Culture Recovery Fund
We’re helping distribute the government’s Culture Recovery Fund, a £1.57 billion fund supporting cultural organisations through the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The investment we've made
The investment we’ve made
To date, we’ve announced £892 million of investment through the Culture Recovery Fund.
Get the data
You can download a spreadsheet of all the investment we’ve made under the Culture Recovery Fund so far on the following link.
Information for applicants offered funding
Information for applicants offered funding
Guidance and FAQs helping applicants accepting their grants, meeting payment conditions and requesting funds.
See below for details on how to accept your grant and submit your bank details, as well as filling in your Activity Report Forms and making payment requests, alongside other FAQs to support grant recipients.
We also need you to help us share the good news. This toolkit provides you with everything you need.
Find more information and guidance on the loan agreement.
About the fund
About the fund
We are administering these funds on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
For organisations at imminent risk of failure to support them until the end of the year.
Supporting cultural organisations who have received funding from the CRF: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds in order to be able to operate on a viable and sustainable basis by 31 March 2022.
Funding for organisations that were financially stable before Covid-19, but were at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
This investment is to support cultural organisations as they transition back to a viable and sustainable operating model during April-June 2021.
Loans for culturally significant organisations as they transition back to a viable and sustainable operating model, by 31 March 2022
Funding capital expenditure for existing Arts Council capital grant holders who can demonstrate a capital funding shortfall due to Covid-19.
Questions?
Questions?
Our Customer Services team are available by email Monday to Friday, and they can answer lots of questions you might have about the fund and what to do if you’ve received a grant.
Find out how to get in touch with us
