Funding Deadline - Scotrail Fund

ScotRail - Cultural and Arts Fund

Current Status

Open for Applications

Maximum value:

£ 2,000

Objectives of Fund

The Fund aims to fund arts, community recreation, and sports activities in the vicinity of a train station or with a travel or safety theme, in Scotland.

Grants up to a maximum of £2,000 are available for 2017, although, ordinarily, the scheme can award £500 to £5,000.

Match funding is not required.

Applications are welcomed from individuals and constituted community groups working in Scotland with an income of no more than £100,000 per year.

The fund will not support applications from the following:

• Statutory organisations.
• Organisations with an annual income of more than £100,000.

Funding is available for arts, community recreation, and sports activities and projects in the vicinity of a train station in Scotland or with a travel or safety theme.

The application must fit within at least one of the following criteria to be eligible for funding:

• Promotion of performing arts, visual arts, literature, community arts, and cultural traditions.
• Support for artists and artistic organisations.
• Public art, such as sculptures in open spaces.
• Play areas for children.
• Provision of local activity programmes (including local festivals, civic weeks and galas).
• Increasing participation in sport and physical activity.
• Sports events.
• Sport outreach programmes.

The final 2016 deadline is 30 December 2016.

2017 deadlines are as follows:

• 31 March 2017.
• 30 June 2017.

Application forms can be filled out online at the Foundation Scotland website. For further details, applicants are advised to contact the Foundation directly.

Enquiries
Foundation Scotland
Empire House
131 West Nile Street
Glasgow
G1 2RX

Tel: 0141 341 4960

grants@foundationscotland.org.uk

http://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/scotrail-community/scotrail-foundation

https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/programmes/scotrail-cultural-and-arts-fund/