PROGRAMME DESIGN, BIDS & GRANT PROGRAMMES
Georgina has a strong track record of designing grant making programmes, supporting successful bid writing for organisations & artists and consulting on programme design.
“Georgina led a detailed and considered research and visioning process during a time of uncertainty. Georgina’s approach was clear and collaborative and was the right balance of hand holding and ‘we need to get on with this’ which was just what we needed. George and her team’s skills range from detailed artist research, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation to report writing. We valued her deep knowledge of cross artform and participatory models. It was an absolute pleasure working with her. Lucy Atkinson, CEO Stratford Circus”
After 10yrs as cross artform producer, working closely with artists and venues, Georgina’s work grew into programme design and grant management. Designed festivals responding to themes, Georgina led commissions programming theatre, dance, outdoor arts & visual arts. Georgina has developed successful bids, chaired stakeholder groups, led relationships with funders, assessment & grants, and regularly co-created large scale work with senior artists and communities across London..
Georgina is a grant writer with Night Time Economy, has reviewed over 50 Arts Council bids & DYCP’s as well as delivered successful tenders to The British Council and Greater London Authority. During her time at the GLA, she managed government funded programmes, delivered two complex grant-making programmes distributing over £400k to artists - Pop Up London & LNDWMN (Tate). She was a regular assessor for the GLA Culture Seeds progamme and managed the Fourth Plinth Schools Award (2019/20). She designed & led the British Council Venice Fellowship scheme which included assessing artistic, cross artform projects for all applicants.
She has led organisational development & programme design work with Tongue Fu, Punchdrunk, Stratford Arts Trust, Rambert Dance and Sadlers Wells. During her time at The Roundhouse, Raindance Film Festival, The Almeida, Barbican Centre and five years working with the GLA Culture Team, Georgina has demonstrated a flair for taking the start of ideas and turning them into new programmes with solid budgets, curating high quality content across all artforms within challenging timelines. She has a flair for connecting with artists while meeting organisation’s needs. used Competitor Analysis, Business Canvas, SWOTs, GAANTs and Theory of Change on a regular basis in this work. She is a Fellow of Penn University’s Social Innovation Creative Community Programme.
TESTIMONIALS
“Working with George has been eye opening. She helped shape the scatter-brianed beautiful idea of mine into grantideas. She took Midnight Run from an idea to a registered company in less that a year! She is excellent, proficient, knowledgeable, firm, clear and enthusiastic. I am running out of adjectives - Inua Ellams”
“George has a deep knowledge into funding principles - local, national and international impact. She brings succinct and focused language to translate our artistic concepts into tailored, grant-award winning ACE applications. It is such a joy to work with George - they transformed our understanding of application writing with a human-centered, goal-oriented, yet fun process. Art in Flux ”
“George from start to finish went above and beyond to elevate my application to where it needed to be. She was patient, constructive and above all thorough. If you are looking for a consultant I hope you are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with her”
“There is no way I would have been able to submit my arts council application to such a high standard without George’s help. Her in-depth knowledge of the application process, as well as her ability to reassure & encourage enabled me to complete what felt like a very overwhelming task. George really understands the barriers in the application writing process for neurodivergent people and went above and beyond to be support me”
“Im writing you to let you you that we have got the ARTS COUNCIL!!!! I can’t be more grateful!! all because your help and support and trust!! ”
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