Equity Charitable Trust
Equity Charitable Trust – new fund that does not require to be a current Equity member in order to apply.
Dance Professionals Fund
Financial grants to dance professionals of all ages
The National Lottery Community Fund
Plymouth city council
COVID-19 grants for businesses in Plymouth and how to apply
Actors Benevolent Fund
Weekly payments, small grants and larger one-off payments to actors
Equity Benevolent Fund
One-off grants of £60 – £350 to Equity Members
The Theatrical Guild
Fund offering short and long-term support to backstage and front of house workers
ARTCRY
is a new fund which aims to encourage artists to create bold political work with fast-turnaround funding which enables fast action.
MAD Trust
Hardship Fund of up to £200 to anyone who has ever worked on/for a MAD Trust event
Society of Authors
An emergency fund open to all writers, illustrators, journalists, translators, scriptwriters and poets
Actors Children’s Trust
One-off grants for actors who are parents
BFI
BFI has repurposed over £4.6m in National Lottery funding to target specific areas of the sector
European Cultural Foundation
The fund supports imaginative cultural initiatives that, in the midst of the global pandemic crisis reinforce European solidarity and the idea of Europe as a shared public space.
Creative Cornwall Calling
Funds are for cultural and creative self-employed/ organisations based in Cornwall. You need a crowdfunding project to apply for funding.
Aviva Community Fund
The Fund has broadened its criteria to include applications for projects that enable causes to adapt or continue their vital services by covering core running costs
Innovate Grant
Innovate Grant is accepting submissions for the Summer 2020 Cycle. Innovate Grant awards two $550.00 USD grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer
Kickstart Scheme
If you are an employer looking to create job placements for young people, apply for funding as part of the Kickstart Scheme.
Art Fund
Small Project Grants provide funding to test new ways of working that will benefit audiences, whilst Network Grants provide funding to support professional networks, in sharing expertise and knowledge.
Omicron Hospitality & Leisure Grant
The grant provides local councils with one-off grant funding to support to hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses, in recognition that the rise of the Omicron variant means that some businesses are likely to struggle.
Eligible businesses may apply for up to £6,000, with applications to Plymouth City Council expected to open from week beginning 10th January 2022.
national lottery project grants
Supporting Grassroots Live Music forms part of the wider Project Grants programme with its own ring-fenced budget of £1.5 million in 2022/23.
Grants of £1,000 to £40,000 are on offer for projects lasting up to three years, providing applicants can provide at least 10% of the total costs in match funding.
Deadline: 31.03.2023
The cultural protection fund
A partnership between the British Council and the DCMS, aiming to create opportunities for social and economic development through building capacity to safeguard and promote cultural heritage overseas.
Grants of between £100k – £2m available this round.
Deadline: 30.06.2022
Arts and Mental health programme
Grants of £20k-60K available for Global Majority led arts organisations to develop their offer of creative opportunities to people living with mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression and OCD, psychoses including Bipolar Spectrum Disorder, and addictions.
Projects can include partnerships with other arts and mental health organisations or mental health groups or organisations.
Deadline: 26.07.2022 (12pm)
DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund 2022-24
All projects are expected to be environmentally sustainable and to have environmental considerations embedded in their planning.
Applications open: 09.05.2022
Deadline: 01.08.2022
Society of Authors Work In Progress Grant
The Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust award grants twice yearly to writers whose book project is for a commercial UK publisher.
These grants assist writers with research costs or by buying them time to write, helping them to bring exciting new work into the world.
Deadlines: 1st February annually (Funds in May) and 1st July annually (Funds in October)
Learning Disability England
Learning disability England are awarding small grants of up to £5,000 with money from the Department of Health and Social Care.
The money must be used to help organisations who support people with autism, people with learning disabilities and people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, and their families and carers.
Record & release
Music creators can apply for financial support of up to £3,000 towards recording and releasing music; helping to build creative portfolios and get music out into the world.
