Last July the City Council approved in plenary session the rules governing grants and aid for the promotion of cultural and / or artistic training. This is the first time that cultural training has been given financial incentives, as is already the case with sports training.
The subsidies are intended for public or private entities, associations and foundations of music, dance or plastic and performing arts or any other cultural activity carried out in Calpe, to finance the expenses derived from cultural training.
To explain and clarify doubts related to the recent publication of the rules for the granting of aid a few days ago an information session was held in the plenary hall. The credit available for these grants will correspond to the budget allocated by the Town Council for the year, which in this edition amounts to €200,000. The subsidies will be distributed among the beneficiary entities proportionally up to 75% of the eligible expenditure of each entity, always within the limit of the budget credit.
The aim is to subsidise any type of organisation that has taken on cultural training as its own activity. The aforementioned subsidy must have an impact either on the quality and quantity of the services provided by the entity or on the reduction of the fee paid by the student of the entity.
The subsidies must be allocated to the expenses borne by the cultural organisation and may in no case, alone or in conjunction with other subsidies, exceed the cost of the activity to be carried out by the beneficiary. Eligible activities include: the hiring of teachers, their salaries and additional technical staff, supplies, rental of rehearsal spaces or payment of fees for the use of municipal spaces, non-inventoriable material, such as sheet music, management, consultancy and administration costs, cleaning, the percentage of tuition assumed by the beneficiary entity or teaching materials, among others.
The Councillor for Culture, Guillermo Sendra, pointed out the importance of these grants to promote cultural activity in Calpe, and stated that ‘all information regarding the rules for granting these grants is available on the notice board of Calpe Town Hall for more detailed consultation’.