Trusts and charitable foundations
Trusts, charities, foundations and private/business sponsorship are all sources of potential financial
assistance. Research on the web or by subscription to one of the numerous funding directories and digests is one of the best ways of keeping up to date with opportunities .
The Ragdoll Foundation
The Ragdoll Foundation is dedicated to developing the power of imaginative responses in children through the arts. They aim to provide a space for alternative thinking, voices and practices. A factory of creative ideas, that is self confident, not afraid to take risks, where people can innovate, be creative, demonstrate and share ideas.
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts
The Foundation for Sports and the Arts (FSA) was established in 1991 to distribute income generated by the football pools promoters. Grants can be awarded to a wide range of projects. The Foundation's aim is to enhance the quality of life for communities to encourage and fund sports and arts at every level. Funding is available for capital and revenue projects. Grants are available for a wide variety of sports and arts purposes, such as play areas, museums, arts projects, drama centres, etc
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF)
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation provides support for arts initiatives in all parts of the UK that address inequality of access and lack of opportunity to experience and enjoy the arts. Grants of £5,000 to £10,000 are available to organisations with a charitable purpose.
Arts & Business New Partners
Arts and Business, the national not for profit organisation that aims to increase business involvement in the arts, has funding available to bring together the Business and Arts worlds in mutually beneficial partnerships.
Funding is made available through the A&B REACH programme, which can provide funding of up to £10,000 to arts organisations to develop sustainable relationships and draw in new monies into the arts from the business community. Applicants will need to apply through the Arts and Business 12 regional offices - the East office is based in Cambridge.
Arts Council England
The organisation is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. We fund arts activities that benefit people in England, or that help artists and arts organisations.
National Lottery
The Big Lottery Fund Reaching Communities Fund now offers grants between £10,001 and £500,000 to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need in the UK. Applicants need
to show how they are responding to the needs of their community by involving them in the design and delivery of the project. This site provides information on how to get Lottery funding, the latest news on the organisations that distribute Lottery money, and case studies on projects that the Lottery has funded in the past.
Screen East
Screen East is the screen agency for the East of England. We are dedicated to developing, supporting and promoting the film and media industries and culture in the East of England. We allocate Lottery Funding on behalf of the UK Film Council through the Regional Investment Fund for England. (RIFE).
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK.
We make grants to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. We like to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan.
Youth Music
Youth Music is a national charity set up in 1999 to provide high quality and diverse music making for 8-10 year olds. It targets young people living in areas of social and economic need that might otherwise lack opportunity and predominantly supports activities that are held outside school hours.
Youth Music - '0pen Programmes'
Aimed at encouraging music-making, singing and vocal activities for children and young people, Youth Music operate a number of schemes.
First Steps - creative music-making for children
aged 0-5
Make It Sound - music-making for 5-18 year olds
woo otherwise lack the chance to take part
Vocalise! - for programmes where the voice is the
main instrument.
Grants for between £5,000 and £30,000 are available to non-profit making organisations to work with children and young people.
Cambridge City Council
Cambridge City Council’s Grant Aid Programme
Cambridge City Council Provide financial support to city based sport and arts organisations that meet the scheme’s criteria
Address: Cambridge City Council
The Guildhall
Cambridge
CB2 3QJ
Tel: Chris Freeman 01223 457862
E-Mail: mailto:chris.freeman@cambridge.gov.uk
South Cambridgeshire District Council
If you are planning to organise an arts event in South Cambridgeshire, the council may be able to support your project financially, offer advice and guide you in the direction of other funding sources.
Address: South Cambridgeshire District Council
Cambourne Business Park
Cambourne,
Cambridge
CB3 6EA.
Tel: (08450) 450 500
Fax: (01954) 713149
East Cambridgeshire
If you are planning to organise an arts event in East Cambridgeshire, ADeC maybe able to help support your project with a grant or a guarantee against loss and to guide you towards other sources of funding.
Address: Arts Development in East Cambridgeshire
Babylon Gallery
Waterside
Ely
CB7 4AU
Tel: (01353) 669022
Fax: (01353) 669052
E-Mail: mailto:info@adec.org.uk
Awards for All
Awards for All England is supported by the Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. Grants between £500 and £10,000 are awarded for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
Community Kitty
Community Kitty has been extremely successful at supporting small community projects. They have supported some wonderful projects across the UK from a Knitting circle, to a playgroup needing toys, sports equipment for cubs, and support for several village halls and playing fields committees- as well as a number of Heritage projects.
Ernest Cook Trust
The Trustees at Ernest Cook Trust are particularly interested in applications which provide opportunities for young people to gain qualifications; to further their employment prospects or assist training in crafts that are in danger of dying out. Trustees concentrate on educational aspects, which include arts, crafts and architecture. Grants are available from £100£3000. Charitable organisations, particularly those involved in rural situated projects may apply.
