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Bursaries, Funding, Grants, & Support

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360 Giving

Helps organisations openly publish grants data, and helps people use it to improve charitable giving.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation

The Foundation offers grants to promote the arts as well as funding 10 musical theatre course scholarships each year at UK musical theatre colleges. 

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Arts Council England (ACE)

ACE provides funding on a national basis, supporting theatre that serves communities and is targeted for specific audiences. According to their website, they “champion artistic collaborations and ideas that increase opportunities for a wide range of artists and participants to experience the transformative powers of theatre.” They also provide funding over a three year period through the National portfolio.

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Arts Council Wales

One of the ways that we support the arts is through the funding that we give to individuals and organisations.

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BBC Commissioners and briefs

What the BBC are looking for, who to get in touch with, and how to pitch your ideas

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Black Artists Grant

The Black Artists Grant is £1,000 given out monthly to black artists in the UK, with each artist selected receiving £500 each.

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Bristol Arts & Culture Funding 

Information about arts and culture funding and how to apply.

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Chizel Educational Trust

The Chizel Educational Trust provides grants to support the education of students resident in the UK. The Trust awards around £20,000 in grants each year. Grants awarded tend to be in multiples of £500, to a maximum of £1,500.

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Clive Richards Foundation

The focus of the Foundation is to support Education, Healthcare, Heritage, Arts and Overseas Education.

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CO OP

The Co-op Local Community Fund supports projects across the UK that our members care about. Every time our members buy selected Co-op branded products and services, we'll give local causes a helping hand.

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Crime Prevention Fund

This £200,000 fund offers grants of up to £20,000 for community projects that help to deliver effective approaches to prevent crime from happening in the first place, to reduce overall crime and to keep our communities safe.

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David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship

A unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about East and Southeast Asia to spend a year at the University of East Anglia.

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Directory of Social Change 

Applications as well as fundraising resources, funding sources, trusts, foundations, and campaigns. 

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Discoveries

Discoveries is a pioneering development initiative which offers practical support and encouragement to aspiring female novelists of all ages and backgrounds, from across the UK and Ireland. The programme culminates with awarding the Discoveries Prize for an unpublished novel-in-progress.

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Elevate

A pioneering, free mentoring programme that has been designed with a specific goal in mind – to inspire, inform and empower
people within the event industry.

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Enterprise Relief Fund

The £5million Enterprise Relief Fund will offer grants to 18 to 30-year olds across the UK who are self-employed and/or running their own business. In conjunction with cash grants, the initiative will offer one-to-one support and guidance to anyone who needs it and who may be worried about their future.

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Facebook Small Business Grants

Facebook has provided USD 100M in cash grants and ad credits to help small businesses across over 30 countries through our Small Business Grants programme. 

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FLAMIN

Funding for the moving image sector.

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Freelands Foundation

We believe in art education for everyone, to raise aspirations and empower people to transform their opportunities in life. Our current funding priorities are to support organisations and programmes that enable everyone, regardless of background or location, to access and take part in the creation and enjoyment of art.

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Funds Online

It’s a database with over 8,000 funders with the potential to give away billions of pounds overall to organisations and individuals.

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Garfield Weston Foundation

The Foundation continues to support organisations that delight and inspire audiences across the UK. From small community theatre groups to national art galleries, the Foundation has long supported the nation’s cultural life.

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Goethe Institut

The Department of Theatre/Dance offers theatre and dance professionals various grants at home and abroad to enable exchange, encounters and discussions in the field of performing arts internationally and in Germany.

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Greggs Foundation

North East Core Funding provides grants of up to £45,000 to charitable organisations based in the North East of England who are making a real difference in their communities.  These grants are to help those organisations increase their capacity to provide quality services.  

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Henry Moore Foundation

We support the growth and development of sculpture through our Grants programme.

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House Resources

House Theatre have put together a section to support best working practice in touring and the wider theatre sector. All resources featured can be shared and downloaded for free.

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Innovate UK Smart Grants 

Opportunity for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £25 million from Innovate UK to deliver game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy.

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John Feeney Trust

The trust benefits any one or more of the public charities in the City of Birmingham, or for the promotion and cultivation of art in the City of Birmingham, or for the acquisition and maintenance of parks recreation grounds and open spaces in or near the City. 

