Opportunities

The Explore fund offers grants of up to £3,000 for learners aged 3-16 years to engage in hands-on activity in the expressive arts, in and out of school settings with external creative practitioners. Explore enables teachers to discover rich, authentic opportunities to enhance and enrich learning within the expressive arts. Teachers will be able to provide their learners with opportunities to explore, refine and communicate ideas while thinking creatively and engaging their imagination and senses.

Explore supports the delivery of the programme for Government 2021-26 and the National Plan for Music Education. The fund covers the five disciplines; art, dance, drama, film and digital media and music.

Who can apply?

Explore is available to support:

all state-maintained schools in Wales for pupils aged 3 – 16years.

Pupil referral units in Wales for pupils aged 3 – 16 years.

We are unable to support post 16 education, including FE Colleges and Sixth Form.

Explore applications can be submitted by:

A state-maintained school.

A pupil referral unit.

An arts/cultural organisation based in Wales.

What is the deadline?

There is no deadline for Explore, which means you can apply for funding at any time. In most cases, you will normally hear within 4 working weeks whether your application has been successful or not. We recommend submitting your application a minimum of 5 working weeks in advance of your start date to allow for our grant making process. Applications submitted less than 5 working weeks ahead of the proposed activity may be withdrawn or declined.

If you have any questions about Explore, we’d be happy for you to contact us.

Email us at creative.learning@arts.wales

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