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

AIM, in partnership with the Julia Rausing Trust and the Pilgrim Trust, is offering grants of up to £20,000 for small-to-medium-sized museums to support core activities, enable them to care for collections more effectively and efficiently, and meet the standards required for Accreditation.

Deadline: 6th Feb 2026

The Box are looking for Volunteers to support the digitisation of their media archive collection in 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: 19th Dec 2025

The Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund helps regional and smaller museums to borrow works of outstanding quality and significance from national and major lending institutions across the UK.

Deadline: 12th Dec 2025

Scops Art Trust is offering grants of up to £30,000 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.

Deadline: 9th Dec 2025

The National Archives have launched their new national Seed Corn Grants scheme which is part of their new ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub, launching in early 2026.

Deadline: 28th Nov 2025

A nationwide project that delves into the memories and impact of the pandemic through a collaborative process between playwright Danusia Samal and Year 5-8 pupils from across the UK.

Deadline: 14th Nov 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 Dylan Thomas Prize is a competitive award provided in partnership by the Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea University, to recognise and reward literary talent in young authors.

Deadline: 7th Nov 2025

New Research and Development funding in National Lottery Project Grants exclusively for artists and creative practitioners.

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

St Luke’s are thrilled to invite all schools and community groups across Plymouth to apply to take part in St Luke’s Guiding Lights Learner programme.

Become a Sponsor of St Luke’s Guiding Lights event to help create something special for the local area and support the work of the hospice, as well as promoting your business.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that it has made £900,000 available over the 2025-2026 financial year to the Community Radio Fund.

Opening early September

As part of the 200th anniversary of Royal William Yard, the RWY are calling on the public to help shape the celebrations. A new campaign, 200 Stories, has launched to gather memories, photographs, documents, artwork and artifacts that reflect the Yard’s rich and varied history.