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Kent Investment Fund

Our Arts Investment Fund helps organisations in Kent by funding projects to develop high quality arts and cultural activities. This boosts the local economy by improving arts and culture for people living in, working in and visiting Kent and develops the reputation of the county as a world class cultural location.

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Live Theatre Bursaries

Live Theatre’s bursaries are aimed at supporting exciting and innovative approaches to story led theatre making. Bursary winners were selected through an open call-out that launched in spring 2020. The winners demonstrate outstanding and imaginative theatrical ideas with something new and unexpected to say.

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London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme

Supporting writers who have not yet published a full-length work of fiction, non-fiction, collection of poems, or had a full-length work professionally produced for stage/screen.

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LUSH Grants

Grants can be given to groups working in the areas of: Animal Rights, Environmental Protection and Human Rights. Charity Pot grants provide one-off funding to small, grassroots organisations. We prioritise projects that aim to create long-term change as Lush believe it is important to fund projects aiming to target the root cause of a problem, not just its effects.

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Mercers Company

Mercers Company Provides grants to UK registered charities to promote the arts with a focus on supporting young professional performers at the start of their careers.

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Music for All

The grant application process allows us to help people fulfil their musical dreams. Young, old, regardless of personal or life challenges, we truly want music to be for all! Funding for purchase of musical instruments/equipment etc will be considered.

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National Youth Arts Trust

Grant music bursaries, dance bursaries and drama bursaries, up to £1,000 each, to talented young people aged 12-25 who can’t afford to access opportunities in the arts. A bursary typically pays for a year’s part time dance, music or drama classes, and it can be used to cover some other expenses and costs too, including tuition fees at drama school.

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New Play Commission Scheme

The scheme provide grants equivalent to the WGGB commissioning minimum for the type of theatre and/or company commissioning the work. Playwrights were required to apply for the scheme in partnership with a venue or producer.

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Odin Charitable Trust

The Odin Charitable Trust supports general charitable causes however has a preference for: the arts; care for people who are disabled and disadvantaged people; hospices; homeless people; prisoners’ families; refugees; gypsies and ‘tribal groups’; and research into false memories and dyslexia.

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Outdoor Arts UK

We provide regular updates on funding opportunities, jobs, call-outs and commissions.

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Platform

A support and development opportunity for emerging writers.

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PRS Foundation

Has many initiatives that provide financial support for the creation, performance, and/or promotion of outstanding music.

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RAD FUND

BFI Doc Society Funds support and nurture independent non-fiction films and immersive projects by UK filmmakers: prioritising expansive, director-led storytelling.

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Royal Philharmonic Society

The Royal Philharmonic Society is proud to help composers and choreographers bring exciting new works to life, through the RPS Drummond Fund.

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Scottish Highlands Creative Fund

The Highland Youth Arts Hub is supporting 19 emerging artists with:

  • an award of £1,000 each

  • 12 hours of mentoring from a professional artist

  • the opportunity to take part in a series of Creative Conversations

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South Square Trust

The institutions we support nominate full-time students each year who, based on talent and their financial circumstances, are considered suitable recipients for a scholarship to assist them with fees and living expenses

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Spotlight's Bursary Scheme

Spotlight are now introducing applications for bursaries. There will be 400 annual bursaries covering one free year of membership available. 

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Suez Trust

The Community Fund offers grants of up to £50,000 to ‘not for profit organisations wishing to improve leisure and recreation facilities’ like theatres.

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The Adam Reynolds Award

The award aims to provide an opportunity for artists to develop their ideas and practice without pressure to deliver a particular outcome such as finished or exhibition-ready work. It operates additionally to provide space, time and financial support within a framework of constructive and creative critical dialogue.

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The Awesome Foundation 

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.

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The Elephant Trust

The 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 United Kingdom.

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The Foyle Foundation

The Main Grants Scheme supports charities registered and operating in the United Kingdom with a core remit of the Arts or Learning.

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The London Community Foundation

Our mission is to help small grassroots organisations grow, by supporting them with crucial funding as well as advice. We believe in sharing our knowledge to help people improve projects, so they make an even greater impact.

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The Music and Dance Scheme

The Music and Dance Scheme provides grants and help with fees at 8 independent schools and 21 centres for advanced training. 

