CBMDC Large Arts, Culture and Heritage Grants – United Kingdom

CBMDC wants to create the right circumstances, support and opportunity for creative ambition to flourish and to make more work and more employment. They want more of Bradford’s creatives to work in the district, and for more creatives to see the District as a place to relocate and for Bradford to be seen as a fertile ground for visionary projects and international collaborations.

This fund is to act as leverage to support you to draw in additional funding for your project.

It aims to encourage the district’s creatives to be entrepreneurial, to encourage producers, coproducers, promoters and creative partners to make larger scale work across the district.

This fund is for new activity and ideas or new programmes or additions to existing regular events. You can also apply for funds to develop an idea or to develop your own professional practice or your company if you are working professionally in the cultural sector.

Culture means lots of things to different people, but they mean original creative and artistic activities in dance, music, theatre, festivals, literature, poetry, design, fashion, food, visual arts, crafts, film, photography, publishing, radio, TV, gaming and more.

Heritage can be connected to anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This might mean memories and stories, cultural traditions, the history of people, places and events, the natural environment, museums, libraries or archives, historic buildings and objects.

They want to support activity across all areas of the district, and they are particularly keen to support projects by, for and with people currently underrepresented in the district’s cultural sector this includes people from who have experienced discrimination and people living in disadvantaged areas of the district.

Funding Information

• There is a total of £100,000 available for activity in 2022/2023.
• Grants between £1,500 and a maximum of £15,000
• The fund is limited to one award per applicant per 12-month period.

Ineligible Funding

• Repeat activity – your project activity must be new
• Activities not related to arts, culture and heritage
• Activities with no match funding
• Activities with insufficient planning time
• Activities that provide no benefit or engagement opportunity to the people of Bradford district
• Student/schools projects or activities
• Core costs, including general running costs, that are already covered by other funding or that should be covered by the organisation’s own resources
• Ongoing overheads relating to equipment or buildings, such as salaries, insurance, building repairs and maintenance costs
• Activity taking place outside Bradford District (they do want to support activity to tour outside the district but the work must be made in Bradford and shown in Bradford) Applications where the main focus (over 50%) is capital spend for equipment
• Charity fund-raising events
• Sports kit or equipment
• Competitions or lotteries
• Activity that promotes party political or religious views

Who can apply?

• Individuals who are professional artists or creatives (up to a maximum award of £5,000)
• Arts, cultural and heritage organisations
• Community or voluntary groups (applications for over £2,500 will require participation of professional artists or creatives, defined as an individual whose primary income is made through their creative practice)
• Commercial organisations who wish to run a non-profit arts/cultural project
• Groups of organisations (one group or individual will need to take the lead and have the main responsibility for managing the application and being accountable for any grant given)
• Organisations outside Bradford District (applications to partner, support, co-commission or co-produce with artists and organisations based in the District will score more highly)
• Bradford Council strategic funded organisations, Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations and Bradford Council operated organisations with Special permission to apply to this fund.
• Special Permission may be granted if they can show that the project is entirely additional to their regularly funded activity, cannot be achieved from within their existing funded remit and is ambitious and transformative for the district. They must evidence that none of the match support comes from their regular funding.

Who cannot apply?

• Educational establishments (schools, colleges, universities)
• Commercial for-profit projects.

For more information, visit CBMDC.