Funding, Opportunities and Culture Jobs
Below we will outline the currently available funding, opportunities and culture jobs available in the city. Applications for individual grants should be with the organisations listed. To stay up to date with the latest opportunities then please make sure you are signed up to receive our Culture Hull newsletter
JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Fareport Training – Digital Marketing Training
Fareport Training are working in partnership with Hull City Council to offer funded Digital Marketing Training to self employed individuals and small businesses in Hull and East Riding. Over 14 weeks (1 day per week) participants learn how they can grow their business and reach new audiences using the latest Digital Marketing techniques. For sole traders this course is completely free. For small businesses they only need to contribute 10% of the course fee, and Hull City Council pay the rest.
They’ve helped dozens of Creative Businesses to grow including Florists, Photographers, Web Designers, Musicians, Writers, Artists, Interior Designers, Craft sellers, Jewellery Makers, YouTubers, Bakers, House Stagers, Book designers and Chocolatiers. They could even look at tailoring the programme for a closed group for your members.
Check out their website for more information.
Opportunity for Pianist – accompanist for Priory Park Singers
Priory Park Singers are making an urgent appeal for a keyboard player. Their accompanist for the last 21 years, has retired owing to ill health. An accompanist is needed to support rehearsals and upcoming performances from late November 2025. The 28 singers – from Hull and the East Riding – sing everything from classics to pop and specialise in four-part harmony.
Weekly rehearsals are on a Wednesday, 7.30 – 9.30 pm, at Tower Hill Methodist Church Hall, in Hessle. The choir pays a fee. It provides the keyboard and transports mobile equipment. Members can drive the accompanist to venues, if necessary.
For more information, contact the chairman, Rod Crocker rodcrocker21@gmail.com or the secretary, Val Holmes, holmesvalerie37@gmail.com
Priory Park Singers Hull – Home Page for information about the choir.
Creative Foundations Fund
Arts and cultural organisations will soon be able to apply for a share of £85 million from the government for vital repairs and upgrades, ensuring everyone has access to high quality institutions in the places they call home.
The new Creative Foundations Fund will help arts venues across England to address a range of issues, such as repairing building infrastructure, outdated or failing systems, inefficient energy systems and inaccessible spaces. It will ensure beloved local venues like theatres, performing arts venues, galleries, grassroots music venues and contemporary arts centres can continue to offer opportunities, boost skills and attract more visitors from across the country.
Arts and cultural organisations across England are encouraged to apply for a share of up to £10 million each from the fund, which recognises the huge contribution they make towards boosting growth and breaking down barriers to opportunities for young people by helping them to learn vital creative skills.
The fund will open for Expressions Of Interest on Monday 30 June 2025. Full guidance, including eligibility criteria and details of how to apply, can be found on Arts Council England’s website.
Creative Foundations Fund: Guidance for applicants | Arts Council England
Hull Music Hub – Hull’s Musical Timeline
Hull has a long history of music making going back to the middle ages! This timeline, initially developed by Hull History Centre, enables you a read more about Hull’s rich music heritage.
And they now want to hear from YOU!
Do you have information, memories or reminiscences about musicians, ensembles, bands or events that are currently not recorded?
Drop them a line so that this timeline can continue to grow and develop.
Email: music.service@hullcc.gov.uk
Find the timeline on their website.
FUNDING
Active Humber
Active Humber is a charity that helps people of all ages and backgrounds improve their health and well-being by getting active through sport and physical activity.
They are one of 42 Active Partnerships in England and receive funding from Sport England to support their “Uniting the Movement” strategy, which focuses on encouraging more people to get active in their communities. They are looking to partner with organisations to develop arts projects that focus on the benefits of both arts and physical activity engagement.
Please contact David Butt to discuss ideas.
dbutt@activehumber.co.uk
Youth Music New Fund – Shift The Scene
This fund supports organisations across all creative disciplines, not just music, that provide meaningful opportunities for Disabled children and young people. This fund has been informed by our Excluded by Design research.
