Lifecycle: { "status": "closed_completed_or_final_reporting", "edition": 2025, "cadence": null, "duration": "February 2025 through no later than January 2026", "renewable": false, "dates": { "information_sessions": [ "2024-10-08", "2024-10-22" ], "deadline": "2024-11-25T23:59:00Z", "notification": "early January 2025", "agreement": "last week January 2025", "start": "February 2025", "latest_end": "2026-01-31" } } Funding and benefits: { "amount": { "maximum": 15000, "currency": "GBP", "scope": "per grant" }, "award_count": { "published_2025_projects": 11 }, "total_pool": null, "benefits": [ "project grant", "mentorship from UK climate and arts specialists", "research and knowledge exchange" ] } Eligibility and filters: { "citizenship": null, "residence": "applicant based in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka", "age": null, "applicant_type": [ "artist", "cultural organization", "performing-arts venue", "festival", "cultural hub", "arts and culture space" ], "education": null, "experience": "team track record and delivery capacity assessed", "fields": [ "artist-led climate knowledge", "organizational sustainability and capacity building", "climate-aware cultural infrastructure", "research", "exhibitions", "publications", "webinars", "roundtables" ], "institution": null, "language": "written English quality not assessed; access support available", "location": [ "Bangladesh", "India", "Nepal", "Pakistan", "Sri Lanka" ], "remote": "project dependent", "route": "British Council Submittable portal", "exclusions": [ "funding bodies", "activity extending beyond January 2026" ] } Application: { "opens": null, "deadline": "2024-11-25T23:59:00Z", "decision": "early January 2025", "start": "February 2025", "end": "2026-01-31", "url": "https://britishcouncil.submittable.com/submit", "materials": [ "online application", "project plan and timeline", "project-leader CV", "project budget", "risk and safeguarding plan where applicable", "sustainability, diversity and inclusion approach" ], "selection_stages": [ "online application", "British Council assessment", "notification", "grant agreement", "mentored delivery and final report" ], "assessment_weights": { "quality_and_impact": 25, "project_feasibility": 25, "management": 25, "environmental_sustainability_diversity_inclusion": 25 } } Past editions and people: { "people": { "program_leaders": [], "latest_recipients": [ { "name": "Samdani Art Foundation", "edition": 2025, "project": "Crafting Togetherness", "country": "Bangladesh" }, { "name": "Mahenaz Chowdhury (Broqué)", "edition": 2025, "project": "Discovering Matarbari Folk Tales", "country": "Bangladesh" }, { "name": "Salma Jamal Moushum (Gidree Bawlee)", "edition": 2025, "project": "Shak Pitari (Wild Leaves)", "country": "Bangladesh" }, { "name": "Krishnapriya C P (Forest Way Trust)", "edition": 2025, "project": "Emerging Ecologies", "country": "India" }, { "name": "Tri-Impact Global", "edition": 2025, "project": "Mapping Nature’s Palette for Climate-Responsive Artisanal Practices", "country": "India" }, { "name": "Story Cycle", "edition": 2025, "project": "Carbon Footprint Mapping and Tracking for the Craft Sector of Nepal", "country": "Nepal" }, { "name": "Human Rights Film Center", "edition": 2025, "project": "Arts-based climate resilience storytelling", "country": "Nepal" }, { "name": "The Dawood Foundation's MagnifiScience Centre", "edition": 2025, "project": "The Eco Block Tower", "country": "Pakistan" }, { "name": "Sarah Ather Khan (NED University of Engineering & Technology)", "edition": 2025, "project": "Weaving Together", "country": "Pakistan" }, { "name": "Fold Media Collective Initiatives (Guarantee) Ltd", "edition": 2025, "project": "Circular Creative Companions", "country": "Sri Lanka" }, { "name": "Good Life X Lagori Collective", "edition": 2025, "project": "Regenerating South Asian Climate Futures", "country": "Sri Lanka" } ], "past_recipients": [], "coverage": "All 11 projects named on the official cross-country 2025 recipient page are mapped." }, "history": { "launched": 2024, "editions": [ { "year": 2025, "countries": 5, "published_projects": 11, "grant_maximum_gbp": 15000 } ], "statistics": [ "Three projects in Bangladesh and two each in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are publicly listed" ] } } Known evidence gaps: [ "total program pool", "future cadence or next call", "grant amount actually awarded to each selected project" ] Source conflicts: []