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 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 Sep 2026

The Museums Association, in partnership with the Julia Rausing Trust, is offering grants of between £50,000 and £75,000 for Museums across the UK to support the development and continuation of health and wellbeing programmes.

Deadline: 20th May 2026

Craft practitioners, voluntary groups and community organisations can apply for support to help preserve traditional craft skills that are at risk of being lost. Individual grants of up to £2,500 are available. The funding is administered by the Heritage Crafts Association.

Deadline: 8 May 2026 (17:00)

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

Grant funding and non-financial support are available to shortlisted applicants. Eight finalists will each receive a grant of $50,000, alongside access to mentoring and workshops covering product development, marketing and industry partnerships.

Applicants must have trading for between six months and six years. UK applicants must be registered with Companies House, while charities and social enterprises may apply if appropriately registered. Both eBay sellers and non-sellers are eligible.

Deadline: 8th March 2026

Arts and Humanities Research Council is inviting applications to support the delivery of four new Creative Industries Clusters across the UK.

A maximum contribution of £6.75 million is available for each proposal, with clusters required to secure additional support worth at least 50% of the AHRC contribution from higher education institutions or partner organisations over the five-year period of the award.

Deadline: 3rd March 2026 (16:00)

This summer, Plymouth’s official time capsule will be installed beneath the newly completed Armada Way and opened in 2047, marking 100 years since the city’s post-war reconstruction. One exciting idea is to include a city cookbook - a collection of 100 recipes reflecting Plymouth’s rich and diverse food culture.

Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026

The Universal Music UK Sound Foundation provides financial assistance to improve access to music education for young people.

Awards of up to £1,000 are available. Applications are open to schools that teach the national curriculum and are based in the UK and Ireland.

Deadline: 27th February 2026 (13:00)

Arts Council England has announced a time-limited priority under its National Lottery Project Grants (NLPG) programme to support creative and cultural practitioners undertaking research and development activity.

Deadline: 26th February 2026

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

Up to £500 available for small projects for the Rivers & Moorland Festival in June 2026.

Open to Devon based artists.

Deadline: 23rd Feb 2026 (12pm)

Up to £10,000 available for a new work exploring themes of water in the natural environment. 

Open to South West based artists with a connection to Dartmoor.

Deadline: 23rd Feb 2026 (12pm)

Grants of up to £3,000 are available to public sector bodies, registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations in the UK to help analyse collections, supporting development of future plans for cataloguing priorities and projects.

Deadline: 19th Feb 2026

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is inviting applications from the public sector, non-private sector and private sector to design and deliver a refreshed UK-wide creative careers service for young people in the UK that is ambitious and significantly wide-reaching over a three year period.

There is a total grant of £7 million to cover three years (2026/27, 2027/28, 2028/29). Around £2 million of match-funding, either cash or in-kind, is required. 

Deadline: 16th Feb 2026

Continuo Foundation is offering grants of between £2,000 and £6,000 for professional ensembles playing period music and instruments to mobilise projects of outstanding artistic merit and create meaningful work for freelance period musicians, whilst engaging a wide range of audiences with historically informed live performances, particularly in areas lacking access to high-quality live classical music.

Deadline: 12th Feb 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 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. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.

Grants of up to £3,000 are available, to support costs linked to training, career development, travel, audience development, marketing, equipment, software and business development.

Deadline: 6th Feb 2026

Plymouth Sound and Estuaries Recreational Mitigation and Management Scheme are looking for bespoke designs for an interpretation board for an updated version of the Wembury MCA Code of Conduct. These newly designed boards will be located at Wembury Beach and other sites.

Deadline: 30th Jan 2026 (12pm)

Now in its seventh year, the Amazon Literary Partnership (ALP) provides one-off grants to not-for-profit literary organisations that support and champion writers of all ages and stages on their creative journey.

Deadline: 30 January 2026 (23:59)

This is an urgent and exciting moment to develop ‘Mine’, a play rooted in Cornwall’s shifting identity, where the past and future of mining collide. As lithium extraction returns to former tin and clay sites, many still within living memory, questions around industry, place, and personal identity rise to the surface.

Deadline: 30th Jan 2026 (9am)

Rocket Duck is a pilot series designed to bring aspiring entrepreneurs together to collaborate, learn from experienced founders, and gain the skills, confidence, and networks to launch their tech startups.

Meetups: 29 Jan, 26 Feb

Launchpad Weekend: 14–15 March