Grants of up to £200,000 are available to help you create ambitious, accessible projects that push for genuine inclusion and make a lasting impact.
Check out their website for more information.
Cultural Bridge Fund Opens for UK Applications 1 October
This is a unique investment programme between the UK arts councils and leading German cultural institutions that supports the development of cross-border partnerships. Now in its fifth year, the funding has enabled arts organisations that place communities at the heart of their work, to build and develop new partnerships that allow exploration and exchange of practice across the UK and Germany.
The Fund is open to all arts and cultural organisations with proven expertise in socially engaged/participatory practice. Partnerships must be bi-lateral, including at least one German partner and one UK partner, from any one of the four nations: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The total budget for the 2026-2027 programme is £370,000. It is anticipated that 20 awards will be made.
Two tiers of funding are available for activity that starts from 1 April 2026 and is completed by 31 March 2027.
Check out their website for more information.
Jerwood Foundation
Open to arts organisations to support projects and activities that make the arts available to the public.
The aim of this fund is to support organisations that focus on making art available for public benefit and emerging talent in the arts.
Applicants can apply for projects and activities that support the promotion of the arts for public benefit.
Applications should be sent either by email to info@jerwood.org or by post to PO Box 186, Ludlow, SY8 9DX.
Check out their website for more information.
Henry Moore Foundation Accepting Applications for Final 2025 Funding Round
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations for projects and activities that promote the growth and development of sculpture across historical, modern, and contemporary registers, and research that expands the appreciation of sculpture.
The Henry Moore Foundation offers funding in the following categories:
• New projects and commissions: Grants of up to £20,000 to encourage new thinking about sculpture or sculpture history or contribute to public awareness and appreciation of sculpture.
• Acquisitions and collections: Grants of up to £20,000 for museums and galleries to acquire or conserve sculpture for their collections, cataloguing, and display costs.
• Research and development:
o Long-term grants of up to £20,000 for projects that require funding for more than one year, such as a permanent collection catalogue.
o Small research grants of up to £2,500 for academics, curators, and independent scholars for research costs on the history and interpretation of sculpture.
• Conferences, lectures, and publications: Grants of up to £5000 to publish a new book or journal, or to stage a conference or other event related to sculpture.
There are typically four deadlines per year. This funding round is for projects starting or opening to the public, no sooner than 1 April 2026.
The next deadline for applications is Monday 1 December 2025 (11pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Music for All’s funding Round 5 of 2025 is NOW OPEN to applicants!
They’re delighted to be offering an exciting opportunity for youth clubs to apply for an award made up of tech/studio equipment plus cash grants of between £1000 and £6000.
Here is the award description:
This award is open to youth clubs and comparable organisations in deprived or marginalised areas. These organisations must be developing music provision for local young people by providing music making opportunities outside of their school/higher education setting. Applicants for this award will need to demonstrate how music is (or will be) used within their youth club/organisation’s project work and where possible, be able to illustrate previous examples as well as detail how they will use this award to remove barriers to music-making for participants.
The award will include:
- eight-track software
- audio interface hardware
- cloud subscription
- studio kit
- instruments with cases and amps
- cash grant for mentoring/coaching (of between £1000-£6000)
For further information and to apply, please visit their website.
Applications for these award categories must be made by 14 January 2026 at 12 noon.
Amazon Literary Partnership 2026
In the UK, Amazon has supported writing groups from local and national organisations that run after-school clubs, writers’ retreats and creativity workshops, as well as non-profits that campaign on freedom of speech and to protect authors’ rights.
The Amazon Literary Partnership supports non-profit literary organisations from all communities in the UK and Republic of Ireland that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. Offered once a year, the grants support innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive not only for a lasting impact on writers’ lives, the literary and publishing communities but also the broader community.
Applicants must be a registered not-for-profit literary organisation in the UK or Republic of Ireland, whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or build authors’ careers.
Organisations should be structurally and financially sound; display energy, passion, and reach; have an online presence and an enthusiastic membership or readership.
