Arts and culture
Arts and culture
Introduction
Here you will find funding opportunities from other organisations relating to our universal theme of arts and culture.
Arts Council Northern Ireland
Funding is available to organisations in Northern Ireland for projects that will contribute to the growth of arts in the community and which reflect the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. Registered charities, public sector bodies, commercial organisations and partnerships of organisations working together can apply for grants of between £10,001 and £75,000.Projects must take place between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. Eligible projects and activiuties include one-off large scale national arts events, projects which promote under-represented groups, research, audience development, continuation of salaries of existing posts, exhibitions in more than one local authority area of international artists.
Deadline: 5 June (12.00 noon).
Arts Council Wales
Supporting high-quality creative projects that deliver health and wellbeing benefits for the people of Wales, the Arts Health & Wellbeing Fund is open to partnership bids from across the arts, health, social care and third sectors. The Fund is particularly interested in supporting creative projects that address the following health challenges and priorities: mental health, including loneliness and social isolation; physical health and wellbeing; health inequalities and staff wellbeing within the arts and healthcare workforce.
Deadline: 7 June (5pm).
Creative Scotland
This fund from Creative Scotland is for organisations and groups based in Scotland whose work or project involves the arts, screen and creative industries. It is designed to support you to sustain your practice in a changing world. Grants of £1000 to £50,000 are available to support activity for up to 12 months and the fund is open all year round.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Foyle Foundation
The Foyle Foundation is an independent grant making trust that distributes grants to UK charities. They welcome applications from across the country and encourage applications from all areas outside London and the South East. The Main Grants Scheme supports charities registered and operating in the UK with a core remit of the arts or learning. Smaller arts or learning charities with a turnover of less than £150,000 per annum are usually more suited to the Small Grants Scheme.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant making trust which has been supporting charities across the UK for over 60 years. From small community groups to large national institutions, the Trustees’ aim is to support organisations that have effective solutions to helping those most in need. The foundation awards grants for capital, project and revenue costs and accepts applications from organisations working in the areas of welfare, youth, community, arts, faith, environment, education, health and museums and heritage.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Grand Plan
Grand Plan award £1,000 grants to creative people of colour based in the UK who want to make a new cultural project happen. It can be anything from: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs to workshops or events. It can cover the cost of equipment, courses, your time, materials, travel, whatever your project needs.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
National Lottery
The Heritage Fund from the National Lottery prioritises heritage projects that will boost the local economy, encourage skills development and job creation, support wellbeing, create better places to live, work and visit, and improve the resilience of organisations working in heritage. Every project will need to achieve their inclusion outcome, ‘a wider range of people will be involved in heritage’. They will also expect all projects to demonstrate that they are building long-term environmental sustainability into their plans, as appropriate.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Nesta
The Arts and Culture Impact Fund from Nesta is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK’s arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans between £150,000 and £1 million repayable over a period of up to ten years. The fund sets out to achieve several objectives for the arts, cultural and heritage sectors.
Deadline: 2023.
Apply here.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Applications are open annually for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Teacher Development Fund Awards, offering six grants of up to £150,000. The fund supports effective arts-based teaching and learning in schools. The fund's priorities include:
- Primary schools.
- Children and young people experiencing systemic inequality and disadvantage.
- Learning through the arts.
- Long-term, inquiry-based projects supporting teachers’ professional development.
- Contributions of school leaders and artists as professional learners and supporters of embedded learning through the arts in the curriculum.
- Approaches involving the following art forms: craft, creative writing, poetry, dance, design, film, music, opera, photography, media, drama, the visual arts and cross-arts practices.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF)
This programme from The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) supports projects that will contribute to the transformation of high streets and town centres in England helping them become thriving places, strengthening local communities and encouraging local economies to prosper. The AHF can provide grants to help with assessing the viability of a project, or to help fund development costs or to match funds raised through crowdfunding and community shares. They will also provide a small number of capital (delivery) grants for transformational projects.
Deadline: see website for further details.
Apply here.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant making charity. They support UK charities and CIOs (charitable incorporated organisations) tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts. The trust will prioritise organisations that are medium-sized (with an income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Shears Foundation
The Shears Foundation welcomes applications for grants of £5,000 from registered charities. The Foundation will support core costs, including staffing but will not contribute to capital projects. Charities must be working in one of their priority areas, currently:
- The development of culture and the arts.
- The development and provision of educational opportunities for adults and / or children.
- Protection, preservation or enhancement of the natural environment.
- Creating stronger / better / more sustainable communities.
