Arts & Culture
The Ashley Family Foundation
Arts & Culture Health & Social CareThe Ashley Family Foundation awards grants of typically below £10,000 to projects that are true to the Foundation’s values. Their focus is on supporting five main themes: Wales – Half of the Foundation’s funding goes to projects in Wales and they continue to maintain strong links with communities in mid Wales. Rural – They are…
ARTCRY
Arts & CultureARTCRY is a new fund supporting urgent artistic responses to current social and political events. The fund aims to encourage artists to create bold political work with funding in seven days to enable fast action. The fund seeks to support work that: opens up or provokes dialogue and doesn’t close it down; can startle people…
Theatres Trust: Small Grants Programme
Arts & Culture Covid 19 Tuesday May 3rd, 2022 12:00pmTheatres Trust’s Small Grants Programme, supported by The Linbury Trust, awards grants of up to £5,000 for essential works to to enable not-for-profit UK theatres to be viable and thrive in the future. The fund aims to support small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability or accessibility. Eligible projects include…
The Finnis Scott Foundation
Arts & Culture EnvironmentalThe Finnis Scott Foundation awards grants of up to £10,000 to projects in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as art history and the enhancement, conservation and preservation of art. Preference is given to smaller charities where a grant would have a significant impact. The Foundation funds both capital and revenue projects.…
Theatres Trust: Theatre Reopening Fund
Arts & Culture Covid 19The Theatres Trust’s Theatre Reopening Fund awards grants of up to £5,000 to help not-for-profit theatres across the UK to make Covid-19-related adaptions and prepare for reopening. The Fund will support building improvements and purchasing equipment that will support the theatre to be able to open viably and safely. Costs could include: alterations to circulation…
The Woodward Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Education & Employment Health & Social Care YouthThe Woodward Charitable Trust awards grants of up to £3,000 (however they are typically under £1,000) towards the core costs for small charities, CIOs and CICs. Please note that the Trust does not fund unsolicited applications from charities whose annual income exceeds £200,000 or an organisation that has more than six months running costs in…
The Skinners’ Company The Lady Neville Charity
Arts & Culture HeritageThe Skinners’ Company The Lady Neville Charity provides grants that make a clear and significant contribution to grass-roots charitable organisations working in designated priority areas. They offer grants to registered charity or not-for-profit organisation, and will support only capital projects with a grant of up to £1,000. In order to be eligible for a grant…
Localgiving: Magic Little Grants
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Sports Monday October 31st, 2022 11:59pmLocalgiving, in partnership with Postcode Community Trust, makes grants of £500 to small, local charities and community groups (including charitable organisations that are schools or connected to schools) delivering projects that: Improving mental wellbeing Enabling community participation in the arts Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty Supporting marginalised groups and promoting equality Improving biodiversity…
Cottam Will Trust
Arts & Culture ReligionThe Cottam Will Trust, administrated by Friends of Friendless Churches, awards grants for new or salvaged works of art in medieval churches. This has previously included statues, murals, paintings, stained glass, altars and altar frontals. Anyone can apply but the Trust encourages applications from Parochial Church Councils (PCCs), or artists themselves with the backing of…
Idlewild Trust: Conservation Grant – Objects and Works of Art
Arts & Culture Heritage Religion Tuesday September 6th, 2022 12:00pmThe Idlewild Trust awards grants of up to £5,000 to UK registered charities (over two years old), museums, galleries and churches that are excepted as charities (income is under £100,000 per annum). Funds are for projects that aim to conserve historic or artistically significant objects and works of art including artefacts, textiles, furniture, metalwork, manuscripts,…
Idlewild Trust: Arts Grants – Nurturing Young Professionals
Arts & Culture Tuesday September 6th, 2022 12:00pmThe Idlewild Trust awards grants of up to £5,000 to UK registered charities (over two years old) in the arts sector with programmes that encourage and nurture the talent of professional musicians, dancers, actors, writers and artists in the performing, fine and applied arts at an early stage of their careers. The Trust also funds programmes…
The Golsoncott Foundation
Arts & CultureThe Golsoncott Foundation awards grants (normally up to £3,000) to arts organisations with projects that demonstrate and deliver excellence in the arts, be it in performance, exhibition, artistic craft, or scholarly endeavour. The Foundation’s objective is to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular the fine arts and…
