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 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

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

Literature Works, Plymouth Culture and The Box are looking for a talented wordsmith who is excited by the idea of crafting impressions of a city that are rooted in the lives and experiences of its people.

Deadline: 29th Jun 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

Biennales and festivals are invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 through a British Council support programme.

Deadline: 1st 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

There are six mentoring places available for creative leaders in Plymouth as part of the Plymouth Culture Creative Leadership Programme 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

Plymouth Sound National Marine Park has launched a tender for the Nature Campaign, connecting the people of Plymouth to the amazing nature of Plymouth Sound.  The link to the portal is given below but you will need to be registered on the portal to access the information and submit a response.