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A studio, a club, a festival, a workshop or a leisure offering: planix checks culture and sports funding, foundations, bursarys and competitions – with submission dates and a source.

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Here the project gets funded, not the operation

Culture, sport and the creative industries are almost always funded project by project: a festival, a production, a programme, a conversion. Running operating costs are rarely eligible. On top of that come bursarys for individuals and competitions with prize money – which are a realistic route in this industry and are treated as equals in the report.

Culture, sport and the creative industries are almost always funded project by project: a festival, a production, a programme, a conversion. Running operating costs are rarely eligible.

What gets clarified first

1

Can your project be framed as a project?

What is eligible is usually a defined undertaking with a goal, a period and a budget – not ongoing operations. How you frame it decides half the list.

What is eligible is usually a defined undertaking with a goal, a period and a budget – not ongoing operations.

2

Are you funding yourself or your organisation?

Bursaries go to individuals, project funding to organisations. Each has its own requirements and its own dates.

Bursaries go to individuals, project funding to organisations.

3

When are the submission dates?

Culture and sports funding works with fixed dates almost everywhere. The report names them per programme and warns you when one falls in the next four weeks.

Culture and sports funding works with fixed dates almost everywhere.

Which types of funding apply here

The method in detail
  • GrantProject funding from local councils, nations and regions and foundations – tied to a purpose and to a date.
  • StipendFor individuals in creative professions, tied to a period and to certificates.
  • CompetitionPrizes and calls are common here – decided by a jury rather than by criteria, so never a certain amount.

Typical funding purposes

  • Project production
  • Spaces & conversion
  • Equipment
  • Programme work
  • Youth development
  • Accessibility

Who funds here

  • Arts councils of the four nations
  • Trusts with project and bursary budgets
  • Creative industry funds
  • Competitions and calls with prize money

Official sources: British Business Bank, Start Up Loans, Innovate UK, HMRC, Growth Guarantee Scheme, GOV.UK

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FAQ

Frequent questions from the industry

Rarely. What is eligible is usually a defined project. The report tells you how to frame your undertaking so it fits the programmes – and which costs stay outside regardless.

In this industry, yes. They are treated as equals, but never planned in as a certain amount: a jury decides on the award, not a list of criteria.

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