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Our investment

Our investment

Our Development Funds will focus on diversity, resilience, innovation in business models and leadership development. Overall these funds will receive £72.2 million per year.

  • A further commitment of £37 million over four years has been made to our flagship programme, Creative People and Places, which targets areas with low levels of engagement in art and culture.
  • There will be one round of large capital funding opening with a budget of £30 million in 2020/21 and an annual small capital funding programme of £11 million per year from 2018/19.
  • Developing Your Creative Practice will encourage ambitious work from independent creative practitioners with £3.6 million available per year. This programme has been specifically designed to support independent creative practitioners, who can apply for grants of up to £10,000.