Culture Durham Partnership
news update
Wednesday 21 July 2021
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County Durham bid launched for UK City of Culture 2025
Dear Friends,
Welcome to our July newsletter. I start with the exciting news that working with Durham County Council a bid has been submitted for County Durham as UK City of Culture 2025. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has indicated that collections of towns can apply, and we are committed to ensuring the whole county will benefit.
Our partnership represents large institutions, smaller companies, and individual artists who between them work across a vast range of cultural activity. A successful bid will help us engage with more people celebrating the amazing cultural assets of County Durham, whether it be the world leading heritage institutions, community-based activity, collaborations with international artists, or imaginative use of digital technology.
The bid was announced on Monday 19th July with a media launch at Beamish. Media coverage was positive and widespread. For the Northern Echo article, click here.
As we ease our way out of lockdown and remerge with real time, physical events, Durham County Council is running a grant scheme designed specifically to support events be delivered in a covid secure way. Whether as an audience member, as a participant or performer, knowing an event is being delivered in as safe a way as possible is reassuring, and the scheme will help provide the resources required to do so. Please see below for more information and how to apply.
This newsletter also features other funding opportunities available from a variety of grant giving organisations.
Stay safe and well.
Tony
Tony Harrington
Culture Durham Partnership Chair
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Durham County Council Covid Recovery Grants Scheme
Durham County Council is running two culture focused grant schemes open to organisations, groups and individuals across County Durham to help with covid recovery. One is to support events that are already planned to take place in a covid secure way. The other is to support organisations, community groups and the voluntary sector with new events and activities designed to bring communities and people back together safely following covid lockdowns.
The scheme for events already planned is now open for applications. A panel is meeting on Tuesday 3rd August to consider applications, which are to be received no later than Wednesday 28th July. There will be further rounds of applications to this scheme running from September 2021 to March 2022.
For an application form, which includes guidelines, click here
The budget template to be used as part of the application is available here
The scheme to support new activity and events will be launched in early August. More information and how to apply will be announced soon.
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Calling cultural practitioners!
Have you attended our network sessions for creatives on Thursdays at 7pm on Zoom yet? If not, come along! The sessions, which last for just an hour, are informal and bring together people from across the county to hear speakers, talk about the training and development opportunities they would like to access, be pointed to sources of support and explore opportunities for collaboration.
Based on the information gathered at these events, Northern Heartlands will be offering some more formal, expert-led training sessions and Culture Durham will be shaping up its future work programme.
Culture Durham has commissioned Northern Heartlands to run these networking, training, and development sessions thanks to support from the North East LEP and Durham County Council.
Click here to sign up for invitations to the network sessions
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Hadrian Trust
Charities and groups working for the benefit of people and the environment across Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and Durham, including Hartlepool can apply for grants of £500 to £2,000 from the Hadrian Trust. Projects supported will address issues in the fields of social welfare; youth; disability; the elderly; women; ethnic minorities; education; arts; and the environment. Applications are considered for running costs, project costs, part salaries and basic equipment. The next closing date for applications is the 24th September 2021. Click here for full details and to apply
Believe Housing – Large Community Grant
The fund is to support community investment programmes and to deliver innovative projects that put our customers on a pathway to improving their lives. Applications must meet one of key themes defined by the funder. The grant allocation will be spread equally between central, east, and west areas of County Durham where Believe Housing has properties. Grants are available between £5,000 – £10,000.
Click here for full details and to apply.
DCMS - £20 Million Emergency Fund to Support Arts & Cultural Organisations at Risk of Closure (England)
Cultural organisations at imminent risk of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic can now apply for emergency funding to help them return to financial viability. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support will provide funding between £25,000 and £3 million to not-for-profit arts and cultural organisations in England which haven’t received funding and face collapse within twelve weeks of their application date. Up to £1 million is available to commercial organisations. Funding will be distributed by Arts Council England. Applications are subject to permission to apply being granted. Organisations must submit a permission to apply request by 12pm on the 30th September 2021. The closing date for applications is midday on the 14th October 2021.
Click here for full details and to apply.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is making grants of up to £100,000 available for not-for-profit organisations and partnerships to create and support new digital volunteering opportunities and roles in the UK heritage sector. A total of £1 million in funding is available through the Skills for Heritage Tranche 8: Digital Volunteering funding to support digital activities and/or activities that can be carried out at distance.
Activities should provide opportunities for members of the public to volunteer to support organisations or heritage projects, such as building a website, creating a database and creating an online service offer, or recording a promotional video, delivering an educational talk online and uploading images. Applicants need to submit project enquiry forms by 12 noon on the 16th August 2021.
Click here for full details and to apply.
The UK Youth Fund
Established in partnership with the Julia & Hans Rausing Trust, UK Youth’s £1.36 million UK Youth Fund – Covid Resilience aims to ensure that grassroots youth organisations that have struggled due to the pandemic have the resources required to reopen or bring their level of delivery back to pre-Covid levels and ensure they have the financial means to ensure resilience over the next 6 months
Click here for full details and to apply.
Nesta - Cultural Impact Development Fund
The Cultural Impact Development Fund will now include grants up to 50 % of the total investment. The Fund has been restructured to make it more responsive to the economic shock of COVID-19 and aims to offer more flexible financial support to organisations as they adapt. The fund has been specifically designed to offer flexible finance to arts and culture organisations working with the people and communities in greatest need.
Click here for full details and to apply.
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