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Making Art Affordable For All

What is the Own Art scheme?

The scheme is a national initiative that makes buying contemporary art and craft affordable by letting you spread the cost of your purchase over 10 or 20 months with an interest free loan.

Own The Art Scheme

Own Art is a national initiative that makes buying contemporary art and craft affordable by providing interest-free credit for the purchase of original work.
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Own Art

You can borrow up to £2,500, or as little as £100, and pay back the loan in 10 monthly instalments – interest free*.
(*Typical 0% APR. Offer subject to age and status. Terms and conditions apply.)

Own Art 20 offers you the opportunity to spread the cost of contemporary art and craft over 20 months completely interest free. You can borrow between £2,500 and £20,000. The loan can be used to cover one single larger value piece or a group of lower value items whose total adds up to more than £2,500.

The aims of the scheme

  • To enable more people to live with the art they love
  • To promote the presentation and sale of high quality works of art through a network of visual arts venues and galleries across England,  Scotland and Northern Ireland
  • To support contemporary artists by encouraging increased sales of work across a breadth of practice

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