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The Peggy Ramsay Foundation

The Peggy Ramsay Foundation’s purpose is to help writers and writing for the stage. It was established in pursuance of this objective. The Peggy Ramsay Foundation seeks to perpetuate Peggy Ramsay’s ideals, by directly helping dramatists at very different stages of experience in ways which are determined to keep as quick and unbureaucratic as possible.

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The Rayne Foundation

The Rayne Foundation makes grants to charitable and not-for-profit organisations across the UK tackling a variety of social issues. We are especially interested in the arts, health and education. 

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The Society of Authors

The Society of Authors administers a number of grants for writers. Our grants help fund works in progress and support authors in financial difficulty.

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The UK Sponsorship Database

The premier online database of UK sponsorship opportunities.

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The White Pube

This library is a resource of successful funding applications that you can learn from.

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The Zetland Foundation

The Zetland Foundation is a registered charity which provides support – both financial and moral – for highly talented young people in the Arts. 

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Unity Theatre Trust

Unity Theatre Trust was set up as a charity in the spirit of their traditions. The main objectives of the Trust are to advance the education of the public by fostering, promoting and increasing the interest of people in the art of drama and co-related arts.

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Wellcome

Who we support: 
Community-led projects that involve people with the science that shapes their lives. Innovative projects in the creative industries. Investing in organisations, to help them become more financially sustainable. Partnerships with organisations that can reach a range of different audiences.

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Working Class Creatives Grant

This is a no-strings attached financial support to help creatives of all ages who are in the early stages of their careers. They can spend the grant on whatever they want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.

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Actors' Benevolent Fund

We are here for professional actors and stage managers who are in need due to illness, injury, or old age.

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Artquest

A guide for When and How to apply for grants.

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Arts Council Northern Ireland

Arts Council investment supports the full range of arts activity throughout Northern Ireland.

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Arts Emergency

We offer 16-25 year olds who are passionate about the arts and humanities a year of free mentoring. Mentors help Young Talent set goals, explore their interests and make decisions about higher education, training and careers. We work long term with young people in London, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

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BFI Funding Finder

Find out about funding schemes, opportunities and activities in your area and how to contact your local talent executive.

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Boots Charitable Trust

We fund registered charities and also smaller voluntary organisations benefiting people who live in Nottinghamshire.

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Bristol Old Vic DEVELOPMENT, COMMISSIONING AND CO-PRODUCING 

Bristol Old Vic want to grow longer-term, more meaningful relationships and work with artists in more accessible, varied and innovative ways. 

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Christine Brown Trust

The Christine Brown Trust for Young Musicians offers financial support to exceptionally talented young musicians under 19 years of age, who are UK residents and who are experiencing financial hardship. This may mean contributing towards the cost of lessons, helping to pay for a new instrument, perhaps paying for summer school or orchestra fees – in fact, anything connected with the costs of an instrumental education.

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Clore Duffield Foundation

The majority of the Foundation's support is directed towards the cultural sector, and in particular to cultural learning and to museum, gallery, heritage and performing arts learning spaces. 

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Creative People and Places

Creative People and Places is about more people choosing, creating and taking part in brilliant art experiences in the places where they live.

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Dance & Drama Awards

You could get a Dance and Drama Award (DaDA) to help with fees and living costs at one of 17 private dance and drama schools.

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Developing your Creative Practice

Developing your Creative Practice is a new development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners to ensure excellence is thriving in the arts and culture sector. This fund will create more pathways for individuals, from a range of creative practices and backgrounds. 

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Directors Support Scheme

The Directors Support Scheme offers emergency help to Directors in acute need and is designed for short-term support. It is not suitable for those in need of long-term, continuous assistance.

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Dogs & Coffee

At Dogs and Coffee, we're on a mission to get you your next job in the arts, entertainment and media sectors, with a big dose of motivation, laughter and musical theatre numbers along the way. 

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Elmbridge Borough Council

Sources of grants, funding, and information through Elmbridge Borough Council.

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Equity Charitable Trust

Equity offer welfare grants. You do not need to be an equity member to apply but you must be an industry professional who is eligible for an Equity card.

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Film & TV Charity

Offers support to everyone working behind the scenes in film, TV, and cinema. Whether you work in pre-production, production, or post-production, in sales, distribution, or exhibition, or in any other behind the scenes role, they’re here to offer a helping hand.

