Arts & Business Awards

More detail on the nomination process for the Arts & Business Awards (closing date is 8 March) the arts organisation, business or partners in the project can lead the application:

Nomination guidelines

For the four Partnership Award categories judges are looking for:

· Excellence in a partnership between a business and an arts organisation in accordance with the criteria for the category entered

· Sound business reasons for the engagement, demonstrating real benefits such as return on investment or new audience reach

· Sound project objectives, a clear evaluation and demonstration of the success in achieving, or exceeding objectives

· Examples of how the business partner invested in leveraging their partnership with the arts organisation beyond financial sponsorship

· Examples of how the partners worked together in innovative ways

· Demonstration of the reach of the project and impact on a wider stakeholder group (for example; employees/ shareholders/ customers/ clients/ suppliers/ community/ schools/ etc.)

· Ongoing development and sustainability in the relationship of the business with the arts

A partnership must produce an ‘arts’ product and have a ‘business sponsor’ but can include the following combinations:

· A business and an arts organisation working together on a project or marketing campaign, or on a long-term strategic partnership

· A business instigating arts engagement

· A number of organisations working together on a project including businesses, art organisations, public bodies, industry organisations, not-for-profit organisations and educational institutions

· The term ‘arts’ includes the performing arts, visual arts, crafts, photography, literature, museums and galleries, film and moving image and heritage.

NB An application can be led by a business, an arts organisation or artist