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Arts Council England
Culture Recovery Fund Round Three
The Government has announced a new round of the Culture Recovery Fund, including a grants programme for arts and cultural organisations in urgent need of funding: Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support.
This programme is designed to support organisations at imminent risk of failure and will provide emergency funding to help them return to financial viability. Today ACE has published the guidance for applicants for this programme.
The Emergency Resource Support fund is open to for-profit (commercial) and non-profit arts and cultural organisations who are at imminent risk of failure within twelve weeks of making an application.
This is a rolling programme; applications can be submitted between 15 July and 14 October 2021 and ACE will aim to communicate a decision within six weeks. To submit an application, you’ll need to receive Permission to Apply (PTA) first. Applicants can begin submitting PTA forms from Thursday 8 July and ACE will send outcomes within five working days where possible.
Who can apply?
Your organisation must:
- Demonstrate that they are at risk of no longer trading viably within twelve weeks of the point of application
- Have been sustainable before Covid-19 and have exhausted all other reasonable options for increasing their resilience
- Demonstrate how this funding will allow them to return to financial viability (by no later than 31 December 2021)
What organisations can apply for
You can apply for a minimum of £25,000 and up to £3 million if you’re a non-profit organisation or up to £1 million if you’re a for-profit organisation.
Key dates
Thursday 8 July: Permission to Apply requests open
Thursday 15 July: Emergency Resource Support portal opens for applications
Thursday 30 September: Deadline to submit Permission to Apply requests
Thursday 14 October: Emergency Resource Support portal closes for applications
Full guidance and FAQs
Read the full guidance and FAQs for applicants. It includes details on who can apply, what you can apply for, how the application process works, and what ACE is looking for in your application.
National Lottery Project Grants are Back!
This is Arts Council England’s (ACE) fund open to all individual artists, community and cultural organisations to support arts, museums and libraries projects. And it’s all made possible thanks to funding from National Lottery players.
The portal is open for applications now, with a budget of £59.8 million available until April 2021.
ACE has made some improvements so the fund can be more responsive to the needs of smaller independent organisations and individual practitioners during Covid-19. These changes include:
- For now, you no longer need 10% match funding. Finding match funding in these circumstances would be particularly challenging. So, if you don’t have the full 10% ACE usually expect, or any match funding at all, you’ll still be able to apply.
- Museums can now apply to National Lottery Project Grants for Subject Specialist Network activity.
- ACE will also accept applications from a wider range of applicants for any activity that benefits at least one Accredited museum, its collections and its visitors.
To find out more about project grants for museums take a look at the updated Museums information sheet.
Full information about the National Lottery Project Grants can be found here, including the Guidance to apply for projects under £15k, Guidance for projects over 15k and the new supplementary guidance.
Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy/ Cause4
Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy continue to offer a FREE hour of consultancy support every day on a first come first served basis to arts organisations that may need help in the coming weeks. This power hour can be focused on a range of areas including income generation, fundraising strategy, or donor cultivation. Book here
Ticket Refund to Donation Guidance: Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy has worked with Arts Council England to release guidance for arts organisations that are encouraging ticket holders to change their booking to a donation. This covers your legal duties, GDPR, and messaging advice. Read the guidance here.
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