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
Artlink Hull
Artlink Hull are looking for new trustees to help lead their small but mighty organisation as they approach their 45th year of amazing work. This is a great chance for you to make a tangible, lasting difference in the lives of others and help shape the future of arts in our city.
At Artlink Hull, they believe that every person has the right to access the creative arts, no matter what their background or circumstance. They are looking for trustees who share this belief and can bring a range of lived experiences to the role. Your unique perspective is invaluable and can help them champion inclusivity across all of their work, ensuring they remain a vibrant and relevant part of the community into the future.
They are keen to hear from you if you are interested in this role, and if you have experience in financial management, fundraising, business, legal, and community engagement that would be a real bonus to even out their skill-set! However, whether you’re an experienced professional or new to the idea of board service, joining their board is a powerful way to grow. They welcome everyone who is ready to use their voice and passion to advocate for creativity and diversity.
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Fund will help arts venues across England to address a range of issues, such as repairing building infrastructure, outdated or failing systems, inefficient energy systems and inaccessible spaces.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
Youth Music’s NextGen Fund Offers Support to Aspiring UK Creatives
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 twelfth 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 26 September 2025 (5pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Hitmaker Fund Supports UK Music Creators with Career Development Grants
Funding is available for UK-based songwriters and producers working in popular music genres to support career development and skills enhancement. The programme is managed by PRS Foundation, an independent charitable foundation established by PRS for Music.
Grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 are available. The funding is intended to help experienced music creators at key stages in their careers by supporting activities such as songwriting, production, skills training and studio hire.
Applications are open to songwriters who create music behind the scenes and do not perform or produce, as well as producers who contribute to songwriting and are credited as writers. Applicants must have a professional track record, with at least five credited works registered with PRS for Music. They must also submit at least two commercially exploited works for consideration. Applications can be made directly or through representatives such as managers, publishers or legal advisors.
Eligible costs include time for music creation, training courses, creative development, studio hire and international activities that enhance an applicant’s profile. Funding can also cover up to 25% of costs for purchasing equipment, software or hardware.
The deadline for applications is Monday 29 September 2025 (6pm).
Check out their website for more information.
PRS Foundation Offers Grants for Emerging and Established Musicians
Funding is available to support the development of outstanding UK songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds, at different stages of their career.
PRS Foundation’s Open Fund for Music Creators can support projects by songwriters, composers, artists, bands, producers and performers who are writing their own music or commissioning others.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to assist with the following costs and activities:
• Creation of new music.
• Music Creator fee (to cover time and work).
• Touring and live performances.
• Recording and release.
• Creative residency costs.
• Fees to creative collaborators.
• Promotion and marketing (when there is also an element of creation and/or performance).
• Equipment or software costs which enable creation or new types of performances where those costs represent up to 20% of the total project budget.
The fund is not able to support 100% of project costs; all applicants are expected to show evidence of income from other sources as part of their application.
The deadline for applications is Monday 29 September 2025 (6pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Awards Available to Support Creative Work by Disabled Artists in Britain
Disabled artists across England, Scotland and Wales can apply for financial awards to support projects at different stages of development. The funding is available through the Open Awards programme, delivered by Unlimited with backing from Arts Council England, Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland.
The funding is intended to support the creation and sharing of new artistic work. Applications are invited across artforms, with the exception of film, fashion and architecture.
Awards may be used to test early ideas, develop new approaches or bring near-complete pieces to audiences. Projects must be completed within 12 months.
Two categories of support are available. Small Awards provide up to £25,000, including £20,000 awards for artists in England, an £18,000 award in Scotland and a £15,000 award in Wales. Large Awards provide over £25,000, with £80,000 and £50,000 awards available in England, £50,000 in Scotland and £30,000 in Wales.
Applicants for Large Awards must secure at least 10% match funding from sources other than their regional arts council. No match funding is required for Small Awards.
The deadline for applications is 29 September 2025 (12:00).
Check out their website for more information.
Hugo Burge Foundation Invites Applications for Arts and Community Funding
Applications are being accepted for grant funding to support creative projects, organisations and individuals across the UK. The initiative is delivered by the Hugo Burge Foundation.
The funding is structured around three strands. Creative Education supports projects that provide people aged 0 to 29 with opportunities to engage in creative activities. Creative Communities focuses on organisations, festivals and community groups delivering cultural and arts-based events locally. Creative Individuals is for artists, writers and craftspeople pursuing independent work.
