Deadline: 18-Jan-22
Are you an organisation or business that owns, works with or manages heritage based in England? Is your organisation at imminent risk of failure due to COVID-19? Do you require a grant between £10,000 and £1million? If you answered yes to these questions, then Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage: Emergency Resource Support could be for you.
At the 2021 Budget, the Chancellor announced an additional £300million to support the Culture Recovery Fund in 2021/22, to continue to support key cultural organisations; bridge the sector as audiences begin to return; and continue to ensure a vibrant future for the culture sector as the nation recovers from the pandemic.
To continue to support the sector throughout the winter period, the Emergency Resource Support programme has been reopened. This will give more organisations at imminent risk of financial failure an opportunity to bid for support, protecting even more organisations so that they can continue to create jobs and contribute to the economy.
Aims
The aim of this strand of the fund is to help maintain England’s cultural ecology by supporting culturally significant organisations, which are now:
- at imminent risk of failure due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19, and
- have exhausted all other reasonable options for increasing their resilience.
Funding Information
The budget for the reopened strand will be £5m.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are accepting applications from organisations and businesses that own, work with or manage heritage in England.
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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 accessible to 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
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Non accredited museums
- Applicants must be properly constituted as an organisation. The kinds of organisations that are eligible to apply include:
- Limited Companies registered at Companies House
- Community Interest Companies (CICs) registered with the CIC regulator
- Charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) registered with the Charity Commission
- Charitable companies or charitable trusts registered with the Charity Commission
- Limited liability partnerships registered at Companies House
- Partnerships established under a partnership deed/ agreement
- Community benefit and co-operative societies regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
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Royal Charter bodies
- statutory bodies and other public bodies including Universities and museums who run or maintain cultural services
- Private owners of nationally-significant heritage sites, venues or attractions which are normally open to the public 28 days a year or more or which regularly host events attended by members of the public
For more information, visit Heritage Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/culture-recovery-fund-emergency-resource