Culture Support Grant Expression of Interest (available until end of 8 November 2024)

A simple expression of interest form can be completed online.

After you submit an Expression of Interest you will be contacted by our Inward Investment Team who will be able to advise you whether you should submit a full application. They will explain any issues around eligibility and can assist you with that application, if required. You will be asked to supply quotes where appropriate (three quotes for costs over £5000) that you are seeking the grant for so you may wish to consider this now to avoid delays later in the process and to ensure that the expenditure underpinning your proposals is sufficiently well-developed to proceed. Grants will be assessed on a first come, first served basis.

Please note that we cannot retrospectively fund initiatives that have already been commissioned, paid for in full or in part or otherwise definitively initiated. Grant funding cannot be awarded as retrospective payment for goods or services procured before a formal offer of a grant has been received and accepted. Multiple grant applications from the same applicant cannot be considered. Our grants are discretionary; not all applicants will be successful and not all successful applicants will be awarded the full 80% of eligible costs. Applicants will need to provide a copy of their accounts for the last 12 months or last financial year.