How To Apply – the deadline for applications is Friday 30 January 2026 (23:59) with notification of decisions by Friday 15 May 2026.
Applications are to be made via the Amazon Literary Partnership UK Submission Manager
Due to the volume of requests, Amazon is unable to respond personally to any queries or provide guidance on applications.
Check out their website for more information.
Creative Growth: Hull and East Yorkshire
Creating investment ready businesses for Hull and East Yorkshire
The Creative Growth Hull & East Yorkshire Programme is a free-to-access scheme that supports creative businesses to reconsider their growth plans, with a view to helping firms become investment ready and ready for growth. Specifically tailored for local business founders who are looking to grow their creative businesses, this programme understands that businesses often have to manage conflicting business commitments and daily operational pressures, whilst at the same time managing the process of business growth. By using the advice, resources and learnings provided via the programme, and by sharing your own business experiences with other business leaders via peer learning, local creative business founders are supported to reexamine how they can develop their capacity and confidence to grow.
Across the five programme cohorts so far, sixty businesses have identified ways to achieve their future ambitions, gained the skills needed when pitching proposals, and benefited from the support available from the programme around what it really takes to develop a realistic growth and investment plan. You are now invited to register for the Programme’s Cohort 6 group which commences on Tuesday 14th October 2025 at Hull University Business School.
To find out more and to register your place on the programme simply click here https://exec-education-hull.my.canva.site/creative-growth or email us at creativegrowth@heybusinessgrowthskillshub.com
The Creative Growth Programme is a 12 week fully-funded course that includes 8 practical workshops (1 day a week over the first 8 weeks) covering a range of business growth and investment topics, in addition to diagnostics, specialist guest speakers, bitesize masterclasses, peer learning sessions, and mentoring. Participating businesses are also invited to exclusive ‘alumni’ events including socials, networking, guest speakers and industry insight events.
Cohorts 6 in October and Cohort 7 in January are the penultimate cohorts of the programme, so register your place now to avoid disappointment. The programme will close on 31st March 2026 due to external funding conditions, and there is no guarantee that the programme will operate beyond this.
England Grassroots Music Projects Invited to Apply for Funding
Arts Council England is offering grants to support organisations working within the grassroots music sector. The funding aims to help artists, bands and music professionals build sustainable careers while developing new audiences.
The Supporting Grassroots Music programme is delivered jointly by Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It provides financial support for a range of organisations including live music venues, rehearsal and recording studios, festivals, promoters and sector bodies.
Grants of between £1,000 and £40,000 are available. Projects may run for up to three years and must include some element of live programming or participatory activity that benefits grassroots artists or professionals. Eligible costs include artist and audience development, live programming, infrastructure improvements, touring networks and testing new approaches.
Applicants are expected to contribute at least 10% of total project costs from other sources. This may be through their own contribution, such as ticket income, or in-kind support from partners.
This is a rolling programme; should an application be received after a monthly deadline it will be automatically entered into the next round.
Check out their website for more information.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts Based Learning Fund
This fund supports arts and cultural organisations to work in partnership with schools and make arts-based learning a core part of education.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) imagine a fairer school system where every child gets to experience high-quality, arts-based learning as a regular part of their education. They believe the arts can bring real value to teaching and help schools reach their goals for students. This fund achieves this by:
- Supporting arts organisations to work in partnership with formal education settings leading to a mutual exchange and enrichment of expertise
- Focusing on pupils who experience systemic inequity and enabling them to make progress and overcome barriers to learning
- Exploring the role of arts-based learning in addressing issues of inclusion, especially racism, in education
- Creating more opportunities for high quality arts-based teaching and learning in education settings, especially in those which have not had this work in the past
- Enabling arts-based learning to be embedded in curricula and practice for the long-term
- Building a body of evidence and practice, and understanding how the work improves equity for pupils
Deadline: Rolling application cycle
Check out their website for more information.
