Awards for All
This is a Lottery grants scheme aimed at local communities. It gives grants between £300 and £10,000 to projects that enable people to take part in arts, sport, heritage and community activities, as well as projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community. Applications can be submitted at any time. The application form is short and simple and you will be told within 8 weeks if you are successful or not. www.awardsforall.org.uk
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New Guide to Funding for the Arts
The DCMS Arts Division has produced a new guide on funding for the arts.It is intended to help artists and arts organisations navigate their way around the arts funding system and identify specific funding opportunities and is of particular relevance to organisations that are using the arts in cross cutting areas such as disability, criminal justice, cultural diversity and health.Details are included on; Statutory and Lottery funding, Sponsorship Trusts and Foundations, International Funding.
To download a free copy of A Guide to Arts funding in England please click here |
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts distributing public money from government and the National Lottery. Support is aimed at arts organisations, touring arts groups, or non-arts organisations who want to bring the arts into their work.
Grants for organisations - from £200 to £100,000 available for arts organisations for projects lasting up to three years. The average grant in 2005/2006 was £21,634. This can include capital items, training, research commissions, residencies, arts activities, projects, events, marketing, education, audience development and improving long term stability.
Grants for Individuals - from £200 up to £30,000 to cover activities lasting up to three years. Larger grants may be awarded for major projects and residencies. The average grant to individuals in 2004/05 was £5,000.
To find out more visit www.artscouncil.org.uk or phone 0845 300 6200 for an application pack.
Email: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk
| | First Light Funding for Film Making by Young People
Pilot Awards - open to any constituted youth focused organisation. For one film between 1 and 5 minutes long. Maximum grant is £5,000. Partnership funding: A minimum of 30% of the total project cost with at least 15% in cash. Timescale is 4 months.
First Light Studio Awards - open to organisations having a track record of filmmaking with young people and proven outreach ability, or strong partners with all relevant skills. To make 2 to 6 films of 5 to 10 minutes long. Maximum grant is £6,000 per film with a maximum grant of £36,000 for the whole proposal. Partnership Funding: A minimum of 50% of the total proposal costs with at least 25% in cash. Timescale is 8 months.
Funding packs are available online or you call 0870 7703245 for an application form.www.firstlightmovies.com
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Commonwealth Foundation
Alongside its civil society work, the Commonwealth Foundation also has a mandate to support arts and culture in the Commonwealth. The Foundation recognises the value of cultural and artistic expression to national life, and the central place of culture in development. It currently supports cultural exchange through a range of programmes.
www.commonwealthfoundation.com/arts/
| | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Provides grants to professional arts organisations or professional artists working in groups. The aim of its Arts Programme is to support experimental research and development activities.
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Clore Duffield Foundation: Small Grants Programme
Small Grants Programme totalling £1 million over five years, to fund performing arts education initiatives for children (aged up to 18). The Programme will fund project costs ranging from £1,000 to £10,000. Requests are considered twice a year, with closing dates in early April and early September.
www.cloreduffield.org.uk/small_intro.htm
| | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Grants for organisations averaging £50,000. Primary interest are: UK's Cultural Life, Education, the Natural Environment and enabling people who are disadvantaged to participate more fully in society. Organisations can apply through the main fund or through the strand funding which focuses on three topics; Biodiversity, Museum and Heritage Collections and New approaches to learning.
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
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The Foundation for Sports & Arts
Support for a wide range of activities which have a clear beneficial impact across the community. With particular support to encourage active participation by young people. The Foundation support the arts covers the widest spectrum of activity.
www.thefsa.net/
| | The Foyle Foundation
Support for both the performing and visual arts - main priorities are: to help make the arts more accessible by developing new audiences, supporting tours, festivals and arts educational projects; and; by encouraging new work and supporting young and emerging artists. Building and infrastructure projects to construct new arts facilities, improve or re-equip existing venues will also be considered. Community arts activity will not generally be supported.
www.foylefoundation.org.uk
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The Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF)
Support for Arts initiatives in the UK with a strong interest in combating disaffection and alienation in young people and for initiatives, which try to tackle these issues by encouraging learning and creativity.
www.phf.org.uk
| | UnLtd
UnLtd administer the Millennium Awards which are available to individuals (not organisations) for projects that benefit the community. Level One awards are between £500 and £5000 and Level 2 awards are between £5000 and £15000. UnLtd also provides a support package which includes training and networking opportunities to successful applicants.
www.unltd.org.uk/index.php
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Youth Music
Youth Music complements music in the national curriculum by supporting activities held mainly outside of school hours and delivered by non-profit making organisations.
They also support wider aspects of music-making through funding training for music leaders, as well as working strategically to bring together partnership organisations from across the music, education and social sectors.
