BPOC Travel Fund

The mutual aid travel fund is available to all Black, Brown and Racialised people living in Scotland, (you do not have to be an art worker to claim) If you have/will incur travel costs for yourself/anyone to travel in and around Scotland, please use this fund to cover costs, no questions asked. You can claim up to £50 per month, in any form of amount/s that works best for you.

It is a solidarity fund aimed at redistributing contributions across our communities.

How it works:

1.⁠ ⁠Follow the link in the bio to AW4PS Open Collective site.

2.Fill out the details. You will need to add bank details and a username. Only your username will be seen publicly and this doesn’t have to be your real name. You do not need a reciept or invoice.

3.⁠ An AW4PS admin will process your claim
within approx 5 working days.

Anonymity will always be respected and information accessible to AW4PS Open Collective admins will not be shared.

For any questions or support with claiming email: aw4ps.expenses@gmail.com

For AW4PS Accses Fund

Expenses:

AW4PS requires formal pre-approval for all expenses. Please email aw4ps.expenses@gmail.com before incurring any reimbursable expenses.

*In line with the full transparency of AW4PS, the available budget, all financial (other than incognito) contributions and expenses reimbursed can be viewed at the Open Collective account here.*

Open Collective requires that you must upload a valid receipt or invoice clearly showing the total amount, date, legal address, and what the payment is for.

Information listed publicly on the collective page will be: the user name, and the content you put in the description category. Please do not include information you wish to remain confidential in that text box.

Please include an email or some other way that we can contact you and follow up about the request if needed. Requests will be collectively reviewed on a weekly basis. It is our aim to fulfill all requests however as we negotiate the range of community needs so you may be asked to wait for your request to be returned.

*You can check in with the finance support team via email on aw4ps.expenses@gmail.com if you need to discuss, or need assistance with, your expenses request or donation.*