Applications now open for Creative Community Commissions 2025!

Are you an artist, community group or organisation based in and delivering creative activities with communities in the Staffordshire Moorlands?

We are hoping to support a range of projects through small scale commissions, up to £1,000, that help us to increase the range of arts and culture available for communities across the district. We particularly welcome applications that are co-created by local communities.

Find out more and apply by Friday 14th March 2025 here.

Creative Moorlands – save the date!

Spring Meet – Friday 11th April 2025, 10am-12pm, venue TBC

Join us for our fifth Creative Moorlands get together, a place for artists and creatives across the Moorlands to gather, share information about what they’re working on, build new networks, find out about funding opportunities, share resources, and find ways to support and inspire one another. This is a chance to meet other creatives from across the Moorlands, and to get updates from the OUTSIDE team and the local council team about their upcoming plans.

Join the Creative Moorlands group on Facebook here.

Staffordshire Moorlands Arts

Check out this directory showcasing the inspiring range and quality of Staffordshire Moorlands Arts practices. You can scroll through the directory, click through to artists’ websites and contact them directly. As an artist, you can post about your artistic practice and become part of the directory.

Artsbank

Artsbank is an online tool created by Stoke-on-Trent Creative People and Places programme Appetite with the aim of helping community groups and individuals in North Staffordshire to imagine, develop and deliver cultural events in their local areas. It’s now also being added to by OUTSIDE. It contains tools, resources and know-how as well as a growing directory of practical resources including services, venues, equipment hire plus local and national creatives and artists. Explore Artsbank here.