Arts and culture
Arts and culture
Arts Council England
Arts Council England supports the development of the arts and creative industries across England. Their grants fund projects and individuals that aim to foster innovation and accessibility in the sector.
Deadline: check website for details.
Albury's Charitable Foundation
The foundation provides grants to small charities based in or near to Croydon, Dartford or the Medway Towns engaged in:
- The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages.
- Protecting animals in need of care and attention.
- Helping young artists to develop their careers in musical theatre.
Deadline: apply any time.
Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland is the public body that funds arts, screen, and creative industries projects in Scotland, offering support to both individuals and organisations to enable them to develop and showcase their creative work. Through funding from the Scottish Government and the National Lottery, they support a wide range of projects and initiatives aimed at developing new ideas, projects, and creative talent.
Deadline: check website for details.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant-maker supporting a wide range of charities across the UK, with a focus on those making a positive impact in areas like welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage, and faith. They offer grants for necessary building works, essential operational or core costs, and specific projects.
Deadline: check website for details.
Granada Foundation
The Granada Foundation promotes the study, practice, and appreciation of science and the arts across the North West of England, including music, literature, visual arts, drama, and more. They focus on projects that engage and inspire people, especially those in areas with low cultural involvement, while also supporting young people’s interest in science.
Deadline: next deadline 8 October 2025.
Grand Plan
Grand Plan award £1,000 grants to UK-based creative people of colour based in the UK who want to make a new cultural project happen, anything from: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs to workshops or events.
Deadline: check website for next funding round.
Heritage Crafts
Heritage Crafts is the national charity for traditional heritage crafts. They offer a range of funding opportunities to support the development and preservation of heritage crafts in the UK, including training bursaries for emerging makers, small grants to support endangered crafts, monthly relief grants for craftspeople facing financial hardship, and recognition awards to celebrate excellence in traditional craftsmanship across different disciplines.
Deadline: varies by fund, check website for details.
National Lottery Heritage Fund
The Heritage Fund is the largest funder for the UK's heritage, distributing grants to support projects that connect communities to their heritage, defined as “anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations”. They provide funding for initiatives that help preserve and share heritage, ranging from small to large-scale projects.
Deadline: check website for specific programme details.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation supports organisations and individuals working to build a just society, focusing on areas such as arts, education, migration, and young people. They offer a variety of funding opportunities, including grants for migration, youth work, arts-based learning, and social change. The Foundation works collaboratively to create opportunities and overcome inequality.
Deadline: applications are considered on a rolling basis for most programmes. Check website for details.
The Architectural Heritage Fund
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) promotes the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the benefit of communities across the UK, particularly in economically disadvantaged areas. They provide grants for such projects, focusing on projects where there is a change of use or ownership, such as bringing disused buildings back into community use.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
The Ashley Family Foundation
The Ashley Family Foundation supports organisations in Wales with a focus on arts, crafts, education, and community projects, especially those benefiting isolated or disadvantaged individuals. They prioritise small-scale arts projects, heritage and contemporary crafts, sustainability, and rural development, aiming to alleviate isolation and hardship. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects with a positive environmental impact.
Deadline: applications are accepted all year round and funding awards are made three times a year.
The Cruach Trust
The Cruach Trust is a small Scottish charity that provides financial support to the natural environment, including gardens, as well as community and music-related organisations across the UK. While the Trust has discretion to fund projects both in the UK and abroad, most of its grants benefit Scottish organisations.
Deadline: applications are only considered once a year at a meeting held in September.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity that supports UK charities with a national reach, focusing on social issues, heritage preservation, and environmental conservation. Their funding priorities include youth opportunities, general welfare, heritage craftsmanship, and wildlife conservation, with a particular emphasis on supporting disadvantaged groups and protecting the natural world.
Deadline: rolling.
The Golsoncott Foundation
The 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.
Deadline: quarterly, check website for specific dates.
The Ironmongers' Company
The Ironmongers' Charities support a variety of initiatives focused on young people, communities, and the craft of ironwork through the following funds:
- STEM Projects: Supports initiatives that encourage young people to study science subjects and pursue STEM-related education or vocational training, particularly in Materials Science.
- Grants to Charities: Provides funding for projects that offer educational opportunities to disadvantaged children and young people, focusing on social, emotional, or life skills development.
- Iron Projects: Supports the restoration of historic ironwork or the creation of new decorative work in iron and steel.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
The PRS Foundation
The PRS Foundation is a leading charitable funder supporting new music and talent development, helping to nurture careers from the grassroots up. They offer many initiatives that provide financial support for the creation, performance, and/or promotion of outstanding music, for both organisations and music creators.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
The Shears Foundation
The Shears Foundation provides grants of £3,000 to £6,000 to charitable organisations working in one of their priority areas:
- 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 prioritise organisations in Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, Harrogate, York, Bradford, and Greater Manchester.
Deadline: applications considered on a quarterly basis.
The Theatres Trust
The Theatres Trust is the national advisory body for theatres in the UK, dedicated to promoting the value and future of theatre buildings. They offer grants through their Theatres Protection Fund to support improvements and urgent repairs for theatres in need or at risk.
Deadline: check website for specific grant details.
The Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation is an independent grant-making charity that supports a wide range of UK projects, with a focus on capital infrastructure, including buildings and equipment. They fund initiatives across education, science, health, heritage, and the arts, supporting both places and people to foster education and research.
Deadline: check website for details.
Youth Music
Supports young people facing inequity and exclusion by providing access to music education and opportunities. They fund organisations across England, Scotland, and Wales to run music projects that aim to equalise access to music.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
Arts Council England
Arts Council England supports the development of the arts and creative industries across England. Their grants fund projects and individuals that aim to foster innovation and accessibility in the sector.
