Creative Industries Business Grants
The UK's creative industries are supported by a range of grant programmes from Arts Council England, Screen industries, and regional creative economy initiatives. These support everything from individual artists to major production companies.
Screen Industries
Film, TV, and games production benefit from dedicated funding including BFI support, Screen Scotland, and Creative Wales. Tax reliefs complement grant funding for production projects.
Arts Council Support
Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, and Arts Council of Wales provide funding for arts organisations, cultural projects, and creative businesses across the UK.
Creative Enterprise
Regional creative industry programmes support design agencies, music businesses, publishing, and advertising companies with growth and innovation funding.
South African Creative & Heritage Grants
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Film and Television Production Incentive Support Programme
Provides funding for film and television production projects.
Co-Operatives Development Support Programme (CDSP)
The Co‑Operatives Development Support Programme provides blended financing—grant and loan—to eligible co‑operatives, with the grant portion capped at R2.5 million for equipment, infrastructure, commercial vehicles and business development support.
Rural, Township and Community Development Fund
The Rural, Township and Community Development Fund provides financing to aspiring rural entrepreneurs and community groups, offering acquisition, new‑venture and expansion capital across sectors such as agro‑processing, eco‑tourism and forestry.
Transformation Fund
A National Empowerment Fund product supporting transformation transactions, acquisitions and growth capital for qualifying black-owned and managed enterprises.
DTIC Women Empowerment Fund
The DTIC Women Empowerment Fund provides financial support to black women entrepreneurs in South Africa, aiming to grow the economy through targeted funding and collaborative initiatives.
Television and Film Fund
A National Empowerment Fund product providing finance for black-owned and managed businesses in television, film production, distribution and related media opportunities.
Spaza Shop Support Fund
The aim is to support township Community Convenience Shops, including spazas. The funding will be utilised for the refurbishment of businesses and facilitating wholesale aggregation.
Bakubung Fund
The NEF/BPM Enterprise and Supplier Development Fund is a funding partnership between Bakubung Platinum Mine and the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) valued at a total R3 000 000 for the benefit of businesses located in Ledig, Mahobieskraal and Phatsima villages in the North West province.
Furniture Fund
The Furniture Fund, a R50-million initiative approved by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic), was entrusted to the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) to stimulate growth in South Africa's furniture sector. Recognized as a labour-intensive industry with significant potential to create jobs and reduce reliance on imports, the furniture sector plays a vital role in the country's economy.
Tourism Transformation Fund
The Fund aims to drive transformation in the tourism sector in a more direct and impactful manner that will not only assist black-owned tourism enterprises to expand and grow, but also catalyse the rise of a new generation of black owned youth, women and community owned tourism enterprises to take the tourism sector to new heights.
uMnotho Fund
This Fund is designed to improve access to BEE capital and has five products: Acquisition Finance, Project Finance, Expansion Finance, Capital Markets Fund, and Liquidity and Warehousing.
iMbewu Fund
This Fund is designed to support black entrepreneurs wishing to start new businesses as well support existing black-owned enterprises with expansion capital.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about South African creative & heritage grants