We are making £90 million available to National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs).

Who is eligible to apply?
All organisations within the Arts Council’s 2018-22 National Portfolio of Organisations (including Bands 1-3, and Sector Support Organisations).

How can this money be used?
We are not yet clear about the extent of government support that will be available to help our sector, so we are retaining some flexibility in how organisations should use this funding. We hope the main focus of this fund will be helping NPOs to quickly reboot their programmes of creative work – but some may have to be used to support their ability to operate. We will have a further update on this before Easter.

We will expect NPOs who benefit from any such funding to show how they will support the freelance creative practitioners on whom they rely.

When do applications open?
We will be making this funding available to NPOs as soon as possible. We’ll contact all NPOs with a timeline as soon as we can.