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Mary, Teacher

"I had become very staid in my ways. I felt that art had become something I squeezed in. I felt like I had been doing my art nearly like a wee spot on Blue Peter. I was preparing something earlier, I was bringing out the wee witch for Halloween that had been out the year before… I had lost the direction of art. I wanted everything to be uniform. It had to be a beautiful display. Everything had to be perfectly cut, no jagged edges. But when Angela came in she showed us there were old skills there that we had forgotten about. Now there is this lovely breadth of art that had opened up. It's not about the end product that counts. It's the process as opposed to the end product that counts."

Mary, Teacher (Trading Places/CR.E.A.T.E.)

Funding a publication

Kids' Own Publishing Partnership is Ireland's leading specialist in facilitating children to publish books through collaborative projects in partnership with schools, festivals, arts centres and other organisations.

We are always being asked how much a Kids' Own publication costs: The answer of course, depends on the length of the development phase with the children, the size, and nature of the publication and the scale of distribution.

Costs

As a rough guide, a single publication project needs to raise approximately €15,000 or £11,465.

Costs are made up of:

Planning, co-ordinating and fundraising time
Content development workshops
Design, including with the children
Travel and subsistence for workshop personnel
Printing costs
Distribution, publicity and marketing costs

The sources of funding and support will vary according to local circumstances but may include the following:

Participating schools
County Arts Officers
Local LEADER companies
Local Businesses
Local Library service
Local action or regeneration groups
Special interest groups e.g.
National Council for Development Education (NCDE)
National Anti-Racism Awareness
Cultural organisations

Schools are expected to contribute towards the project costs according to their means. In some cases schools raise this money through pre-sales of the publication to parents or through local business sponsorship. In some cases they underwrite their costs with the aim of recouping a percentage through sales once the book is published.

In some cases support maybe in-kind, for instance workshop space may be provided by the local library.

All Kids' Own projects are subsidised by revenue grant aid from The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon in the Republic and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland in the North. Sometimes additional grants may be applied to for specific projects from these bodies.