[10] In July 2013 membership reached 100,000[11] and it had awarded more than £1.5 million worth of direct funding and accompanying expert mentoring to emerging artists.
[13] Notable brief winners include HighTide Festival Theatre (Ideas Fund Edinburgh); RashDash (Ideas Fund Edinburgh); Sabrina Mahfouz (OVNV TS Eliot US/ UK Exchange) Folly for a Flyover (Innovators Fund); Pierfrancesco Celada (IdeasTap Photographic Award); Ella Hickson (OVNV 24 Hour Plays); Sarah Solemani (OVNV 24 Hour Plays); Nick Blood (Old Vic New Voices Theatre 503 Award).
Examples of opportunities offered to IdeasTap members include a workshop with the actor Kevin Spacey;[14] a dance performance at the Champions League Final at Wembley Stadium;[15] The IdeasTap and Magnum Photographic Award;[16] the opportunity to participate in The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices.
Through this bursary scheme, opera director Daisy Evans and visual artist Phoebe Boswell were each awarded £30,000 towards their creative development.
[20] A further three bursaries of £30,000 each were awarded to director Felix Mortimer, animator Drew Roper and performance artist Laurence Payot in May 2012.