Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Storytellers Fund

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) launched the Storytellers Fund in 2023 to support those aiming to inspire change to share their content more widely and reach new audiences.

The goal is to support the spread of stories that diversify the pool of storytellers and content creators who are shaping the conversations around politics and culture. The aim, through storytelling, is to promote transformative narratives and help build a better future for all.

Individuals and collectives/groups (including charities, CICs, CLGs, CBSs) can apply for a one-off grant of between £3,000 and £50,000 to disseminate and distribute content that has already been developed and is ready to reach a wide range of people. There is particular interest in storytellers with fresh, bold perspectives.

Grant amount: between £3,000 and £50,000

Deadline: Thursday 31st October

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Greene King IPA Proud to Pitch In Fund

Grants of up to £4,000 are available for registered charities, community groups, social enterprises, community amateur sports clubs, and other organisations across the UK to deliver grassroots sports activities that positively impact local communities.

Grant amount: up to £4,000

Deadline: Friday 1st November

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PPL Momentum Music Fund

Funding is available to support the development of talented UK musicians and bands, helping them to enhance and sustain their careers.

The PPL Momentum Music Fund is a financial resource designed to support artists working in a broad range of contemporary popular genres, including the innovative and emerging.

Grants can be used to assist with any activity that significantly contributes to the development of an artist or band. Applicants should consider why and how this activity will contribute to their career development and/or business plan. This may include, but is not limited to, the following activities:

• Recording - new album, EP, single, producer, engineer, mixer fees, studio hire, session musician fees, etc or a combination of these elements.
• Touring (UK only) - travel, accommodation, musician fees, set/production design, tour management, equipment hire, etc.
• Marketing and promotions - PR, radio plugger, digital marketing, music videos, merchandise production, etc.

Grant amount: £5,000 to £15,000

Deadline: Monday 4th November

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Wolfson Fabric Repair Grants

On behalf of the Wolfson Foundation, National Churches Trust award grants towards essential fabric repairs at churches in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 

These grants are usually up to £10,000 and are offered in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation. Historic places of worship can apply for a Wolfson grant via the National Churches Trust’s Medium and Large grant programmes (depending on the size of the project).

Medium Grant Amount: up to £10,000

Large Grant Amount: up to £50,000

Deadlines:

• Medium Grant closes 17th December
• Large Grant (Stage One) closes 5th November 

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Learning through Landscapes Local School Nature Grants

Open to schools and early years settings in England, Scotland, and Wales, this outdoor learning grant fund has two elements – £500 of outdoor equipment chosen from a catalogue of over 100 items, and an outdoor learning training course for staff.

Deadline: Friday 8th November 2024

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ASDA Foundation Empowering Local Communities Grant

The Empowering Local Communities Grant aims to address diverse local challenges, supporting local groups that benefit a variety of ages. Funding is available for charities and not-for-profit organisations that benefit local people.

This grant is for groups who are supporting people over the age of 18 in your community, or a mixture of children and adults.

Grant amount: £400 - £2,000

Deadline: Friday 8th November

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ASDA Foundation Under 18 Better Starts Grant

The Under 18s Better Starts Grant empowers local community groups aiming to tackle poverty, address inclusion and boost wellbeing for children and young people.

This grant is for charities or not-for-profit organisations who are supporting people under the age of 18 in your community.

Grant amount: £400 - £2,000

Deadline: Friday 8th November

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Teacher Development Fund

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation envisions a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is a core part of all children’s education. They believe that arts-based teaching and learning can add value and help schools achieve their aspirations for pupils. This fund achieves this by: 

• focusing on pupils who experience systemic inequity and enabling them to access and make progress in their learning;
• supporting arts organisations and schools working in equal partnerships to exchange and enrich their expertise;
• recognising teachers are critical to pupils’ outcomes;
• creating high-quality inspiring professional learning for teachers;
• enabling teachers and artist practitioners to learn and work together in the classroom;
• building a body of evidence and practice and understanding how the work improves equity for pupils; and
• generating sustainable changes in teaching and learning in schools for the long-term.