Deadline: check website for details.
Albury's Charitable Foundation
The foundation provides grants to small charities based in or near to Croydon, Dartford or the Medway Towns engaged in:
- The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages.
- Protecting animals in need of care and attention.
- Helping young artists to develop their careers in musical theatre.
Deadline: apply any time.
Creative Scotland
Creative Scotland is the public body that funds arts, screen, and creative industries projects in Scotland, offering support to both individuals and organisations to enable them to develop and showcase their creative work. Through funding from the Scottish Government and the National Lottery, they support a wide range of projects and initiatives aimed at developing new ideas, projects, and creative talent.
Deadline: check website for details.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant-maker supporting a wide range of charities across the UK, with a focus on those making a positive impact in areas like welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage, and faith. They offer grants for necessary building works, essential operational or core costs, and specific projects.
Deadline: check website for details.
Granada Foundation
The Granada Foundation promotes the study, practice, and appreciation of science and the arts across the North West of England, including music, literature, visual arts, drama, and more. They focus on projects that engage and inspire people, especially those in areas with low cultural involvement, while also supporting young people’s interest in science.
Deadline: next deadline 8 October 2025.
Grand Plan
Grand Plan award £1,000 grants to UK-based creative people of colour based in the UK who want to make a new cultural project happen, anything from: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs to workshops or events.
Deadline: check website for next funding round.
Heritage Crafts
Heritage Crafts is the national charity for traditional heritage crafts. They offer a range of funding opportunities to support the development and preservation of heritage crafts in the UK, including training bursaries for emerging makers, small grants to support endangered crafts, monthly relief grants for craftspeople facing financial hardship, and recognition awards to celebrate excellence in traditional craftsmanship across different disciplines.
Deadline: varies by fund, check website for details.
National Lottery Heritage Fund
The Heritage Fund is the largest funder for the UK's heritage, distributing grants to support projects that connect communities to their heritage, defined as “anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations”. They provide funding for initiatives that help preserve and share heritage, ranging from small to large-scale projects.
Deadline: check website for specific programme details.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation supports organisations and individuals working to build a just society, focusing on areas such as arts, education, migration, and young people. They offer a variety of funding opportunities, including grants for migration, youth work, arts-based learning, and social change. The Foundation works collaboratively to create opportunities and overcome inequality.
Deadline: applications are considered on a rolling basis for most programmes. Check website for details.
The Architectural Heritage Fund
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) promotes the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the benefit of communities across the UK, particularly in economically disadvantaged areas. They provide grants for such projects, focusing on projects where there is a change of use or ownership, such as bringing disused buildings back into community use.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
The Ashley Family Foundation
The Ashley Family Foundation supports organisations in Wales with a focus on arts, crafts, education, and community projects, especially those benefiting isolated or disadvantaged individuals. They prioritise small-scale arts projects, heritage and contemporary crafts, sustainability, and rural development, aiming to alleviate isolation and hardship. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects with a positive environmental impact.
Deadline: applications are accepted all year round and funding awards are made three times a year.
The Cruach Trust
The Cruach Trust is a small Scottish charity that provides financial support to the natural environment, including gardens, as well as community and music-related organisations across the UK. While the Trust has discretion to fund projects both in the UK and abroad, most of its grants benefit Scottish organisations.
Deadline: applications are only considered once a year at a meeting held in September.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity that supports UK charities with a national reach, focusing on social issues, heritage preservation, and environmental conservation. Their funding priorities include youth opportunities, general welfare, heritage craftsmanship, and wildlife conservation, with a particular emphasis on supporting disadvantaged groups and protecting the natural world.
Deadline: rolling.
The Golsoncott Foundation
The 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.
Deadline: quarterly, check website for specific dates.
The Ironmongers' Company
The Ironmongers' Charities support a variety of initiatives focused on young people, communities, and the craft of ironwork through the following funds:
- STEM Projects: Supports initiatives that encourage young people to study science subjects and pursue STEM-related education or vocational training, particularly in Materials Science.
- Grants to Charities: Provides funding for projects that offer educational opportunities to disadvantaged children and young people, focusing on social, emotional, or life skills development.
- Iron Projects: Supports the restoration of historic ironwork or the creation of new decorative work in iron and steel.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
The PRS Foundation
The PRS Foundation is a leading charitable funder supporting new music and talent development, helping to nurture careers from the grassroots up. They offer many initiatives that provide financial support for the creation, performance, and/or promotion of outstanding music, for both organisations and music creators.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.
The Shears Foundation
The Shears Foundation provides grants of £3,000 to £6,000 to charitable organisations working in one of their priority areas:
- 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 prioritise organisations in Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, Harrogate, York, Bradford, and Greater Manchester.
Deadline: applications considered on a quarterly basis.
The Theatres Trust
The Theatres Trust is the national advisory body for theatres in the UK, dedicated to promoting the value and future of theatre buildings. They offer grants through their Theatres Protection Fund to support improvements and urgent repairs for theatres in need or at risk.
Deadline: check website for specific grant details.
The Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation is an independent grant-making charity that supports a wide range of UK projects, with a focus on capital infrastructure, including buildings and equipment. They fund initiatives across education, science, health, heritage, and the arts, supporting both places and people to foster education and research.
Deadline: check website for details.
Youth Music
Supports young people facing inequity and exclusion by providing access to music education and opportunities. They fund organisations across England, Scotland, and Wales to run music projects that aim to equalise access to music.
Deadline: check website for specific fund details.