Emergency Funding

Equity Charitable Trust – new fund that does not require to be a current Equity member in order to apply.

Funds are for cultural and creative self-employed/ organisations based in Cornwall. You need a crowdfunding project to apply for funding.

is a new fund which aims to encourage artists to create bold political work with fast-turnaround funding which enables fast action.

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.

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 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

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 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.    

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

A £5 million hardship fund to help alleviate some of the immediate financial pressures.

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.

Emergency relief fund and advice for organisations and freelancers

Peninsula Dance Partnership – CPD Dance Card Bursary

Covid-19 Response Fund will provide grants of up to £10,000 for specialist women’s organisations across the UK.

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.

Considering applications from all members of the profession who have contracted Covid-19 or need to self-isolate due to health reasons

Free six-month membership

Film and TV Charity (new fund)

ACE – National Lottery Project Grants will open July 22, and will prioritise independent organisations, creative practitioners and freelancers.

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.

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 – 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

Baring Foundation – Arts programme supporting Arts and Mental Health.

Deadline: 18.08.2020

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

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- The Theatre Artists Fund has been set up to provide emergency support for theatre workers and freelancers across the UK.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

The New Ideas fund  – is a programme of small grants for creative entrepreneurs and companies working in moving image for storytelling.

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.

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

The fund will support local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCSFSE) projects that bring together place-based partnerships.

Deadline: 08.01.2021

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

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

Applications are welcome across the full spectrum of the creative industries undertaking R&D across new, immersive and emerging technology.

Deadline: 11.02.2021

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

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

Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants.  The fund will focus on the needs of smaller independent organisations and individual practitioners.

Deadline: 04.2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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