Arts Council England (ACE) has named 173 successful applicants in line for grants from the arts strand of the government’s £100m Catalyst scheme, which is aimed at helping cultural organisations improve their private fundraising capabilities and diversify income streams.
Thirty galleries and visual arts organisations will be among the recipients of Catalyst Arts grants worth a total of £30m.
Successful applicants include Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge (£200,000), the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester (£240,000), the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead (£150,000) and the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima), which has received £120,000.
Kettle’s Yard director Andrew Nairne said: “It’s enormously helpful and structurally important to us to have this support from ACE.”
Nairne added that the grant would enable the gallery to establish a “sustainable and reliable” approach to private fundraising, allowing more scope to develop exhibitions, work with contemporary artists and increase access to the public.
“It will bring significant benefits for us, particularly as we receive a relatively low level of core funding… we’re building a vision for Kettle’s Yard over the next few years and this will greatly help towards the development of our ambitions,” he said.
Mima director Kate Brindley said: “These new funds will help to strengthen the gallery’s community reach, as well as helping to shape Mima into a resilient gallery for the future, supporting its transition to trust at what is a pivotal moment in the gallery’s life.”
But two other Catalyst strands have been hit by delays. Recipients of the £55m Catalyst: endowments strand, run jointly by ACE, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Heritage Lottery Fund, will not be announced until 20 June.
A third strand, Catalyst Arts and Catalyst Heritage fundraising capacity building grants, was due to open for applications on 1 April but has been deferred until the autumn.
Thirty galleries and visual arts organisations will be among the recipients of Catalyst Arts grants worth a total of £30m.
Successful applicants include Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge (£200,000), the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester (£240,000), the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead (£150,000) and the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima), which has received £120,000.
Kettle’s Yard director Andrew Nairne said: “It’s enormously helpful and structurally important to us to have this support from ACE.”
Nairne added that the grant would enable the gallery to establish a “sustainable and reliable” approach to private fundraising, allowing more scope to develop exhibitions, work with contemporary artists and increase access to the public.
“It will bring significant benefits for us, particularly as we receive a relatively low level of core funding… we’re building a vision for Kettle’s Yard over the next few years and this will greatly help towards the development of our ambitions,” he said.
Mima director Kate Brindley said: “These new funds will help to strengthen the gallery’s community reach, as well as helping to shape Mima into a resilient gallery for the future, supporting its transition to trust at what is a pivotal moment in the gallery’s life.”
But two other Catalyst strands have been hit by delays. Recipients of the £55m Catalyst: endowments strand, run jointly by ACE, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Heritage Lottery Fund, will not be announced until 20 June.
A third strand, Catalyst Arts and Catalyst Heritage fundraising capacity building grants, was due to open for applications on 1 April but has been deferred until the autumn.