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Arts & Culture Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social CareEsmée Fairbairn Foundation awards unrestricted grants of over £30,000 for up to three years to charitable organisations whose work aligns with the Foundation’s aims. These are: Our Natural WorldEnsure that our natural world is restored and protected and that people benefit from that recovery. A Fairer FutureContributing to a just and anti-racist society, where those…
Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Arts-based Learning Fund
Arts & Culture Education & Employment YouthPaul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts-based Learning Fund makes grants of between £30,000 and £400,000, of which the majority are in the region of £150,000 to £250,000, over two to three years to organisations enabling pupils in formal education settings (Early Years, Primary, Secondary, Alternative Provision and Further Education) to thrive through engagement with high quality, arts-based…
The Gisela Graham Foundation
Arts & Culture Education & Employment Health & Social Care YouthThe Gisela Graham Foundation awards grants of up to £10,000 to UK registered charities that support the Foundation’s aims. They are: Further advancement of public health and safety through the research and treatment of chronic illnesses and conditions. Alleviate poverty and deprivation amongst children in less developed countries through care, education, and family support. Assist the…
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation: Small Grants
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Education & Employment Health & Social Care HeritageThe Trusthouse Charitable Foundation awards single year grants of between £2,000 to £10,000 to small, well-established charitable organisations (annual income under £250,000) whose postcode falls within the following on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation: if you are located in an urban area, you must be in the bottom 15% most deprived areas if you are located in…
Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Access & Participation Fund
Arts & Culture Covid 19Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Access and Participation Fund awards grants of between £30,000 and £400,000 for activity lasting between 12 months and 4 years with an option to extend for a further period. Typically grants are between £60,000 – £250,000. The Fund addresses inequalities of opportunity to access and participate in the arts. The Foundation wants…
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Arts & Culture Education & Employment Health & Social Care YouthThe Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust award grants to UK registered charities or organisations that are exempt from registration with projects that address specific categories set out by the Trust each year. The Trust operates on a three-year rotation of categories for grant applications. The upcoming categories are as follows: 2021 Rounds 1 and 2: HomelessnessThe…
Arts Council National Lottery: Project Grants
Arts & Culture National LotteryArts Council England (ACE) have launched their new Arts Council National Lottery: Project Grants open-access programme offering grants of between £1,000 – £100,000 for arts, museums and libraries projects, replacing Grants for the Arts. The programme sets out to achieve ACE’s mission, ‘great art and culture for everyone’. Project Grants supports a broad range of not-for-profit…
William Brake Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Health & Social Care Heritage Local Grants Older People Sports YouthThe William Brake Charitable Trust provides funding to registered charities which are based and working in Kent. Typically the Brake family suggest charities which are known to them to be considered for funding from the Trust. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. Trustees meet twice per year. For more information and how to apply please contact: Mr…
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
Arts & Culture HeritageThe objects of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation are to promote the arts, culture and heritage for the public benefit. As well as providing Musical Theatre scholarships and supporting projects through The Architectural Heritage Fund, the Trustees welcome applications to support projects in the areas of culture, heritage and the arts. The Foundation wishes to…
The Wolfson Foundation
Arts & Culture Health & Social Care HeritageThe Wolfson Foundation awards grants to support and promote excellence in the fields of science and medicine, the arts and humanities, education and health and disability. Charities and organisations with charitable status (or equivalent) can apply for grants to fund capital projects, such as buildings or refurbishment and equipment. Capital projects that offer training, education and…
Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care HeritageThe Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK awards grants typically between £1,000 and £5,000 to charities and some not-for-profit organisations. As a general rule, the Foundation provides grants to fund or part-fund the capital costs* of a new project. Applications involving innovative projects are particularly welcome. Organisations working in the following categories are eligible to apply: Promotion…