To help musicians build long-term, sustainable plans around their creativity, Help Musicians also facilitate one-to-one advice sessions from professionals in the music industry on topics chosen by you in your application.
The Pitch Film Fund
The Pitch exists to support emerging filmmakers. There’s a £50,000 production pot to make two films, plus training and development for entrants and finalists.
Entries must be either comedy or drama and must be based on a Bible story, theme or book.
Deadline: 03.10.2022 12 noon
The New ideas fund
A programme of small grants to support the growth of the screen sector in England.
Grants of between £1,000 and £25,000 are available to support the development of new and innovative ideas that have the potential to impact your entrepreneurial journey and grow your business.
Deadline: 23.07.2022 9am
CLOSED
The below opportunities have now closed.
Stage One
Small grants for emerging producers or Stage One development alumni
Outdoor Arts UK
£500,000 fund for people who work in Outdoor Arts but who do not qualify for other funding streams
Help Musician UK
A £5 million hardship fund to help alleviate some of the immediate financial pressures.
Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund
A £1.5m emergency fund for artists and freelance creative practitioners across the UK affected by the Covid-19 crisis
The Art Fund
Grants from £10,000 to £50,000 to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working for the longer-term future.
ARTS Council England
A £160m emergency response package to support individual artists, freelancers and cultural organisations.
Film and TV Charity
Emergency relief fund and advice for organisations and freelancers
PRS for Music
A membership Emergency Relief Fund for members facing significant financial pressure
Peninsula Dance Partnership
Peninsula Dance Partnership – CPD Dance Card Bursary

Aviva Community Fund
The Fund has broadened its criteria to include applications for projects that enable causes to adapt or continue their vital services by covering core running costs
ROSA UK
Covid-19 Response Fund will provide grants of up to £10,000 for specialist women’s organisations across the UK.
Plymouth City Council
The discretionary fund will support businesses who have fixed costs and have been affected by COVID-19. The intention of the grant is to support small businesses with high premises-related costs that fell outside of the original grant scheme.
Royal Theatrical Fund
Considering applications from all members of the profession who have contracted Covid-19 or need to self-isolate due to health reasons
Creative Industries Federation
Free six-month membership
Creative England & Ideate Plymouth
Ideate Plymouth can help you to implement immersive technology to grow your business. Successful applicants will receive one to one mentoring and community building and commercialisation support. This programme is completely free to businesses in and around Plymouth.
Film and TV Charity
Film and TV Charity (new fund)
Arts Council England
ACE – National Lottery Project Grants will open July 22, and will prioritise independent organisations, creative practitioners and freelancers.
Arts Council England
ACE Developing your Creative Practice – a new development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners to ensure excellence is thriving in the arts and culture sector.
National Lottery Heritage Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Larger Grants Now Available, grantees can now apply now for £50,000 and £250,000 to cover essential costs for up to four months.
Deadline: 31.07.2020
Arts Council England
Culture Recovery Fund – Grants and repayable finance of between £50,000 and £3 million will be awarded from a budget of up to £500 million to organisations affected by the Covid-19 crisis that are at risk of no longer trading viably by the end of this financial year.
Round 1: 10.08.20 – 21.08.20
Round 2: 21.08.20 – 04.09.2020
Youth Music
Youth Music – Incubator Fund offers grants of £5,000 to £30,000 are available to businesses, collectives, and not-for-profits working in the music industries.
Deadline: 14.08.2020
The Baring Foundation
Baring Foundation – Arts programme supporting Arts and Mental Health.
Deadline: 18.08.2020
National Lottery Fund and Historic England
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage will support organisations across the heritage ecosystem that were financially sustainable before COVID-19, have exhausted all other financing options, and are now at risk of failure.
Deadline: 17.08.2020
Necessity
Community Investigations fund aim to support and explore the consequences and impact of COVID 19, and particularly encourage applications that will attempt to delve beneath the surface and ask more radical questions of the UK society dynamics.
