{"id":5673,"date":"2026-06-02T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/?post_type=tb_fund&#038;p=5673"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:58:48","slug":"arts-council-england-funding-for-libraries-and-museums","status":"publish","type":"tb_fund","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/fund\/arts-council-england-funding-for-libraries-and-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Council England: funding for libraries and museums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arts Council England (ACE) is inviting libraries and museums to apply for grants from the following programmes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Museum Transformation Programme<br><\/strong>Grants of between \u00a350,000 and \u00a31m to help regional museums that have an established relationship with a local authority to develop a programme of transformation to increase their long-term financial resilience and operational sustainability.<br>Apply by 30 September 2026<br><br><strong>Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) Round 6<\/strong><br>Grants 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.<br>Expressions of Interest by 12 June 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Libraries Improvement Fund Round 5<br><\/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.<br>Expressions of Interest by 10 June 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arts Council England (ACE) is inviting libraries and museums to apply for grants from the following programmes: Museum Transformation ProgrammeGrants of between \u00a350,000 and \u00a31m to help regional museums that have an established relationship with a local authority to develop a programme of transformation to increase their long-term financial resilience and operational sustainability.Apply by 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"fund\/category":[12,15],"class_list":["post-5673","tb_fund","type-tb_fund","status-publish","hentry","tb_fund_cat-arts-heritage","tb_fund_cat-education-training"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-10-01 09:56:25","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\/5673","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\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund\/5673\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tb_fund_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/fundingnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fund\/category?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}