A pioneering new fund that promotes collaboration between Scottish businesses and arts and heritage organisations to deliver new arts and heritage projects has been officially launched by Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop.
Arts & Business Scotland writes:
Evolving from Arts & Business Scotland’s renowned New Arts Sponsorship Grant programme, which recently celebrated a decade of success, the Culture & Business Fund Scotland incorporates a new dedicated heritage strand. It also offers projects that have already received grant support in a previous year the opportunity to benefit from second and third year sponsorship. Funded by the Scottish Government via Creative Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland, the new Culture & Business Fund Scotland is managed by Arts & Business Scotland and aims to encourage greater partnership working between business, arts and heritage by match funding private sector sponsorship of arts and heritage activities pound for pound.
Eligible projects can receive grant funding between £1,000 and £40,000, matched by business sponsorship to the same value. In the inaugural year of the fund £300,000 will be provided by the Scottish Government, via Creative Scotland, while via Historic Environment Scotland an initial contribution of £36,000 will be made towards developing and raising awareness of the fund within the heritage sector.
A dedicated website will be live at the end of April 2017 for online applications to the Fund. In the meantime, you can download an application form and guidelines from the Arts and Business Scotland website.