Grant amount: up to £165,000

Deadline: Wednesday 13th November at 12 noon

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Youth Music NextGen Fund

The NextGen Fund provided by Youth Music is intended to help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.

The tenth round of the programme is accepting applications from 18-25 year old creatives (under-30s who identify as d/Deaf or disabled) in the UK to support the development of a creative project or idea. Applicants may include singers, rappers, songwriters, producers, DJs, A&Rs, managers and agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.

Priority will be given to:

• People who do not have the financial means to invest in themselves to get their ideas started
• People that are too early-stage to be funded by larger grant programmes such as Arts Council England and PRS Foundation
• Those who might be discriminated against, for reasons that could include gender, race, disability, location or other characteristics
• People who are creative, entrepreneurial and are multi-disciplinary - even if they do not recognise themselves as such

Grant amount: up to £2,500

Deadline: Friday 15th November at 5pm

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Early Development Fund by BFI Network England

Writers in England are invited to apply for funding to support the early stages of developing their debut long-form film projects through the Early Development Fund, provided by BFI NETWORK England.

This initiative aims to foster new talent and help writers take their first steps toward creating feature-length projects. Eligible applicants must be based in England and have not yet written a feature film that has received a UK distribution deal.

The fund offers between £3,000 and £5,000 to support the writing of treatments, research, and creating project materials. It covers a range of fiction formats, including live-action, immersive, and animation. The funding can also support producer fees if a writer is collaborating with a producer.

Grant amount: £3,000 to £5,000

Deadline: Tuesday 19th November at 11am

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Cultural Bridge

Cultural Bridge supports arts and cultural organisations across the UK and Germany to develop partnerships that explore social arts practice.

By enabling new and existing connections, the programme supports a growing network of organisations committed to sharing expertise and skills, exchanging ideas and collaborating on artistic practices and projects that explore themes and issues faced by communities across both countries.

Grant amount(s):

• Tier 1: up to £10,000 per partnership
• Tier 2: up to £30,000 per partnership

Deadline: the 2025-2026 Cultural Bridge programme application portal will be open from Tuesday 15th October to Tuesday 26th November 2024.

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Hubbub Nature Hubs Fund

Hubbub is offering grants of between £3,000 and £6,000 for community groups, registered charities, community interest companies, and companies across England, Scotland, and Wales, to create or enhance green spaces within a 5-kilometre radius of a Starbucks store.

Proposed projects should align with the following criteria:

• Involving the community - Projects that bring people and communities together around nature and green spaces. 
• Commitment to reaching new audiences - Projects that are committed to reaching audiences beyond those who typically access green space. 
• Need for green space - Projects that demonstrate a community need for a green space project, particularly in dense urban areas.
• Creating or enhancing green spaces - Projects that can demonstrate how they either create new green spaces, or improve, add to, or preserve existing green spaces. 

Grant amount: Between £3,000 and £6,000

Deadline: Friday 29th November 2024 

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The Immersive Arts Programme

A new funding initiative aimed at supporting UK-based artists working with immersive technologies has been launched.

The Immersive Arts programme, a three-year scheme backed by £3.6 million, will provide grants to over 200 artists across the UK to help them explore, experiment and expand their use of immersive media such as virtual, augmented and extended reality. Led by the University of the West of England and executive produced by Watershed creative technology centre, the programme encourages innovative approaches to blending physical and digital spaces to enhance audience engagement and sensory experiences.

Eligible UK-based artists, creative practitioners and technologists are invited to apply for funding to support costs associated with project planning, residencies, collaborations and tools to make immersive art projects more accessible and inclusive.

Grant amounts: The initiative is divided into three strands: Explore (grants of £5,000), Experiment (grants of £20,000) and Expand (grants of £50,000), tailored to artists at various stages of their careers.

Deadline: Monday 2nd December 

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Theatres Trust Small Grants

The Theatres Trust, supported by The Lindbury Trust, offers small grants of up to £5,000 twice a year for essential works to not-for-profit theatres in the UK that will enable them to be viable and thrive in the future.

