The Small Capital Grants scheme is designed to benefit arts initiatives taking place in England, helping to make these projects more sustainable and resilient.
The scheme forms part of a range of measures Arts Council England has in place to help create a more sustainable, resilient and innovative arts sector - one of the five goals set out in Achieving great art for everyone, a 10-year strategic framework for the arts.
This programme represents a new approach to the way the Arts Council uses its capital funds, with investment focused on improving existing arts buildings to make them more economically and environmentally sustainable and to give arts organisations the right buildings and equipment to support the delivery of their work.
The scheme has a total budget of £32.5 million available for distribution.
Individual organisations can apply for a capital grant of between £100,000 and £499,999.
Applications are invited from arts organisations operating across the private and third sectors in England. Eligible organisations are those that deliver arts activities which can engage people in England or help artists to carry out their work. The sponsor's priority will be to support its National Portfolio organisations that currently own or operate arts buildings and can demonstrate that capital investment will increase their resilience in the longer term.
Eligible projects are those that require a range of capital expenditure. This could include, for example, improvements that enable organisations to reconfigure current spaces to generate more income, install sustainable technologies to reduce energy demand or to improve current facilities to enable improved delivery of their work for artists and audiences. Capital expenditure is defined by the Arts Council as money spent on the purchase, improvement, restoration, construction or creation of an asset, including expenses or costs that are directly attributable to delivering the capital project.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/apply-funding/apply-for-funding/capital-investment-2015-18/small-capital-grants/
Deadline: Thursday 8 October 2015, 17:00