Tourism Funding What s available to support your destinations

Tourism Funding What s available to support your destinations

What is available: Old chestnuts e.g. Heritage Lottery One off short timescale e.g. Great UK Challenge Fund UK sector specific e.g. VE RGF programme: As is/was and as may be. EU linked programmes e.g. Rural ERDF and LEADER UK specific programmes e.g. Coastal Communities Fund Coastal Communities Teams Coastal Revival Fund

Why me..and what do I want to achieve from it? Conceived as a session for a June conference, postponed due to proximity of a May General Election As the October date got closer so did the Comprehensive Spending Review Fewer officials are now willing or able (?) to speak on funding and In any case knowing or not knowing the detail isn t necessarily the barrier to access or success Rules regulation and resource are a bigger issue and lobbying for change and sharing best practice can make a difference; both are this organization's bread and butter. Championing British Destinations

Old Chestnuts not necessarily where the destination itself might go to but a place for your partners and partnerships? Heritage Lottery Fund c 6.8bn to date, heritage in its widest sense, grants of between 3k to 5m http://www.hlf.org.uk/ Big Lottery 670m pa or 9bn to date, communities and people https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/ Non departmental bodies: Arts Council, Sport England English Heritage, etc. Regulators Energy Saving Trust, ENTRUST etc. Trusts and foundations: Big Society Capital, Wellcome Trust Sharing best practice: http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk/default.aspx

One off and /or time limited schemes Northern Futures Growth Fund 10m 2015/16 No notice, no firm plan for the international marketing of Northern England Credible programme of core activities devised and being delivered by VE and partners. South West Future Growth Fund 5m 2015/16 Even less notice again International marketing, as above. Great UK Challenge Fund 2m UK wide 2015/16 Again specifically about international growth Multi departmentally funding and therefore also open to a wide range of sectors not just tourism Administer by VE, in the year their core budget dropped again from 8 m to 7m.

Sector Specific Programmes Championing British Destinations Cultural Destination 3m 2014 to 2017 Arts Council led, pooled funding 10 projects supported Creative Local Growth Fund 150k - 500k 2016-2019 Arts Council led, LEP supported. Leverage ESIFs especially ERDF match funds. VE Regional Growth Funding 19.8 m 2013 March 2015 Grow the domestic market, geographic and thematic Despite barriers of RGF criteria, it set a benchmark for what could be achieved Arguable prompted the 3 limited life international funds and VE lead of these VB, VE Triennial review recommended challenge fund An unspecified fund for product development and domestic marketing

What the review actually recommends: 2015 Triennial Review VisitBritain and VisitEngland and in particular para 8 of the executive summary: To do this, VE should manage a challenge fund, supporting partnership working across destination organisations and industry partners in order to promote the development of a range of world-class English tourism experiences that sit alongside and complement the London, Scottish and Welsh offers. These experiences would be marketed domestically by VE and internationally by VB, in accordance with budgets and key performance indicators (KPIs) set as part of the challenge fund process

EU linked programmes: Transitional and other funding from previous EU programmes: Specific geographic related structural funds, the bulk of which are now closed or closing, if you re eligible you d know Defra Regional Development Programme 2014-2020. 3.5bn Two strands with tourism included within them: LEADER Growth Fund LEADER 138m programme delivered through Local Action Groups 80 Local Action Groups covering 85% of rural England Apply to LAGs for funding to deliver to the agreed Local Development Strategy Not tourism specific but tourism well recognized within the programme https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/448033/map_approved_leader_2014-2020.pdf Growth Fund 177m delivered by Local Enterprise Partnerships: Renewables, broadband, training & skills, business support, promoting rural tourism Business support, small scale infrastructure projects and cooperative working (inc DMOs) Calls by area, throughout life of programme, guideline 40% match, LEPs key driver

Coastal Communities Fund: 50% of Crown Estates maritime revenue 2012/13 to 2014/15 Unassigned Treasury funds UK 23.7m, 18.2m England in 2012/13. c 27 UK in 2014/15 Extended by stages for 2 additional years. 2015/16-2016/17 January 2015, 2014/15 funds allocated, figure allocated greater than that available 2015/16 and 2016/17 funds also allocated to those bidding in 2014/15! 116 allocated to 218 UK organisations over the 5 years (2012 /13 2016/17) New Government extended programme to 2020/21 At least 90m over 4 years (Including Scotland?) Commencing again 2017/18. Coastal Communities Teams Pre election plan c110 x teams at 10k, new and existing local groups Coastal Revival Fund 3m to be spent by 31 Mar 16 Catalytic works or preparatory planning of up to 50k, involving CCTs and Las (demand likely to exceeds available sum?) Direction of travel post 2017? CCTs produce CRF plans and then apply to CCF who then fund the best?

Lobbying opportunities and targets? Can we influence the creation of funding schemes We have before, a long process and special circumstance What s needed? Can we improve tourism s chances within existing funding? We have before, but again what s needed now and specifically where? Crown Estate or any other similar opportunities? Is it opportunity = identifying the source or the imperative (political?) Thoughts from the floor

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