TMA Bucks, Gather Place Among Lower Bucks Co. Tourism Grant Recipients

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —The Bucks County Tourism Grant Program has distributed $574,650 to 56 organizations, including more than a dozen in Lower Bucks County.

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. 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 to starting and supporting the Bucks County Tourism Grant Program. The 2023 recipient is Friends of Washington Crossing Park.

The 2023 grant recipients are as follows:

• African American Museum of Bucks County
• Bristol Borough Raising the Bar
• Bristol Riverside Theatre
• Craven Hall Historical Society
• Experience Yardley
• Friends of Bolton Mansion
• Friends of Silver Lake Nature Center
• Gather Place
• Historic Fallsington, Inc.
• Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society
• Snipes Farm and Education Center
• The Andalusia Foundation
• The Pennsbury Society
• TMA Bucks Foundation

Other grant recipients throughout Bucks County include:

• Arete Gallery
• ArtWRKD
• Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
• 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
• Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
• Doylestown Business and Community Alliance
• Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance of Climbers
• Fractured Atlas
• Friends of Peace Valley Nature Center
• Friends of the Delaware Canal
• Friends of Washington Crossing Park
• Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce
• Heritage Conservancy
• 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
• Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center
• PBR Productions
• Pearl S. Buck International
• Peddler's Village
• Perkasie Town Improvement Association
• Quakertown Historical Society
• Spinnerstown Hotel, Inc.
• The Johnsville Centrifuge and Science Museum, Inc.
• The TileWorks of Bucks County
• Warwick Township Historic Society