Grants of up to £15,000 are available for projects under the Creative Education and Creative Communities strands. Under the Creative Individuals strand, grants of up to £5,000 are available.
Applicants may include individuals, schools, arts organisations, community groups and festivals. In the first round of funding under the Creative Individuals strand, applications will only be accepted from artists based in Scotland. Eligible expenditure includes field trips, community cultural events, materials for student engagement and the development of new creative work.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday 30 September 2025.
Check out their website for more information.
Second Round of Arts Council England Touring Theatre and Dance Scheme Opens
Arts Council England has opened the second round of its Incentivising Touring scheme, a pilot initiative designed to support mid-large scale theatre and dance productions touring across England. The scheme aims to reduce financial risks for producers and encourage investment by demonstrating potential for financial returns.
Funding, provided as a repayable grant, is available at up to 25% of production capitalisation costs, capped at £500,000 per project.
Eligible applicants include UK-based, publicly funded, commercial and independent theatre and dance producers, National Portfolio Organisations, and collaborative groups. Productions must tour to permanent, ticketed performance venues, each with a minimum of 500 seats, including a minimum of four venues in England, outside of inner London.
Eligible projects include new productions, revivals, or remounted works for first or new tours. Theatre is broadly defined, encompassing plays, musicals, circus, and physical or visual theatre forms.
Applications for Round Two can be submitted between 18 August 2025 and 30 September 2025. Before applying, applicants must book a conversation with a member of the Incentivising Touring team before 5 September 2025.
Check out their website for more information.
PRS Foundation Provides Support for Orchestras Performing Recent UK Compositions
Professional orchestras across the UK can apply for grants through the PRS Foundation’s Resonate Fund. The support is aimed at organisations seeking to incorporate contemporary British compositions into their programming and extend audience access to recent works.
The fund provides grants of up to £15,000 to cover costs such as music hire, rehearsal time, performance and recording. Alternatively, orchestras may apply for up to £5,000 if funding is sought solely for recording costs. Applicants are required to secure alternative contributions if support for recording is included.
The funding is available to full and associate members of the Association of British Orchestras. Priority will be given to organisations that do not already receive PRS Foundation support, those that do not regularly programme contemporary works and those wishing to perform larger scale compositions.
Eligible projects must feature works composed within the past 25 years by British composers who are members of PRS for Music or eligible to join. The funding is intended to increase the number of performances, recordings and broadcasts of contemporary repertoire while strengthening long-term programming approaches.
Grants can be used to support a range of costs including performer fees, instrument hire, UK touring, promotion and combined project activities.
The deadline for applications is 13 October 2025 (6pm).
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.
Launch of the 2026 International Dylan Thomas Prize for Literary
The Dylan Thomas Prize is a competitive award provided in partnership by the Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea University, to recognise and reward literary talent in young authors.
The prize will be awarded to the single author who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best literary Work – a commercially published original volume of English language poetry, collection of short fictional stories, fictional novel or novella, radio script or screenplay.
The main prize for the winner is £20,000. Each shortlisted entrant will receive a Runners-up Award of £500.
All authors of any nationality who are aged between 18 and 39 will qualify. Entries are to be submitted by international and UK publishers on behalf of eligible authors.
The closing date for entries to the 2026 Prize is Friday 7 November 2025.
Check out their website for more information.
DCMS Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund Launches New Round
Last open for applications in 2022, the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund is once again offering capital grants of up to £400,000 to selected museums and galleries across England.
For over 20 years, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Wolfson Foundation have worked together to jointly fund grants to support museums as they improve displays, enhance collections care and make exhibitions more accessible to visitors.
A total of £4 million is being made available over a two-year period (2025-27) with grants of between £20,000 and £400,000. Funding sought must not exceed 85% of total eligible costs. Funds must be spent by March 2027.
The funding is for projects that meet at least one of the following criteria:
• Material improvements to the display and interpretation of collections, in permanent galleries, exhibition spaces and public spaces, to enhance visitor experience.
• Improvements to access and/or interpretation for visitors with disabilities, children and young people, and/or underrepresented audiences.
• Improvements to environmental controls, collections storage and conservation facilities to enhance the care of collections.
All projects are expected to be environmentally sustainable and to have environmental considerations embedded in their planning.
The Fund is open to bids from accredited museums, museum services and galleries in England falling into one of the following categories:
• Museums/museums services and universities with at least one Designated collection
• Current Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs).
Only one capital project bid per museum, gallery, museums service or university will be considered.
