What Arts Council England will treat as evidence of excellence, reach and governance in a National Portfolio 2028-33 application, ranked by weight, with model wording and where the public data lives.
What you get: the evidence hierarchy (seven ranked evidence types for excellence, seven for reach, six for governance, each with its typical form in an answer box); model wording for the six evidence types organisations most often lack; the data sources for Culture Priority Places, deprivation deciles, Census 2021 comparators and free school meals; a worked example from "around 4,000 people came" to four sentences an assessor can weigh; the capture brief for everything you deliver before 15 December; and four worksheets, including the board monitoring return in the form's own demographic categories.
Version 1.1, checked against the Applicant Guidance and offline application form published in September 2026.
18 pages, Word and PDF. Instant download. Licensed for use within the purchasing organisation, including copies for your board. Written by Dahna Borojević, whose Arts Council England applications succeed at 68%. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Arts Council England.
What Arts Council England will treat as evidence of excellence, reach and governance in a National Portfolio 2028-33 application, ranked by weight, with model wording and where the public data lives.
What you get: the evidence hierarchy (seven ranked evidence types for excellence, seven for reach, six for governance, each with its typical form in an answer box); model wording for the six evidence types organisations most often lack; the data sources for Culture Priority Places, deprivation deciles, Census 2021 comparators and free school meals; a worked example from "around 4,000 people came" to four sentences an assessor can weigh; the capture brief for everything you deliver before 15 December; and four worksheets, including the board monitoring return in the form's own demographic categories.
Version 1.1, checked against the Applicant Guidance and offline application form published in September 2026.
18 pages, Word and PDF. Instant download. Licensed for use within the purchasing organisation, including copies for your board. Written by Dahna Borojević, whose Arts Council England applications succeed at 68%. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Arts Council England.
