Funding and Opportunities

Grants of up to £20,000 are available to help not-for-profit organisations cover some of the costs of developing and co-ordinating their historic building project and taking it towards the start of work on site.

Benefact Trust is offering grants for registered Christian charities across the United Kingdom and Ireland to support the preservation of key heritage skills that are essential to the conservation of historic Christian buildings.

National Archives is offering bursaries to archivists and heritage professionals as part of its 2023/24 grants programme.

Repayable Finance to Support UK’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Organisations – the world’s biggest social impact investment fund for the creative arts is offering finance up to £1 million to socially driven arts, culture and heritage organisations.

Art Fund_ welcome proposals for exceptional projects with significant public impact.

Grants are available to all public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries and archives in the UK or Channel Islands to support the commissioning process.

Grants of up to £250,000 are available for organisations across England and Wales to support the preservation of heritage buildings and structures of architectural significance, particularly historic country houses, including their gardens, grounds, and works of art within them.

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Craft practitioners, voluntary groups and community organisations across the United Kingdom can apply for support to help preserve traditional craft skills that are at risk of being lost.

Deadline: 16th October 2026

Partnership project grants to museums and community organisations that work equitably together and share aims for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Core grants to museums that have established strategic aims for DEI, and that are ready to use their collections to support social and climate justice.

Deadline: 20th January 2027 and 14th July 2027

The CoSTAR National Lab has opened a call for creative businesses developing inclusive multisensory experiences and events. It’s intended to help businesses adapt existing projects and assess how sensory features affect audiences. These may include sound, smell or touch.

Deadline: 24th November 2026

The National Archives'  Research and Innovation Grants Programme offer a small number of grants of up to £10,000 to archivists and heritage professionals working with archival collections in England or Wales to confront the challenges of today: preserving and sharing the digital record, reducing  environmental impact and adapting to climate change, and helping the archives sector become more diverse, equitable and inclusive.

Deadline: 17th October 2026

Grants of up to £30,000 are available to support collaborative partnerships between GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), heritage organisations and community organisations to deliver co-designed and community-led projects and activities that create meaningful changes and strengthen the relationship between GLAM or heritage organisations and the communities they serve.

Deadline: 16th November 2026

Bagri Foundation is offering grants of between £5,000 and £100,000 for not-for-profit arts organisations across the UK to deliver artistic projects that promote the sharing of traditional and contemporary Asian culture.

Deadline: 5th October 2026

Ofcom is offering grants for Ofcom-licensed community radio stations broadcasting on AM, FM, or by a Community Digital Sound Programme (C-DSP) license on a digital radio multiplex to help support equipment costs and the essential core work involved in running a radio station.

Deadline: 14th October 2026

Grants can contribute towards acquisitions of historical, literary, artistic, architectural or musical interest, as well as fine bindings. Grants typically range from £200 to £20,000 and will rarely exceed £20,000.

Deadline: 1st November 2026

The MGF supports growth in new music. Grants are available through two strands: £1,000 to £40,000 and £40,001 to £100,000. Support can cover activities lasting up to three years.

Arts Council England is inviting expressions of interest for the third round of its Incentivising Touring scheme. Funding is available at up to 25% of production capitalisation costs, capped at £500,000 per project.

Deadline: 13th October 2026

The Small Indie Fund ringfences £1million a year to support talented small independent production companies with turnovers of less than £10million. The fund has a focus on diverse-led companies and those based in the Nations and English regions.

In 2025/26 the fund has a dual focus, working across both TV and digital.

Deadline: 22nd December