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
Marketing and Communications – Get Hull Active
The role is offered on a fixed-term basis until 31 March 2028, with any extension dependent on securing further funding.
- Are you a creative communicator bursting with ideas?
- Do you believe in the power of storytelling to inspire change?
- Are you passionate about health, community, and helping people move more?
- Do you love working in partnership and shaping messages that make a difference?
If the answer is yes – we need you!
Active Hull is on an exciting journey to transform how our city thinks, feels and talks about physical activity. We want moving more to become everyone’s business, part of everyday life, for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. To help us make this happen, we’re looking for a dynamic Marketing and Communications Officer to join Team Hull.
Events Co-ordinator
Closing date: 20 February 2026
Hull City Council’s Events Team is looking for an organised, motivated, and proactive Events Coordinator to support the planning and delivery of a wide range of corporate, civic, community, cultural, and large‑scale public events across the city.
You will play a key role in the design, development, procurement, installation, operation, and organisation of events—helping ensure they are safe, engaging, inclusive, and delivered to an exceptional standard.
This role also supports project management of corporate events and contributes to the Council’s communication aims by helping raise awareness and understanding of Hull City Council’s vision, strategic priorities, reputation, and achievements.
Tourism Co-ordinator
Are you passionate about culture and tourism? Do you want to play a role in shaping the identity of our city? Join our dynamic Culture, Place and City Centre (CPCC) service and help us deliver an ambitious vision for the future.
As Tourism Coordinator, you will:
- Champion the city’s tourism and culture industries by collating and promoting opportunities, events, and initiatives.
- Highlight funding and job opportunities to support local creatives and businesses.
- Work closely with the Senior Destination Officer and a small, dedicated team on tourism and culture projects.
- Help develop and grow community audiences, ensuring events and culture is accessible and inclusive for all.
This is a varied and exciting role, backed by significant investment from the City Council over the next three years. You’ll be part of a team that is shaping the city’s cultural landscape and supporting the tourism and creative economy.
Mary Woolstonecraft Society recruiting Creative Freelance Facilitators
They are looking to develop their existing pool of East Yorkshire based creative freelance facilitators to deliver and assist some of their projects and programme as they continue to grow their work in the area. They currently have lots of plans in 2026 for freelance lead and assistant creative facilitators to work on and opportunities include but are not limited to:
Creative Workshops delivered in school holidays – as part of various programmes – and including working towards Wollstonecraft Festival of Rights and Creativity.
‘Start Somewhere…in Hull’ a creative and cultural human rights training programme, bringing young people together to experience the arts/ charity on their doorstep, whilst exploring that this means from a human rights perspective.
They are seeking freelancers who are passionate about inspiring young people and promoting human rights education. They are particularly interested in hearing from people who use creative approaches as part of their approach to facilitation. Very interested to hear from people from different artforms.
Please contact Emma on admin@wollstonecraftsociety.org.uk for further information about the Freelance Creative Facilitator Pool. For more information about Mary Wollstonecraft, please check out their website.
Hull Music Service and Hull City Council Arts Development Special Commissions: Out of the Box 2026
Following the success of Out of the Box 2023 and 24, Hull Music Service and Hull City Council Arts Development are inviting applications for special collaborative commissions from musicians in all musical genres and media. This is part of the ‘Out of the Box’ partnership which is set up to continue work established by Arts Development and J-Night Jazz supporting the development of the music sector in Hull.
We are now inviting applications for the 3rd round of Out of the Box. The commissions can enable Hull based musicians to develop unusual collaborations and pairings, open up possibilities for exploration and challenge, and support musicians to create new work outside their normal musical boxes. These commissions support the development of new work, with a payment of up to £2,000 for around 4 commissions focusing on new collaborations between artists of different musical genres, who have not created work together previously.
We are looking for original and exciting ideas and welcome proposals from individuals or groups that will be developed towards live performance. All collaborations in these special collaborative commissions are to take place during 2026 in the city of Hull, resulting in a live sharing of the work at the Hull Jazz Festival in November 2026. Applicants may request a maximum of up to £2,000 towards the cost of their project but should bear in mind that, if an offer is made, it may be lower and will be determined by the needs and ambitions of the project and the availability of funds.
Submissions open from 14 January and final deadline for submissions is midnight on Sunday 1 March 2026. All eligible submissions will be considered by a panel of arts professionals, and it is aimed that successful applicants will be contacted by end April 2026.
Full Guidelines on eligibility and criteria are on the Culture Hull website here.
Online application form is available on Microsoft forms here.
