Count of cultural companies using COVID-19 financial support in the Netherlands 2020

Published by Statista Research Department, May 12, 2021

In 2020, the Dutch government implemented a series of grants to support the cultural sector in the Netherlands during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In that year, roughly 56 thousand self-employed workers from cultural industries made use of the Tozo-1 scheme, a financial fund specifically addressed to freelancers working in this sector. Meanwhile, around 4.5 thousand companies applied for the TVL-1 scheme, addressing entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that were expecting a sales loss of at least 30 percent between June 1 to September 30, 2020.

Number of companies in the cultural sector that made use of financial support in the Netherlands during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, by type of support

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Release date

February 2021

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Netherlands

Survey time period

2020

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information on each finincial scheme shown can be found under "Supplementary notes"

Supplementary notes

The source defines the financial support schemes as follows:

NOW 2-0: emergency measure to maintain employment. It applied to employers who expected a loss of sales of at least 20 percent by October 1, 2020.

NOW-3.1: emergency measure to maintain employment. It applied to employers who expected a loss of sales of at least 20 percent by January 1, 2021.

Tozo-1: temporary scheme for self-employed workers. The scheme applied retroactively from March 1, 2020 and expired at the end of May 2020. Figures for Tozo-1 are provisional.

TVL-1: applied to SME entrepreneurs with an expected loss of sales of at least 30 percent between June 1 to September 30, 2020. It involved a subsidy of up to 50 thousand euros for part of their fixed expenses.

TVL Q4 2020: applied to SME entrepreneurs with an expected revenue loss of at least 30 percent between October 1 to December 31, 2020. It involved a subsidy of up to 90 thousand euros for part of their fixed costs