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ACE Your NPO Application and what you need to know Arts Council England (ACE) will soon release detailed information on its new 2028-2033 National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) funding round, the first since Baroness Hodge’s extensive review of ACE and how it manages NPO funding. While there are still many unknowns, ACE’s new 2026 Strategic Framework - which replaces Let’s Create - has been published and contains a significant number of changes to the NPO application process a

Souter Point introduces an ethical and responsible use of AI policy Artificial Intelligence is a routine part of how professional services firms research, analyse information, develop ideas, review content and produce client deliverables. Used well, it can improve efficiency, broaden access to information and help teams work through complex problems more quickly. But those benefits come with an important responsibility: clients need to understand how Artificial Intelligence i

Souter Point joins the Biometrics Institute Souter Point is pleased to announce that we have joined the Biometrics Institute , whose mission is to " promote the responsible, ethical and effective use of Biometrics and related technologies that respect the Institute’s ethical guidance as an independent and impartial international forum for biometric users and other interested parties. " Biometrics are playing a bigger and bigger role in our daily lives, whether that’s unlockin

In the last of three special blog posts on the visa application outsourcing industry, we consider whether greater digitisation of the visa process will further entrench incumbent competitive positions or open the industry to new players. Since the visa application outsourcing industry launched in 2001 , the visa application process has become increasingly digital. Biometrics, online applications, and e-visas are eliminating paper and physical artefacts across the visa applic

In the second of three blog posts on developments in the visa application outsourcing industry, we examine how the new single EU Visa Application Portal and digital visas will revolutionise the Schengen visa application process in the near future and beyond The 29 Schengen States are one of the single largest visa-issuing blocs in the world, with more than 11.7 million Schengen visa applications made globally in 2024 . While the process and requirements for applying for a Sch

With trials for a fully remote biometric enrolment solution for visa applications underway that includes fingerprint enrolment, in the first of three articles on visa application outsourcing, Souter Points discusses how remote biometric enrolment technology could impact visa applicants and the visa application outsourcing industry If you’ve applied for a visa within the last 25 years, the chances are you had to visit a visa application centre (VAC) to do so. Outsourcing the v

Supporting Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations applying for 2027 investment period funding to help them save time,...

Schengen Visa Demand 2024-2030 is the second independent research report from Souter Point on the global visa industry. It analyses the...

Market Sounding Exercise – Migration Agent Marketing Platform open for Australian OMARA Migration Agents

Visa Application Outsourcing - the Impact of Digitization is a world first industry report covering the visa processing industry