The Culture & Business Fund Scotland open for applications

The Culture & Business Fund Scotland enables businesses and arts or heritage organisations to come together and build effective, sustainable partnerships, bringing creative projects – large and small – vividly to life.

Funded by the Scottish Government via Creative Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland, and managed by Arts & Business Scotland, the CBFS provides critical £ for £ match funding – making the journey from a great idea, to a great project, possible.

Match funding of between £1,000 and £40,000 (excluding VAT) is available across two tiers:

  • Smaller funds of between £1,000 and £3,000 (excluding VAT)
  • Larger funds of over £3,000 and up to £40,000 (excluding VAT)

To promote project sustainability, successful applicants may also be eligible to apply for follow-on-year match funding for up to two subsequent years – allowing projects to grow and flourish with a secure financial framework in place.

The CBFS aims to:

  • support arts and heritage organisations and businesses to build new or cement existing cross-sector partnerships;
  • entice new businesses to sponsor or invest in arts or heritage activities in Scotland;
  • encourage and enable businesses already sponsoring or investing in arts or heritage activities to continue to do so with existing and / or new culture sector partners;
  • support existing cross-sector partnerships to enable and encourage them to continue to work together;
  • attract non-Scottish based companies to sponsor arts and heritage activities in Scotland; and
  • encourage and support businesses to continue to invest in or sponsor the activities of an arts or heritage organisation within Scotland over a two or three-year period.

Art forms supported

Animation | Art & Health | Combined Arts | Craft | Dance | Design | Fashion | Festivals (including youth, community, film, general, literature, military, music, ethnic) | Film & TV | Galleries | Literature | Music | Street Arts | Theatre | Visual Arts

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