Funding: Last News

Covid relief funds of around £3m are to be handed to hundreds of firms with high levels of unpaid business rates and to 38 other companies who failed to apply to the scheme. Bolton Council said 'take up has been low' for the Covid-19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF), a business rates relief fund of £5,697,827 which the authority received from central government earlier this year.

The leader of Falkirk Council 's Labour group has written to Scotland's deputy first minister to share her despair at the "chronic lack of funding" that will, she says, inevitably mean more cuts that will devastate services.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystThe upstart sports brand Overtime announced a Series D round of funding to the tune of $100 million, with Liberty Media Corp. joining its long roster of investors.In an interview for the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Dan Porter, CEO and founder of Overtime, pledged to grow the company’s existing leagues in basketball and football.

France’s lower and upper houses of parliament “definitively adopted” a cost-of-living crisis budget package late Thursday containing legislation scrapping the country’s 89-year-old TV license.

Town hall chiefs are bidding for £40 million of government cash to ‘level up’ parts of Oldham which could see a business centre created to support green tech start-ups.

Jonathan Cohen The red-hot music rights space has a major new entrant in Litmus Music, which is being launched by veteran music executives Hank Forsyth (pictured at left) and Dan McCarroll (right) with $500 million of funding in partnership with Carlyle Global Credit, Variety can reveal. Litmus will acquire and manage music rights in both recorded music and publishing, with an eye on diverse genres and vintages.

A community radio station has hit the decks running after a £5000 grant helped put it on the air in South Lanarkshire.

French senators approved controversial government legislation abolishing the country’s 89-year-old TV license fee in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a two-hour late-night debate.

Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis services in West Dunbartonshire have welcomed a funding pledge which allows them to develop their support for women and children.

Paisley charity Kibble has received almost £35,000 from Nationwide to support young people who want to live an independent life.

The final report of the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce has called for a major cash injection amid “woefully inadequate” funding during our drug death emergency.

Lanarkshire MSP Graham Simpson is encouraging North and South Lanarkshire councils to bid for a share of the latest round of UK Government Levelling Up Funding.

“Dissatisfied audiences and declining viewing share” could damage the legitimacy of the BBC funding debate, according to an influential UK House of Lords report, which urged the corporation to “seize the opportunity to generate momentum for change.”

The Featured Artists Coalition’s petition calling on UK collecting society PRS to reconsider its decision to cut the funding it provides the PRS Foundation has now past a 1000 signatures, with artists like Sam Fender, Anna Calvi and Wolf Alice’s Joff Oddie backing the FAC’s campaign.PRS confirmed at its AGM in May that the funding it provides to the talent development charity it set up in 2000 will be cut from the current £2.5 million a year to £1 million a year from 2024. That’s because the specific income stream the funding comes from – basically interest earned on investments and royalties awaiting distribution – has been in decline in recent years.However, many artist and songwriter groups have called on the society to top up its annual donation to the Foundation from other funds.

A senior citizens group in Motherwell has been awarded funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.

Medical assisted treatment for people with problematic drug use will be rolled out across South Lanarkshire but funding arrangements for it have been criticised.

A project to create an outdoor sports centre in Dalbeattie is set to form part of a council bid to secure millions of pounds of government cash.

A dad has decided to pull funding from his daughter's wedding after she refused to invite his wife to the big day - because she only wants 'real family' there.

The Falkirk Council area is to receive £6 million as its share of cash to replace funding from the European Union over the next three years.

Addie Morfoot ContributorClose to a decade after American Zoetrope announced that the company had acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father,” the film adaptation has finally been made with the help of Safe Space Pictures Foundation.The newly-launched funding entity was founded by producer Nicole Shipley (“Trial of the Chicago 7,” “A Private War”) to champion women and underrepresented voices in the entertainment industry by providing support to issue-driven documentary and narrative projects via equity, debt, and grant funding. Safe Space is currently working on ten nonfiction and narrative projects at various stages in production.

A number of Lanarkshire groups are set to benefit from a huge funding boost thanks to the community investment funds associated with Clyde Wind Farm.