The grants will support small capital improvements to theatres run by charities and not-for-profit groups that will make a big impact to a theatre's resilience, sustainability or accessibility, or to improving the diversity of audiences.

Eligible projects include:

• Improvements and repairs to the building fabric
• The installation of key plant and machinery
• The purchase of key equipment (not software) to improve digital infrastructure

Grant amount: up to £5,000

Deadline: Friday 17th January 2025

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The Foyle Foundation

The Foyle Foundation is a major funder of arts charities across the U.K. The foundation will consider applications towards core project costs, projects, environmental efficiency, equipment and capital through both their grant schemes:

Main Grants Scheme: they consider applications from charities with a core remit of the Arts to both sustain the Arts and to widen audiences. They look for clear artistic mission, value for money, long term benefit and sustainability in projects they support.

Small Grants Scheme: aimed at supporting small charities with a turnover of less than £150k per annum.

Grant amounts:

• Small grants: between £2,000 and £10,000
• Main grants: £75,000 and over

Deadline: open until 31st January 2025

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Idlewild Trust Arts and Conservation funds

Idlewild Trust support two grant programmes: 

• Arts: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals - grants to support training opportunities for emerging professionals, working creatively and backstage, within the performing and visual arts, post-training, and at an early stage in their career.
• Conservation: Objects and Works of Art - grants to support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognized national and international importance in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings, or landscapes accessible to the public. Priority will be given to applications that include a knowledge sharing element as an outcome of the project. Applications must include a treatment proposal from an accredited conservator.

Grant amount: maximum of £7,000

Deadlines: Round Two opens 2nd December 2024 and closes 14th February 2025.

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Arts-based Learning Fund

The foundation supports arts and cultural organisations to work in partnership with schools and make arts-based learning a core part of education.

The fund envisions a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is a core part of all children’s education. They believe that arts-based teaching and learning can add value and help schools achieve their aspirations for pupils.

The fund achieves this by:

• supporting arts organisations to work in partnership with formal education settings leading to a mutual exchange and enrichment of expertise;
• focusing on pupils who experience systemic inequity and enabling them to make progress and overcome barriers to learning;
• exploring the role of arts-based learning in addressing issues of inclusion, especially racism, in education;
• creating more opportunities for high quality arts-based teaching and learning in education settings, especially in those which have not had this work in the past;
• enabling arts-based learning to be embedded in curricula and practice for the long-term; and
• building a body of evidence and practice, and understanding how the work improves equity for pupils.

Grant amount: between £30,000 to £100,000

Deadline: rolling

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Historic Houses Foundation

The Historic Houses Foundation gives grants for the repair and conservation of rural historic buildings and structures in England and Wales, including their gardens, grounds and outbuildings. They also give grants for the restoration and conservation of works of art in historic house collections open to the public.

Grants are made to owners (charities, institutions, local authorities and individuals) who demonstrate a sustainable and long-term commitment to the care, management and public access of the historic country houses in their care.

They aim to make grants for projects which either do not qualify for funding from any of the mainstream sources or have been awarded only partial funding. They will also consider making grants to kick start a project but will expect further funding to be in place within 1 to 2 years.

Grant amounts: The minimum grant amount is £1,000, the maximum is £250,000 though awards of this size are only made in exceptional circumstances. Most grants are less than £50,000.

Deadline: rolling

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National Lottery Heritage Grants

National Lottery Heritage Grants form part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund's new 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033, that aims to invest £3.6 billion across the UK with grants ranging from £10,000 up to £10 million.

The strategy is centred around a simplified framework of four investment principles:

• Saving heritage.
• Protecting the environment.
• Inclusion, access and participation.
• Organisational sustainability.

Grants are available to support projects of up to five years that care for and sustain heritage in the UK. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories. 

Grant amounts: there are two levels of grants available £10,000 to £250,000 or grants from £250,000 to £10 million

Deadline: rolling

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