Awards are not made retrospectively and thus funded works must not take place before 1 April 2026.
Applications will be accepted from 5 September to 14 November 2025, with funding decisions expected in March 2026.
Check out their website for more information.
Creative Growth: Hull and East Yorkshire
Creating investment ready businesses for Hull and East Yorkshire
Unlock your creative business potential with Creative Growth Hull & East Yorkshire!
Recruiting NOW starting: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Following the success of the first four cohorts they are delighted to now be registering eligible businesses for cohort 5 starting Tuesday 27 May 2025.
This FULLY FUNDED programme will not only provide you with expert tailored support to become more “investment ready” but also provides support to identify new business growth opportunities, including; new customers and markets, product development and innovation, the value of intellectual property protection, and access to grant funding and networking opportunities. Join us to turn your ambitions into reality!
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.
Idlewild Trust
Aiming to support learning programmes that provide opportunities for professional musicians, dancers, actors, writers, artists and those involved creatively in the arts at an early stage in their career.
Deadline: Friday 5 September 2025
Check out their website for more information.
British Council Funding Available for Visual Artists in Biennials
The British Council is inviting applications for its Biennials Connect programme, aimed at supporting UK visual artists to participate in biennials and festivals both in the UK and internationally. Funding is also available for international artists taking part in UK-based biennials and festivals.
The scheme offers up to £9,500 for collaborations between UK biennials or festivals and visual artists based in countries eligible for Official Development Assistance (ODA). The same amount is available for international biennials based in ODA countries partnering with UK artists. A maximum of £5,000 is available for partnerships with artists in non-ODA countries. An additional £2,500 is available per project to support access costs.
Eligible applicants include UK and international biennials, festivals and visual arts organisations working in partnership with a biennial or festival. Projects must support artists aged 18 and over and can involve multiple artists, though only one application per biennial organisation is permitted.
Funding can be used for travel, artwork production, professional development, networking, public engagement and access costs. Activities may take place in person or online.
Organisations must demonstrate alignment with the British Council’s commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion and fair pay for artists.
The deadline for applications is Sunday 14 September 2025 (11:59pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Three Funding Strands Open to UK Artists Working in Immersive Media
UK-based artists can apply for financial support and development resources through the Immersive Arts programme. The initiative is designed to support the use of immersive technologies in the arts, including virtual, augmented and extended reality.
Led by the University of the West of England and produced by Watershed, the programme is delivered in partnership with ten organisations involved in immersive arts and research. It supports a range of creative practices that connect physical and digital experiences, engage audiences and enhance sensory interaction.
Applicants can choose from three strands depending on the stage of their work. ‘Explore’ offers up to £5,000 for early-stage research, ‘Experiment’ provides up to £20,000 for project development and ‘Expand’ awards up to £50,000 for delivery and wider engagement.
Eligible applicants include individual artists, creative practitioners, technologists, small groups or collectives and arts-based organisations. Applicants must be based in the UK and aged 18 or over. The maximum group size is ten people for ‘Explore’ and ‘Experiment’, and 50 for ‘Expand’.
The deadline for applications is Monday 29 September 2025 (2pm).
Check out their website for more information.
Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Accepting Applications for 2025
The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation is offering grants of between £500 and £3,000 for groups across the UK to support the following objectives:
To award grants to support the development of group music-making especially involving young people, with composing central to the project.
To support the performance or recording of works by Michael Tippet.
In 2023 and 2024 the Trustees decided to focus the Foundation’s activity exclusively on the funding of performances and recording of music by Michael Tippett, to generate greater revenue for a wider range of activities in future years. This will remain the case in 2025.
The Trustees will consider applications about any of his compositions but are likely to prioritise plans for specific works that are less frequently performed or projects which are unlikely to be mounted without additional financial support.
Successful projects should commence January 2026.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday 30 September 2025.
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)
Maker Relief Fund Supports UK Craftspeople in Need
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.
These grants are intended to provide flexible financial support, allowing recipients to use the funds without restrictions.
Practising professional craftspeople are eligible to apply if they identify with one or more of the following groups:
- Individuals on low incomes.
- Working-class people.
- Black and ethnically diverse people (including Gypsy, Roma, and Travellers).
- People with disabilities, neurodiversity or those managing chronic physical or mental health issues.
- LGBTQIA+ individuals.
- People with caring responsibilities.
The initiative aims to support these people in sustaining their careers during times of financial difficulty.
Applications can be submitted at any time until the end of October 2025.
Check out their website for more information.
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.