I’ve skipped to the proposal part of the application now as I feel more comfortable in what I have to say there. Two hours yesterday and two this morning have taken me to 1000 words – half of what I need, but I still have 3 blocks of that section to fill in.
Realistically, this application will take in the region of 20 hours to complete start to finish. Thanks to Susan Jones’s advice, I will not write this off as my free time. This is an essential part of my work and will go in the budget.
I do need a break from it now though, but will go back to it later………
Round two? The 5 days have now dragged on to 10 days and I’m still no further down the line. I don’t want to give anyone the impression that I’ve been working on a funding application flat out for 10 days, as I haven’t at all.
The first five days, I’d spend an hour or two here and there on it , only having to grind to a stop to write up notes. This week I’ve been on holiday from work and I’ll be damned if I have to spend my total rest period stuck in front of a pc!
A few things have happened over the last week….. I’ve been away to visit friends and do some gallery hopping in the Midlands…. and I’ve been invited to become a board member for the Liverpool Independents Biennial.
I obviously can’t divulge the contents of all the correspondence I’m now privy too… but I was a little saddened when today’s emails contained the dreaded words ‘ How do we get funding ?’
If something is too hard to do, then it’s not worth doing. Homer Simpson
Can you believe that we have actually discussed pulling out of the exhibition, without even trying for funding? I think I’m on about my 5th day of going into the ACE funding application form. Every time I think I have an answer to a question, I am prompted to open another box, which leads to even more questions.
ACE is by far the most complicated of any application I have ever seen and I honestly feel it would be easier to just take Homer’s advice.