The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Health & Social CareThe Robert Gavin Charitable Trust gives financial support, for the public benefit, to a range of charitable causes. Principal fields of interest include the arts, education, social policy and research and charities for the disabled. The Trustees prefer to make grants to organisations whose work they personally know and admire. This does not, however, mean that…
The John Coates Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care HeritageThe John Coates Charitable Trust mainly makes grants to large national charities or to small charities that are of personal or local interest to the trustees, typically in London, the South East, South West of England, and East Anglia. Grants are made to those working in the following areas: Education The Arts Medicine and healthcare…
Garfield Weston Foundation: Regular Grants
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Religion YouthThe Garfield Weston Foundation’s Regular Grants programme awards grants of up to £100,000 to UK registered charities, CIOs, schools, faith-based organisations that are either exempt under the Charity Commission guidelines or are registered charities, housing associations or museums and galleries with activity in the following areas of Welfare Youth Community Arts Faith Environment Education Health…
GC Gibson Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe GC Gibson Charity offers grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 (averaging around £4,000) to a wide range of UK registered charities, preferably those with annual charitable donation of less than £1 million. The Trustees are all highly involved in various philanthropic activities and priority for support is given to charities that the Trustees have previously…
The Mackintosh Foundation
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social CareThe Mackintosh Foundation gives priority to: the theatre and the performing arts medical aid particularly research into cancer and HIV and AIDS homelessness community project the environment refugees The Foundation is looking to award grants to the following requests: Financing education in the UK and abroad by making grants to schools’ core costs and assisting the…
The Hillier Trust
Arts & Culture Health & Social Care ReligionThe Trust’s objects are supporting organisations involved with education, social welfare, the arts and religion, with a preference for those working with children and young people and older people. The trustees have a preference towards funding organisations that have a Christian ethos and usually awards a substantial grant each year to The Family Trust, a…
The Foyle Foundation: Main Grants Scheme
Arts & Culture YouthThe Foyle Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities. The Foundation does not support applications from individuals. The Foundation’s Main Grants Scheme supports charities whose core work covers Arts and Learning. Arts The Foundation seeks applications that make a strong artistic case for support in either the performing or visual…
Chapman Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Local GrantsThe Chapman Charitable Trust awards grants of either £1,000 or £2,000 to UK registered charities which: promote physical and mental wellbeing; conserve our natural environment and promote the sustainable use of resources; or increase the accessibility of the arts, especially for young people. The Trust prefers to support charities which address the root causes of…
The Elephant Trust
Arts & CultureThe Elephant Trust was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller with a view to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the UK. The Trust aims to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by the…
The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation
Arts & Culture SportsThe Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation issues grants to charitable organisations with particular emphasis on those connected with the performing arts and the promotion of cricket. There is no minimum or maximum amount you can apply for. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. For more information and how to apply please contact: Mr Andrew Studd Russell Cooke Solicitors 2…
Parabola Foundation
Arts & CultureThe Parabola Foundation’s objectives are to further charitable and cultural projects that will bring benefit to the public. It has been particularly keen to support music and the arts in a way that benefits the community. There is no minimum or maximum amount you can apply for. For more information and how to apply please…
Khoo Teck Puat UK Foundation
Arts & Culture Health & Social CareThe Khoo Teck Puat UK Foundation makes grants to charitable organisations for the purposes of achieving the charity’s aims of the relief of sickness and preservation and advancement of health, the prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship of the public, the promotion and advancement of the arts, culture or science, and the advancement…
Backstage Trust
Arts & CultureThe Backstage Trust’s main focus is to support projects in the performing arts, mainly theatre, however the Trust is open to hear from arts organisations with projects in which the arts touch society in other ways. For example, the Trust has previously supported the national tour of two great installations of ceramic poppies: Wave and Weeping Window.…
