Skip to search COVID-19 UPDATE LATEST SUPPORT CLOSE Arts Council England HomeGet fundingOur open funds Our open funds We invest in art and culture for a lasting return. We're looking for organisations, artists, events, initiatives and others to apply for our funding and help us achieve our strategy, Let's Create. NEW TO THE ARTS COUNCIL? Developing your Creative Practice This fund supports Individual cultural and creative practitioners thinking of taking their practice to the next stage through things such as: research, time to create new work, travel, training, developing ideas, networking or mentoring. Who can apply: We can support creative practitioners doing work related to our supported artforms and disciplines who live in England and have at least one years’ creative practice experience outside a formal education context. What you can apply for: Individual development activity or practice up to one year in length that have an impact on creativity and culture in England. Key dates: The deadline for applications is 12pm (midday) 7 December 2021. If you have made two unsuccessful or one successful application since 17 April 2019, you won’t be eligible to apply in Round 12. GET STARTED National Lottery Project Grants Our open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. Who can apply: Individual artists and practictioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries. What you can apply for: Arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with creativity and culture. Key dates: National Lottery Project Grants is open all the time, there are no deadlines. GET STARTED Emergency Resource Support Fund - Round 2 This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience Who can apply: Cultural organisations that are properly constituted with a governing document and are able to demonstrate, via cashflow forecast, they are at risk of ceasing to trade viably within 12 weeks of the point of application. What you can apply for: Generally, between £25,000 and £3 million (£1 million for for-profit organisations). However, if you’ve already received a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund, there are limited to how much you can apply for:   Key dates: This is a rolling programme and applications can be submitted between  29 November 2021 and 28 January 2022 with decisions communicated within six weeks, where possible. Applications are subject to permission to apply being granted, at which point applications must be made within 5 working days. Permission to apply requests will be accepted from 12pm (midday)  22 November 2021. The latest we can accept a permission to apply request is 12pm (midday) on 11 January 2022 (permission to apply is normally granted within five working days after submission). GET STARTED Capital Investment Programme The Capital Investment Programme is an open access programme to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce environmental impact. Who can apply: Not-for-profit cultural organisations based in England who are able to clearly demonstrate that their primary aims are around culture, and that the activities they are applying for fall within the remit of Arts Council England. What you can apply for: Capital expenditure to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic, improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce environmental impact. Key dates: The online Expression of Interest form will be open on Grantium between 12 noon on 5 October 2021 and 12 noon on 26 October 2021. The online application form will open on Grantium between 12 noon on 10 November 2021 and 12 noon on 13 December 2021. HOW TO APPLY Coming soon Supporting individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development. The National Portfolio 2023 onwards Our National Portfolio is a group of organisations that gets regular funding from us, and in return provides a backbone of creative and cultural provision across the country, and plays a major role in helping us realise our new strategy, Let’s Create. GET THE DETAILS Let’s Create Jubilee Fund We’re investing £5million thanks to National Lottery funding, into a new programme distributed by UK Community Foundations. This is to support voluntary and community organisations to deliver creative activity as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. FIND OUT MORE Recently closed funds Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support - Round one For organisations at imminent risk of failure to support them until the end of 2021, particularly those who have not previously received support from the Culture Recovery Fund. MORE INFO Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support More support to help secure the future of arts and cultural organisations who have previously been supported by the Culture Recovery Fund. MORE INFO Creative People and Places The New Creative People and Places National Portfolio 2022-25 fund brings all our Creative People and Places fund into one single programme as part of our National Portfolio. MORE INFO Culture Recovery Fund: Grants Round 1: Financial support for cultural organisations that were financially stable before Covid-19, but were at imminent risk of failure. Round 2: To support cultural organisations as they transition back to a viable and sustainable operating model during April-June 2021. MORE INFO Thriving Communities Fund Designed to increase social connectedness, and help communities cope with the impact of COVID-19. MORE INFO Culture Recovery Fund: Repayable Finance Round 1: £270 million for long-term loans of £3 million plus. Open to charitable and commercial organisations that are properly constituted with a governing document. Round 2: Loans of £1 million for commercial and publicly-funded cultural organisations operating within the arts, museums, heritage and sectors, including cinemas. MORE INFO Culture Recovery Fund: Capital Kickstart fund £55 million funding for capital expenditure, for existing Arts Council capital grant holders who can demonstrate a capital funding shortfall due to Covid-19 MORE INFO Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Grassroots Music Venues Fund The £2.25 million Emergency Grassroots Music Venues Fund sought to ensure the survival of grassroots music venues from the point of opening until 30 September 2020. MORE INFO Emergency Response Funds We've now completed awarding funds for our first two Emergency Response Funds: for Individuals, and for Organisations. Explore the data behind our Emergency Response Funds, including reflections on the diversity of our investment and the geographical spread, along with some considerations about our process. 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