Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage
12 January 2021
Part of the rescue package announced by DCMS to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across England from the economic impact of COVID-19.
Part of the rescue package announced by DCMS to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across England from the economic impact of COVID-19.
This guidance was last updated at 10am on 7 January 2021.The second round of the Culture Recovery Fund looks forward to next spring and early summer when it is expected that cultural organisations will be able to operate with fewer restrictions.
Over £300million of grants will be available, covering the period April-June, to support cultural organisations with the costs they will face as they welcome back visitors.
Grants for heritage
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is distributing £36m of this government funding to organisations in England, in partnership with Historic England, based on criteria set by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
This second round will offer grants of between £10,000 and £3m to support organisations to make the transition towards full reopening.
The fund opened for applications on 7 January 2021. You can apply until 2pm on 26 January 2021.
Repayable Finance
The other element of Culture Recovery Fund support available is Repayable Finance, which has a budget of up to £100m.
Culture Recovery Fund 2: Repayable Finance allocations have a lower limit of £1m and no upper limit. Both not-for-profit and commercial organisations will be able to apply.
The deadline for application is 12pm on 7 January. See the guidelines below for more information.
Application guidelines
They have developed this funding programme quickly in order to respond to the immediate needs of the heritage sector.
NHLF will be offering support webinars for applicants on 13 & 14 January, but we are not offering one to one (or specific) pre-application advice, so please make sure you read the guidance carefully and check that you are eligible to apply.
They aim to publish full recordings of our webinars for those who were unable to attend.
More information & guidance here
