Arts, Music and Heritage funding
Dartford Borough Council Sports, Arts and Heritage Grants
Grants of between £100 and £1,500 are available to support projects that extend the participation and audience of sports, arts and heritage activities for residents of Dartford Borough. Grants are available for revenue costs and for movable equipment costs. The next deadline is 30 September 2008.
- For further details and application form please email grants@dartford.gov.uk
Project Delivery Team, Dartford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Home Gardens, Dartford DA1 1DR
Tel: 01322 343224 Fax: 01322 343559
Email: grants@dartford.gov.uk
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England , distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. They have a number of grant schemes including:
- Grants for the arts - Aims include helping more people to take part in the arts, providing creative opportunities for children and young people and creating opportunities to promote and celebrate diversity. The scheme is open to individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work.
- Own Art - Interest free loan for buying art
- Take it Away -Interest free loan up to £2000 for buying musical instruments and equipment
Sovereign House Church Street Brighton BN1 1RA
Tel: 01273 763000 Fax: 0870 242 1257 Textphone: 01273 710659
Email: southeast@artscouncil.org.uk
Website:www.artscouncil.org.uk
Awards for All
Grants up to £10,000 from the Awards for All programme are open to not-for-profit organisations, including parish and town councils, schools and health bodies.
They can be used to support small-scale projects that promote arts and education, encourage healthier living, develop local sports, support heritage initiatives and boost community.
Awards for All South East, 3rd Floor, Dominion House, Woodbridge
Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4BN
Tel:
08454 102030
Email: south.east@awardsforall.org.uk
Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Provisionally for professional arts groups
or professional artists working in groups. Grants of up to £10,000
for new art projects.
UK Branch, 98 Portland Place , London , W1B 1ET
Tel: 020 7636 5313 Fax: 020 7637 3421
Email: info@gulbenkian.org.uk
Website: www.gulbenkian.org.uk
Clore Duffield Foundation - Performing Arts Awards
The Foundation offers grants to registered charities, schools, voluntary organisations and professional and amateur arts organisations in the UK for projects that provide young people (aged 0-18 years) with the opportunity to experience performing arts education.
Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 are available for performing arts-related educational projects. The Awards fund the project costs of work that covers every aspect of the performing arts,including opera, dance, music, musical theatre, the spoken word and theatre. The funding is available for new projects rather than for extensions or repetitions of existing ones. Total project costs should not exceed £30,000.
The scheme runs from 2005 to 2010 and operates two grant-making rounds each year. Application forms are available from the Foundation’s website.
Studio 3, Chelsea Manor Studios, Flood Street, London SW3 5SR
Telephone: 020 7351 6061 Fax: 020 7351 5308
E-mail: cloreduffield@aol.com
Website: www.cloreduffield.org.uk
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The grants programme will focus on four
main areas: Arts & Heritage
- new projects focus on visual arts; Education; Environment; and
Social Change: Enterprise and Independence. Grants range between £300-£600,000,
but allocations above £100,000
are unusual.
Address: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, 11 Park Place , London
SW1A 1LP
Tel: 020 7297 4700
Fax 020 7297 4701
Email info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Website: www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Foyle Foundation Grants Programme
To widen the opportunity to enjoy and be stimulated by the arts
and to foster creative endeavour. This will be achieved by helping
to make the arts more accessible, developing new audiences, supporting
tours, festivals, educational projects and by helping to develop
new work. Building and infrastructure projects to construct new arts
facilities, improve or re-equip existing venues will also be considered.
The majority of grants will be in the range of £5,000 to £50,000.
The maximum amount of a large grant in any one year will not normally
exceed £100,000.
David Hall, Chief Executive, The Foyle Foundation, Rugby Chambers,
2 Rugby Street , London WC1N 3QU
Tel: 020 7430 9119 Fax: 020 7430 9830
Email: information@foylefoundation.org.uk
Website: www.foylefoundation.org.uk
John Paul Getty Charitable Trust
Funds projects which provide therapeutic
use of the arts for the long-term benefit of excluded groups as well
as projects which enable people in these groups to feel welcome in
arts venues, and which enable them to make long-term constructive
use of their leisure. Grants range from £5,000 to £15,000
Ms Bridget O'Brien Twohig, Trust Administrator, J. Paul Getty Jr.
Charitable Trust, 1 Park Square West , London , NW1 4LJ
Tel: 020 7486 1859
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund distributes money
raised by the national Lottery to support all aspects of heritage
in the UK , from historic buildings and museums to archives, nature
conservation and oral history. They provide both capital grants (for
buildings and equipment) and time-limited activity grants.
There are two main funding strands, grants for between £5,000 and £50,000 and grants of over £50,000.
There is also a grant programme for the repair of places of worship.
