Our evaluation of last years activity is now complete and we have a shiny new business plan to take us to the end of 2012 in place! That said we now need to implement the plan, and that begins with getting funding!
Last year we relied heavily on Arts Council England for funding but 2010 onwards needs to see a larger proportion of income from other sources. We have set up numerous meetings to try and raise awareness of the organisation and to secure funding. Every meeting we have had thus far has gone well, but there have been no pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. We have managed to pin down application writing to an extent but not meeting styles to sell the organisation. This has become quite a worry because with out funding from other sources we wont get Arts Council funding! What we need is a wealthy beneficiary to come our way.
The plan for this year is to secure a permanent base in the city that functions as an office and base for art work to originate or tie into. We also want to formally constitute the organisation and work towards three commissions. The first stage of this is primarily meetings and application writing, I think it will be some time before any project outwardly materialises so our presence in the city will be limited for the time being. This is really why we need a base in the city. Evan a caravan with a plot would do, in fact I quite like that idea, the Lincoln Art Programme caravan….
Amelia
