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Obtaining public funds for your chess project
Can we do it?Yes we can!
What’s ‘excellent’?
Whether big, small, middling, projects must be:• Feasible• Well-planned• Value-adding• Fun!
The ambitious Aberdeen Schools Project succeeded because
• It had an excellent prospective teacher/manager with a proven track record
• It had community, academic and local authority support
• It was extremely well-designed / budgeted• It completed all the funding application forms
professionally, including promise of research
The Project established
• The validity of the principle of the ‘visiting chess coach’
• Research singled out for extremely high praise by the Scottish Government
• Rave reviews by Education Inspectors, involved schools, parents and local politicians
• The first international ‘Chess in Schools and Communities’ conference
Yet the funding ran out?
• The local authority seriously over-spent and was required to cut back sharply
• Chess was only one of many casualties• Money always eventually runs out?• But the project was a considerable landmark
nonetheless!
Projects can be all sizes and shapes
• Living chess• Chess days in schools• Teach teachers to play, teach chess and run
school chess clubs• Regional leagues / individual competitions of
various sorts• And so on
What’s key about any project?
• It suits local needs / meets local demands / enthusiasms
• It must not least promote sociability and fun!• It’s ‘your’ move … decide with due care … and
go for it!