Leeds Cultural Investment Programme
The Leeds Cultural Investment Programme builds on the strengths of long running programmes of arts funding, retaining opportunities for project funded and for revenue funded activity. The programme provides funding opportunities for both creative individuals and organisations and we continue to promote cultural funding opportunities city-wide.
Our Priorities
Culture, Engage, Communities, Creativity.
Culture
To value culture as a golden thread that runs through the Leeds Best City Ambition and contributes to all three of its pillars for 2030: Health and Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth, Zero Carbon.
Engage
To ensure everyone who calls Leeds home should have the opportunity to engage in high quality creative and cultural activity.
Communities
To champion the creative diversity of our people and communities.
Creativity
To use culture and creativity to tell our stories to the world and to maintain our city (and region) as a great place to live, work and grow.
Our Principles
Ambition, Benefits, Impact, Diversity, Collaboration, Growth, Incluson, Openness.
Ambition
Encourage creative ambition and excellence.
Public benefits
Ensure City Council funds are used for public benefit and all funded activity will contribute to the Best City Ambition.
Local Impact
Support individuals as well as organisations, small projects as well as large ones and activities with local impact alongside those with national and international reach.
Diversity
Reflect the growing diversity of the city and foster creativity in every community.
Collaboration
Encourage organisations to work mutually, with generosity and in collaboration and to support individual artists and freelancers to develop their practice and careers in Leeds.
Grow investment
Work together with the cultural sector to maximise opportunity and grow investment for culture and creativity in Leeds.
Inclusive
Make funding guidance clear, easy to understand, accessible and inclusive. To make monitoring consistent and proportionate to the level of funds awarded.
Open
Make decisions based on open applications, share data on decisions openly and use monitoring data gathered to inform future funding.