Neurodivergent and Disabled Artists Fund
As part of OSC, we support artists through a Lucky Draw Artist Support Fund 4 times per year. An additional one-off draw has been added with a deadline of Mon 15 December specifically to support neurodivergent and disabled artists. This fund is in memory of Yvonne Mabs Francis, one of our artists exhibiting in our summer exhibition, You're Not Alone: Women in Art 2025, who passed away earlier this year. Yvonne raised the hidden struggles of managing her mental health through her paintings.

Apply below for a chance to win our no strings attached £500 one off support fund - for Neurodivergent and Disabled artists and creatives based in the Bournemouth (BH) Postcode area to develop their professional arts practice. 

Deadline: Mon 15 Dec 2025 


What will you get? 

  • £500 One off Artist Support Fund which can be used for anything to help your professional arts practice (e.g residencies, equipment, workshops, travel, project time)
  • Free access to all OSC arts career development workshops for one year.
  • Mentoring and support from the BEAF Arts Co & TOSH teams

Who is it for?    

Practicing Neurodivergent and Disabled creatives based in the Bournemouth Postcode area including; Bournemouth, Christchurch, New Forest, East Dorset, North Dorset, Poole and Purbeck that have a BH postcode. 


Eligibility:

This fund is available for supporting local creatives to develop their work. To ensure that the fund is invested accordingly, we ask that you please ensure that the below applies to you.

We are able to support creatives practicing: 

  • Combined Arts
  • Dance
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Visual Arts and Design
  • Film and Animation
  • Video game Design
  • Fashion and Textiles
  • Architecture

We’re conscious that art comes in endless, changing forms - if you think that you may be working in an eligible art form that isn’t listed here, please give us an email so that we can verify for you and amend our list if necessary.

We want to support creatives who are presently active and dedicated to developing their practice. For this reason, we ask that you demonstrate that you have produced some creative work at least within the last 12 months.

Please note we are unable to accept applications from current students, as we are specifically aiming to support those that have access to fewer opportunities, and those who are living in the area beyond the duration of their studies.

You must have a BH home postcode to apply.

If we feel that your application is incomplete or not eligible, we will contact you. Otherwise, please assume your application has been accepted.

If you cannot fill in the online form or you need this information in a different format please email us at hello@gotbeaf.co.uk 


Deadline: Mon 15 Dec 2025 

We will notify the winner on the W/C 16 Dec 2025



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Full Name *
Email address *
Phone number *
Address *
Postcode *
Do you consider yourself Neurodivergent or Disabled?  *
Please describe your practice or the work you make (100 words max)  *
What would you use the £500 for in terms of your professional practice? If you're not sure what support you need at this stage please write "not sure" and we can support you further (100 words max)  *
Please provide a link to your website or Instagram/ Google Drive (please make sure accounts are not private and/or that you have allowed us access) 
This is so we can see a commitment in wanting to develop to your practice. 
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Yvonne Mabs Francis, The Madness of Medication, 1999, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist
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