Creative Lives publish new guide for funding for creative groups
Featuring details of national funders and trusts with a specific interest in creative organisations, our new fundraising guide ‘Cash For Culture’ is a handy resource for any creative group based in England.
With tips on writing funding applications, Q&As with creative group fundraisers, and ideas for raising money at a local level, this FREE guide is available to download now.
Garfield Weston Foundation
Supporting charities who work in welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage and faith.
The fund is open to registered charities.
The foundation covers:
Capital costs – such as building works or repairs, or equipment that’s necessary to your organisation’s work.
Project costs – specific project or area of your work which fit the foundations priorities.
Core costs – operating/Core cost grants towards the general costs of running your organisation.
They have two grant streams:
Regular Grants – up to £100,000
Major Grants – £100,000 and above
Check out their website for more information.
BFI Creative Challenge Fund Supports UK Talent Development Programmes
The British Film Institute is accepting applications to the National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund for UK-based organisations delivering creative or talent development programmes. The funding aims to support projects in feature film and narrative immersive media, including narrative, documentary and animation.
The fund is designed to address challenges within the screen industry such as underrepresentation of certain genres, lack of early career producer opportunities and limited support for scalable projects with broad audience potential.
A total of £2.7 million is available over a three-year period. Applicants can request between £12,000 and £150,000. Eligible costs include staff and freelance fees, participant payments, venue and equipment hire, travel, creative practice sessions, mentoring and access provision. Reasonable overheads not already funded from other public sources are also eligible.
Applications are open to organisations across the UK with a track record in delivering professional or creative development work. These include production companies, film festivals, limited companies, CICs, partnerships, registered charities, local authorities and other statutory bodies. For-profit organisations may apply if the funded work is not-for-profit.
All funded work must be completed by 31 March 2026.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis but must be submitted at least 16 weeks before the planned start of activity.
Check out their website for more information.
Postcode Places Trust (East of England) Open for Applications
Back for another year, the Postcode Places Trust is supporting organisations across the East of England with unrestricted funding in 2025.
The funding is for projects in the region that have a clear alignment with one of the Trust’s 2025 themes:
- Enabling participation in physical activity
- Enabling participation in the arts
- Improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency
- Improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors
- Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
- Providing support to improve mental health
- Supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality
Depending on their not-for-profit legal structure, organisations can apply either for a grant of between £500 and £2,500 or between £500 and £25,000.
The funding offered is unrestricted and therefore flexible. It can be used however it is most needed.
Application forms will be available on the Trust’s website when the funding round opens.
The 2025 funding guide and 2025 application questions are available on the Trust’s website.
Check out their website for more information.
Radcliffe Trust Accepting Applications for Second 2025 Funding Round
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.
For music projects, the Trust will consider projects in the following categories:
• Composition and contemporary music – in the case of commission applications, the lead composer must be named.
• Bursaries for courses and summer schools (limited to UK-based students).
• Music therapy and special needs.
• Academic research.
• Youth orchestras.
• Performance projects.
• Educational projects – excluding applications from individual mainstream primary and secondary schools.
• Miscellaneous.
For heritage and crafts projects, the Trust will support the development of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s traditional cultural heritage and crafts sectors. This includes support for:
• Emerging craftspeople.
• Craft and conservation projects and training.
• Projects demonstrating creative outcomes by designer-makers.
• Projects with potential for capacity building within the sector.
• Special needs projects focusing on the therapeutic benefits of skills development.
Other areas of cultural creativity related to heritage and crafts may also be considered, including theatre, performance, and literature, especially where projects can be shown to promote and develop high-level skills among early career practitioners and disadvantaged groups.
There are typically two rounds per year, with trustee meetings held in June and December. Groups can apply for Music and Heritage & Crafts grants in the same funding round.
Check out their website for more information.
Wolfson Foundation
The Foundation offer capital infrastructure projects from a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science & medicine, health & disability, heritage, humanities & the arts.
If your project exceeds £50,000 you will require match funding and should be in place at the point of submission of a Stage 2 application.
