Deadline: 17-Feb-23
The East Suffolk Council is currently seeking applications for its Events, Arts and Culture Grant to enable towns within East Suffolk to create new development opportunities through investing in arts and culture and allow more people to feel the social and economic impact of culture in their lives.
Priorities
- The following priority has been identified by East Suffolk Council and all applicants must ensure that their application evidences how it meets this priority:
- Culture, arts and heritage enrichments, activities and events – East Suffolk Council are particularly keen to see activities that build on or further develop the East Suffolk Town Celebrations concept and building and enhancing on existing events or activities but focusing on the town centre.
Funding Information
- Grants of between £5,000 – £10,000 per application.
- You don’t have to have partnership/match funding for your project, however if you do, your application may be assessed more favourably (this could be cash and non-cash/volunteer contributions).
What they cannot fund?
- Applications from individuals – they cannot make grant payments to individuals
- VAT: If you are able to claim back VAT then VAT is not eligible as part of the costs of your project and should not be included.
- Annual/usual organisation running costs and core staffing costs
- Projects unable to start within 6 months of the grant award date
- Activities promoting political or religious beliefs
- Payments towards endowment funds, deficit funding or loans
- Overseas travel for individuals/groups
- Sponsored or fundraising events
- Funding for trips abroad or hospitality to other organisations
- Repeat funding – i.e. if East Suffolk Council has previously provided a grant for the same activity
- Items or projects which only benefit an individual
- Retrospective costs
- Projects that will displace existing provision
- Activities that are statutory obligations
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund is available to community and voluntary groups, placed based associations, charities, social enterprises, community interest company’s, town and parish councils and businesses associated with the culture and arts sector who are located within the geographical area of East Suffolk.
- The fund is available for projects and activity located within the following 12 towns:
- Aldeburgh
- Beccles
- Bungay
- Felixstowe
- Framlingham
- Halesworth
- Leiston
- Lowestoft (including the main town centre as well as the Historic High Street/ North Lowestoft Heritage Action Zone area and Kirkley)
- Saxmundham
- Southwold
- Wickham Market
- Woodbridge
For more information, visit East Suffolk Council.