Arts Council England (ACE) announced that it had decided to temporarily pause applications for National Lottery Project Grants (NLPG).
Its online grant management and application portal Grantium continues to face technical challenges. It stopped functioning at the same time as ACE experienced “an expected surge in logins from applicants seeking results of their Developing Your Creative Practice applications". ACE has found no evidence of cybercrime but identified a problem relating to the “inability of Grantium infrastructure to operate with high traffic, when we’ve needed to apply important system updates”. Find out when ACE expects to be back online.