Deadline: 21.09.2020
The Dylan Thomas Prize
The International Dylan Thomas Prize is an annual competitive prize awarded to the single author aged 18-39 who has written the best literary work.
The main prize for the winner is £20,000 with runners-up Awards of £500.
Deadline: 09.11.2020
Theatre Artists Fund/ Netflix
Theatre Artists Fund/ Netflix- The Theatre Artists Fund has been set up to provide emergency support for theatre workers and freelancers across the UK.
Theatre Artists Fund
Set up to provide emergency support for theatre workers and freelancers across the UK. It is for theatre professionals who are in need of urgent and critical financial support due to the devastating impact of Covid-19 on the theatre sector. The fund offers easy access individual grants of £1,000 for freelance professional theatre workers.
Women in Innovation Award 2020/21
The aim of this competition is to find women with exciting, innovative ideas and ambitious plans that will inspire others. The awards are for female founders, co-founders or senior decision makers working in businesses that have been operating for at least one year.
Deadline: 14.10.2020
BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine
Ten established disabled artists will be commissioned from across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to create new video or audio works to be published on BBC platforms in 2021.
Deadline: 08.01.2021
Art Fund
New Grant Fund: Art Fund Respond & reimagine grants
Aim to help museums, galleries & cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the Covid-19 crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working for the future £10-50k
Available for UK public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries, visual arts agencies or festivals
Digital Collaboration Fund
The fund aims to address the challenge of continuing to support international artistic collaboration during COVID-19 restrictions.
Applications must be a partnership between at least one UK organisation and one organisation based in one of the selected ODA-eligible countries.
Projects must take place between 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021
Deadline: 18.11.2020
Weston Culture Fund
To be eligible for funding, organisations must have had an annual income of over £500,000 in their pre-COVID-19 audited accounts. Smaller organisations can apply for the Foundation’s regular grants programme. Grants of between £100,000 and £2 million will be awarded, with the size of the grant depending on the annual income of the applicant.
Deadline: 09.11.2020
The Jerwood/FVU Awards
The Jerwood/FVU Awards provide an opportunity for UK-based moving-image artists in the first five years of developing their professional practice. The call invites artists to make proposals for ambitious new works, two of which will be chosen for financial support.
Queer writers of color
Queer Writers of Colour relief fund
Musicians Financial Hardship Funding
Help Musicians’ second wave of financial hardship support will help those ineligible for government emergency safety nets or unable to survive on what they receive.
Phase 2 Deadline: 31.10.2020
Creative England
The New Ideas fund – is a programme of small grants for creative entrepreneurs and companies working in moving image for storytelling.
Musicians Union
The Musicians Union has announced a hardship fund for members
Developing Your Creative Practice
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.
Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP)
The fund supports individual cultural and creative practitioners to take time to focus on their creative development with grats fro £2,000-£10,000
Round 9 deadline: 21.12.2020
Further rounds throughout 2021
Netflix Documentary Talent Fund
The opportunity will be open to everyone and will give ten filmmakers, and their teams, the chance to make a short documentary film with a budget of between £20,000 and £40,000 each. All teams will be under the guidance of Netflix and other filmmaking professionals, to ensure that filmmakers and everyone involved in the production are fairly paid, and in a bid to open doors to those most under-represented in the industry.
Deadline: 31.01.2021
Fund For Freelancers
One off grants for theatre professionals
Thriving Communities Fund
The fund will support local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCSFSE) projects that bring together place-based partnerships.
Deadline: 08.01.2021
Maureen Attrill Bursary
Applications are welcome for a bursary up to £1250 to support research project linked to the Box’s art collections.
The successful applicant will be expected to produce a project summary and a 1,000+ word article on their findings. They will also be offered the opportunity to present their research as part of The Box’s events programme in 2021.
Deadline: 21.12.2020
Culture Recovery Fund - Round 2
Funding of between £25,000 and £3 million available in this round of funding.
Open to cultural organisations (both profit and not for profit) based in England or who can demonstrate that the majority of their work takes place in England.
