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£2.4m in grant funding announced for Bristol’s culture and arts sector
Cultural organisations, venues and event organisers can now apply for grant funding from Bristol City Council.
The Cultural Investment Programme, which began in 2018, runs over four years and aims to support artists and other cultural figures and institutions to keep the city on the map as the cultural, artistic hotspot that it’s known as internationally, and to make arts and culture accessible to all.
Now open for its second round of funding, the pot this time around is £2,442,240 and is separated into three different types of grant: Openness (four year), Imagination (two year) and Originators (one year). Applications for both the Openness and Imagination funds are open now, and applications for the Originators fund will open later this year.
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Previous receivers of the two-year Imagination grant include Bristol Pride and Paraorchestra.
Funding streams are also available through the City Centre and High Streets Recovery and Renewal Programme. These aim to support cultural events and activities in the city centre, focussing on four priority areas: Old City, King Street, Park Street and Queens Road, and Broadmead.
Tenders are also invited for the first city centre headline cultural project commission for 2022/23, worth £100,000, and the City Centre Culture and Events Grant scheme is now open to applications for grants of between £15,000 and £50,000.
Deputy mayor Craig Cheney said: “Following an uncertain couple of years for the creative industries, it’s more important than ever that we continue to support arts and cultural activity in the city.
“Our grant programmes will support the recovery of the arts and culture sector and also businesses across the city centre and Bristol’s high streets.
“At the same time, we will nurture Bristol’s national and international reputation as a creative cultural city, to actively advance equality and diversity, and to respond creatively to need and support social change.”
Further information can be found on the Bristol City Council website, and details on how to apply for any of the grants can be found here.
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