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National Heritage Council · Department of Sport, Arts & Culture (DSAC) | Active Open Call — Applications Close Soon
Current Funding Opportunities
The NHC PESP7 Funding Open Call is currently accepting applications. Review the call below and apply online via the NHC Funding Portal.
PESP7 Funding · 2026/27 Open Call
Opening Date
04 May 2026
at 10:00
Application Closing Date
05 June 2026
at 23:59 — No late applications accepted
NHC PESP7 Funding Open Call: 2026/27
Closing Date
05 June 2026 at 23:59
The National Heritage Council (NHC) – an entity of the Department of Sport, Arts & Culture (DSAC) is pleased to announce an open call for applications to community projects that seek to preserve and promote our country’s heritage through research, documentation, and publication as well heritage knowledge and skills transfer.
The closing date for applications is 05 June 2026.
Preference will be given to projects that involves youth, women, and people with disabilities. Applicants must be South African citizens and be registered on the NHC Funding Portal to qualify for support.
Submitted proposals must showcase:
- Novel Techniques → New, creative, or different ways of working with heritage (Be innovative; and explore the use of technology).
- Innovative Models → Fresh ideas that could be scaled up or replicated elsewhere to benefit the heritage sector.
- Sustainability → Projects should demonstrate the ability to be sustainable over a period of time.
- Cultural Importance → Help South Africans connect to, understand, and value their cultural heritage even more deeply.
Funding Categories
a. Living Heritage
Living heritage means the intangible aspects of inherited culture, and may include cultural tradition, oral history, performance, ritual, popular memory, skills and techniques, indigenous knowledge systems, and the holistic approach to nature, society and social relationships.
- Research and Documentation: exploring, documenting and analysing of living heritage practices.
- Digitisation of indigenous South African traditional cultural collections associated with living heritage.
- Documentation (writeup and virtual recording) of Knowledge and Skills transfer.
b. Cultural History, Natural History and Resistance Heritage
- Research and Documentation of the role and contributions of Traditional and Khoi San Leaders.
- Research and documentation of previously marginalised communities.
- Research and Documentation of roles of women.
- Documentation and digitisation of undocumented resistance and liberation heritage sites.
c. Education & Training
- Heritage Awareness and Public Education.
- Workshops and intergenerational dialogues.
- Masterclasses offered by heritage practitioners.
Eligible Organisations
? Eligible
- Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs)
- Non-Profit Companies (NPCs)
- Community Based Organisations (CBOs)
- Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
- Associations/Foundations
- Research/ Education Institutions
- Community Trusts
- Traditional Councils
? Not Eligible
- Closed Corporations (CCs)
- Family Trusts
- Individuals
- Pty Ltd
- Profit Making Organisations
- Cooperatives
- Incorporated companies (Inc)
Job Creation Requirement
| Maximum application amount |
Minimum Number of jobs to be created |
| R350,000.00 |
32 |
| R400,000.00 |
36 |
| R450,000.00 |
41 |
| R500,000.00 |
45 |
| R750,000.00 |
68 |
Application Process
Applications are completed and submitted online using the Grant Management System (GMS).
To register, please visit https://nhc.praxisgms.co.za/
No physical applications (emailed/faxed/hand delivered) will be accepted. Late applications will not be accepted.
NB: The NHC reserves the right not to allocate funding. Should you not hear from the NHC within 90 days, consider your application unsuccessful.
Application Closing Date
05 June 2026 at 23:59
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