During our recent consultation fora, it emerged that the UK arts constituency feels that there is no clear entry point for the discussion of ideas to be developed with the British Council. We want to address this concern by developing a pilot system called 'Ideas Park' which we are currently working on.

What is it?

Ideas Park is a point of entry for the proposal of arts project ideas to be developed with the British Council as a partner.

Ideas Park is a system to allow access to any individual or organisation to put forward a project idea for evaluation and further development.  

Ideas Park will allow a transparent and consistent entry point through which new ideas for arts and creative industries projects can be collected.   

Ideas Park is a system that allows for the open and external input of ideas to be questioned, analysed for resourced for further development.

How will it work?

Ideas Park will provide a framework including British Council strategy and priorities that will have to be addressed by the project idea. These will integrate the selection criteria.     

There will be an online format for providing a summary of the project - its aims, what it will deliver, who the partners might be and where would it happen.  

The project ideas will be evaluated periodically by a panel integrated by British Council Sector Heads and specialists, depending on its content.  

This evaluation will analyse the project idea, will question its feasibility, its strategic fit and the cost of continuing to research it.

If the project idea is approved for further research, resources will be allocated.

The project ideas will move through different stages while they continue to be developed and built up, until some of them make it to the piloting and final implementation stage.