2023-26 Investment Programme: Making your application
Please note: Applications to our 2023-26 Investment Programme are now closed. The following information is for reference only.
Making your application
Making your application
Applications were made through our application portal, Grantium. The portal opened on 12pm (midday), Monday 28 February 2022 and closed on 12pm (midday), Wednesday 18 May 2022.
Essential documents
Applicants were required to read the Guidance for Applicants, as well as its Addendum, which we published on 23 February 2022 setting out what the government’s Levelling Up white paper means for applicants to the 2023-26 Investment Programme.
Applicants also needed to upload three mandatory templates. We published a completed example, how-to guide and video walkthrough for each template.
Helpful documents
Our information sheets gave more detail on our expectations around governance, supporting practitioners, and equality and fair pay, as well as information on our Access Support scheme.
Practical documents
Applicants could draft answers to our application questions offline and check they were on track with our applicant resource checklist.
You can download both of these documents below.
Guidance for Applicants and addendum
On this page you can find:
- Guidance for National Portfolio Organisations
- Guidance for Investment Principles Support Organisations
- Addendum to the guidance
- The instruction from the Secretary of State for DCMS
The Guidance for Applicants explains who can apply, what you can apply to do, what we’ll ask you in the application form and how we’ll make our decisions.
For National Portfolio Organisations
For Investment Principles Support Organisations
Addendum to the Guidance for Applicants
On Wednesday 23 February we published an Addendum to the Guidance for Applicants, which you must read before you submit an application.
The Addendum responds to an instruction from the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport on how we should use our resources to further the Government’s ‘Levelling Up priorities’. The Addendum explains how we’ll invest our additional funding from DCMS and what this means for the 2023-26 Investment Programme. This approach has been agreed between the Arts Council and DCMS.
In the Addendum, we refer to Levelling Up for Culture Places and our Priority Places. There are 109 Levelling Up for Culture Places, all based in England outside of Greater London. These places include all the 49 Priority Places outside of London. In addition to this, we continue to have five Priority Places in London, although these will not be Levelling Up for Culture Places.