Tag: subsidy
Utrecht wants new tradition after fireworks ban: subsidy for New Year’s Eve activities
This year the city council decided that there will be a definitive fireworks ban. Something fun should take its place, advised 100 Utrecht citizens from the citizens’ council. That is…
Het Huis Utrecht will close after the municipality withdraws its subsidy
The municipality of Utrecht decides every four years which cultural institutions will receive a subsidy. For the period from 2025 to 2028, an advisory committee considered the 105 subsidy applications.…
Street festival Spoffin is finally ending now that there is really no subsidy
Amersfoort – The street festival Spoffin is definitely coming to an end. The fourteenth edition, which will take place from 23 to 25 August, will also be the last. The…
Dutch Film Festival objects to termination of municipal subsidy
The Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) will definitively object to the termination of the subsidy for the festival by the municipality of Utrecht. Business director Marjolijn Bronkhuyzen believes that the organization…
Dutch Film Festival will probably receive a subsidy from the government
About 40 percent of the total budget of the NFF consists of structural subsidies from the municipality, province and the government. The remainder consists of, among other things, audience income,…
Filmmaker Jean van de Velde astonished by the cancellation of subsidy to NFF: ‘Adds a lot to Utrecht’
In total, 105 cultural institutions have applied for a subsidy from the municipality, of which 67 applicants have received a positive assessment. In total, almost 24 million euros in subsidies…
Insulate your house? There is a new subsidy fund from the municipality of Utrecht
Calculation example from the municipality Suppose someone has a house from the 1960s and plans to insulate the floor. This costs approximately 2150 euros for 80m2. If the person applies…
Council questions about a footnote in the subsidy advice for the Dutch Film Festival
A third of the applications cannot be honored and this leads to great disappointment. For example, the Dutch Film Festival, Tweetakt festival and Museum van Zuilen are excluded. After publishing…
‘Keep the subsidy and do not break the marriage between Utrecht and the Dutch Film Festival’
The recommendations from the advisory committee’s report are not yet final. The Municipal Executive is still looking at it and will then send their decision to the municipal council. “I…
Subsidy battle in Utrecht: ‘It’s embarrassing that you are so dependent’
“Flabbergasted”, “stunned”, “in shock” and “a disappointment”. Cultural institutions that came off poorly in the report of the Cultural Memorandum Advisory Committee reacted with outrage yesterday. According to the committee,…