Further enquiries or queries about ‘Out of the Box special commissions’ contact: James Dickinson email: james.dickinson@hullcc.gov.uk Tel: 01482 318800 or Clare Drury email: cityartsenquiries@hullcc.gov.uk Tel: 01482 616210. Contact Clare at Arts Development if you need an alternative version of the online form.
Dance In The North Co-Commission 2026-27
Deadline: Monday 2 March 2026, 10.00am
They are seeking applications from dance artists or companies based in the North.
About Dance In The North Co-Commission 2026-27
Dance in the North is a consortium of dance organisations and venues who are committed to working together to enhance artist development, artist support and dance programming in the North of England.
This new co-commission will support the development of a new dance performance that will include public work-in-progress showings at scratch nights throughout 2026-27.
The successful artist/company will work with Dance in the North partners to explore presentation opportunities once the work is fully produced.
This pilot scheme offers a £12,500 co-commission supported by Yorkshire Dance, Cheshire Dance, Lancaster Arts, Dance City, Lowry. The wider Dance in the North partnership will support the successful artist/company with advocacy and relationship development.
Check out their website for more information.
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.
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
PPL Momentum Music Fund: Supporting Career Development of Talented UK Artists
Funding is available to support the development of talented UK musicians and bands, helping them to enhance and sustain their careers.
The PPL Momentum Music Fund is a financial resource designed to support artists working in a broad range of contemporary popular genres, including the innovative and emerging.
Grants can be used to assist with any activity that significantly contributes to the development of an artist or band. Applicants should consider why and how this activity will contribute to their career development and/or business plan. This may include, but is not limited to, the following activities:
• Recording – new album, EP, single, producer, engineer, mixer fees, studio hire, session musician fees, etc or a combination of these elements.
• Touring (UK only) – travel, accommodation, musician fees, set/production design, tour management, equipment hire, etc.
• Marketing and promotions – PR, radio plugger, digital marketing, music videos, merchandise production, etc.
The fund is open to applications from artists and bands in the UK that are at a crucial point in their development, with the potential to significantly further their career within the next two years.
Applications can be submitted by the artists themselves or those who are working on their behalf, eg a manager, an independent label or publisher.
Grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 are available, with the average PPL Momentum Music grant being approximately £10,000.
The deadline for applications is Monday 2 February 2026 (6pm)
Check out their website for more information.
Netflix Seeks Filmmakers for New Documentary Production Round
Netflix is accepting applications to its Documentary Talent Fund, which provides financial and professional support to help emerging filmmakers in the UK and Ireland produce short documentary films. The support is designed to assist five selected teams in developing and completing films of 8 to 12 minutes in length under the theme of ‘Change’.
Each selected filmmaker will receive a budget of £30,000, with an equivalent amount provided in euros for recipients in Ireland. The funding is intended to cover the full production of the short film, with teams required to ensure that everyone involved in the project is fairly paid.
Projects must be aligned with the programme brief and will be produced under the guidance of Netflix and external filmmaking professionals. The support is aimed at helping participants develop their ideas into finished documentaries scheduled for release in 2027 on Netflix UK’s social channels. Filmmakers retain full ownership of their copyright.
Eligible costs relate to the development and completion of the documentary, including all production related expenditure required to deliver a finished film of the specified length.
The deadline for applications is Thursday 12 February 2026 (1pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Metal for Good Grants
Aiming to support projects and activities that use music as a tool for change and the values of rock and metal community to help create an equal society.
Opens 2nd February 2026
Metal for Good are interested in funding projects and services that:
Helping groups maintain, expand or provide new services, with an emphasis on quality and effectiveness.
That use music, or related activities as a tool for social change.
Six projects will receive funding for the following:
One grant of £3,000
Two grants of £2,000
Three grants of £1,000
Deadline: Monday 16 February
Check out their website for more information.
Universal Music UK Sound Foundation Offers School Grant Support
The Universal Music UK Sound Foundation provides financial assistance to improve access to music education for young people. Its work focuses on helping schools, students and teachers obtain the tools needed to deliver practical music learning.
Support is offered through grants aimed at increasing access to music by enabling the purchase or upgrade of musical instruments and equipment. The Foundation has previously assisted thousands of schools, individual students and teachers to improve participation in music activities.
Awards of up to £1,000 are available. The money must be used towards musical resources, including the purchase of new instruments, replacement of worn equipment or upgrades to existing items used for teaching and learning. The aim is to support classroom delivery and wider engagement with music in schools.
Applications are open to schools that teach the national curriculum and are based in the UK and Ireland.
The next deadline for applications is Friday 27 February 2026 (1pm).
Check out their website for more information.
BFI Invites Organisations to Deliver Creative Project Development Programmes
The British Film Institute is inviting applications to the National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund, which provides financial support to UK organisations delivering creative or talent development activity.
