Arts, Music and Heritage funding
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 of up to £2,000 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 of 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
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The grants programme focuses 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 of 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 relating to community projects, music therapy or 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
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.prsformusicfoundation.com
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 of 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 (£5,000) 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
PRS Foundation for New Music
PRS provides a range of grants to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music in the UK. New application guidelines are now available. The Foundations grant making programmes supports:
- British music abroad
- Performance groups
- Music festivals
- Unsigned bands
- New music
- Promoters, etc
The Foundation also provides a range of bursaries to individuals and since March 2000 the foundation has made more than 2,500 grants, totalling some £10 million.
PRS for Music Foundation, 29-33 Berners Street, London, W1T 3AB
Tel:0207 306 4044 Fax: 0207 306 4814
E-mail: info@prsformusicfoundation.com
Website:www.prsformusicfoundation.com/funding/whatdowesupport.htm
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 welfare of the young and disadvantaged aged between 8 and 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 are available under the large grant programme and a small grant scheme also exists, 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 and £20,000 to non-profit making organisations working with children/young people over a period of 3 to 18 months:
- First Steps - Developing 0 to 5 year olds through music, with training for parents and carers
- Music Maker - Music-making in any style or genre for 5 to 18 year olds, or up to 25 year olds with special needs
- Plug into Music - Developing music technology skills for 5 to 18 year olds
- Singing Challenge - Encouraging new and exciting ways of singing for 5 to 18 year olds
One America Street, London, SE1 0NE
Tel: 020 7902 1060
Email:info@youthmusic.org.uk
Website: www.youthmusic.org.uk