- Promoting health and medicine, with an emphasis on research or education. They currently don't consider applications from Hospices.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation's main grants programme provides support for places. These grants are for capital initiatives, for example buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. They fund a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability and arts and humanities.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Arts Council Northern Ireland
Funding is available to organisations in Northern Ireland for projects that will contribute to the growth of arts in the community and which reflect the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. Registered charities, public sector bodies, commercial organisations and partnerships of organisations working together can apply for grants of between £10,001 and £75,000.Projects must take place between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. Eligible projects and activiuties include one-off large scale national arts events, projects which promote under-represented groups, research, audience development, continuation of salaries of existing posts, exhibitions in more than one local authority area of international artists.
Deadline: 5 June (12.00 noon).
Arts Council Wales
Supporting high-quality creative projects that deliver health and wellbeing benefits for the people of Wales, the Arts Health & Wellbeing Fund is open to partnership bids from across the arts, health, social care and third sectors. The Fund is particularly interested in supporting creative projects that address the following health challenges and priorities: mental health, including loneliness and social isolation; physical health and wellbeing; health inequalities and staff wellbeing within the arts and healthcare workforce.
Deadline: 7 June (5pm).
Creative Scotland
This fund from Creative Scotland is for organisations and groups based in Scotland whose work or project involves the arts, screen and creative industries. It is designed to support you to sustain your practice in a changing world. Grants of £1000 to £50,000 are available to support activity for up to 12 months and the fund is open all year round.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Foyle Foundation
The Foyle Foundation is an independent grant making trust that distributes grants to UK charities. They welcome applications from across the country and encourage applications from all areas outside London and the South East. The Main Grants Scheme supports charities registered and operating in the UK with a core remit of the arts or learning. Smaller arts or learning charities with a turnover of less than £150,000 per annum are usually more suited to the Small Grants Scheme.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant making trust which has been supporting charities across the UK for over 60 years. From small community groups to large national institutions, the Trustees’ aim is to support organisations that have effective solutions to helping those most in need. The foundation awards grants for capital, project and revenue costs and accepts applications from organisations working in the areas of welfare, youth, community, arts, faith, environment, education, health and museums and heritage.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Grand Plan
Grand Plan award £1,000 grants to creative people of colour based in the UK who want to make a new cultural project happen. It can be anything from: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs to workshops or events. It can cover the cost of equipment, courses, your time, materials, travel, whatever your project needs.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
National Lottery
The Heritage Fund from the National Lottery prioritises heritage projects that will boost the local economy, encourage skills development and job creation, support wellbeing, create better places to live, work and visit, and improve the resilience of organisations working in heritage. Every project will need to achieve their inclusion outcome, ‘a wider range of people will be involved in heritage’. They will also expect all projects to demonstrate that they are building long-term environmental sustainability into their plans, as appropriate.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Nesta
The Arts and Culture Impact Fund from Nesta is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK’s arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans between £150,000 and £1 million repayable over a period of up to ten years. The fund sets out to achieve several objectives for the arts, cultural and heritage sectors.
Deadline: 2023.
Apply here.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Applications are open annually for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Teacher Development Fund Awards, offering six grants of up to £150,000. The fund supports effective arts-based teaching and learning in schools. The fund's priorities include:
- Primary schools.
- Children and young people experiencing systemic inequality and disadvantage.
- Learning through the arts.
- Long-term, inquiry-based projects supporting teachers’ professional development.
- Contributions of school leaders and artists as professional learners and supporters of embedded learning through the arts in the curriculum.
- Approaches involving the following art forms: craft, creative writing, poetry, dance, design, film, music, opera, photography, media, drama, the visual arts and cross-arts practices.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF)
This programme from The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) supports projects that will contribute to the transformation of high streets and town centres in England helping them become thriving places, strengthening local communities and encouraging local economies to prosper. The AHF can provide grants to help with assessing the viability of a project, or to help fund development costs or to match funds raised through crowdfunding and community shares. They will also provide a small number of capital (delivery) grants for transformational projects.
Deadline: see website for further details.
Apply here.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant making charity. They support UK charities and CIOs (charitable incorporated organisations) tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts. The trust will prioritise organisations that are medium-sized (with an income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Shears Foundation
The Shears Foundation welcomes applications for grants of £5,000 from registered charities. The Foundation will support core costs, including staffing but will not contribute to capital projects. Charities must be working in one of their priority areas, currently:
- The development of culture and the arts.
- The development and provision of educational opportunities for adults and / or children.
- Protection, preservation or enhancement of the natural environment.
- Creating stronger / better / more sustainable communities.
- Promoting health and medicine, with an emphasis on research or education. They currently don't consider applications from Hospices.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation's main grants programme provides support for places. These grants are for capital initiatives, for example buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. They fund a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability and arts and humanities.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.