The following match funding criteria applies:
Arts and humanities, science and medicine or health and disability programmes: The Foundation typically stipulates that a minimum of 25% of the project’s capital costs must be secured prior to submission, except in cases where the project cost is below £50,000.
Schools/education programme: For projects exceeding £1 million in total cost, a 25% match funding is obligatory. Projects falling within the range of £50,000 to £1 million necessitate some matching funds. Conversely, projects with a total cost below £50,000 do not mandate any match funding.
Deadline: open
Check out their website for more information.
Help Musicians Fast Track
Help Musicians Fast Track provides £500 as an investment to help grow or sustain your income from music, or to help you gain a career opportunity.
Check out their website for more information.
Two Ridings Community Foundation – Hull Fund
A new Community Fund for Hull is available now.
Check out their website for more information.
Applications are now open for the Unlimited UK Partner Awards!
Together with 11 UK partners, Unlimited are delighted to offer awards ranging from £15k to £60k for artists to create extraordinary new work that captivates, inspires, and deepens understanding.
Check out their website for more information.
Blue Spark Foundation
Aiming to support education and development of children and young people by providing grants for educational, cultural, sporting and other projects.
This fund is open to schools, community groups, clubs, societies or other not for profit organisations. However, individuals may also apply for a grant.
The foundation asks that applications must state exactly what the grant will be used for e.g. physical assets (such as sports equipment, or lighting for stage productions), services or facilities (such as music or drama tuition) or the provision of experiences (such as theatre visits). These examples are intended to be illustrative and not restrictive as to the funding which BlueSpark may provide to support projects.
Projects can be educational, cultural, sporting or other activities but particular consideration will be given to those that help the self-confidence, team working skills and future employability of children and young people.
Check out their website for more information.
Goodwin’s Create to Change
Goodwin is looking for businesses working within the creative and cultural sectors to offer placements to young people and adults ages 16-65 years of age.
Create to Change offers businesses staff for 10 weeks at 25 hours per week.
- Goodwin will pay the wages for the person on placement
- Businesses will interview candidates and there is no obligation to take them on, if you find the candidate suitable please do offer them a placement.
- Goodwin will work with candidates for 2 weeks before they apply for roles which will ensure we are sending people who are work ready.
- The project will have a dedicated business engagement worker and keyworker who will support the business and candidate on placement, throughout and post placement.
- Business breakfasts – chance for all placement providers and potential placement provides to get together, chat to young people and Goodwin staff and receive support from third party organisations around business growth and support.
if you would like more information, please contact Zoe on 07593136045 or email ZSivell@goodwintrust.org
Hull 4 Funding
Hull 4 Funding is a Community Portal funded by Hull City Council to provide free funding information for local not-for-profit organisations and gives access to thousands of funding opportunities including for arts and cultural organisations.
Register to access Home | Hull 4 Funding (idoxopen4community.co.uk)
Foyle Foundation’s Grants Programme to End in 2025
The Foyle Foundation, an independent grant-making trust that distributes grants to UK based registered charities and schools, has announced that it will complete its grant giving programme in 2025. Visit their website to find out more
Arts Council England Funding
Grants are open to individuals as well as organisations. Funding opportunities can support a range of activity, from a one-off project to your personal development as a creative or cultural practitioner. These include:
National Lottery Project Grants
National Lottery Project Grants supports thousands of individual artists, and community and cultural organisations with arts, libraries and museums projects. It’s open all the time and you can apply for grants between £1,000 and £100,000.
Developing Your Creative Practice
This fund supports individual cultural and creative practitioners ready to take their work to the next stage through things such as: research, time to create new work, travel, training, developing ideas, networking or mentoring. You can apply for up to £12,000.
Check out their website for more information as well as information about other open grants.
Schroder Charity Trust
The Trust will consider applications from charities registered in England & Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland in the fields of Education & Young People, Communities, Environment & Conservation, Health, Arts & Culture, International Development, Heritage, and Supporting the Armed Forces.
Check out their website for more information.