Youth Music gives grants for music projects that help to provide equal access to music. The current funds are as follows: Youth Music Trailblazer Fund Grants of £2,000 to £30,000 to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. Your work must cover one of the following themes: […]
Funding updates
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Creative Enterprise Business Builder
This opportunity is for small businesses working in ‘moving image’ for storytelling. If you run a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the screen-based sector you may be able to get a grant from the Business Builder fund to develop your business. The funding is for companies working with on-screen content that tells a story […]
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Allen Lane Foundation
The Allen Lane Foundation was established by Sir Allen Lane, who set up the publishing company Penguin Books. The foundation awards funding for charitable purposes across the UK, focusing on specific groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination. There are seven funding programmes: Asylum seekers and refugees – the foundation has updated its focus, now supporting […]
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Art Fund
The Art Fund provides funding to support museums, galleries and other heritage and visual arts organisations and their staff. This includes funding to improve and expand collections, research funding, student grants and travel bursaries. The following grants are currently open: Acquisition Grants – to help museums and galleries purchase art for their collections. This can […]
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Persimmon Community Champions
The Persimmon Community Champions programme provides support to community organisations that make a real difference to people’s lives. Each of Persimmon’s 30 offices makes a donation of up to £6,000 every quarter to local organisations. The £6,000 is usually shared between three or four organisations such as charities, voluntary groups, healthcare organisations including hospices, sports […]
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QantX
QantX invests in early-stage businesses in high-growth, innovative sectors in the South West. Investment takes the form of debt or equity and can be worth up to £750,000. The aim is to help growing businesses with high-impact innovations developed in the greater South West to stay in the region and create high-value jobs. QantX invests […]
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Sports Foundation for the Disabled
Grants up to £5,000 are available to enable people with physical disabilities and visual impairments from South West England and Wales to take part in sport, physical activities and sporting challenges. The Sports Foundation for the Disabled provides funding for organisations that support people with disabilities and for individuals with physical disabilities or visual impairments. […]
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Arts Everywhere Fund
The Government has announced a package of support for the arts and culture sector. It includes new funding programmes and additional funding for existing schemes to support museums, libraries, arts venues and heritage organisations. The new funds are: Creative Foundations Fund – £85million to support urgent capital works to keep venues across the country up […]
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Benefact Trust
The Benefact Trust provides grants to support the repair, restoration, protection, improvement and reach of places of Christian worship. This includes activities that benefit the wider community and the environment. The following grant schemes are open to applications: Building improvement grants – including making essential repairs, enhancing accessibility, restoring historic features, or installing energy-efficient systems […]
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Health Lottery Foundation
Voluntary organisations will soon be able to apply for funding from the new Health Lottery Foundation. The foundation will be distributing funding from the Health Lottery which launched in January 2025. Grants will be available for organisations offering support in the following areas: chronic disease disability inequity healthcare IT health disparity preventative care young people […]