Deadline: 26.01.2021
PRS for Music Power Up Programme
A new initiative which will support Black music creators and industry professionals and executives, as well addressing anti-Black racism and racial disparities in the music sector. In partnership with YouTube Music, Beggars Group and the Black Music Coalition, the Power Up initiative has been launched to bring together music industry partners across all sectors to accelerate change and remove barriers.
Deadline: 10.03.2021
Future Screens NI
Applications are welcome across the full spectrum of the creative industries undertaking R&D across new, immersive and emerging technology.
Deadline: 11.02.2021
British Film Institute Round 2
Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas in England will enable non-profit and independent cinemas to transition back to a viable and sustainable operating model, following the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Deadline: 01.02.2021
The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs
Applicants will be able to explore, develop and establish their creative ideas into sustainable ventures – through business planning training, mentoring and capital funding for starting-up.
Deadline: 31.03.2021
Creative England
The Creative Enterprise* Business Planning Support – will pay grants of up to £5000 to support companies who work in moving image for storytelling, spanning film television, games and immersive, to build meaningful connections and create opportunities for business growth.
The Arts Council England
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants. The fund will focus on the needs of smaller independent organisations and individual practitioners.
Deadline: 04.2021
Theatres Trust's Small Grants Programme
Providing grants of up to £5,000 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future.
This scheme will prioritise improvements to buildings that protect theatre use and remove barriers to participation and attendance.
Deadline: 07.06.2021
Community Radio Fund
DCMS has provided £400,000 for grants for the 2021-22 financial year.
The Fund will support the core costs of running Ofcom-licensed community radio stations.
Licensees that hold a Community Digital Sound Programme (C-DSP) licence are eligible to apply for the Fund if the station is broadcasting on a digital radio multiplex at the date of their application.
Deadline Round 1: 5pm on 25.06.2021
Funding Available for UK Visual Artists and Small Arts Organisations
Committed to helping artists and art institutions and galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities.
Funding priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations and galleries within the United Kingdom.
Grants are usually limited to £2,000, but larger grants of up to £5,000 may be considered.
Deadline: 27.06.2021
UK Global Screen Fund
The £7m UKGSF will support content made by independent UK film and screen companies exporting to markets around the world. It will provide grants for business development, co-production, and international distribution.
Deadline: 30.06.2021
Restart Grants
The new Restart Grants are designed to help businesses reopen safely. Eligible businesses including will receive a one-off grant to help their business as Covid-19 restrictions are gradually lifted.
Businesses must complete an application form in order to claim their Restart Grant. With payments aiming to be made within 2 weeks.
Deadline: 30.06.2021
#BackTheFuture
Devon County Council and Crowdfunder have teamed up to award £10,000 to three incredible projects who are crowdfunding in 24 hours tackling the climate emergency.
There will also be chance for 10 projects in Devon, aiming tackle climate change, can get their hands on a share of a further £30,000 for their projects.
08.07.2021 7pm
Youth Music NextGen Fund
The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £2,500 to make their ideas happen.
Built for creatives with a stack of ideas but a lack of finance, the fund is open to 18–25-year-olds (and under-30s who identify as Disabled).
Deadline: 09.07.21
Ecclesiastical Movement for Good Awards
Phase 2 is now open with grants of £10k, £50k or £100k to be awarded.
This phase is ‘actively championing innovation, giving charities the backing they need to propel their plans forward and turn creative ideas into practical solutions that benefit society’.
Deadline: 06.08.2021
Steps to Sustainability (UK Wide)
Business Initiative Funding for Smaller UK Heritage Organisations to help turn a new business idea into reality.
Programme participants receive:
A 15-month package of support to develop their income generating idea.
Access to funding of up to £10,000.
Deadline: 23.07.2021
Short Form Animation Fund
The fund provides awards of between £30,000 and £120,000 to projects of up to 15 minutes in length.
