Arts, Music and Heritage funding

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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.

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:

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

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