Programmes include, First Steps, creative music-making for children aged 0-5, Make It Sound, music-making for 5-18 year olds who otherwise lack the chance to take part and Vocialise! for programmes where the voice is the main instrument.
www.youthmusic.org.uk
| | Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Charities and not for profit organisations active in Health Care & Disability; Community Support and the Arts and Education.
Maximum grants: Revenue £10,000 and Capital £50,000.
They also consider applications from UK based charities which undertake healthcare, health education and community projects in developing countries.
Trustees meet four times a year, February, May, September and November.
Arts Focus supports projects which enable the disabled and people living in areas of need and poverty to participate in the performance arts and to experience artistic excellence in the performing arts; projects which encourage and give opportunities to young talented people whose circumstances might otherwise deny them.
www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk or call Richard Hopgood on 0207 320 6996
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Screen West Midlands Access Fund
Put your ideas into action with this lottery grants scheme for screen based projects which emphasise education, new talent, exhibition and audience development projects. It provides the opportunity for organisations, from all backgrounds and parts of the region, to turn vision into reality. Open to any legally constituted organisation based in the West Midlands or whose project takes place in the West Midlands. Grant range from £5,000 up to £15,000.
You can also apply for an Access R&D grant to help research and develop your ideas into fully worked-up project plans.
Contact 0121 2657120 or email funding@screenwm.co.uk
Website: www.screenwm.co.uk
| | Henry Moore Foundation
Foundation accepts applications from Art galleries, museums, organisations and institutions concerned with art and art history, including UK universities
Support is concentrated on sculpture. Areas covered include student bursaries, fellowships for artists and grants to art institutions, galleries and museums. Typical projects include exhibitions, publications, commissions, conferences, workshops and lecture series.
Grants from £500 upward depending on type of project. A very small number of grants of up to £50,000 are awarded each year Applications considered at quarterly meetings of the Grants Committee. Website: www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk
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Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
Projects for a wide variety of charitable purposes including:
education; arts; heritage; youth; community; conservation; housing; health; medical research. Open to registered charities, including schools. Grants range £200 to £5,000 exceptional projects may
receive more. The Foundation does not issue strict guidance upon the type of project funded and applications may be made at any time
Tel: (020) 7408 2198
E-mail: asstdirbsunleycharfund@ukgateway.net
PRS Foundation Grants Programme
The PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF), provides a range of grants to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music in the UK. PRS supports music festivals, new music, unsigned bands and promoters. The Foundation also provides a range of bursaries to individuals.
For more information on the types of grants available and the application deadlines, please visit the website | | The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
Benefit local organisations whose core work supports childrens education and welfare, children and adults with disabilities, and elderly people. Awards are one-off donations and range between £1,000 and £5,000.
Applications are considered in two rounds:
- Organisations supporting childrens welfare and childrens educational projects, including special needs schools. (round closed for 2007)
- Organisations supporting elderly people and people with disabilities.
The closing dates for writing to the Trust will depend on the round for which you are applying:
- Childrens welfare and education (including special needs schools) - 31 January each year
- Elderly and disabilities - 30 June each year
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Idlewild Trust
For registered charities (not individuals) concerned with the encouragement of excellence in the performing and fine arts and the preservation for the benefit of the public of buildings and items of historical interest or national importance. The Trust’s interest is national and it is unlikely to support a project of local, parochial interest only. Average grant between £750 and £3,500
Applications may be made at any time, but the Trustees meet twice yearly to consider applications, usually in March and November Closing dates are about 2 months before each meeting.
The website is www.idlewildrust.org.uk
| | The Lanklley Chase Foundation
Encourages access to the arts, in particular amongst those who historically have been least able to participate eg. in rural areas or people with special needs.
Distinct programmes of work to promote access for those who seek it and personal excellence for those who work for it they are: Arts and special needs ,Dance ,Transgenerational work with communities and The pursuit of excellence.
They also wish to encourage different generations to come together through participation in and enjoyment of the arts.
Trustees meet quarterly in April, July, October and January. www.lankellychase.org.uk
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British Council Visual Arts Department - Grants to Artists.
If you are a visual artists resident in the UK then the British Council may be able to help you with the costs of transporting work to an exhibition in a gallery abroad.
The scheme is competitive and is administered by the Visual Arts Department with guidance from their Visual Arts Advisory Committee and British Council Directorates overseas. This scheme is not open to artists exhibiting in the UK.
www2.britishcouncil.org/arts-art-architecture-design-grants-to-artists.m
| | Baring Foundation
Open only to constituted, not for profit arts organisations working principally in the UK with an annual income of at least £50,000. Arts organisations should already be working with refugees, asylum seekers, migrants or their host communities on issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers.
Grants will be for three years, paid in annual instalments and subject to annual review.
Contact : 020 7767 1348 or visit www.baringfoundation.org.uk
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