The fund can support narrative short form projects in any animated technique or genre (including immersive content and documentary) and for any platform e.g. cinema, online or TV; however, the fund does not support work intended primarily for broadcast television.
Deadline: 16.08.2021
The Smile Fund
Comic Relief and Walkers are seeking proposals from organisations who share their belief that the arts and comedy can help start conversations and support positive outcomes for people’s mental wellbeing.
Deadline: 15.09.2021
Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
This programme is designed to support organisations at imminent risk of failure and will provide emergency funding to help them return to financial viability.
Organisations who were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
Grants between £25,000 – £3m (£1m for for-profit organisations)
Deadline: 30.09.2021 (midday)
1:1 Funding
Available to independent early career artists, curators and producers to connect, develop their practice and generate new ideas after the isolating impact of COVID-19.
The fund offers awards for pairs of independent early career practitioners who want to work together, learn from each other and share new ideas.
The funding available for each awarded pair is £2,000.
Deadline: 04.10.2021 (midday)
Capital Investment Fund
This new fund aims to help build a ‘fit for the future’, to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce environmental impact, giving more people the opportunity to enjoy high-quality cultural experiences.
Cultural organisations can apply for grants between £100,000 and £750,000.
Applications open: 12pm 05.10.2021
Open Fund For Music Organisations
Supporting new music projects led by promoters, talent development organisations, venues, festivals, curators and large performance groups with grants up to £10,000.
Projects must involve the creation, performance and promotion of new music and enable songwriters, composers, or solo artists, bands, producers and performers of all backgrounds to develop creatively and professionally.
Deadline: 6pm 18.10.2021
Local Restrictions Support Grant
Plymouth businesses that have been forced to close due to the national COVID-19 restrictions will now be able to apply for financial support through Plymouth City Council.
The Government’s Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) scheme is available to support businesses that have been legally required to close and occupy a rateable property.
International Collaboration Grants
A £3.5m programme of grants now available to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate internationally on digital, face-to-face, and/or hybrid artistic projects.
Small grants of £5-20k and large grants of £20-75k are available now to UK and international organisations.
Deadline: 04.11.2021
Scops arts trust
A limited number of grants are available to charities across the UK for new high quality projects that provide opportunities for people from all backgrounds to access, enjoy and participate in the arts.
Deadline: 03.11.2021
Dylan Thomas Prize 2022
The prize will be awarded to the single author who has written the best literary Work – a commercially published original volume of English language poetry, collection of short fictional stories, fictional novel or novella, radio script or screenplay.
The main prize for the winner is £20,000. Each shortlisted entrant will receive a Runners-up Award of £500.
Deadline: 08.11.2021
New Collecting awards
Funding for UK-based curators in the early stages of their career or with limited opportunities to collect, to pursue new avenues of collecting for their museums and build critical professional skills.
Deadline: 16.11.2021
Recovery Loan Scheme
The Recovery Loan Scheme supports access to finance for UK businesses as they grow and recover from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Up to £10 million is available per business.
The scheme is open until: 31.12.2021
The Football art prize
A brand-new exhibition opportunity celebrating art and football, and giving artists from around the world the chance to show their work to a prestigious panel of judges, including artists, curators and football players; exhibit on a tour to three venues, Touchstones Rochdale, Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens and win cash prizes.
Deadline: 19.11.2021 5pm
Momentum music fund
Individual grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 are available for talented artists and bands to help further their careers.
Grants can be used to assist with any activity that significantly contributes to the development of an artist or band.
Applications can be submitted by the artists themselves or those who are working on their behalf, eg a manager, an independent label or publisher.
Deadline: 6pm 16.11.2021
Volunteering futures
Volunteering Futures is a time limited priority with a total funding pot of £4.7 million available. Groups may apply for grants of £100,001 and above.
Applications will be accepted from community and cultural organisations across England. Consortia and partnership bids comprising a diverse range of organisations are encouraged.
Activities must start no earlier than 1 April 2022 and finish no later than March 2024.
