More than 57,700 young people from the Community of Madrid apply for the Young Cultural Bonus 2026

• It has been requested by a total of 374,131 young people from all over the State who turn 18 in 2026, 66.6% of the estimated total population of this age
• For the first time the Young Cultural Voucher may also be used for the acquisition of musical instruments, materials for artistic creation or cultural courses.
• The program promoted by the Ministry of Culture will add in its five editions more than 1.6 million beneficiaries

In its fifth edition, the Young Cultural Bonus, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Culture, has been requested by 57,728 young people in the Community of Madrid who turn 18 years old in 2025. This represents 72% of the total number of young people of this age, which, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, is 80,555.

In the total of the State, the Young Cultural Voucher has been requested by 374,131 young people who reach the age of 18 in 2026, distributed throughout the Spanish territory. These are two out of three young people born in 2008, namely 66.6% of the estimated population of that age, a total of 561,459 people, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics.

The figure exceeds by 10,946 the total number of beneficiaries of the previous edition, which amounted to 363,054. With the figures recorded in this 2026, the number of young beneficiaries of the program in its five editions would exceed 1.67 million.

After being registered and signed, each of these applications is reviewed and subjected to the process of individualized control of subsidies of the General Administration of the State, so that the final number of beneficiaries could suffer some variation.

The public company Correos, the entity in charge of the banking support of the Young Cultural Bonus, has already started sending the virtual and physical cards to the young beneficiaries.

From the granting of the aid, young people have one year to use the 400 euros in cultural products or services in the affiliated establishments, 4,217 throughout Spain.

About the Young Cultural Bonus

The Young Cultural Bonus works with a prepaid card that the beneficiary can have virtually on his mobile or receive physically at home. The Young Cultural Bonus 2026 allows you to choose between two modalities:

Modality 1: The 400 euros of aid can be distributed among these areas:

• Live and audiovisual arts, cultural heritage and means of artistic creation and artistic material (up to 200 euros).
• Cultural products on physical support (up to 100 euros).
• Digital or online consumption (up to 100 euros).

Modality 2: The total amount of aid may be allocated to a single category to choose from: courses and workshops on cultural content (in face-to-face and online formats), musical instruments or means of creation and artistic material.

The objective of the Ministry of Culture with this initiative has a double meaning: on the one hand, it shows the interest of a wide spectrum of the young Spanish population for culture, which this initiative helps to build loyalty as a public and cultural consumer for the future; and, on the other hand, it offers additional support to the cultural sector.

The Young Cultural Bonus is regulated by the Royal Decree, with indefinite validity, which the Council of Ministers approved on March 21, 2023, at the proposal of the Minister of Culture. It has an endowment of 170 million euros in the General State Budgets extended.

In 2022, the first year of validity of this initiative, a total of 277,607 people obtained the Young Cultural Bonus throughout Spain. In 2023, the figure rose to 323,668. In 2024, there were 334,435 beneficiaries, while in its fourth edition, in 2025, there were 363,054 young people who enjoyed this aid. In total, in those four years of life of the Young Cultural Voucher, the number of young beneficiaries already reaches 1,298,764 people.