The Creative Foundations Fund

The Creative Foundations Fund is an open-access capital fund that supports creative and cultural organisations in England in revitalising, restoring, retrofitting, or renewing cultural assets, including urgent work to address issues which prevent organisations from effectively delivering work for the public.

Applicants must demonstrate that the investment in buildings and equipment is business-critical to delivering creative or cultural activity, minimising the risk of asset failure and increasing the economic sustainability of the creative and cultural sectors.

The fund is split into two strands with separate ‘How to apply’ guides:

• How to Apply (Strand 1): for grants of £100,000 up to and including £1 million.
• How to Apply (Strand 2): for grants above £1 million up to and including £10 million.

You can submit one Expression of Interest to either Strand 1 or 2 (not both), except for statutory and other public bodies that run or maintain cultural services, where they are applying for separate projects in different locations.

Please check the key dates carefully - i.e it could take 10days to create an account.