Deadline: 07.12.2021
Culture recovery fund for heritage emergency resource support
Part of the £1.57 billion rescue package announced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across the UK from the economic impact of COVID-19.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is distributing £40 million of this third round of the Culture Recovery Fund, in partnership with Historic England, based on criteria set by DCMS.
Deadline: 11.01.2022
Generate Fund 2022
Funding for Black, Asian and ‘Global Majority’ Artists to Perform at Edinburgh Fringe, provided by the Pleasance Theatre Trust.
The scheme will provide financing, mentorship and programming opportunities. In 2022, there is £10,000 available, with productions receiving investment of up to £5,000 to support projects that would otherwise not be able to come to the Fringe.
Deadline: 17.01.2022 (10am)
Amazon Literary Partnership
Aiming to champion the voices of underrepresented writers with an eye to encourage writing and reading about a greater variety of perspectives on the world in which live today.
Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisation in the UK, whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or build authors’ careers.
Deadline: 31.01.2022
AIM Hallmarks Grants
The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Hallmarks Grants will support accredited museums in England, with grants totalling £55,000 each year for the next two years. Grants of up to £10,000 will be available to support projects addressing AIM’s new Tackling Inequality Hallmark.
Deadline: 31.01.2022
Film & TV Funding Award
Inspired by the late journalist and broadcaster, Alan Whicker. The programme aims to encourage documentary filmmakers and audio producers to tell original and authored stories with honesty, professionalism and wit.
In celebration of what would have been his 100th Birthday, the main award is £100,000 and the runner-up contribution £20,000.
Deadline: 31.01.2022
Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Rounds 1-2: Focus’ on people in the early stages of their career, specifically performers and creatives.
Rounds 3-4: Focus on projects and organisations that are working to change the underrepresentaion of BAME people in the arts.
The Trust awards grants of either £1,000 or £5,000 depending on the grant round. The first round of 2022 offers grants of £1,000.
Round 1 will open on 1 February 2022 and close on 28 February 2022.
the dying matters Community grants programme
Hospice UK is providing grants to support community-led and culture projects which aim to open up conversations about dying, death and bereavement in new and creative ways at a grassroots level.
Two types of grants are available:
– Small grants up to £999 to run smaller scale activities such as a one-off workshop of poetry, singing, art, crafting, etc.
– Larger project grants between £1,000 and £5,000 to enable larger scale community projects such as theatre productions, community murals or photography exhibits.
Deadline: 21.02.2022
time space money
The programme is provided by a-n The Artists Information Company with funding support from Arts Council England. The programme offers grants in the form of bursaries of £500 to £1,500.
Eligible bursary activity includes meeting outgoing costs, skills development, research, and networking.
Deadline: 03.02.2022
Coronavirus Financial Hardship fund 2022
At least £1m is available to be distributed to musicians whose needs are deemed greatest.
This new round will see a one-off payment of at least £250 made to those eligible, with higher amounts available to those in the most challenging financial conditions if we have sufficient funds.
Deadline: 14.02.2022
Open fund for music creators
Grants of upto £5k to support the development of ‘outstanding’ UK songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds, at different stages of their career.
The fund can support projects by songwriters, composers, artists, bands, producers and performers who are writing their own music or commissioning others.
Deadline: 6pm 15.03.2022
Sustainability fund
Intended for organisations that have been awarded a capital grant from the Wolfson Foundation before January 2020 and who need to improve the environmental and financial sustainability of their buildings.
The grants can cover refurbishment, maintenance works and equipment that have environmental benefits.
Grants will be awarded in the range of £10,000 to £50,000 with up to 100% of funding offered, including irrecoverable VAT.
Deadline: 25.04.2022 (5pm)
Arts Society Spring Grant Round
The Arts Society is offering grants of up to £3,000 for UK-registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £3 million to deliver projects and activities that engage young people with the arts, support skills development and training in the arts and heritage sector and support local and regional art organisations and museums.
