Arts Council England’s Grantium funding portal is still full of holes – any system that needs you to print out an 88-page-long pdf to use is hardly intuitive, says Dan Thompson.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that because something showed as ‘Submitted’, you’d submitted it, wouldn’t you?
Sadly, it doesn’t. And I’m just the latest in a long string of artists who’s failed to get to grips with Arts Council England’s ‘Grantium’ funding portal. And that’s after a year of trying. That the portal’s difficult to use is hardly news. Any system that includes error messages like “This formlet contains a mandatory field for which no value has been saved", and that needs you to print out an 88 page long pdf to use it, is hardly intuitive... Keep reading on a-n
You’d be forgiven for thinking that because something showed as ‘Submitted’, you’d submitted it, wouldn’t you?
Sadly, it doesn’t. And I’m just the latest in a long string of artists who’s failed to get to grips with Arts Council England’s ‘Grantium’ funding portal. And that’s after a year of trying. That the portal’s difficult to use is hardly news. Any system that includes error messages like “This formlet contains a mandatory field for which no value has been saved", and that needs you to print out an 88 page long pdf to use it, is hardly intuitive... Keep reading on a-n