Theatre Small Grants: Upgrades, Accessibility & Resilience

Culture In Our City; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

Theatres Trust’s Small Grants Programme, supported by The Linbury Trust, funds small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences.

This scheme provides grants of up to £7,500 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future.

Eligible projects include small capital works, the installation of key plant and machinery and works which make theatre buildings digital-ready.

This scheme will prioritise improvements to buildings that protect theatre use and remove barriers to participation and attendance.

Priority will also be given to projects where the total project costs are less than £250k or where the grant is the sole external funder and/or achievable within the total fund awarded.

Please note that revenue and survey costs are ineligible. This fund is to support improvements and repairs to the building fabric, and the key plant and machinery or the purchase of key equipment (not software) to improve digital infrastructure.

Who can apply

To be eligible to apply to the scheme, applicants must demonstrate that they:

• own or manage theatres with titles or signed leases of more than five years on buildings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• run a year-round programme of live performance, of no less than 30 performances a year
• have a bona fide UK charitable or not-for-profit legal structure and be able to provide certified or audited accounts for at least two years

We welcome applications from theatre venues across the UK that meet these criteria, whether voluntarily or professionally run. Please note that individuals are not eligible to apply and that only one application per organisation can be submitted in each round.

Applicants are advised to read the guidance notes before making an application.

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