Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage – Continuity Support (UK)

Deadline: 29-Oct-21

The Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage is announced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across England from the economic impact of coronavirus (COVID-19).

Themes

The Heritage Fund is distributing up to £40m of this third round of the Culture Recovery Fund (based on the level of demand), in partnership with Historic England, based on criteria set by DCMS. This round of funding supports:
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage: Continuity Support – for organisations that have already received support from the Culture Recovery Fund and are still in need.

Aims

The aim of this is to continue supporting those culturally significant organisations that have had money invested in their organisation through the Culture Recovery Fund. Further funding will help them transition back into full operation as they begin to emerge from the pandemic.
It will support organisations who have already received funding under the Culture Recovery Fund as they transition out of the COVID-19 lockdown, resume business activity and the public starts to engage with England’s diverse heritage once again.

Funding Information

Applicants can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £1 million to cover core operating costs up to a point where they can demonstrate a return to financial viability. Funding cannot extend beyond 31 January 2022.

Who can apply?

They are only accepting applications from organisations and businesses that own, work with or manage heritage in England who have received funding through the previous two rounds of the Culture Recovery Fund.
If you are a previous recipient of Culture Recovery Fund funding, you should submit any new application to the same grant funder that processedand awarded the grant.
They will refer to these organisations and businesses as ‘heritage organisations’ throughout the rest of this guidance.
Following the previous two rounds they have further defined what they please check your organisation is still eligible.
It isn’t possible to list every type of organisation that makes up the broad and varied heritage sector.
As a guide, your organisation could be:
- not-for-profit organisations that manage heritage sites, venues or attractions
- local authorities, universities and other public sector bodies that manage heritage sites, venues or attractions
- Private owners of nationally significant heritage sites, venues or attractions that are normally open to the public at least 28 days a year or which host public events. By this they mean that your heritage site should be accessibleto the public (for free or paid) and that the focus of the day is sharing the heritage you care for
- For profit businesses that are a vital part of the heritage ecosystem and who generate the largest portion of their income from heritage work. This includes conservators, contractors, specialists, suppliers and cooperatives
- organisations that manage culturally significant assets or collections
- organisations that provide significant support to the heritage sector
- faith organisations that manage listed places of worship
- non-accredited museums