11 Lower Bucks Co. Organizations Receive Tourism Grants

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —Eleven Lower Bucks County organizations have received tourism grants to help bolster its programs and places.

The Bucks County Tourism Grant Program distributed $593,463 to 53 organizations as its 2024 grant recipients.

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 $7.2 million has been distributed to more than 140 organizations.

Grant funding is used for marketing, special events and exhibitions, product development, and capital improvement projects all taking place this year.

Each year, one grant recipient is recognized, in name, as the Charles H. Martin Grant in honor of former Commissioner Martin’s commitment to starting and supporting the Bucks County Tourism Grant Program. The 2024 recipient is Bucks County Wine Trail.

2024 recipients are as follows:

• African American Museum of Bucks County
• Andalusia Foundation (Andalusia Historic House, Gardens & Arboretum)
• Bristol Riverside Theatre
• Experience Yardley
• Friends of Silver Lake Nature Center
• Gather Place Museum
• Historic Fallsington
• Pennsbury Society
• Snipes Farm and Education Center
• The Fuge
• TMA Bucks Foundation

Other Bucks County organizations included:

• Arete Gallery
• BC Cares Educational Foundation
• Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
• Broken Goblet
• Bucks Beautiful
• Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts
• Bucks County Children's Museum
• Bucks County Gilbert & Sullivan Society
• Bucks County Historical Society
• Bucks County Playhouse
• Bucks County Symphony Society
• Bucks County Wine Trail
• Doylestown Business and Community Alliance dba Discover Doylestown
• Fractured Atlas (River Arts Collective)
• Friends of the Delaware Canal
• Friends of Washington Crossing Park
• Full Plate Management Systems
• Heritage Conservancy
• James A. Michener Art Museum
• La Fiocco
• Lenape Chamber Ensemble
• Nakashima Foundation for Peace
• New Hope Celebrates
• New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts
• New Hope Historical Society
• Newtown Historic Association
• Newtown Theatre
• Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society
• PBR Productions
• Pearl S. Buck International
• Peddler's Village
• Pig Placement Network at Ross Mill Farm
• Plumstead Historical Society
• Quakertown Historical Society
• Remedy Electrical Society
• Special Equestrians
• Spinnerstown Hotel
• The Bucks County Renaissance Faire
• The TileWorks of Bucks County
• Tree Trails Adventures
• Warwick Township Historical Society

About Visit Bucks County

Visit Bucks County (VBC) promotes travel to and within Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As the County’s official destination marketing organization, VBC drives visitation, increases overnight stays, and fuels the local economy by promoting all there is to see and do in Bucks County.

VBC supports local businesses in the tourism and hospitality industry, including lodging, attractions, restaurants, retail, events and more.

Annually, Bucks County welcomes more than 8.2 million visitors, generating nearly $1.2 billion in economic impact and supporting a total hospitality workforce of 28,675 jobs.