New micro-funding to help low-income, early-career and emerging creatives make a research pilgrimage to visit exhibitions, artworks, or other arts events in the Midlands.
About Pilgrim’s Postcard Fund
The Pilgrim’s Art Fund covers minor travel and subsistence expenses, for low-income early-career and emerging creatives, to journey to exhibitions, artworks, or other arts events in the Midlands, the central area of England.
The fund aims to help creatives learn from, and find inspiration in, artworks and exhibitions that they would not otherwise have been able to visit.
This opportunity can only be sustained through generous community donations. Please help to continue the fund by making a donation today. Documentation from successful pilgrimages will be shared on Instagram and Facebook.
Information follows on this page for 2025 applicants.
What could you receive?
Successful applicants will be remunerated for expenses up to £25. The fund can be used for UK travel, subsistence (includes food, drink, and any other necessary costs of traveling), admission costs, and the purchase of a postcard and a 2nd class stamp – to document and share the pilgrimage with No Jobs in the Arts, and their supporters.
The fund can only be used to pay for the entirety of a proposed journey. The fund cannot be used for retrospective expenses. Sustainable travel, where possible, is encouraged for all pilgrimages. To maximise the fund’s ability to assist as many pilgrims as possible, value for money will be expected.
Who can apply?
Early-career creatives in a visual arts discipline, working, studying, living, making, or visiting in or around the Midlands may apply. No Jobs in the Arts use no single criteria to define what an early-career creative is, nor do they means test income; so, it is up to the creative to decide if submitting to the opportunity is beneficial to them.
Successful applicants are only eligible to receive a single grant award from the Pilgrim’s Art Fund. Unsuccessful applicants may re-apply in succeeding rounds.
Successful applicants are responsible for their own tax affairs and payments with HM Revenue and Customs. If they receive benefits and/or any other financial support, it is the applicant’s responsibility to check whether receiving an award will affect your entitlement(s)/payments.
When to apply?
Funding rounds will open and close dependent on availability of funds and number of applications received. When the fund is open, an application form will be visible at the bottom of this page. The opening of the fund will be announced first on No Jobs in the Arts’ newsletter.
How to apply?
Using the application form below. Send 50 words outlining the proposed pilgrimage and why it is important to you. Please also provide date(s) when the pilgrimage will take place, a rough breakdown of the pilgrimage cost, a supporting link illustrating your creative practice, and basic contact details.
What happens after I submit?
No Jobs in the Arts will contact you to tell you the outcome of your application. The team will aim to do this as quickly as possible following your application being submitted. Please allow up to four weeks for notification.
What if I am unsuccessful?
Applicants can re-submit during the next round if unsuccessful. No Jobs in the Arts welcome seeing documentation from all proposed pilgrimages, not just those that they have been able to support through the fund.
What if I am Successful?
Successful applicants will be expected to:
- Submit receipts of your expenses and an invoice.
- Report to No Jobs in the Arts about your pilgrimage, by postcard (optional).
Receipts and report must be submitted within one month of your trip taking place. The intention is to share successful pilgrimages funded by The Pilgrim’s Art Fund online.
If you need help?
If you have any questions about The Pilgrim’s Art Fund, please contact the No Jobs in the Arts team.
Application Form for the Pilgrim’s Postcard Fund:
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If you have any issues with this form, please contact the No Jobs in the Arts team.