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1. Title: 14-18 NOW LEGACY FUND2. Awarding Authority: Imperial War Museums, GB. Web: 3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The Awarding Authority is making £2 million available to artists and cultural organisations for new art commissions in the wake of Covid-19.Known as the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, the programme has been funded by a share of the royalties from Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old, which was co-commissioned by IWM and 14-18 NOW to mark the end of the First World War Centenary in 2018.The IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund will reinvest the financial legacy of Peter Jackson’s film to support a series of new artworks – inspired by the heritage of conflict – during a critical time for the UK’s culture sector. This builds on over 100 years of commissioning by IWM, who since the First World War has worked with artists to record the experiences of war for its collections.From 2021, over 20 commissions from artists will be funded as part of this programme, bringing art to audiences in new and relevant ways. Around 15 of these will be co-commissioned in partnership with members of IWM’s War and Conflict Subject Specialist Network.5. CPV Code(s): 92312000, 923100006. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI4, UKI457. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: London, Inner London – East, Lambeth.8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: £2 million available10. As no deadline date has been specified please contact the awarding authority for further information.11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit: 12. Other information: Expressions of interest can now be submitted via IWM’s website for the art commissioning fund, which will make awards of about £20,000 for each project. There will be a second opportunity to submit expressions of interest in 2022. Expressions of interest can come from individual organisations or partnerships between multiple organisations, including global partners.TKR-2021614-EX-1631605# funding opportunity# COVID19