Project budget is between €35 000 and €60 000. Project implementation and final reporting must take place between September 2021 and end of April 2022.
- Category B (€61 000 – €100 000) – Project budget is between €61 000 and €100 000. Project implementation and final reporting must take place between September 2021 and end of September 2022.
- Category C (€101 000 – €180 000) – Project budget is between €101 000 and €180 000. Project implementation and final reporting must take place between September 2021 and end of April 2023.
ELIGIBILITY
- To be eligible for financial support, applicants must be formally registered in the local country, for example as an NGO /NPO, association, close corporation , private company etc.
- For clarity, the basis is that the applicant must be an official/ legally registered entity in its local country. Organisations is used as a broader term to refer to any business entity such as a company, an institution, association etc. The list may include (non-exhaustive); arts organizations, arts venues, festivals, creative hubs and incubators, media houses, mobility circuits, recording studios, theatres, arts markets, fairs and conferences, creative sector businesses etc.
- The organisation must have a proven history of operating in the creative sector in Southern Africa.
- The organisation must have been in operation for at least three years on the day of application.
- The organisation must be registered and operating in any of the following eligible Countries:
- Angola
- Botswana
- eSwatini
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Similarly, the planned action must take place in the eligible countries only.
- The organisation must have directly implemented, at least one project in the cultural and creative sector, for at least 50% of the amount of the grant requested.
- An organisation may only be awarded a SCF grant once. Thus, beneficiaries of a SCF grant may not apply again. Previous beneficiaries are welcome to collaborate with other grantee projects on the condition that there is no financial gain.
- An organisation can partner or collaborate with another organisation from a non-eligible country provided that there is no financial benefit to the organisation from the non-eligible country that is derived directly from the awarded SCF grant.
- Capacity building training for grantees – one of the key goals of the Fund is to offer a robust capacity building programme to grantees. Grantees should therefore be willing to actively participate in this programme which will broadly include accessing learning initiatives, virtually and where possible face-to-face (travel).
DEADLINE: April 15 2022
To apply and for more information visit here
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