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Fleabag Support Fund

The FLEABAG SUPPORT FUND, (FSF) aims to be a complimentary alternative support grant to the already existing charitable funds available to people working in theatre at this time.

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Funding For All

Funding for All provides free, expert fundraising advice to small charities, voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises from across Kent and Medway.

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Future Screens

Future Screens Open Calls are targeted towards funding co-created collaborative partnerships between industry and academic research partners at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University. 

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Garrick Trust

The Garrick Trust aims to encourage theatre by focussing on helping professional organisations in need of financial support. They have a particular interest in helping actors, directors, writers, musicians, composers and choreographers in the early stages of their careers.

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Grants Finder

GrantFinder is the leading funding database in the UK covering local, national, and international sources of funding.

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Hawthornden Literary Retreat

Writers awarded a fellowship will be invited to attend one of eight annual sessions. Each session last four weeks. The sessions run from January to June and from September to December.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) offers awards between £10,000 and £100,000 for projects that preserve heritage or increase people’s understanding of it. This includes helping local groups preserve local traditions and culture.

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Ian Mckellen Producer Grant

The Aim of the grant:

  • To support emerging producers and production companies.

  • To allow producers to employ and correctly pay as many people as possible.

  • To enable productions that would otherwise be financially unviable due to cast size. Grants will favour those productions that break even BECAUSE of this money.

  • The grant is for producing plays – both new plays and revivals.

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ITC Arts

The Independent Theatre Council represents, supports and develops the professional performing arts in the UK. ITC's commitment to representing your interests includes advice on management, financial and legal matters, peer learning, training opportunities and a professional network.

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Keep it Fringe fund

A new initiative to support Fringe artists

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Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund

LUTSF supports individuals working in all areas of movement and dance who wish to travel in order to enrich their professional practice. Applications are welcomed from choreographers, performers, lecturers, teachers, writers, therapists, administrators, producers and related professionals. 

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Lewisham Council Funding Resources

Find out about the different organisations that offer funding, or can help you get access to it.

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Lloyds TSB Foundation

The Lloyds Community Programme provides support to underfunded charities (12 months reserves or less) working to tackle disadvantage. 

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Mab Gwalia

Mab Gwalia believes that opportunity should not only be available to those who can afford it. The ambition is to build a movement that makes change.

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Metro Charity

Apply for a grant for your LGBTQ+ led group or organisation.

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My Funding Central

Helping charities and voluntary organisations identify funding opportunities.

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NESTA

A £23 million social impact investment fund offering loans between £150,000 and £1 million to help organisations in the arts, cultural and heritage sectors build resilience and deliver social outcomes.

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Northern Writers’ Awards

Offering a wide range of opportunities for  writers at all stages of their careers, including publication, mentoring, manuscript assessment, writing placements, retreats and cash awards to buy time to write.

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Open Society Foundations

Every year the Open Society Foundations give thousands of grants to groups and individuals that work on the issues we care about: promoting democracy, transparency, and freedom of speech.

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation

One of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.  They use their resources to support social change, working towards a just and equitable society in which everyone, especially young people, can realise their full potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives.

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Postcode Places Trust

The aim of Postcode Places Trust is to support smaller charities and good causes in the east of England to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet. Players of People’s Postcode Lottery have funded good causes in every postcode area in Britain.

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Pureland Foundation

The Pureland Foundation supports charitable endeavours to promote social inclusion, spiritual and emotional wellbeing. It also aims to enrich lives and build communities through culture, particularly the creative arts and music.

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Raze Collective 

Raze is a charity established to support, develop and nurture queer performance in the UK.

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Royal Society of Literature

Each year, after an open call for proposals, the Awards are given to individual writers or other literary creators, recognising their past achievements and providing them with financial support to undertake a proposed new piece of writing or literary project.

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Screen Skills Bursaries

A ScreenSkills bursary is a cash grant to remove the obstacles to getting into the screen industries or progressing your career once you’re in. You can apply for money to pay for most things that relate to work and continuing professional development, such as training fees, accommodation, care, disability access costs, equipment, software and travel.

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Spacehive

Spacehive is a funding platform for
ideas that bring local places to life.

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Spotlights Guide to funding your Performing Arts Training and Career

Funds, Bursaries and Awards you should know about to help to pursue your passion in the Arts.

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Swedish Research Council

The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research idea, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.

