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.

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.

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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: 16th October 2026

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, especially involving young people, with composing central to the project.

Deadline: 30th September 2026

Applications are open for Unlimited’s Partner Awards. There are 11 awards. Together they total £280,000. They’re available to disabled artists across England, Scotland, and Wales. Each award is delivered through a partnership with an organisation based in the UK.

Deadline: Monday 28 September 2026, midday

Grants of up to £5,000 are intended to help individuals and groups of exceptional ability who would not be able to carry out an artistic project or activity without financial support. The Trust places particular emphasis on people at an early stage in their careers.

Deadline: 25 September 2026

Make Space unlocks spaces within arts organisations for artists to set up, test and reflect on their work. Through Make Space, artists can apply for space in partner organisations for focused periods of time.

Deadline: 14th September 2026

The Theatres Trust, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, is currently accepting applications from not-for-profit theatre operators in the UK for capital improvement projects that will improve environmental sustainability (the current them of their partnership).

Grants of up to £20,000 can be used for capital costs of building or equipment.

Deadline: 11th September 2026 (noon).

Ofcom 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 support equipment costs and the essential core work involved in running a radio station.

Deadline: 14th October 2026

Scops Art Trust is offering grants 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 (music, drama, opera, and dance).

Deadline: 15th September 2026

Funding to Support Young Musicians and Composers Across the UK

The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation is offering grants of between £500 and £3,000 for projects across the UK that support young musicians and composers, new music, and music education initiatives.

Deadline: 30th September 2026

Funding is available for UK-based songwriters and producers working in popular music genres to support career development and skills enhancement. The programme is managed by PRS Foundation, an independent charitable foundation established by PRS for Music.

Grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 are available.

Deadline: 28th September 2026

Youth Music has opened Round 14 of its NextGen Fund, offering grants to help early-stage musicians and music-adjacent creatives develop their own projects and ideas.

Grants of up to £3,000 are available. The funding can be used to launch a creative project, idea or business.

Deadline: 25th September 2026

UKAT provides financial support to help close shortfalls in touring budgets where tours would otherwise be loss-making. It is also intended to support fair pay for artists, musicians, managers and crew, reduce personal financial risk for artists and their teams and sustain small and mid-level touring activity. Applicants can request between £1,000 and £8,000.

Deadline: 11th September 2026

Grants can contribute towards acquisitions of historical, literary, artistic, architectural or musical interest, as well as fine bindings. Grants typically range from £200 to £20,000 and will rarely exceed £20,000.

Deadline: 1st November 2026

The award will commission one national oral history project to capture and preserve the experiences of women veterans who served across the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. The project is expected to reflect a wide range of ranks, roles, ages, service periods and operational theatres.

Deadline: 22nd September 2026

NEMO supports artistic exchange and collaboration among practitioners across the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland. It is aimed at individual arts practitioners in the early stages of their careers and is designed to strengthen cross-border networks and increase international mobility.

Deadline: 16th September 2026

The fund is open to all Museums Association institutional member museums and galleries in the UK and supports work by museums and community organisations to strengthen communities, using collections.

Applications open: 28th September 2026

The call is open to UK-based dance artists with professional experience. Eligible applicants include choreographers, dance makers and practitioners whose work places movement at its core. Applications are accepted from artists working across all dance styles, forms and approaches.

Deadline: 9th September 2026

Submissions have opened for the 2027 Climate Fiction Prize, a UK-based literary award for full-length novels that engage with the climate crisis and the human response to it.

The award is worth £10,000 and will be made to the author or authors of the novel judged to be the strongest eligible entry.

Deadline: 15th September 2026

The British Film Institute is inviting applications to the National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund, which provides financial support to UK organisations delivering creative or talent development activity.

Deadline: 21st September 2026

The MGF supports growth in new music. Grants are available through two strands: £1,000 to £40,000 and £40,001 to £100,000. Support can cover activities lasting up to three years.

Arts Council England is inviting expressions of interest for the third round of its Incentivising Touring scheme. Funding is available at up to 25% of production capitalisation costs, capped at £500,000 per project.

Deadline: 13th October 2026

The Freelands Foundations is offering grants of up to £25,000 for UK-based visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials.

Deadline: 11th September

The Small Indie Fund ringfences £1million a year to support talented small independent production companies with turnovers of less than £10million. The fund has a focus on diverse-led companies and those based in the Nations and English regions.

In 2025/26 the fund has a dual focus, working across both TV and digital.

Deadline: 22nd December