Old Possum’s Practical Trust
Arts & CultureOld Possum’s Practical Trust makes grants to projects which fall within artistic, aesthetic, literary, musical and theatrical criteria. All applications must demonstrate a high level of sustainability and contextual impact. Priority will be given to those which have an impact on future literary work and display enterprise in their artistic endeavour. Grants typically fall within £500…
The February Foundation
Arts & Culture Health & Social Care HeritageThe February Foundation makes grants of around £5,000 to a range of charities and charitable causes in particular the relief of those in need by reason of youth, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, the advancement of education and the advancement of the arts, culture and heritage. The Foundation’s grant making policy states they…
The Eranda Rothschild Foundation
Arts & Culture Health & Social Care YouthThe Eranda Rothschild Foundation makes donations to registered charities (including CIOs) and universities working in the fields of medical research, education and the arts. Education The Foundation considers applications from universities and other charities to support young professionals in fields including medicine, science and business. We support disadvantaged young people and apprenticeships. Medical Research The Foundation…
Antony Hornby Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe Antony Hornby Charitable Trust makes general charitable donations to organisations working in the following causes: education, training and employment; medical, health and sickness; Arts and culture; animals and environment; and community development. Grants are typically around £1,000 and rarely over £5,000, however no maximum amount you can apply for is stipulated. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme.…
Schroder Charity Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage YouthThe Schroder Charity Trust awards grants up to £5,000 (average £2,500) to UK registered charities working in: Education and Young People; Communities; Environment and Conservation; Health; Arts and Culture; International Development; Heritage; and Supporting our Armed Forces. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. Applications reviewed bi-annually. For more information and how to apply please click here.
Youth Music: Funds A, B & C
Arts & Culture YouthYouth Music’s Funds A, B and C supports UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations delivering projects that support young people’s lives in music, in particular projects that include those who would otherwise miss out because of who they are, where they live, or what they’re going through. Fund A Grants of between £2,000 and £30,000…
The Taylor Family Foundation
Arts & Culture YouthThe Taylor Family Foundation supports charities giving opportunities to children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and difficult circumstances, to improve their chances of attaining success and to leading fulfilling lives. The Foundation’s areas of focus area: Children & Young PeopleSupporting charitable organisations that provide opportunities for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, to…
Association of Independent Museums
Arts & CultureThe Association of Independent Museums (AIM) administers grants for museums to help AIM members with a variety of needs including training, conservation, development and exhibitions. There are different eligibility criteria and closing dates for each grant scheme, so please check each grant programme for further information about how to apply and the priorities for funding…
The Allen Lane Foundation
Arts & Culture Health & Social Care Older PeopleThe Allen Lane Foundation funds small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations that work particular beneficiary groups: Asylum seekers and refugees Gypsies and Travellers Migrant communities Offenders and ex-offenders Older people People experiencing mental health problems People experiencing violence or abuse The Foundation aims to fund work which: will make a lasting difference to…
Marsh Christian Trust
Arts & CultureThe Marsh Christian Trust’s grant-making programme aims to support small registered charities through long-term core funding, in an attempt to assist these organisations to maintain their current and on-going activities. The Trust itself supports roughly 250 different charities per annum across various fields in the charity sector. The main causes supported by the Marsh Christian…
Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund (MMBF)
Arts & CultureGrants of up to £25,000 are available to schools and not-for-profit organisations within the performing arts and film industry around the UK. The aim of the fund is to assist aspiring actors and filmmakers in the start-up and expansion phases of their career. The Fund also forms partnerships with organisations in the performing arts and…
The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social CareThe D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust funds UK registered charities working in the fields of the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. Current priorities are: The Arts Promotion of access, education, excellence, and diversity in the arts with emphasis on choral singing for children and young people to encourage…