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

The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation is offering grants of between £500 and £3,000 for groups across the UK to support the development of group music-making, especially involving young people, with composing central to the project.

Deadline: 30th Sep 2026

Applications are open for Unlimited’s Partner Awards. There are 11 awards. Together they total £280,000. They’re available to disabled artists across England, Scotland, and Wales. Each award is delivered through a partnership with an organisation based in the UK.

Deadline: Monday 28 September 2026, midday

Grants of up to £5,000 are intended to help individuals and groups of exceptional ability who would not be able to carry out an artistic project or activity without financial support. The Trust places particular emphasis on people at an early stage in their careers.

Deadline: 25 September 2026

Make Space unlocks spaces within arts organisations for artists to set up, test and reflect on their work. Through Make Space, artists can apply for space in partner organisations for focused periods of time.

Deadline: 14th September 2026

The Theatres Trust, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, is currently accepting applications from not-for-profit theatre operators in the UK for capital improvement projects that will improve environmental sustainability (the current them of their partnership).

Grants of up to £20,000 can be used for capital costs of building or equipment.

Deadline: 11th September 2026 (noon).

The Idlewild Trust offers grants of up to £7,000 twice a year to UK registered charities that have at least two sets of Annual Returns listed on the Charities Commission website.

Deadline 5th September 2026

UK registered charities with a turnover of £500,000 or less (except for medical charities which have a limit is £15 million) can apply for one-off grants of up to £5,000.

Deadline 15th August 2026

The call is open to UK-based dance artists with professional experience. Eligible applicants include choreographers, dance makers and practitioners whose work places movement at its core. Applications are accepted from artists working across all dance styles, forms and approaches.

Deadline: 9th September 2026

World of Books is accepting submissions for its Sustainable Story Award.

The award is intended to support authors whose writing helps shape understanding of environmental challenges and highlights the people and movements working to protect the environment.

Deadline: 31st August 2026

Small Performing Arts Grants for UK Projects

UK registered charities or local authority-run venues, with a turnover of less than £1.5 million per annum, may apply now for grants of around £4,000

Deadline: 31st August 2026

Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations for projects and activities that promote the growth and development of sculpture across historical, modern, and contemporary registers, and research that expands the appreciation of sculpture.

Deadline: 1st September 2026

Submissions have opened for the 2027 Climate Fiction Prize, a UK-based literary award for full-length novels that engage with the climate crisis and the human response to it.

The award is worth £10,000 and will be made to the author or authors of the novel judged to be the strongest eligible entry.

Deadline: 15th September 2026

The British Film Institute is inviting applications to the National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund, which provides financial support to UK organisations delivering creative or talent development activity.

Deadline: 21st September 2026

The Liveline funding programme has opened for applications from UK-based music venues, artists and promoters, offering targeted financial support to address rising risk in grassroots live music.

Deadline: 18th August 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.

Engagement Grants are open to archivists and heritage professionals working with archival collections in England or Wales.

The current theme is 'Belonging'.

Deadline: 14th August 2026

UK registered not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 can apply for small grants of up to £3,000 per year, for up to three years (a total of £9,000).

Deadline: 19th August 2026

Grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available for charities and organisations across the UK to deliver music projects that focus on the performance, commissioning, or recording of contemporary music.

Deadline: 1 September 2026

The Wingate Foundation offers grants to smaller UK registered charities operating in the charity's key areas of interest, with the aim of supporting activity which creates a significant impact on individuals and/or communities and leaves a lasting legacy.

Deadline: 21st August 2026

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 Freelands Foundations is offering grants of up to £25,000 for UK-based visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials.

Deadline: 11th September

ITER has opened a new round of support for performing arts professionals developing lower-carbon approaches to international touring and collaboration.

Awards of up to £40,000 are available for successful partnerships.

Deadline: 1st September 2026