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.
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
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
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.
Short Film Fund
The Look Aside Short Film Fund has launched to support short film projects designed to develop into feature films.
Deadline: 27th Jan 2025
The National Archives The Skills Bursaries
National Archives is offering bursaries to archivists and heritage professionals as part of its 2023/24 grants programme.
Museum Fundamentals
Association of Independent Museums (AIM), in partnership with the Julia Rausing Trust and the Pilgrim Trust, is accepting applications from small-to-medium-sised museums across the UK for the Museum Fundamentals Grants Programme.
Deadline: 7th Feb 2025
Continuo Foundation Fund
Continuo Foundation is offering grants of between £2,000 and £8,000 for professional ensembles playing period music to mobilise projects of outstanding artistic merit and create meaningful work for freelance period musicians, whilst engaging a wide range of audiences.
Deadline: 10th Feb 2025
NextGen Fund
The NextGen Fund provided by Youth Music is intended help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.
Deadline: 7th Feb 2025
Radcliffe Trust Grants
Radcliffe Trust is offering grants averaging between £2,500 and £7,500 for charities, not-for-profit groups, and exempt organisations across the UK to support projects in the areas of music or heritage and crafts.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2025
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
PPL Momentum Music Fund
The PPL Momentum Music Fund is a financial resource designed to support artists working in a broad range of contemporary popular genres, including the innovative and emerging.
Deadline: 3rd Feb 2025
Contemporary Art Curator
The Box Plymouth is hiring for a Contemporary Art Curator - a role that is central to the development and delivery of The Box’s ambitious programme.
Deadline: 26th Jan 2025
Artist Development - EXPERIMENT
The Experiment strand of TRP’s Artist Development programme is offering an opportunity for companies and artists to research, develop, and showcase new work. New Year, New Idea is an initiative for four artists or companies to receive funding, support, and space to work in The Lab at TRP.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2025
South West Coast Path Photographer of the Year
The South West Coast Path Photographer of the Year competition is now open for 2025, in partnership with Great Western Railway.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2025
2025 Children and Young People's Art Competition
The Box, in partnership with Arts University Plymouth, has launched its annual Children and Young People’s Art Competition, and this year’s theme is inspired by Surrealism – a famous art movement from the 1900s that explored the creative potential of the mind and challenged reality.
Deadline: 26th Jan 2025
Sector Support
Funding and Opportunities
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