Sector Support
Funding and Opportunities
We provide a broad range of funding for organisations, artists, creatives and more, stimulating our sector to flourish and grow.
Creative Commission: Blossoming Stories
As part of the Green Communities Blossom project, 3 Creative Commissions are being offered, celebrating nature, blossom, and community. This project is funded by the National Trust as part of their national Blossom project. The Commissions are focused around the theme of blossom and will be co-created with Plymouth communities.
Deadline: 15th Jan 25
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.
Creative Commission: Naturally Blossoming
As part of the Green Communities Blossom project, 3 Creative Commissions are being offered, celebrating nature, blossom, and community. This project is funded by the National Trust as part of their national Blossom project. The Commissions are focused around the theme of blossom and will be co-created with Plymouth communities.
Deadline: 15th Jan 25
Multi-Skilled Arts Facilitator
The Barbican Theatre, Take a Part and the East End Arts Action Group are looking for an experienced and dynamic Arts Facilitator with experience and passion for writing, movement, making and drama to lead diverse and responsive creative sessions with members of the East End community and to support in shaping the creative direction of the project.
Deadline: 17th Jan 25
Creative Commission: Blooming Diversity
As part of the Green Communities Blossom project, 3 Creative Commissions are being offered, celebrating nature, blossom, and community. This project is funded by the National Trust as part of their national Blossom project. The Commissions are focused around the theme of blossom and will be co-created with Plymouth communities.
Deadline: 15th Jan 25
National Archives Engagement Grants
Engagement Grants are open to archivists and heritage professionals working with archival collections in England or Wales.
Deadline: 17th Jan 25
Idlewild Trust Arts and Conservation Grants
The Idlewild Trust are offering grants of up to £7,000 to registered charities working in the Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals or Objects and Works of Art areas.
Deadline: 14th Feb 25
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025
The world’s biggest museum prize champions what museums do, encourages more people to visit, and gets to the heart of what makes a great museum. The prize recognises and celebrates outstanding work and projects across UK museums and provides a platform to encourage audiences to engage with museums far and wide.
Deadline: 27th Jan 25
Livewell Funding
Livewell Foundation have opened applications for large grants, to be used for projects or initiatives that improve health and wellbeing, reduce mental and physical ill health and reduce social isolation.
Deadline: 31st Dec 24
Communities and Collections Fund
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has recently relaunched its Collection Fund as the Communities and Collections Fund to better represent its dual focus on collections and inclusion.
Deadline: 5th Feb 25
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 Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts Fund is now open for UK Applications. The Foundation provides long-term, core funding to not-for-profit organisations who work at the intersection of art and social change so they can continue the work they are already doing and for programmes which are central to their mission.
Deadline: 31st Jan 25
Small Grants Programme supported by The Linbury Trust
The Theatres Trust, the national advisory public body for theatres in the UK, offers small grants of up to £5,000 twice a year for essential works to not-for-profit theatres in the UK that will enable them to be viable and thrive in the future.
Deadline: 17th Jan 25
Museums and Galleries Fund
Funding is available to help strengthen regional museums and galleries in the UK by helping organisations to enhance and sustain curatorial development to attract a broader and more diverse public.
Deadline: 17th Jan 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.