The Bucks County Tourism Grant Program recently distributed $574,650 to 56 organizations. The program was established between Visit Bucks County and the County of Bucks in 2008 to assist in the development and enhancement of tourism initiatives in Bucks County.
It is funded from a portion received from the Bucks County lodging tax assessed to visitors staying overnight in hotels, bed and breakfasts and home-shares.
Since the inception of the grant program, more than $6.7 million has been distributed to more than 130 organizations. Grant funding is used for marketing, special events and exhibitions, product development and capital improvement projects.
Each year, one grant recipient is recognized, in name, as the Charles H. Martin Grant in honor of former Commissioner Martin’s commitment in starting and supporting the Bucks County Tourism Grant Program. The 2023 recipient is Friends of Washington Crossing Park.
The 2023 recipients for the Bucks County Tourism Grant Program are as follows:
- African American Museum of Bucks County
- Arete Gallery
- ArtWRKD
- Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
- Bristol Borough Raising the Bar
- Bristol Riverside Theatre
- Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
- Bucks County Community College Foundation
- Bucks County Covered Bridge Society
- Bucks County Gilbert & Sullivan Society
- Bucks County Historical Society
- Bucks County Playhouse
- Bucks County Symphony Society
- Bucks County Wine Trail
- Cantus Novus
- Concordia Chamber Players
- Craven Hall Historical Society
- Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
- Doylestown Business and Community Alliance
- Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance of Climbers
- Experience Yardley
- Fractured Atlas
- Friends of Bolton Mansion
- Friends of Peace Valley Nature Center
- Friends of Silver Lake Nature Center
- Friends of the Delaware Canal
- Friends of Washington Crossing Park
- Gather Place
- Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce
- Heritage Conservancy
- Historic Fallsington, Inc.
- Hortulus Farm Foundation
- James A. Michener Art Museum
- La Fiocco
- Lenape Chamber Ensemble
- MSH Productions LLC
- New Hope Arts, Inc
- New Hope Helping
- New Hope Historical Society
- Newtown Chamber Orchestra
- Newtown Theatre
- Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society
- Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center
- PBR Productions
- Pearl S. Buck International
- Peddler’s Village
- Perkasie Town Improvement Association
- Quakertown Historical Society
- Snipes Farm and Education Center
- Spinnerstown Hotel, Inc.
- The Andalusia Foundation
- The Johnsville Centrifuge and Science Museum, Inc.
- The Pennsbury Society
- The TileWorks of Bucks County
- TMA Bucks Foundation
- Warwick Township Historic Society
