Call for applications: BASA supporting grants

Business and Arts South Africa (NPC) Supporting Grant Programme is designed for artist/arts organisations and businesses to assist in activating sponsorship for a cross-section of arts projects in different regions of the country. This is done by providing financial support to a project that is in an already existing relationship between a business and arts organisation.

To apply for a BASA Supporting Grant, both the arts applicant and the sponsor must complete the application forms, which are designed to encourage the two partners to work together and identify areas of potential benefit. BASA allocates funds to the project once it has assessed how the partnership benefits both the sponsor and the recipient.

Supporting Grant applications forms are available in English, Zulu and Sotho.

English applicants

• Form A should be completed by arts organisations only. Organisations and individual applicants should complete part one and two respectively.
• Form B should be completed by the sponsoring business only. If there is more than one sponsor receiving additional benefit and through the grant, each company should complete form B.

Zulu applicants

• Arts organisations and sponsoring businesses should complete form A and form B respectively.

Sotho applicants

• Arts organisations and sponsoring businesses should complete form A and form B.  

Read the supporting grant scheme guidelines here.

Once the grants have been approved, the projects and sponsors can be further profiled through BASA media partners. In addition, successful partnerships are also encouraged to enter the BASA Awards.

The BASA Supporting Grant Programme has two phases.

The application deadline for the first and second phases are 16 July and 28 October respectively. The outcomes for the first and second phases are 28 August and 04 December.

For more information about this call, contact Sipho Mthiyane at sipho@basa.co.za or call him on 011 447 2295.

View original call here.