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British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund 2016 – 2020: Protecting Cultural Heritage through Capacity Building

Deadline: 1 August 2016

The British Council, in partnership with the Department for Culture Media and Sport, has launched the Cultural Protection Fund  to support cultural heritage in conflict-affected countries.

The objective is to help to create opportunities for economic and social development through building capacity to foster, safeguard and promote cultural heritage in conflict-affected regions overseas. The Fund will support efforts to keep cultural heritage sites and objects safe, as well as supporting the recording, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. It will also provide opportunities to local communities for training and education, enabling and empowering them in the long term to value, care for and benefit from their cultural heritage.

Priority Areas

The Cultural Protection Fund is for projects focusing on the protection of cultural heritage under threat in one or more of the Fund’s target countries. Cultural heritage includes many different things from the past that communities value and want to pass on to future generations, for example:

  • archaeological sites and monuments;
  • collections of objects, books or documents in museums, libraries or archives;
  • historic buildings;
  • historic landscapes, gardens and parks;
  • cultural traditions such as stories, festivals, crafts, music, dance and costumes;
  • histories of people, communities, places and events;
  • the heritage of languages and dialects; and
  • people’s memories and experiences (often recorded as ‘oral history’)

Funds Available

Applicants to the Cultural Protection Fund may apply for Small Grants (grants up to £100,000 with a minimum request of £5,000) or Large Grants (grants over £100,000 up to a maximum of £500,000 for single-year projects or £3m for multi-year projects).

Geographical Focus

The Cultural Protection Fund is targeted at areas in conflict-affected countries where the need is greatest, the risks are lowest and the potential benefits are highest. Applications must relate directly to one or more of the Fund’s current target countries:

Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestinian Territories, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The Cultural Protection Fund is designed with applications from UK-registered organisations in mind; however, any organisation may apply.
  • Sole traders are not eligible to apply.
  • Applications must demonstrate intent to benefit one or more of these countries as their main aim.
  • If private owners or forprofit organisations are involved in a project, the benefit to the social and economic development of the beneficiary country is expected to outweigh any private gain.
  • Due to time restrictions on the initial round of funding, applicants are required to have established working relationships with their proposed local partner organisations.

Key Dates

June 2016 – Initial round of funding (large and small grants)

  • For applicants with existing partners in target countries only
  • Call for Expressions of Interest: opens 27 June, closes 1 August
  • Deadline for Application Forms: 31 August
  • Applicants notified of awards at the end of November (low-risk applications may be fast-tracked for earlier decision in exceptional cases)
  • The full application process for the Fund will launch in September.

Large Grants: April 2017 award

  • Call for Expressions of Interest: opens 1 September 2016, closes 28 October 2016
  • Deadline for application forms: 19 December 2016
  • Applicants notified in April 2017

Small Grants programme

  • Small grants applications will be available from 1 September 2016
  • Decisions will be made on a quarterly basis
  • Applications received before mid-October will be considered at the first decision meeting at the beginning of December

How to Apply

Applicants are required to download the application form available on the website.

For more information, please visit Cultural Protection Fund.