{"id":6880,"date":"2016-05-18T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about.35.197.208.187.nip.io\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:46:02","slug":"alternative-arts-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/insights\/alternative-arts-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Arts Funding: How Do I Fund A Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Money&#8217;s hard to come by. Luckily, there&#8217;s always alternative arts funding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartsdesk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Culshaw (Editor, The Arts Desk)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt James (Grants Advisor, Wellcome Trust)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/billiondollarboy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Walters (Co-founder &amp; Head of Creative Operations, Billion Dollar Boy)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Birss (Editor at Large, The Drum)<\/a> <strong>talk about the challenges of funding your art, and how these challenges can lead to new opportunities and inventive ways of gaining alternative arts funding. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zealous X Talks Day 4: Alternative Money Panel Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alternative money in arts funding | Panel Discussion | Zealous X Talks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vk-u9Yp0tU8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/zealous.co\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ZealousCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> for more stimulating talks and a weekly dose of creativity!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Zealous X Talks<\/strong> is a weekly video podcast of all the talks, panel discussions and keynotes, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Zealous X Festival<\/strong><\/a>, where the UK\u2019s leading thinkers, artists, policy makers, marketers, technologists and museum professionals, (and more!) come together to explore, challenge and debate on the current state of our creative industries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group au_row is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-527f440d wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border au_img\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44104 lazyload\" style=\"border-radius:40px;object-fit:cover;width:80px;height:80px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/mused.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/guy-armitage-zealous-1.webp\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group au_txt_block wp-container-content-9dbf05af has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c4ee154b wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/team\/guyarmitage\/\" title=\"\">Guy Armitage<\/a> is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?utm_source=guy_armitage&amp;utm_medium=blog_footer&amp;utm_campaign=founder_insight&amp;utm_id=founder_insight\" title=\"\">Zealous <\/a>and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/everyoneiscreative.org\/?utm_source=guy_armitage&amp;utm_medium=blog_footer&amp;utm_campaign=founder_insight&amp;utm_id=founder_insight\" title=\"\">Everyone is Creative<\/a>&#8220;. 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