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.

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

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

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

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

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

The British Council is inviting applications for its Biennials Connect programme, aimed at supporting UK visual artists to participate in biennials and festivals both in the UK and internationally.

Deadline: 14th Sep 2025

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

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

Grants of up to £30,000 are available for UK registered charities or consortiums within the UK that are currently running a programme that focuses on upskilling people from underserved communities for careers in creative industries. 

Deadline: 31st Aug 25

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

Help Musicians UK, in partnership with DJ Mag, is offering support for producers, DJs and musicians working in electronic music. The programme is aimed at individuals seeking to progress in their careers but lacking access to sufficient financial resources.

Opens: 4th Aug 2025
Deadline: 29th Aug 2025

Literature Works are seeking a Programme Officer to assist with the delivery of their activity.

Deadline: 25th August 2025

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

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

Small-to-medium-sized museums across the UK with fewer than 50,000 visitors per annum have until 8 August to apply to the Autumn 2025 funding round of the Museum Fundamentals Grant Programme.

Deadline: 8th Aug 2025

Theatre Royal Plymouth are inviting proposals from experienced brand consultants, or agencies, to undertake a programme of brand exploration and market research.

Deadline: 6th Aug 2025