Support from other organisations

• Local sports clubs
• Voluntary and community sector organisations that deliver or enable sport and/or physical activity, including organisations that are not solely or primarily sports organisations and have an important role to play in keeping people active, that may need support for other parts of their organisation to remain open
• Small charitable trusts that do not qualify for financial help elsewhere
• Regional or county level organisations or leagues that have already paid out funds for activities that are now cancelled and are not able to claim funds from elsewhere.

£300 - £10,000

The fund is to help organisations meet their obligations, in particular fixed costs, which are no longer supported with revenue. This includes:

• Rent
• Utility costs
• Insurances
• Facility or equipment hire
• Core staffing costs (including casual workers) that cannot be met elsewhere by other government funds
• Retrospective losses dating from 1 March 2020

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Organisations with a track record in publicly funded culture. This fund is to support them to get back on their feet, or to continue making work in the future that will mean they can contribute to delivering ACE’s new strategy, Let’s Create.

Organisations who benefit from this fund will be expected to show how they will do all they can to support the freelance creative practitioners on whom they rely.

This fund can be used to support business resilience as well as enable cultural organisations to develop new public facing activity during the Covid-19 emergency, for example, organisations who have new ideas to harness the power of digital in sharing creativity at the moment.

It can be used to cover ‘urgent operational costs’ (which will be different for each organisation) but could include:

• rent or other building costs
• staff costs
• overheads such as utilities, insurance, etc
• costs associated with keeping your organisation operational over the next six months

Creative practitioners whose main work is focused on these artforms and disciplines:

• Music
• Theatre
• Dance
• Visual Arts
• Literature
• Combined Arts
• Museums practice
• Libraries (activity that helps deliver the Universal Library Offers)

This work includes: choreographers, writers, translators, producers, editors, freelance educators in the disciplines and artforms ACE support, composers, directors, designers, artists, craft makers and curators.

You must have experience of delivering work that was funded (directly or indirectly) by bodies such as Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Lottery Community Fund, local authorities, universities, public sector bodies, trusts and foundations, etc.

Priority will be given to constituted community groups e.g. charities/CICs, with an average annual income of less than £200,000 and who are supporting the most vulnerable people at this time.

Organisations should be working to:

• Reduce isolation and vulnerability of people within Kent and Medway during any isolation period that may arise as a result of the threat of Coronavirus
• Support ongoing needs of vulnerable people to ensure that their well being is maintained
• Provide any initiative that will help ensure vulnerable people remain connected with the outside world during this time

They will also support direct intervention responses e.g.

• Special provision of crisis services for rough sleepers and those living in temporary accommodation with changed practices to keep clients and staff as safe as possible
• Free takeaway lunches and online youth services for young people in a very disadvantaged area, supported by local volunteers

• additional costs incurred in response to Coronavirus
• to compensate for loss of income
• core costs
• service delivery costs
• overheads
• small capital costs
• anything directly related to the impact of this virus

Kent Community Foundation Fund website

Awards will be made on the basis of a set of criteria to identify those with the greatest need. They will also need to meet the following three requirements:

• organisations that have received funding in the past or are either a current grantee, or still under contract following a previous grant
• organisations with limited or no access to other emergency initiatives from other funding bodies and Lottery Distributors
• organisations where there is limited scope to re-purpose existing funding for a project

The fund is available for organisations to stabilise operations and manage unforeseen risks.

NLHF is also accelerating the provision of its £1.2m Digital Skills for Heritage initiative to help the sector through the crisis and beyond. This will include support for organisations to run activities and events, reach audiences, engage volunteers, share content and fundraise online.

Heritage Fund website