Description

Do you want £500 to help develop your creative project for a festival? Or are you planning to document a festival? You’ve come to the right place.

This brief is for anyone involved with a festival this summer – from performers to photographers to creative producers. Whatever your project, this is your chance to win £500 and make everything a little bit better.

The Top Up Fund is IdeasTap's only member-run fund, which means all the winners will be chosen by a panel of IdeasTap members and previous Ideas Fund winners.

Top Up Fund: Festivals offers a cash lifeline for innovative, creative projects of any genre or type. The fund can be used to support anything from a brand new idea from an old hand, to funding an artist creatively involved with a festival for the first time.

The judges would like to see projects from all over the UK, to celebrate the diversity of the regions. Winners will be chosen based on:

Most importantly, make sure you download and read the terms and conditions before applying. For more information on budgets, see our PDF.

This brief closes on Monday 8 July at 5pm and is open to IdeasTap members aged 18 to 30. If you have any technical queries, please visit our Help Centre. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances, including technical issues – so make sure you don’t leave your application to the last minute.

Image used under Creative Commons from Thomas Hawk.

Follow this brief to download the application form

How to apply