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Major Arts Funders
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. Offering grants to individual creatives, artists, companies, community groups and charities.
They support: individual artists and practictioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries, charities and companies.
Funding: grants between £1,000 and £100,000 for individuals and organisations, as well as larger funding pots for National Portfolio Organisations.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making organisations in the UK.Â
They Support: charities, organisations, companies and projects.
Funding: from £1,000 to over £1 million.
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, charitable grant-making foundation, which supports a wide range of causes across the UK, donating over £80 million annually. Â
They support: small local community groups to large national institutions: charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO), organisations deemed exempt or excepted from charity registration and Housing Associations that appear on the government’s List of Registered Providers.Â
Funding: The Foundation accepts applications from organisations working in the broad areas of Arts, Community, Education, Environment, Faith, Health, Museums & Heritage, Welfare and Youth. Grants of £100,000 and over.
Groundwork is a federation of charities mobilising practical community action on poverty and the environment across the UK.Â
They support: people to gain confidence and skills, get into training and work, protect and improve green spaces, lead more active lives and overcome significant challenges such as poverty, isolation, low skills and poor health.
Funding: Groundwork has a series of funding pots avalable for different projects and you can search them all on their website.
John Ellerman Foundation is an independent grantmaking foundation supporting charities that make a difference to people, society and the natural world.
They support: work delivered by UK-registered charities with an annual turnover of between £100,000 and £10,000,000, although they can and make exceptions on this where feasible and necessary. They also seek to support organisations delivering nationally significant work that has as wide an impact as possible, and organisations that prioritise effectiveness and impact, partnership working and strong governance and management.Â
Funding: up to £150,000.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation was established by Paul Hamlyn in 1987. He died in 2001 and left most of his estate to the Foundation, creating one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.
The foundation supports 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.
They support: individuals, organisations and charities across several different funding programmes and grants.
Funding: grants from £30,000 – £400,000 and lasting between 12 months and 4 years.
Youth Music believe that every young person should have the chance to change their life through music.
They support:Â other organisations – small charities, arts venues, music businesses, youth clubs, music education hubs, housing associations, nurseries and more – to run music making projects or create career progression opportunities in music.
Funding: Youth Music funding is made available through a grants applications process, with several funding rounds each year. Grants up to £300,000.
Local Arts Funders
Amal grows opportunities for the UK’s Muslim communities to realise their full creative potential and share this creativity with others.
They support: communities, artists, and arts and cultural organisations.
Funding: Amal provides funding for projects which have been co-created with communities in Birmingham and Bradford.
Bradford Council strives to be a proactive supporter and enabler of the District’s independent cultural sector. One of the most important ways they do this is through direct support for arts, cultural and heritage activity through their grants programmes.
What they support: artists, organisations and community groups in Bradford.
Funding: grants up to £15,000.
Bradford Trident Community Council was established in 2009, as the first Urban Parish Council in Bradford district. T
They Support: the Community Council Small Grants Scheme are open to local groups to run activities or events in the local area that bring community benefit. Their priorities and focus are :
- Older People
- Environment
- Education and Young People
- New Communities
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Funding: up £300 to run activities or events in the local area that bring community benefit.
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Burley Parish Council offer a number of grants each year to clubs, societies and charities that offer support and facilities within Burley
They support: clubs, societies and charities within Burley.
Funding: the maximum grant is normally £500 and wherever possible this is subject to matched funding.
Clayton Parish Council provides grant aid to local groups and organisations for deserving courses that add value and benefit to the local community.
They support: the Council awards grants, at its discretion, to Parish organisations which can demonstrate a clear need for financial support to benefit the Parish by:
• Providing a service
• Enhancing the quality of life
• Improving the environment
• Promoting the Parish of Clayton in a positive way.
Funding: there is NO minimum to the value applied for under this fund and the maximum value awarded is £4,000 (unless otherwise approved by the Parish Council).
The Parish Council offers Small Grants to Community Groups and Organisations operating in the Parish.
They Support: local organisations and charities.
Funding: up to £250.
www.haworthcrossroadsstanbury-pc.gov.uk/grants/
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Keigh Town Council funding is available to support projects and activities that help to deliver the key objectives of the Town Plan.
They support: Community Groups can apply for funding directly as long as they meet the criteria for applicants.Â
Funding: over £10,000
Leeds Inspired manages grant schemes that support arts events and projects taking place in Leeds. Since April 2012 they have funded over 650 arts projects, working with a wide range of audiences, artists and communities across Leeds.
They support: individuals, arts organisations,community or voluntary groups, commercial organisations who wish to run a non-profit arts/cultural project and groups of organisations.
Funding: grants of £10,000.
The Leap support artists, communities and organisations to further their artistic practice and engagement with culture and the arts.
What they support: artists, organisations and community groups in Bradford.
Funding: grants up to £10,000.
Other Trusts and Foundations
PRS Foundation is the UK’s leading funder of new music and talent development.
They support: talent development and new music across the UK; enabling songwriters, organisations and composers of all backgrounds to realise their potential and reach audiences across the world.
Funding: PRS Foundation funds many initiatives that provide financial support for the creation, performance, and/or promotion of outstanding music.