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The Arts Development Company

We at the Arts Development Company strengthen the arts and culture sector and develop innovative, collaborative and creative solutions that transform people, place and community.

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The Baring Foundation

With this funding, we are offering modest, unrestricted grants to established organisations in the UK that focus solely on offering creative opportunities to people of any age living with mental health problems using the skills of professionally trained artists.

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The Fenton Arts Trust

The Trust focuses its efforts specifically on the support of artists and actors at the beginning of their careers. Each year there are 25-30 beneficiaries.

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The Highland Children’s Trust

We help children and young adults under 25 resident in the Highland

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The Mackintosh Foundation

The 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.

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The Noël Coward Foundation

Its aim is to award grants to educational and development projects across the Arts and to continue the keen interest Coward himself took in charitable work during his lifetime.  The Foundation is proud to support a diverse range of outstanding organisations working in theatre, music, playwriting, academic research and many other areas.

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The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust

Founded in 1999, The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust has improved the quality of life for people and communities in the UK through its work with environmental, arts and community welfare, donating £28.6 million to organisations working in these areas. 

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The Royal Theatrical Fund

The Fund offers support for people of all ages who have worked in the entertainment industry and need assistance due to illness, accident or old age.

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The Society for Theatre Research

Is there an element within your research topics that deals with an aspect of the British theatre which would make it eligible? Topics we can consider for Research Grants include buildings, people, historical or contemporary concerns, theories and practices, and all kinds of performance arts, as long as there is a connection with theatre in Britain or British theatre people. 

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The Victoria Wood Foundation

The Victoria Wood Foundation was set up after the death of Victoria Wood. It seeks to support the areas of the arts that Victoria was interested in in her lifetime, and in the parts of the country where she spent most of her life, in and around London and in the North of England.

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The Wolfson Foundation

We award grants to support and promote excellence in education, science & medicine, heritage, humanities & the arts and health & disability.

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Tom Acton Memorial Trust

The Tom Acton Memorial Trust was set up in 1997 with the aim of providing financial help to young local musicians in need, either directly or in the form of medical or psychological help where necessary.

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Unlimted

Unlimited is an arts commissioning programme that enables new work by disabled artists to reach UK and international audiences.

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Westminster Foundation 

Grant process is focused upon inspiring children and young people with opportunities to thrive, build confidence, working with organisations who support families, schools and local communities.

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Writers & Artists

A list of bursaries made available by Writers & Artists.

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Alfred Bradley Bursary Award

A £5,000 writing bursary for writers based in the North of England who are new to writing for audio.

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Arts Admin Bursary Scheme

The Bursary scheme offers a maximum of six bursaries to UK-based artists at any stage in their career working in live art, contemporary performance and interdisciplinary practice.

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Arts Council Support

We offer free access support for arts council funding applications. We can help you complete your arts council England form.

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BBC Comedy Grants

Investing in targeted comedy outreach and inclusion

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BFI Network

Discovering, Developing and Funding New Filmmakers

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Bradford Producing Hub

Introduction to Fundraising aims to increase fundraising knowledge for the live arts sector in Bradford. 

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

We are interested in working with organisations to identify needs and to develop projects which address them. We seek to work with organisations developing ‘next practice’, trialling new – potentially more effective – approaches or addressing unmet needs.

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Climate Fringe

We are inviting applications from grassroots and community groups in Scotland who wish to create an event/activity for the Climate Fringe. 

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Consortium

Since 2019 Consortium is delighted to have received funding to run several grants programmes for the LGBT+ sector. 

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Creative Scotland

Creative Scotland distributes funding for the arts, screen and creative industries from two primary sources, the Scottish Government and the National Lottery.

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Dance Professionals Fund

Whether you need a grant due to illness or injury, with support for everyday living costs or with crisis funding for the unexpected, we can help. We also support dance professionals through a range of specialist bursary schemes. Our confidential advice and financial support are tailored to your needs and have helped hundreds of dance professionals just like you.

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Dewar Arts Awards

For over 20 years, the Dewar Arts Awards has supported Scotland's talented young people to overcome financial barriers and flourish in the arts.

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Disability Arts

Sharing Disability Arts & Culture with the World

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Donor Grant Tracking

Analyse the grants made by UK grant-makers who have donated more than £1,000,000 over the last five years. When those grants are made to registered charities we can dig deeper into the data to see the type of organisations that they favour.

