Arts Council England (ACE) is inviting libraries and museums to apply for grants from the following programmes:<\/p>\n
Museum Renewal Fund 2025\/26 Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) Round 5<\/strong> Libraries Improvement Fund Round 4 Arts Council England (ACE) is inviting libraries and museums to apply for grants from the following programmes: Museum Renewal Fund 2025\/26 Grants of between \u00a310,000 and \u00a31m for museums owned and directly maintained by local authority funding, or with a governance link to a local authority. The aim of the funding is to ensure financial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"fund\/category":[6,12,15,17],"class_list":["post-4725","tb_fund","type-tb_fund","status-publish","hentry","tb_fund_cat-community-health-welfare","tb_fund_cat-arts-heritage","tb_fund_cat-education-training","tb_fund_cat-physical-activity-sport-leisure"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 13:31:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"tb_fund_cat","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tb_fund"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund\/4725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund\/4725\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tb_fund_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund\/category?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Grants of between \u00a310,000 and \u00a31m for museums owned and directly maintained by local authority funding, or with a governance link to a local authority. The aim of the funding is to ensure financial resilience of museums and maintain their visitor numbers.
\nApply by 22 May 2025<\/p>\n
\nGrants of between \u00a350,000 and \u00a35m for non-national Accredited museums and local authorities that have urgent maintenance works that cannot be covered by day-to-day maintenance budgets. The aim is to improve resilience, access and environmental performance of museum buildings.
\nExpressions of Interest by 5 June 2025<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Capital grants of between \u00a350,000 and \u00a3500,000 for local authorities applying on behalf of a library service \u2013 this includes community managed libraries that are running a service as part of statutory library provision but the application must be made by the local authority. The grants can be used for a range of projects to upgrade library buildings and technology.
\nExpressions of Interest by 30 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"