The Foyle Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities.Â
They support: charities whose core work covers arts and learning. Charities that are still active in their communities which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community.
Funding: charities can apply for funding between £2,000 and £10,000.
The Fat Beehive Foundation is an independent UK registered charity that provides small grants for websites and digital products to other small UK registered charities.
They support: charities with an average income of less than £1 million a year.Â
Funding: grants up to £2,500.
The 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.
They support: applications seeking to fund professional advice to provide support in areas where the organisation are unable to access expertise. For example, fundraising, HR, Law, setting up a capital project, and many other areas where paying for professional help would be costly. The Trust is sometimes able to introduce and provide funding for appropriate consultants.
Funding: There is no minimum or maximum amount you can apply for.
Idlewild Trust is an independent grant-making trust that supports conservation and the arts.
They support: UK Registered Charities that are more than 2 years old, UK Publicly Exempt Charities and Churches that are an Excepted Charity. They support programmes that address the lack of opportunities for professional musicians, dancers, actors, writers, artists and those involved creatively in the arts at an early stage in their career. They also support the conservation of important works of art and historic objects being lost through the lack of funds to look after these works.
Funding: Idlewild Trust awards around £140,000 each year in grants up to £5,000 each.
The Sir George Martin Trust is an independent grant-maker which aims to improve the well-being of disadvantaged and vulnerable people in West Yorkshire.
They support: predominantly small, local, registered charities and churches who do community outreach work.
Funding: Sir George Martin Trust will give out grants for core, capital and project costs, mainly ranging from £1,000 – £3,000 to registered charities and churches doing community outreach work who are striving to improve the well-being of residents in West Yorkshire.Â
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation’s principal objectives are to advance the arts, culture and heritage for the public benefit.
They support: registered charities and not-for-profit organisations. They are particularly interesting in supporting work that:
- Provides, enhances and enriches education in the arts
- Unlocks creative potential and develops skills to access a career in the performing arts
- Uses the arts to develop life skills
- Equips the next generation to manage a sustainable career
- Â Introduces young people to the arts and provides opportunities for progression
- Provides professional training or development
- Breaks new ground to solve the problem or uses tried and tested models to drive positive social change in a new way.
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Funding: grants up to £25,000 per year.
The Fidelity UK Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation that strengthens the capacity of UK-focused non-profit organisations to enhance impact, sustainability and/or efficiency, so charitable organisations are in a stronger position to fulfil their mission and achieve their objectives.
They support: The Foundation focuses on supporting organisations that have annual budgets of over £1m. Most organisations funded by the Foundation have regional/national reach. The Foundation also supports carefully selected field-building organisations that offer capacity-building programmes that benefit multiple charities active in our priority programme areas.
The Foundation has three priority programme areas
- Enabling disadvantaged children and young people to achieve their potential
- Health and wellbeing
- Arts, culture and heritage.
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Funding: grants are considered on a rolling basis throughout the year.
The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust which was established in 1966. They award funding for charitable purposes across the UK. Their aims are to fund work which:
- will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems;
- is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and;
- encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.
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They support: organisations which are registered charities, and also other organisations which are not charities but which seek funding for a charitable project. (Such as constituted voluntary groups or Community Interest Companies for example.) They do not make grants to individuals.
Funding:Â The Allen Lane Foundation funds a series of projects throughout the year through a variety of funding programmes. Further information on their website.
The Brelms Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), originally set up as a Charitable Trust in 2007, offering grants to a wide variety of charities operating in the community.
What they support: charities working at the heart of communities to tackle disadvantages and to provide sustainable benefits to the community. Applications are welcomed from a diversity of charitable organisations and can cover staff salaries, volunteer expenses and running costs, as well as direct service provision.Â
Funding: is given exclusively to charities based in Yorkshire and directly benefitting only Yorkshire communities.  are awarded from £1,000 to a maximum of £6,000 per year, either as a one-off grant or up to a maximum of 3 consecutive years. Therefore, effective from the Trustees meeting in June 2022, a grant can total between £3,000 – £18,000 per application over a 3 year period.
The Ragdoll Foundation is dedicated to supporting the creation, appreciation and awareness of imaginative and innovative content that reflects the world from a child’s point of view.
They support: arts and cultural organisations in their work with children and young people, through main and small grants.Â
Funding: grants between £1,500 and £50,000 for projects lasting up to 3 years.Â
Music for All is dedicated to changing lives across the UK by improving access to music making.
They support: community projects and individuals.
Funding: grants up to £1,500.
Help Musicians is an independent UK charity for professional musicians of all genres, from starting out through to retirement.
They support: music creation/practice, business development and health & wellbeing.Â
Funding: You can apply for financial support of up to £3,000 towards recording and releasing music; and everything that goes around getting your music out there into the world.
The Emerald Foundation was established in 2008 by Keith Howard OBE, who wished to support charities in the local area where the company was founded, West Yorkshire.
They support:Â The Foundation was created to cope with the enormous number of requests received from charities each year. The aim of the Foundation is to support four main areas:
- Performing Arts
- Sport
- Animal Welfare
- Education
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Funding: is strictly discussed directly with the foundation via their website.
www.careers.emeraldpublishing.com/community/the-emerald-foundation/