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EMERGING VOICES FILM FOUNDATION

PROVIDE GRANT FUNDING, KIT HIRE CREDIT AND MENTORING SUPPORT TO EMERGING FILMMAKERS FROM UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS IN THE UK FILM INDUSTRY.

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Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn make unrestricted, core and project grants for charitable work in the UK.

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First Features

This funding scheme is for Scotland-based filmmakers ready to take that career-defining step towards making their debut feature.

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Foyle Foundation

The Foundation supports performing arts projects, with an emphasis on education and ‘encouraging new work and supporting young and emerging artists.’ They are interested in projects that develop new audiences, providing funding for tours and festivals to facilitate this. 

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Funding Network

At our live crowdfunding events, you will meet and hear from changemakers with solutions to social issues. Each has six minutes to tell you about the change they are making and how you can support them, then you have six minutes to ask them questions. Once that's done, our expert pledge master will take you through the live crowdfunding session. You can give money, time or expertise, everything is appreciated!

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Future Talent

Future Talent gives financial support and guidance to young musicians aged between 5 and 18 who are demonstrating outstanding musical ability or potential, but for whatever reason do not have the financial means to reach their goal. They have various grants and bursaries available.

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Glasgow Educational and Marshall Trust

The Glasgow Educational and Marshall Trust can trace its roots back to 1936, and since then the Trust has continued to grow and change to meet the needs of Glasgow’s people. On average, the Trust supports 60 applications per year up to a total value of £60,000.

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Grants Online

The UK's most comprehensive and up to date UK grant funding information service.

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Help Musicians

Every year, Help Musicians give grants, provide opportunities and offer advice to talented musicians in the final stages of training and the first few years of working professionally.

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Hospice UK Community Grants Programme

From oral poetry workshops and video game worlds, to public art installations or song writing sessions – whatever your idea, we want to hear from you.

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Idlewild Trust 

Idlewild Trust awards grants in two areas within the Arts and Conservation.

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Jerwood Arts Performing Arts Micro Bursaries

The Performing Arts Micro Bursaries support independent artists and producers with awards of between £250 and £1,000. We are interested in proposals for development activities in the performing arts where a clear and specific learning opportunity has been identified. This could be for the making of new work, research, travel, training or mentoring.

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Kent Community Foundation

Kent Community Foundation create strong local communities by connecting those who want to help with those seeking help.

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Live Art Development Agency

LADA offers artistic and professional development opportunities for artists, curators, Higher Education and the Live Art infrastructure.

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London Community Foundation

List of grants availiable for different communities.

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Luke Westlake Scholarship

An annual award set up for working-class actors (BA) in their 2nd year at Drama School or University in the UK. The winner receives over £6000 worth of financial and developmental support as they complete their training and graduate.

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Malorie Blackman Scholarships

City Lit’s Malorie Blackman Scholarships for Unheard Voices provide three annual awards worth up to £1,000 each, to fund one year’s study within the Creative Writing department at City Lit.

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Michael Grandage Company Bursaries

Guiding and supporting the theatre-makers of the future.

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National Lottery
Community Fund

Awards money raised by National Lottery players to fund great ideas that help communities to thrive.

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New Creatives

New Creatives North is an exciting talent development scheme that offers opportunities for creators to be mentored by experienced artists to make new artistic works in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC channels and platforms.

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Northfleet Place Partnership Programme

Investing in people, spaces and Northfleet communities, through a range of activities, that will ensure Northfleet has a vibrant creative landscape, with the ability to provide a range of high-quality opportunities for local people.

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Outdoor Arts in Wales

Articulture provide regular updates on funding opportunities, jobs, call-outs and commissions.

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Philip Bates Trust

The Philip Bates Trust provides grants for individuals and community groups to encourage artistic interests among young people under 25 years in the UK.

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Producer Gathering

Designed to offer insights into and context around independent producing practices happening across the arts sector. By offering a large pool of free resources, learning opportunities for independent producers, space for discussion and writings from some of the best in the theatre, live art and dance sectors we want to support and encourage independent producers at all career stages.

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Queen Elizabeth Schlorship Fund

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) supports the training and education of talented and aspiring craftspeople through traditional college courses, vocational training, apprenticeships and one-to-one training with a master craftsperson; helping to support Britain’s cultural heritage and sustain vital skills in traditional and contemporary crafts.

