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

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

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

Radcliffe Trust is offering grants averaging between £2,500 and £7,500 for charities, not-for-profit groups, and exempt organisations across the UK to support projects in the areas of music or heritage and crafts.

Deadline: 31st Jul 2025

Think you’ve got practical skills, creativity, or a love of making things? Join the talented team at TR2 — Theatre Royal Plymouth’s workshop for building world-class stage sets.

Deadline: 2nd Jul 2025

Literature Works is again teaming up with Plymouth Culture, reaching out to aspiring young writers in the city between the ages of 14 and 19 years, as we seek the next Plymouth Young City Laureate.

Deadline: 30th Jun 2025

Grants are available to help with VAT on the construction, repair and maintenance of public memorial structures in the UK for work which took place on or after 16 March 2005.

Deadline: 30th Jun 2025

A new ini­tia­tive to sup­port artists liv­ing in the South West through men­tor­ing and one-to-one support.

Deadline: 30th Jun 2025

Literature Works, Plymouth Culture and The Box are looking for a talented wordsmith who is excited by the idea of crafting impressions of a city that are rooted in the lives and experiences of its people.

Deadline: 29th Jun 2025

The new Heritage Revival Fund offers one-off grants of up to £350,000 to help communities take control of and find sustainable new uses for derelict or neglected historic buildings in their local areas, particularly in areas of high deprivation.

Deadline: 27th Jun 2025

Museums across the UK have until 26 June to apply for grants of between £50,000 and £75,000 to support the continued development of pre-existing health and wellbeing programmes.

Deadline: 26th Jun 2025

Theatre Royal Plymouth are looking for apprentices to work with the Lighting, Sound and Stage Departments to learn the role of a technician within the performing arts industry.

Deadline: 26th Jun 2025

An opportunity has arisen for a highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant to support James Mackenzie-Blackman, our Chief Executive & Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Deadline: 23rd Jun 2025

Creative Kernow is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial Chief Executive to lead its work in championing creativity in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Deadline: 16th Jun 2025

Radical Ecology are looking for a Communications Producer to help shape how Radical Ecology speaks to the world across platforms, print, and publications.

Deadline: 16th Jun 2025

Radical Ecology are looking for a Studio & Operations Manager to hold the internal structure of the studio: budgeting, HR, policies, logistics, and programme support.

Deadline: 16th Jun 2025

Music for All is offering grants of up to £2,000 to local organisations that use music making to support people living with dementia and their carers. This is only open to applicants working with underrepresented communities, including those from racially minoritised communities throughout the UK.

Deadline: 16th Jun 2025