Despite it all, 2020 wasn’t wasted. Here are a few of our notable milestones:

• Helped host our biggest ever prize (£100,000 for the Gulbenkian Foundation).
• Deployed our new opportunity page (see it in action on the Perito Prize)
• Facilitated portfolio reviews under lockdown.
• Deployed criteria judging (amongst 270 smaller updates)
• Celebrated 11 of your Stories and put money in your pockets (all featured images in this article are of the winning entries)
• Supported more international prizes (South Africa, yay!)

Making sure our community has access to as many opportunities as possible is vital at this time.

To do our part last year, we offered our services for free to all charities who support creative talent through open calls. This year we’re doing things a little differently, giving discounts to anyone creating opportunities that support creative talent.

The more supportive you are, the deeper the discount we’ll give you.

With so much positive feedback on our new Opportunities page; we are continuing to update the designs of all of our pages, adding some new juicy features based on your feedback.

This includes how judges and organisations view your submissions, as well, as a completely new portfolio. We’re also restructuring how opportunity hosts can take payments, with expanded currencies and faster payouts.

For more gritty details, visit our roadmap page.

These lockdowns have made some of us feel isolated, and although we can’t put a drink in your hand and tap you on the shoulder (not that I would ever do that!), we can still speak, but we’re also mindful another Zoom meeting won’t cut it.

However, we will try and experiment with new forms of digital meet-ups/workshops. And as we know some of you may have complicated schedules (e.g. kids!) – we’ll be sure to record them.

If you’re interested, let us know ([email protected]).