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You can get a free TV licence if you're 75 or over and you get Pension Credit, or a discount if you're blind or in residential care - who qualifies, how to apply
You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.
Find volunteering opportunities, and volunteer rights, pay, expenses, age limits, criminal record checks.
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Explore the local archives to help your research into family and local history at your local council
Find your nearest library to access services such as book loans, CD rentals and internet access
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
Find out if you need a licence to show films - public screenings, using film in schools, choosing a licence, penalties for breaching copyright
Renew your library items like books and DVDs online through your local council website
The library catalogue allows you to search all the titles in a public library - many councils offer online access to their library catalogue
Report treasure finds to the local coroner within 14 days - items officially defined as treasure, Portable Antiquities Scheme, inquest, valuation, rewards
Many libraries offer free internet access - book internet access at your local council library
Check whether a mobile library service visits your area
You can reserve books and other items such as DVDs at your local library - contact your council for more information
This page contains the application form and guidance for the Digital Leadership Fund.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
You can use this form to register your interest and provide your details to be kept up to date with upcoming diversification research and development (R&D) opportunities.
Rules covering how entertainment and modelling agencies work; charging fees and refunds for for finding work
The DCMS 5G Programme Industrial 5G Testbeds & Trials grant funding competition is open for applications. Included below is competition guidance, the application form and supporting documents for applying for DCMS grant …
Applications are now closed for the 2018-2019 round of funding.
Youth Worker Bursary Fund application form and guidance for applicants (2019-2020)
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This document sets out the broad framework within which the Phone-Paid Services Authority (PSA) operates.
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