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.

Grants up to £500 are available to help Black and Global Majority people working behind the scenes in film, TV, and cinema to access opportunities and navigate barriers to career progression.

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.

Have you got a Youth Group interested in getting involved in a youth dance event? Reignite Youth Dance Platform will be a vibrant evening showcase of youth dance from across the South West peninsula (Cornwall, Plymouth and Devon).

Join Native Makers at the Market Hall for a day Market. Secure a pitch to sell your creations to likeminded individuals and become part of the Native Makers Community.

The Box are looking for Volunteers to support the digitisation of their media archive collection in 2025.

The Maker Relief Fund is offering grants to UK-based professional craftspeople facing financial hardship. Grants of £1,000 will be awarded to 50 eligible applicants over the course of a year, starting in November 2024 and running through to the end of October 2025.

Deadline: Oct 25

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 and composing and performance and recording of works by Michael Tippet.

Deadline: 30th Sep 2025

Supported by The Linbury Trust. The Theatres Trust, the national advisory public body for theatres in the UK, offers small grants for essential works to not-for-profit theatres in the UK that will enable them to be viable and thrive in the future.

Deadline: 6th Jun 2025

A seminar-led initiative is offering project funding to support sustainable and inclusive international touring practices in the performing arts.

Deadline: 4th Jun 2025

Plymouth Music CIC are looking to recruit a minimum of 4 Board Members to work alongside the 3 already in place. The role requires attending 4 meetings a year that aim to conceive and develop projects that support the Music City Action Plan for Plymouth.

Deadline: 30th May 2025

Young people in the UK working in or training for careers in printing, publishing or the graphic arts can apply for financial support through the Rising Star Awards.

Deadline: 30th Mar 2025

Innovate UK (IUK) has launched the Create Growth Programme Competition 4, allocating up to £8 million to support high-growth creative businesses in selected regions of England. The programme is designed to help businesses scale, build investor networks and explore innovation projects.

Deadline: 29th May 2025

UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for a share of up to £8 million for innovation projects to grow their business. This funding is from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Deadline: 29th May 2025

Hinrichsen Foundation is offering multi-year grant partnerships for organisations and charities across the UK for projects and activities that focus on the performance, commissioning, or recording of contemporary music.

Deadline: 18th May 2025

The 2025 Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award is open for applications. The scheme provides financial support to a professional female photographer to complete a documentary photo essay addressing a social, environmental, economic or cultural issue.

Deadline: 16th May 2025

The Theatre Royal Plymouth are looking for a Deputy Head of Lighting to provide an effective and flexible service to ensure the delivery of lighting requirements for all in-house, co-productions and the visiting programme.

Deadline: 8th May 2025

The Heritage at Risk Capital Fund is a special one-year, £15 million fund to give grants to heritage at risk, helping people to save the historic sites in England that are most important to them. 

Deadline: 30th Apr 2025

The Prince William BAFTA Bursary provides financial support to junior creatives in the UK’s film, television and games industries. The bursary offers up to £2,000 to help with specific career-related costs.

Deadline: 30th Apr 2025

This is an opportunity for two separate contemporary artists or collectives to create new work inspired by the diverse and fascinating world of fungi. RAMM is seeking two artists based or working in the south west1 to produce regional-specific work.

Deadline: 28th Apr 2024

Tranzfuser is intended to support new UK games graduates, taking teams from concept and prototyping through to publishing. The programme allows new teams to benefit from grants and interaction with a host of other early stage games development companies across the UK.

Deadline: 28th Apr 2025

The Human Library is coming to Plymouth on Saturday 10 May, encouraging people to explore stereotypes and taboo subjects, from disability and racism to addiction and homelessness – and all the human experiences in between.

If you are interested in volunteering as a Book, email thebridge@plymouth.ac.uk with the subject ‘Human Library’.

Deadline: 25th Apr 2025

The Pit Orchestra is excited to announce a £1500 Visual Score Commission, seeking an artist, illustrator, designer or other visual creator to produce a visual score to communicate their original musical score to Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925).

Deadline: 24th Apr 2025

The Theatre Royal Plymouth are looking for a Lighting Technician to assist the Head of Lighting and Deputy Heads of Lighting as part of Theatre Royal Plymouth's (TRP's) Technical department.

Deadline: 24th Apr 2025

RAMM are looking to commission a Devon or Cornwall-based artist to run a series of 7 workshops with a selection of community groups. Groups will include older people, young people, people from minority ethnic backgrounds and families.    

Deadline: 22nd Apr 2025

Scops Art Trust is offering grants of up to £30,000 to registered charities, and other constituted, not-for-profit organisations across the UK, to deliver projects and activities that help people to understand, participate in, and enjoy the arts, particularly the performing arts.

Deadline: 15th April 2025