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.
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.
Sir Horace Ove Grant
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.
The National Archives The Skills Bursaries
National Archives is offering bursaries to archivists and heritage professionals as part of its 2023/24 grants programme.
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.
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.
Reignite Youth Dance Platform
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).
Native Makers - Market Hall
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.
BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund
The British Film Institute is accepting applications to the National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund for UK-based organisations delivering creative or talent development programmes.
Deadline: 31st Mar 2026
Volunteer Opportunities for 2025
The Box are looking for Volunteers to support the digitisation of their media archive collection in 2025.
Cultural Bridge Fund
This is a unique investment programme between the UK arts councils and leading German cultural institutions that supports the development of cross-border partnerships.
Applications accepted 1st Oct - 12 Nov 2025
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
#stlukesguidinglights Call for Artists
St Luke’s are on the hunt for local, regional, established and emerging artists to get involved with our Guiding Lights art trail and auction by designing and decorating a large lighthouse. If your design is selected, you will receive an honorarium of £1,000 upon completion of your artwork.
Deadline: 27th Oct 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
Hinrichsen Foundation
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: 5th Sep 2025
Theatre Improvement Scheme
The Theatres Trust, in association with Wolfson Foundation, is accepting applications for grants of up to £20,000 to support not-for-profit theatres in the UK who need financial support to help reduce their environmental impact.
Deadline: 5th Sep 2025
Artist of the Future Prize
Emerging digital artists based in the UK and Europe are invited to enter the Artist of the Future Prize, administered by Saatchi Gallery. The competition is intended to highlight innovation in digital art through the creative use of technology and materials.
Deadline: 31st Aug 25
Short Film Competition
An annual awards programme providing financial prizes to UK based short film makers across a number of creative categories is open for entries.
Deadline: 20th Aug 2025
THE OPEN LENS
Open Kamera CIC invites you to join The Open Lens Project, a 3-month series of weekly free workshops using analogue photography to explore heritage, home, food, identity and belonging.
Runs until 8th Aug 2025