The Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) package has already provided £1.2 billion to more than 5,000 organisations and sites across the country, protecting an estimated 75,000 jobs and supporting almost 100,000 freelancers
Almost £220 million will be available for both new organisations who are at imminent risk of failure and existing recipients of Culture Recovery Fund grants. Funding will be available to boost some of those who have received support already whilst ensuring more culturally significant organisations do not fail as a result of the pandemic, protecting theatres, museums, galleries and organisations around the country for future generations and safeguarding hundreds of thousands of creative jobs in the supply chain.
This will take the form of an Emergency Resource Support Fund - open to organisations who are at risk of ceasing to trade viably within twelve weeks, and in particular, those who have not interacted with previous Culture Recovery Fund schemes to date; and a Continuity Support Fund, exclusively open to the more than 5000 previous Culture Recovery Fund recipients, which will launch following the conclusion of the roadmap later this year.
The fund will be run by Arm’s Length Bodies, Arts Council England, British Film Institute, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, working with Historic England. Detailed fund guidance will be published imminently, with the Emergency Resource Support Fund opening as soon as possible thereafter.
Additionally, an investment of £20 million into the National Heritage Memorial Fund’s Cultural Assets Fund, which will support the preservation and acquisition of cultural assets at risk of loss due to Covid 19. This boosts the fund’s own investment in 2021 to a total of £40 million - an auspicious figure for their 40th anniversary year.
Further details can be found on the National Heritage Memorial Fund website : 40 years of the National Heritage Memorial Fund | National Heritage Memorial Fund (nhmf.org.uk)
Lastly, there has been a £35 million extension to the Heritage Stimulus Fund managed by Historic England. This new capital funding will support a large number of projects carried out by a variety of specialists and craftspeople across the country, thereby supporting jobs in this vulnerable sector over the next six months as the nation starts to re-open. This brings the total amount invested in the Heritage Stimulus Fund to over £80 million.
Please direct organisations to the Historic England website for guidance on how to apply : Historic England - Championing England's heritage | Historic England