Through Challenge One, BFI is seeking organisations to design and run development programmes for UK creatives with narrative, documentary or animation feature film projects, as well as those working on narrative immersive media projects. These programmes are expected to offer structured development environments that help participants advance their projects and position them for future marketplace funding.
Applicants can request between £12,000 and £150,000 for a single edition. Eligible organisations include production companies, film festivals, local authorities, statutory bodies, community interest companies, registered charities and other groups with relevant experience. For profit entities may apply if the supported activity is delivered on a not for profit basis.
Funding may be used for staff and freelance fees, participant payments, venue and equipment hire, travel and accommodation, mentoring, access requirements, creative practice sessions and reasonable overheads not already covered by public funding.
The first Challenge One deadline for applications is 16 March 2026 (12:00), to support programme activity taking place between 9 July and 31 December 2026.
Check out their website for more information.
PRS Foundation Opens Applications for Power Up Participant Programme
PRS Foundation is inviting applications to its Power Up Participant Programme, which provides targeted support for Black music creators and industry professionals across the UK. The programme is designed to address barriers affecting progression in the music sector and to build a long term nationwide network of participants.
Each year, the programme supports 20 Black music creators and 20 Black executives or industry professionals working in any genre or sector. Participants may be artists, songwriters, composers, producers, employees, entrepreneurs, freelancers or self employed practitioners. The support package includes grant funding of up to £10,000, capacity building activity, mentoring, partner access and marketing support.
Eligible applicants must have experienced barriers linked to being a Black music creator or industry professional and be at a point in their career where additional support could have a significant impact. The programme aims to help participants progress professionally, strengthen representation across the music industry and contribute to a wider network committed to long term change. Previous cohorts remain active members of the network, which has supported 160 participants to date.
Grant funding may be used for creative or professional development, project work or other activities that advance the participant’s career. Additional benefits include access to partners, mentoring from professionals and marketing or promotional support through PRS Foundation and Power Up partners.
The deadline for applications is Monday 9 March 2026 (6pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Heritage Crafts Association – Endangered Crafts Fund
Aimed to support craft practitioners and organisations for projects that support endangered crafts
The craft must be listed as endangered or critically endangered on the current Red List of Endangered Crafts.
Applications could include:
Implementing changes that will ensure the longer-term viability or survival of heritage craft skills
Direct and indirect skills transfer
Continuous professional development
Deadline: Friday 8 May
Check out their website for more information.
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.
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.
Youth Music’s NextGen Fund Open for Applications
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.
The thirteenth round of the programme is accepting applications from 18-25 year old creatives (under-30s who identify as d/Deaf or disabled) in the UK to support the development of a creative project or idea. Applicants may include singers, rappers, songwriters, producers, DJs, A&Rs, managers and agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.
Priority will be given to:
• People who do not have the financial means to invest in themselves to get their ideas started.
• People that are too early-stage to be funded by larger grant programmes such as Arts Council England and PRS Foundation.
• Those who might be discriminated against, for reasons that could include gender, race, disability, location or other characteristics.
• People who are creative, entrepreneurial and are multi-disciplinary – even if they do not recognise themselves as such.
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.
The deadline for applications is Friday 6 February 2026 (5pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Continuo Foundation Accepting Applications for Eleventh Funding Round
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.
Grants can be used by a period-instrument ensemble to:
• Enable a concert with a larger number of musicians at risk of being downsized.
• Fund an ambitious new project where there is uncertainty about audience take-up.
• Support a tour of a new or existing programme to new UK locations.
• Fund the recording of repertoire that has not previously been recorded.
• Create filmed video content to generate further touring opportunities.
For recently formed ensembles (June 2020 to March 2025), the Foundation prefers to support concerts rather than recording projects; however, it will consider a recording if this would significantly enhance the ensemble’s career prospects.
In this round, the Purcell Society Trust is also partnering with Continuo Foundation to offer a project grant of up to £6,000 to support one or more performance or recording projects exclusively or predominantly featuring the music of Henry Purcell.
Funding is for projects taking place between 1 May 2026 and 30 November 2026.
The deadline for applications is Thursday 12 February 2026 (noon).
Check out their website for more information.
Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Accepting Applications for 2026
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.
In 2023, the Trustees decided to include within the Foundation’s activities the funding of performances and recording of music by Michael Tippett. As of 2026, the Foundation will no longer accept open applications for such projects. Instead, the Trustees welcome applications for grants towards projects that support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and the development of creative ideas.
The Foundation will still occasionally but will still consider funding large-scale performances and recordings of music by Michael Tippett.
Successful projects should commence from January 2027.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday 30 September 2026 (midnight).
Check out their website for more information.
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.