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Royal Literary Fund

The Royal Literary Fund is a UK charity that has been helping authors since 1790. It provides grants and pensions to writers in financial difficulty; it also places writers in universities to help students develop their writing.

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Royal Victoria Hall Foundation

The Royal Victoria Hall Foundation awards between twenty and thirty grants each year to smaller scale professional theatre projects based in London. There are two rounds of funding, with deadlines in February and August.

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Sheffiled Theatre’s and Cast 4×4 commissions

This call out is a development opportunity aimed at artists, companies and makers of live performance to support your work for a period of four months during this transitional period.

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Split Infinitive

The Trust's main area of interest is in supporting live and performance arts, in general and in education. Applications with a Yorkshire or regional focus are favoured. Split Infinitive is a small trust with limited funds to distribute annually.

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Stage One Bursary Awards

Our bursary awards provide independent producers the financial and practical support needed to mount their first commercial productions.

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Tesco Community Grants 

Tesco community grants fund thousands of local projects in communities right across the UK. To date they have helped people to improve community buildings and outdoor spaces, to buy new equipment, to train coaches or volunteers, to host community events and much more.

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The Ashley Family Foundation

Our Focus areas for funding are arts, crafts and education for the benefit of all persons but in particular those who are isolated or most in need in their community. Applications are open to organisations based in and working with people in Wales. We take a particular interest in applications with a sustainability and environmental focus.

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The Carne Trust

The Trust provides scholarships to individuals selected by those institutions, both on the basis of talent and financial need. The Trust has a strong interest in the career development of its young artists, and offers limited financial help to them after graduation, as well as to other talented individuals and groups, during their transition to the commercial artistic world.

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The Floor Creator Fund 

We are offering £500 to a Creator (of any discipline) to support their work.

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The Joyce Fletcher Charitable Trust

The Trust supports institutions and organisations specialising in music and the arts in a social and therapeutic context for children, the disabled and disadvantaged.

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Mouth and Foot Painting Artists
Trust Fund

The MFPA (Mouth and Foot Painting Artists) Trust Fund for Disabled Children in the Art provide financial assistance  to enable physically disabled children follow their interest in the arts.

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The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award

The award is designed for artists who are at the stage in their career where they can demonstrably benefit from moving onto a fully resourced and funded production. It is there to help artists move on to the next level in their professional career.

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The Ragdoll Foundation

The Ragdoll Foundation’s Open Grants Scheme supports the cultural sector’s work with children and young people. Our vision is to support high quality, innovative arts engagement projects where the concerns of childhood can be heard.

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The Small Indie Fund

The Small Indie Fund ring-fences £ 1 million a year to back talented small independent production companies with turnovers of less than £ 10 million, with a special focus on diverse-led companies and those based in the Nations and English regions.

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The Theatres Trust

With a mission to protect theatres for everyone, the Theatre Trust offers grants of up to £5000 for theatres run by charities and not-for-profit groups to carry out capital improvements to enhance their work within the local community.

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The Wall Trust

The aim of The Wall Trust is to help outstanding students of dance, music, drama and musical theatre whose financial circumstances make it difficult for them to undertake or complete their advanced studies.

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The William Syson Foundation

The advancement of the arts, heritage and culture, including promoting, developing and ensuring the practice and enjoyment of the arts, including music, the visual arts, theatre and literature. The charity will have a particular focus on Scottish organisations and individuals resident in Scotland.

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UK Research & Innovation - Arts and Humanities Research Council

We offer funding and support across all academic disciplines and industrial areas from the medical and biological sciences to astronomy, physics, chemistry and engineering, social sciences, economics, environmental sciences, and the arts and humanities.

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Waterloo & South Bank Health and Wellbeing Grants Fund

Applications may be for amounts from £500 up to £8,000. We are keen to encourage new projects as well as support successful existing ones, and applications for smaller projects will be treated as seriously as larger ones.

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William Wates Memorial Trust

The Trust is a grants giving registered charity set up in 1998 with a mission to help the most disadvantaged young people keep away from a life of crime and violence, and fulfil their potential. This is mainly achieved by supporting charities that engage young people through the mediums of sports, arts and education.

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Yield Giving

Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control. 

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