Deadline: 31.03.2022
International Playwriting Award
The award is for debut and emerging writers of all ages who have not yet had a full-length professional production.
Winners will receive £3,000 in prize money and £3,000 as an advance against 8% of the gross box office, to grant Theatre503 the exclusive license to produce the play for up to 18 months after the announcement of the award.
Debut and emerging playwrights from across the world may apply.
Deadline: 21.03.2022 (12pm)
YIncubator fund
Grants of £5,000 to £30,000 are available to businesses, collectives, and not-for-profits working in the music industries.
The fund is designed to create sustainable, meaningful career opportunities for young people aged 18-25, particularly those who are currently unrepresented in the sector and to support creative employers to innovate and incubate new and diverse talent.
Deadline: 22.04.2022 (5pm)
Scoping Grants 2022
Scoping Grants of up to £3,000 are open to registered charities, public sector bodies and other not-for-profit organisations across the UK.
The grants fund an assessment report incorporating expert advice on a range of areas relating to collections management and the development of your collection. This is a rolling programme with decisions made on a quarterly basis.
Round 15: 24.05.2022
Scops Arts trust
Grants of up to £30,000 to registered charities, and other constituted, not-for-profit organisations, to deliver projects and activities that give people of all ages a better quality of life by enabling them to understand, participate in, and enjoy the arts.
Deadline: 26.04.2022 (12pm)
2023-26 investment programme
Two separate funding programmes, intended to support ACE’s 10-year strategy, Let’s Create:
- National Portfolio Organisations (NPO)
- Investment Principles Support Organisations (IPSO)
Open to arts organisations, museums, local authorities and libraries, with successful applicants receiving a minimum of £50,000 a year for three years.
Applications: 14.02.2022 – 26.04.2022
Film & TV Production Restart Scheme
To support the film and television industry restart production in the UK, by making direct compensation available to eligible film and television producers.
EXTENSION ANNOUNCED to enable approximately 400 additional productions to benefit from its support.
Deadline: 30.04.2022
small grants programme
Supported by The Linbury Trust, to fund small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability or accessibility.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future.
Deadline: 03.05.2022 (12pm)
Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories
Activities should provide innovative volunteering opportunities for young people or people facing loneliness or isolation, as well as contribute positively to participants’ wellbeing.
Deadline: 23.05.2022
Youth Music NextGen Fund
The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives grants of up to £2,500 to make their ideas happen.
Built for creatives with a stack of ideas but a lack of finance, the fund is open to 18–25-year-olds (and under-30s who identify as Disabled).
Deadline: 23.05.2022 (5pm)
The bruntwood prize for playwriting
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is an opportunity for writers of any background and experience to enter unperformed plays for chance to win a financial prize.
All plays are submitted anonmously.
The 2022 prize fund totals £40,000, with a first prize of £16,000.
Deadline: 06.06.2022
National lottery awards
now accepting nominations for awards recognising individuals or groups in the following categories:
Arts, education, health, environment, sport, heritage, community/charity and young hero (under 18s).
One winner from each category will receive a £5,000 cash prize along with a National Lottery Awards trophy.
Deadline: 01.06.2022
New Ideas Fund
The New Ideas Fund aims are to support growth of the screen sector in England. The New Ideas fund is a programme of small grants for creative entrepreneurs and companies working in moving image for storytelling.
Grants of between £1000 and £25,000 are available.
Queen's Platinum Jubilee Fund
The £5million programme will support community and voluntary organisations in England to develop creative and cultural activities as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022.
The Let’s Create Platinum Jubilee Fund will provide grants of between £750 and £10,000 for activities which celebrate the Jubilee whilst also involving local people and communities.
Projects must engage with at least one of the artforms supported by Arts Council England.
UK Games Fund
Up to £25k available to small UK companies looking to take game concepts through to production.
Intended to support UK video games development, create jobs, promote diverse new teams, enhance skills and increase the amount of new games IPs in the UK.
Deadline: 23.06.2022 10am