Social Initiatives Transatlantic Slavery Past for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom
On 19 December 2022, the Prime Minister apologised on behalf of the government for the Dutch actions in the past with regard to its slavery past. The apologies had come after years of struggle by activists from the Kingdom and Suriname.
Along with the apologies, the government also released a response to the research report ‘Chains of the Past’ presented in July 2021 by the Slavery Past Dialogue Group. In its report, the Dialogue Group recommended, among other things, that the following actions are taken:
- Raise awareness about the transatlantic slavery through research, education, and artistic projects.
- Strengthen the knowledge about the meaning of discrimination in everyday life.
Make the slavery past visible so that it can become a shared history.
On 11 August 2025, at 9 a.m. CET (Central European TIme), the first application period opens for applications for subsidies in the context of the professionalisation of the applicant organisation (category 1). The next period during which applications for projects between $10,000 and $25,000 (category 2) can be submitted will open on 1 December 2025.
A subsidy application can be submitted via the Subsidy Portal of Implementation of Policy. Here you can read more about this subsidy scheme.
For further information about this scheme and the opening of other periods, please keep an eye on this site.
A subsidy scheme for Social Initiatives Transatlantic Slavery Past for the European Netherlands (SUMS-NL) has also been published. For more information about this subsidy scheme, you visit this link.