Potential Sources of Funding for the Arts and Young People
Please note programmes and priorities will change periodically. Visit the links for up to date information.
Musicians Benevolent Fund
Administers 20 different scholarships that help professional musicians and also music students with fees, instruments and study abroad.
Scarman Trust
Aims to help citizens bring about change in their communities. They award ‘can-do’ awards and offer practical advice.
St Hugh’s Foundation
Awards for individual artists and practitioners in Lincolnshire and Humberside.
Wingate Scholarships 2005/2006
Scholarships are awarded to individuals of great potential who need financial support to undertake creative or original work of a social and artistic value – including musicians.
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Grants are given to UK residents/nationals who would benefit from a period of travel and learning that would then be put into practice in the UK.
BBC Fame Academy Bursary
Awards Educational Bursaries to young people with a proven commitment to the music that they make.
Camelot Foundation
Funds projects through various programmes specifically focusing on marginalised young people.
Big Lottery Fund – Young Peoples Fund
New distributor will fund grants to individual young people, grants to voluntary and community organisations to run local
projects with and for young people and grants to voluntary organisations to fund national projects around the themes of being
healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and economic well-being.
Children and Young People’s Consultation Fund
For voluntary and community sector organisations to run consultation activities for children and young people, especially
those who are excluded and/or hard to access.
The Clore Duffield Foundation Small Grants Programme
This new programme funds performing arts education initiatives for children and young people aged 0-18 across the UK. The
Programme will be worth a total of £1 million to small UK organisations over a five-year period from 2005 to 2010. Both professional
and amateur arts organisations are eligible to apply, as are schools.
Prince's Trust
Aims to reach young people in the UK who face more barriers than most and help them to get past those barriers so they can
get their lives working and make a positive contribution to society.
Tudor Trust
Aims to promote confident participation in young people aged 9 – 25 who are at risk.
Refugee Community Development Scheme
Makes grants available to organisations that work in the UK with refugee communities including these that provide services
to asylum seekers.
Includes grants focusing on education, young people and social cohesion
Awards for All
Aimed at local communities, awards of up to £10,000. Funds projects enabling people to take part in arts, sports, heritage
and community activities.
T: 08456 002 040
Abbey National Charitable Trust
Supports projects in local communities through work in supporting disadvantaged people via education and training, local regeneration
and finance work.
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Focusing on mainstreaming approaches to equality, offending and early intervention and global exchange.
Big Lottery Fund – The Community Fund
Funds projects that help people or communities overcome problems, particularly projects that help people who face severe,
long-term, difficult to tackle disadvantage.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Various different arts, education and regeneration based funding programmes
Carnegie UK Trust
Various programmes to support projects from rural community development to projects working with marginalised young people.
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
The CAF Grantmaking Programme provides funding to support training and consultancy, initiatives to strengthen the structure
of your organisation and critical assistance.
The Charles Hayward Foundation
Grants of £1000 - £20,000 for various purposes, including community facilities. Grants can be given for up to three years
and funding is usually for capital costs.
Clore Duffield Foundation
Supports education, arts and museum education, the arts, heath and social welfare and has a particular interest in supporting
children, young people and society’s most vulnerable.
Comic Relief UK Grants
To help people make lasting, positive changes in their lives and their communities.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Support for arts and heritage, education, environment and social development (not individual artists)
info@emeefairbairn.org.uk
Futurebuilders
Aims to assist the voluntary and community sector in delivering public services such as projects which address crime, heath,
education and young people.
Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities
To help groups which due to location or circumstances are less advantaged. To help develop or improve accessible ‘green spaces’
in urban and rural areas across England.
Healthy Life Style Grants
Supports lifestyle interventions in communities to prevent or reduce the risk factors of heart disease.
Heritage Lottery Fund
To help groups and organisations of all sizes with projects that aim to conserve and enhance our diverse heritage, get people
involved and learn about, have access to and enjoy their heritage.
Lloyds TSB Foundation
Funds local community projects
Gary.beharrell@llyodstsbfoundations.org.uk
Millennium Awards Scheme
Supports people undertaking work of benefit to the community.
Nationwide Foundation
Makes charitable grants to organisations whose aim it is to encourage the quality of life and range of opportunities for
those in need.
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
Provides money for Local Authorities as part of Local Strategic Partnerships in the 88 most deprived areas. Funding is distributed
locally through the LSPs. One programme available to local community and voluntary organisations to improve their neighbourhoods
is the Community Chest scheme.
NESTA
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts – awards for individuals and organisations.
ODPM Special grants programme
For work in England that contributes to the ODPM’s (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) urban policy interests and explores
diverse ways of involving people in improving the quality of life in towns and cities.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Aims to address issues of inequality and disadvantage particularly in relation to young people, through the arts and education.
Rural Stress Action Plan
Tackling social, practical and psychological isolation can be a particular problem in rural areas. Grants between £5,000-£75,000
are being made available to projects that specifically help people suffering from stress in rural areas.
Truemark Trust
The Truemark Trust is keen to support small organisations and, in particular, neighbourhood-based community projects and
innovative work with the less popular groups. Current main areas of interest are disabled people, elderly people and others
who are disadvantaged.
For more information: Tel: 01730 893 416
Wellcome Trust
Funds various projects linking science to the arts.
The European Cultural Foundation (ECF)
Encourages intercultural dialogue enabling people from different cultures to meet, create and innovate – stimulate social
participation through the arts.
Visiting Arts Project Development Awards
Are open to all UK based promoters and venues promoting quality foreign work.
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Grants are given to UK residents / nationals who would benefit from a period of travel and learning that would then be put
into practice in the UK.
Culture 2000
Various annual programmes aimed at supporting cross European state collaborations, projects and events.
· The Directory of Grant Making Trusts
Published by the Directory of Social Change on behalf of the Charities Aid Foundation – available in public libraries.
· www.governmentfunding.org.uk
One-stop shop for funding – website giving you easy access to information about government grants. You can also register
for regular e-mail updates.
· The Funderfinder
Website which includes a section on getting advice about fundraising.
· A Guide to the Major Trusts
By Luke Fitzherbert and Jo Wickens, published annually by the Directory for Social Change, which also publishes A Guide to
Local Trust in the Midlands by Dave Griffiths.
· Arts Funding Guide
A clear guide for anyone looking to raise money for the arts.
· Arts Council England (ACE)
ACE will be able to provide further information on funding sources, go to your regional office for further details
· A general introduction to European Union Funding
Outlines the ways in which the European Commission distributes funding.
· Local Strategic Partnerships
Can be a source of many local and regional regeneration funding.
Find out about your LSP
· Business Link
Advice on funding for business development and support for new business ventures can be sought from Business Link.
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