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UK arts funding organisations - grants for community art projects, and large and small grants, including creative and performing arts, music groups and theatre companies.
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| Arts Council England | Arts Council grants that are open - grants for all types of creative and community art, including theatre, music, performing arts projects and individual artists. |
| Arts Council England - Other Funding Sources | Other sources of funding for the arts, including other Arts Councils, education and non-UK funding. |
| Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust | The Trust funds cultural and heritage preservation projects in the UK (especially East Anglia). Main areas include: -schemes or bursaries for classical music education to enable young career musicians to attend courses, music groups or orchestras; conservation and crafts training, via bursaries to recognized higher educational teaching organisations. Spend £100k. |
| D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | Arts, medical welfare and the environment, from £500 to £5k, usually 1 year, occasionally up to three years, core costs or projects. |
| Esmee Fairbairn Foundation | Long-term core funding for the arts, children and young people, environment and social change, over 1 to 5 years. |
| Golsoncott Foundation | The arts generally and in particular the fine arts and music. Over £1m donated to the arts in the last 20 years. Supporting Music, Ballet, Theatre, Museums, Literature, the Fine Arts and Crafts, and Scholarship. Delivering audiences to the arts, and the arts to new audiences. |
| Odin Charitable Trust | Priorities for grant funding include charities which further the arts. Typically small organisations and those that find it difficult to attract funding. Grants usually range from £1,000 to £5,000, one-off or up to 3 years. |
| Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts | Test, implement and develop ambitious plans to widen access to and deepen participation in the arts. Max value £400k. |
| Victoria Wood Foundation | Make grants for all aspects of the arts, particularly around London and the North of England. |
| Foyle Foundation Main Grants Scheme | UK registered charities to support the performing or visual arts and for projects that facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and learning. Will consider core funding but generally only from smaller organisations or from those not receiving recurrent revenue funding from the Arts Council or local authorities. |
| Leche Trust | Performing arts and conservation. Aim to achieve a broad balance between music, theatre and dance projects. Will consider offering grants up to £5,000. |
| Sick! Productions Limited | Live Art, experimental performance and visual art. |
| UK Theatres Small Grants Scheme | Up to £5,000 to theatres across the UK run by charities that can clearly demonstrate the value capital improvements to their theatres would make to their work in local communities. |
| Chapman Charitable Trust | Grant funding includes increasing the accessibility of the arts. Most grants £1000 or £2000. Apr 21. Funds registered UK national charities. Will also fund local charities, in North Wales and SE England. |
| Christine Brown Trust for Young Musicians | Financial support to exceptionally talented young musicians under 19 years of age, who are UK residents and who are experiencing financial hardship. |
| Michael Tippett Musical Foundation | Group music-making in the UK, especially involving young people in projects incorporating composition and creative ideas. Grants are likely to be between £500 and £4,000, with the average grant in the region of £2,000. |
| Music For All Community Project Funding | Up to £2k for UK projects that bring music to their communities, but need assistance to develop truly sustainable music programmes. Will fund individuals. Up to £2k. Deadlines 1 Feb, 14 May and 1 Nov. |
| Belgae Trust | Includes grant funding for the arts. Smaller charities and projects with a value of less than £100,000 will be prioritised. Charities from throughout UK and abroad will be considered but local charities (Hampshire) will be given priority. Up to £5k. |
| Backstage Trust | Funding for feasibility studies in England and Wales for capital projects, fundraising and developing case for support, professional development of small to medium arts organisations. |
| Elephant Trust | To make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and art institutions/galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities. Priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations. Usually up to £2k, but some up to £5k. |
| Philip Bates Trust - | Individuals, voluntary and community organisations that develop artistic interests in young people, particularly the West Midlands. Trustees gives priority to organisations which have charitable status or which are not-for-profit bodies. Up to £500. |
| Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust | A wide range of activities including education and training, environment and conservation, arts and culture as well as general charitable purposes. Has previously funded animal welfare. In particular the Trust supports work with young or disadvantaged people. |
| Casey Trust | UK registered charities, with a focus exclusively on children worldwide, with a cut-off age of 18. Start-up projects or identifiable new initiatives, rather than continuing programmes, particularly children's projects connected with the Arts, Mental Health, also child Refugees in the UK and, as we are Camden based, more inner-London based projects. |
| Ragdoll Foundation | UK not-for-profit, especially arts organisations working with children and young people, using the arts and creative media. Up to £20k. Will consider multi-year funding. |
| Youth Music Network | Non-profits, including schools, to fund developmental music making projects for disadvantaged young people as well as for projects that support the development of the workforce, organisations and the wider music making sector. Various funds: £2k up to £200k. |
| Black Artists Grant (BAG) | No-strings attached financial support to help the selected artists in whatever they want – make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses. This is specifically for Black artists; not politically black, not POC or BAME. |
| Didymus | Up to £5k, income under £2m, UK registered charities, in the UK, Africa and Central and South America. Social inclusion, education, the arts, equality and diversity and religious understanding. |
| Said Foundation – Amal Grants Programme | Arts projects and activities, including storytelling, visual arts, theatre, poetry, film, music and dance. To increase understanding of Britain’s Muslim communities and foster a stronger sense of belonging in the UK among its Muslim communities. |
| Social History Society | Small grants for joint BME events and activities that promote BME history in the UK. |
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