Volunteer Opportunities for 2025
The Box are looking for Volunteers to support the digitisation of their media archive collection in 2025. They’re holding an Information Session from 1-3pm Friday 13 December.
Maker Relief Fund
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
International Showcase Fund
The International Showcase Fund (ISF) offers grants of up to £5,500 for international export opportunities for UK-based artists, bands, songwriters and producers who have been invited to perform or create new music at international industry facing showcasing festivals, song writing camps or conferences.
Deadline: 31st Mar 25
Arts & Culture Impact Fund
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.
Commission grants
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.
Sir Horace Ove grant
Grants upto £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.
Benefact Trust offering grants
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.
The Architectural Heritage Fund
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.
The National Archives The Skills Bursaries
National Archives is offering bursaries to archivists and heritage professionals as part of its 2023/24 grants programme.
Scops Art Trust Fund
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
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have announced that the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme will be extended into the next financial year, providing £23 million so that thousands of historical buildings, including churches, synagogues, mosques and temples, can carry out restoration work.
Deadline: 31st Mar 2026
European Jewish Heritage Grants
Rothschild Foundation is offering grants for institutions and organisations with materials relating to Jewish heritage to conserve, organise, and protect collections, develop exhibitions, and support the professional development and training of staff working with Jewish material heritage.
Deadline: 19th Feb 2025
Outreach and engagement grants
The Outreach and Engagement Programme offers grants of up to £2,000 for individuals, teams and organisations to engage public audiences with the ‘excitement of ecological sciences’.
Deadline: 10th March 2025
POWER UP Participant Programme
Co-founded by PRS Foundation and Ben Wynter in partnership with YouTube Music, Beggars Group and the Black Music Coalition, the Power Up initiative brings together music industry partners across all sectors to accelerate change and remove barriers for Black music creators and industry professionals.
Deadline: 13th March 2025
Get Involved Awards
The University of Plymouth’s Get Involved Awards are back for their fourth year, having supported over 20 projects and awarded more than £150,000 to date. This initiative enables local community groups, charities, and social enterprises to collaborate with researchers, addressing local challenges and creating lasting impact.
Deadline: 28th Feb 2025
Historic Houses Foundation
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.
The Arts Society Grants
Grants of up to £2,000 are available for UK-registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £3 million to deliver projects across all aspects of the arts, crafts, and heritage and support local and regional art museums and organisations.
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025
Public Engagement Grant Scheme
The Institute of Physics provides grants of between £500 and £4,000 for projects across the UK and Ireland that improve people’s relationship with physics in their family or community groups.
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025
Meadows Award
A funding initiative is open to support underrepresented artists participating in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Meadows Award aims to promote diversity, equality and inclusion in the arts by providing financial and professional support.
Deadline: 21st Feb 2025
Jerwood Foundation Funding
Jerwood Foundation is offering grants to UK-based organisations that focus on making art available for public benefit and promoting emerging talent in the arts.
Deadline: 19th Mar 2025
Next Level awards
Funding and a programme of one-to-one business advice and peer support are available to professional UK musicians to help them progress their careers to the next stage of development.
Deadline: 28th Feb 2025
Edinburgh Pitch
Independent filmmakers and production companies can apply for the Edinburgh Pitch, an international documentary pitching forum aimed at developing and financing feature-length films.
Deadline: 23rd Mar 2025
Michael Tippett Grants
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
Community Project Fund
Music for All, the charity of the UK musical instrument industry, is currently accepting applications for its first funding round of 2025. Groups, schools, any form of educational establishment, community projects, charities, and organisations that are bringing music to their communities in the UK can apply.
Deadline: 27th Mar 2025
Lecturer & Programme Leader - MA Arts, Health & Wellbeing
Plymouth Marjon University are looking for a 0.4 FTE Lecturer (Teaching) in Arts, Health and Wellbeing to cover a period of maternity leave starting in May until December 2025, or until the return of the postholder.
Deadline: 18th Mar 2025
Visiting Lecturer – MA Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Plymouth Marjon University are looking for Visiting Lecturers who would be interested in becoming involved in this programme. Work could include teaching, marking assessments, and supervising final research projects.
Deadline: 2nd Mar 2025
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