Funding and Opportunities

Grants of up to £7,500 are available for not-for-profit theatres across the UK to deliver small essential works to improve a theatre's resilience, sustainability or accessibility, or to improve the diversity of audiences. The Theatre Trust, supported by the Lindury Trust, will support small capital improvements and repairs.

Deadline: 25 January 2027

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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The grants are intended to strengthen creators' skills, resources and professional development while supporting sustainable careers in a changing music industry. They can also support artistic development, innovation, wider access and opportunities for underrepresented creators.

Deadline: 29th October 2026

Funding is available to around seven UK-based creative practitioners through the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) Creative Commissions programme. Each commission will provide between £8,000 and £12,000. Successful projects are to be presented at the Edinburgh Festivals in August 2027.

Deadline: 2nd November 2026

The initiative is intended to encourage varied artistic perspectives on cultures shaped by and influencing this generation. It will support new collaborations between organisations in the UK and Germany. Grants of up to £20,000 are available for each partnership.

Deadline: 10th January 2027

Fellowships are intended to help creative practitioners develop their work. The initiative supports interdisciplinary practice connected with cultural history research and can include visual arts, filmmaking, photography, composition, design, game development, writing and other creative fields.

Deadline: 13th November 2026

Christmas 2026

We are very excited to announce Plymouth Art Gallery are teaming up with Market Place Europe to introduce The Crafters Cove - a brand new stretch tent in the heart of Plymouth city centre Christmas market! We are looking for local arts and crafters to offer handmade gifts and crafts.

Partnership project grants to museums and community organisations that work equitably together and share aims for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Deadline: 20th January 2027 and 14th July 2027

The CoSTAR National Lab has opened a call for creative businesses developing inclusive multisensory experiences and events. It’s intended to help businesses adapt existing projects and assess how sensory features affect audiences. These may include sound, smell or touch.

Deadline: 24th November 2026

Grants of up to £30,000 are available to support collaborative partnerships between GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), heritage organisations and community organisations to deliver co-designed and community-led projects and activities that create meaningful changes and strengthen the relationship between GLAM or heritage organisations and the communities they serve.

Deadline: 16th November 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 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.

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