From Aberdeen City Council:

From 2025, The Culture Investment Programme will replace the Council’s current grant schemes for arts and culture. At present Council funding supports a diverse range of activities, ranging from the day to day operations of large cultural organisations and venues across the city to small scale projects delivered by individual artists.

The new programme will provide more flexibility to provide different entry points based on organisations level of experience, capacity and capability. This is designed to give agency to culture organisations to access the right investment to enable them to deliver high quality activities for the people of Aberdeen. In total there are four programmes, all launching on the 10th September with the exception of Acorn which will go live in 2025.

The programmes are as follows:
Acorn £500 - £2,500 – seed funding for pilots and small projects.
Catalyst £5,000 -£15,000 – project and festival funding.
Cultivate £15,000- £100,000 – year round programmes of cultural activity.
Cornerstone £100,000 plus - Large scale Aberdeen based organisations delivering culture programmes.

See here for full details and how to apply

The deadline for applications is the 6th November 2024