Heritage Lottery Fund, South East Team, 7 Holbein Place , London
SW1W 8NR
Tel: 020 7591 6184
Email: enquire@hlf.org.uk
Website: www.hlf.org.uk
LINK Fund
The Link Fund supports local charity and community projects that
benefit communities primarily around Land Securities developments
in North Kent. It is administered by the Kent Community Foundation
and a panel of local people will decide which projects receive grants
of between £250 and £5,000.
Grants will be considered for projects that relate to jobs, lifelong
learning, community and culture. The Advisor for Dartford is Manjit
Sohal who can be contacted on 07812 555024 or via email manjit.kcf@blueyonder.co.uk
Kent Community Foundation, Office 23, Evegate Park Barn, Evegate,
Smeeth, Ashford TN25 6SX
Tel: 01303 814500
Email: admin.kcf@btopenworld.com
Website: www.kentcf.org.uk
The Music Sound Foundation
The Music Sound Foundation is dedicated
to the improvement of music education with a focus on youth. The
Trustees currently accept applications from the following:
Schools (non-specialist) to fund music education
Music Students in full time education to fund instrument purchase
Music teachers to fund courses and training
The Music Sound Foundation is currently unable to accept applications
applications relating to community projects, music therapy and for
assistance with student fees/living expenses.
EMI Group, 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square , London W1A 2AY
Tel: 0207 795 7295
Email: orrj@emigroup.com
Website: www.musicsoundfoundation.com/index.html
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The foundation's primary concern is to address
issues of inequality and disadvantage, particularly in relation to
young people. Support is concentrated on projects in the UK which
address these issues through the arts and education. Grants are available
from £5,000
to £100,000+
18 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1h 9AA
Tel: 020 7227 3500 Fax: 020 7222 0601
Email: information@phf.org.uk
Website: www.phf.org.uk
The Performing Rights Foundation
The UK 's largest independent funder solely for
new music. Its main aim is to support music creators, performers
and promoters who are involved in creatively adventurous or pioneering
musical activity. It does this by offering a wide range of funding
schemes for new music activity.
29/33 Berners Street , London WIT 3AB
Tel: 020 7306 4044
Fax: 020 7306 4814
Email: info@prsf.co.uk
Website: www.prsfoundation.co.uk/index.php
The Pilgrim Trust
Grants are available for projects that meet the following
priorities:
Promotion of scholarship, academic research, cataloguing and conservation
within museums, galleries, libraries and archives, particularly those
outside London.
Preservation of particular architectural or historical features on
historic buildings or the conservation of individual monuments or
structures that are of importance to the surrounding environment.
Projects that seek to give a new use to obsolete buildings that are
of outstanding architectural or historic interest.
The preparation and dissemination of architectural or historical
research about buildings and designed landscapes and their importance
to the community.
There is a small grants programmme (£5000) with an easier application process and the average larger grant size is £20,000.
Cowley House, 9 Little College Street , London , SW1P 3SH
Tel: 020 7222 4723 Fax: 020 7676 0461
Email: georgina.nayler@thepilgrimtrust.org.uk
Website: www.thepilgrimtrust.org.uk
The UK Film Council
Provides funding for film production and training,
under the headings of development, feature length productions, short
films, training and distribution and exhibition.
The UK FILM COUNCIL, 10 Little Portland Street , London W1W 7JG
Tel: 020 7861 7861 Fax : 020 7861 7862
Website: www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/funding
For further information on the Regional Investment Fund for England:
Screen South , Folkestone Enterprise Centre, Shearway Road , Folkestone
Kent CT9 4RH
Tel: 01303 298 222 Fax: 01303 298 227
Email: info@screensouth.org
Website: www.screensouth.org
The Wates Foundation
Arts, Heritage and the Environment - To contribute to mainstream culture through the Arts, the conservation and promotion of the national heritage, and the rural and urban environment. The Foundation aims to alleviate distress and improve the quality of life with a specific emphasis on the physical, mental and spiritual w elf are of the young and disadvantaged aged 8-25.
Grants are concentrated on projects
in the Greater London area. Grants of up to £25,000 a year
for a maximum of three years under the large grant programme and
a small grant scheme where the maximum is £10,000 but the majority
will be around £5,000.
The Wates Foundation, Wates House, Station Approach, Leatherhead,
Surrey KT22 7SW
Tel: 01372 861000 Fax: 01372 861252
E-mail: director@watesfoundation.org.uk
Website: www.watesfoundation.org.uk
Youth Music England
Has four funding programmes, offering grants of between £1,000-£20,000
to non-profit making
organisations working with children/young people over a period of
3-18 months:
• First Steps - Developing 0-5 year olds through music, with training
for parents and carers
• Music Maker - Music-making in any style or genre for 5-18 year olds,
or up to 25 year olds
with special needs
• Plug into Music - Developing music technology skills for 5-18 year
olds
• Singing Challenge - Encouraging new and exciting ways of singing
for 5-18 year olds
One America Street London, SE1 0NE
Tel: 020 7902 1060
Email: info@youthmusic.org.uk
Website: www.youthmusic.org.uk
