Mercury Creatives Masterclass: Producing – A Practical Guide To Fundraising With Roxanne Carney

Fundraising doesn’t start with an application; it starts with you. In this interactive workshop you will explore alternative and blended funding in the creative industries, focusing on your values, audiences and the real-world impact of your work. Moving beyond ACE-style applications, the session helps you identify what already makes your practice fundable and how to articulate that clearly to funders, supporters and partners. Using a practical case study from Roxanne Carney at Blown Fuse Theatre, group exercises and reflective tools, this workshop will leave you with language, confidence and new ways to position your work for support.

Venue: Princes Theatre, Clacton, Committee Room
Date & Time: Mon 1 Jun, 5-8pm
Price: £20 (Bursaries available)
Access price: £15 or free for carers with purchase of normal ticket.
Age: 18+

About the Facilitator

Roxanne Carney is a theatre producer with over 10 years’ experience working across live art and contemporary theatre. She has produced more than 20 projects with companies such as Dibby Theatre, Blown Fuse Theatre and Scottee & Friends and has secured over £1 million in funding for creative and community-led work. Her projects include supporting award-winning shows like Fat Blokes (Assistant Producer) and producing small to mid-scale, access-focused work for artists and organisations across the UK (Vijay Patel’s Brotherly, Otherly Disorderly, Teatro Vivo’s The Mystery of the Missing Market and Jamal Harewood’s The Privileged.) Roxanne specialises in fundraising, tour booking, creative logistics and building inclusive structures that support artists and participants. Launched in 2025, Roxanne leads a new producing company, House of Carney, dedicated to platforming original, urgent stories.

Bursary Offer

A limited number of free bursary places are available for this event. To book one of these places, please email [email protected] to request one.