Aberdeen City Council are seeking proposals for its Culture Investment Programme, to deliver cultural activity in Aberdeen for the benefit of residents.
From 2025, The Culture Investment Programme will replace the Council’s current grant schemes for arts and culture. At present Council funding supports a diverse range of activities, ranging from the day to day operations of large cultural organisations and venues across the city to small scale projects delivered by individual artists.
The new programme will provide more flexibility to provide different entry points based on organisations level of experience, capacity and capability. This is designed to give agency to culture organisations to access the right investment to enable them to deliver high quality activities for the people of Aberdeen. In total there are four programmes, all launching on the 10th September with the exception of Acorn which will go live in 2025.
The programmes are as follows:
Acorn £500 – £2,500 – seed funding for pilots and small projects.
Catalyst £5,000 -£15,000 – project and festival funding.
Cultivate £15,000- £100,000 – year round programmes of cultural activity.
Cornerstone £100,000 plus – Large scale Aberdeen based organisations delivering culture programmes.
Further information application process, guidelines and criteria are available at our website. Please note the programme is only open to Aberdeen based not for profit organisations.
Location: Aberdeen City
For further information, please contact creativefunding@aberdeencity.gov.uk (Mark Bremner), or visit https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/culture-investment-programme-2025
The deadline is Wednesday 06 November 2024 at 12:00.