{"id":1727,"date":"2026-05-25T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:10:22","slug":"star-project-applications-closing-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/2026\/05\/25\/star-project-applications-closing-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Project applications closing soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a reminder that we are nearing the closing date for applications for our Star Project Award 2026 \u2013 <strong>applications close on 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0May<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This award of <strong>\u00a32,000<\/strong> is made every two years to support an inclusive, creative project for a group you know or a community you wish to create. The award supports research, development, materials, and equipment. Your project can take place anywhere: online, in a community centre,\u00a0gallery, school, college or adult education centre,\u00a0a library, or even outdoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who Can Apply?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Freelance artists, volunteers, or qualified teachers (full-time or part-time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Applicants must be able to devise and lead an inclusive, creative textile-based learning experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Permanent residents of the UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the information and application details are on our website <a href=\"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/textile-study-group-teachers-award\/\">here<\/a> and you can read about the last project that was funded by the award in 2024 in previous blog posts <a href=\"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/2025\/06\/06\/patchworking-motherhood\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/2025\/04\/07\/star-project-award-2024\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/2024\/10\/28\/the-star-project-award-2024\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a reminder that we are nearing the closing date for applications for our Star Project Award 2026 \u2013 applications close on 31st\u00a0May.\u00a0 This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/1.jpeg?fit=568%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}