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

This Fund supports projects using museum collections to improve inclusion and equitable working with community partners across the UK.

Deadline: 21st Jan 2025

The Box are looking for Volunteers to support the digitisation of their media archive collection in 2025.

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

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

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

Craft practitioners, voluntary groups and community organisations across the United Kingdom can apply for support to help preserve traditional craft skills that are at risk of being lost.

Deadline: 17th Oct 2025

Ofcom, with funding from the DCMS, is offering grants for Ofcom-licensed community radio stations broadcasting on AM, FM, or by a Community Digital Sound Programme (C-DSP) license on a digital radio multiplex to help with the essential core work involved in running a radio station.

Deadline: 5th Oct 2025

Arts Council England has opened the second round of its Incentivising Touring scheme, a pilot initiative designed to support mid-large scale theatre and dance productions touring across England.

Opens: 18th August 2025

Deadline: 30th September 2025

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

Applications are being accepted for grant funding to support creative projects, organisations and individuals across the UK. The initiative is delivered by the Hugo Burge Foundation.

Deadline: 30th Sep 2025

Razzamataz Theatre Schools is inviting applications for its Future Founders initiative, which supports individuals seeking to establish their own performing arts franchise in the UK.

Deadline: 30th Sep 2025

Funding is available for UK-based songwriters and producers working in popular music genres to support career development and skills enhancement.

Deadline: 29th Sep 2025

Funding is available to support the development of outstanding UK songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds, at different stages of their career.

Deadline: 29th Sep 2025

UK-based artists can apply for financial support and development resources through the Immersive Arts programme. The initiative is designed to support the use of immersive technologies in the arts, including virtual, augmented and extended reality.

Deadline: 29th Sep 2025

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.

Deadline: 26th Sep 2025

Music for All, the charity of the UK musical instrument industry, is currently accepting applications for its fourth funding round of 2025.

Deadline: 24th Sep 2025

This is a new role that aims to set the strategic direction of all the Theatre Royal do on their stages, in communities, in their buildings, on tour, across the UK and around the world.

Deadline: 15th Sep 2025

If you’re looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic and creative organisation and make a meaningful contribution to the strategic direction of all they do at Theatre Royal Plymouth, then this could be the role for you.

Deadline: 15th Sep 2025

The Box is pleased to announce a new series of digital commissions for 2025. They’re inviting artists / filmmakers to make a contemporary response to one of the two separate themes of ‘Journeys’ and ‘Emotion’ that will be reflected in our forthcoming exhibition programme.

Deadline: 14th Sep 2025

Real Ideas have a full-time vacancy for an Operations & Systems Co-ordinator, based at the Markethall Devonport, Plymouth

Deadline: 14th Sep 2025