· For the moment almost 52,600 young people from the Community of Madrid born in 2008 have applied for the Young Cultural Bonus
· This can be requested by people who have reached the age of 18 or have reached the age of 18 this year on the website. https://bonoculturajoven.gob.es/
15-October-2026.- On October 31, the deadline for people born in 2008 to apply for the Young Cultural Voucher, a program promoted by the Ministry of Culture, ends. In this fifth edition, 337,157 applications have already been received, 52,596 from the Community of Madrid.
The program allows people who have reached or will reach the age of 18 in 2026 to have this aid of 400 euros both to consume cultural products and to acquire musical instruments, materials for artistic creation or cultural courses. To do this, they will have to register and perform the application procedure on the web https://bonoculturajoven.gob.es/.
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, 4,159 throughout Spain.
How to apply for the cultural voucher
To apply for the Cultural Voucher it is essential that the interested parties obtain, previously, one of these three forms of digital identification: Cl@ve with basic registration (which can be requested and obtained by video call), Cl@ve with advanced registration (in person and for those who have not yet reached the age of 18) or Digital certificate. Young people interested in applying for the Young Cultural Voucher can carry out the procedure on their own behalf or through the representation of an adult, for which it is necessary to attach the downloadable representation form on the website, correctly signed by the beneficiary. In these cases, the family book is not a document accrediting the representation.
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:
Ø Live and audiovisual arts, cultural heritage and means of artistic creation and artistic material (up to 200 euros): Tickets and subscriptions for performing arts, live music, cinema, museums, assets belonging to the Spanish historical heritage, libraries, exhibitions, courses in face-to-face mode on subjects related to culture, scenic, literary, musical or audiovisual festivals, musical instruments, musical scores, photographic cameras and computer programs aimed specifically at production, creation and creative practice.
Ø Cultural products on physical support (up to 100 euros): books, magazines, press, or other periodicals, video games, vinyl records, and CDs.
Ø Digital or online consumption (up to 100 euros): Subscriptions to music, reading, or audio-visual platforms, purchase of audiobooks, digital books, songs, or digital albums through music selling platforms, subscription to download multimedia files (including podcasts), online courses on culture-related subjects, and digital subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals.
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 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 these four years of life of the Young Cultural Voucher, the number of young beneficiaries already reaches 1,298,764 people.