The Foyle Foundation
The Foyle Foundation supports charities registered in the UK, the dominant purpose of which is to benefit either Learning, the Arts or Health. They support both the performing and visual arts and the main priorities are: to help make the arts more accessible by developing new audiences, supporting tours, festivals and arts educational projects; and by encouraging new work and supporting young 'and emerging artists. Community arts activity will not
generally be supported.
The Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation helps a wide range of UK organisations with grants of varying sizes. Their recent round of funding has helped projects in the following categories: Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Social, Religion, Youth and Environment. Normally support cannot be considered for organisations or groups that are not UK registered charities. This restriction does not apply to churches, hospitals, educational establishments and housing corporations, which have exempt status.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Support for projects in the fields of: the arts; education; social welfare and Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations.
Co-operative Group Community Dividend Fund
This fund is now open for applications of between £100 and £5,000. The Co-operative Group funds community, self-help and voluntary groups which:
benefit a local community in which at least one
Co-op group business trades;
have a charitable purpose (you do not need to
have charitable status);
fit in with co-operative values and principles.
The Countess of Munster Musical Trust
The Trust's principal aim is to support young musicians, i.e. instrumentalists, singers, conductors and composers, of exceptional ability.
Daiwa Foundation
The Daiwa Foundation supports projects to promote, cultural, scientific and educational links between the UK and Japan. The Foundation will consider supporting new and innovative projects through its Special Grants Programme. Since the launch of it structured grants making programme in 2003 the Foundation has supported artists, scientists, university academics, schoolchildren, community-based organisations, theatre groups, research institutes, and national and regional museums to develop links with japan.
Dixon's Group Foundation
National retailer Dixon's Group supports a variety of charitable causes through the Dixon's Group Foundation and local sponsorship. DGF's main focus is in the following areas: crime, health, regeneration, education, social employees, inclusion.
The Foundation supports both local and national charities with donations ranging from £100 £10,000.
Application forms are available from Community Relations Team, Dixon's Group Plc, Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead HP2 7TG
The Fenton Arts Trust
The Fenton Arts Trust aims to give encouragement and financial support to those actively contributing to the creative arts in the UK. It seeks to assist, through grants and bursaries, individuals and groups who are making a worthwhile contribution to the artistic and cultural life of this country. The Fenton Arts Trust grants are available to support individual works, activities, performances or prizes in the fields of drama, painting, sculpture, ballet, music and poetry.
The Gerald Micklem Charitable Trust
The Gerald Micklem Charitable Trust gives grants to projects and activities, including the arts. Grants are normally in the region of £1,000 to £3,000. Further information visit the
website.
The Gordon Foundation
The Gordon Foundation helps people up to the age of 30 grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. It offers grants to support their education in the fine or performing arts, particularly music, drama or design, or to allow them to engage in educational travel which involves physical challenge and endeavour.
The Grocers' Charity
The Grocers' Charity supports a wide range of projects across the UK, with a recent focus being placed on work with young people and people with disabilities. The Charity is also interested in the arts, heritage, medicine (but not hospices), religious causes (but not for church fabric projects) and older people.
The Trustees meet four times a year to consider applications and applications must be submitted at least a couple of months ahead of each meeting. The Charity can support both capital and revenue projects and grants range from between: £1,000 and £5,000.
The Hattori Foundation
The aim of the Foundation in the field of music is to encourage and assist exceptionally talented young instrumental soloists or chamber ensembles who are British Nationals or resident in the UK and whose talent and achievements give promise of an international career.
Idlewild Trust
The Idlewild Trust is a grant making trust that supports registered charities concerned with the encouragement of excellence in the performing and fine arts and the preservation for the benefit of the public of buildings and items of historical interest or national importance. Occasionally it
also supports projects that conserve the natural environment. The total funding available each year is approximately £120,000 and registered charities can apply for grants ranging from £1,000 to £3,000.
The Lankelly Chase Foundation
Recognisingand valuing the contribution made by the arts to the mental and physical health of the nation, The LankellyChase Foundation wish to encourage access to the arts, in particular amongst those who historically have been least able to participate, such as those in rural areas or with special needs.
Lloyds TSB Foundation
The Lloyds TSB Foundations make up one of the largest grant-making trusts in the UK and support charities that enable people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled, to play a fuller role in the community. The Foundation's focus is on funding social and community projects as well as education and training initiatives.
The trustees are particularly keen to support small community-based charities where small amounts of funding can make a significant difference to local people's lives.
The Princes Trust
The Prince's Trust helps groups of young people aged 18-30 who want to undertake training, run projects in their communities or start up in business. They have various schemes supporting arts activities and creative businesses.
The PRS Foundation - British Music Abroad
The PRS Foundation has launched a new funding scheme, British Music Abroad, to nurture emerging British music talent. Funded by Arts Council England's Grants for the arts programme, this scheme offers financial support to emerging UK acts that have been selected for key overseas showcase opportunities. The funding scheme is aimed at those who are making waves in the UK and who are ready to make a broader international impact. A large part of the costs of showcasing are travel and accommodation costs which, for an emerging act, can be prohibitive. British Music Abroad will provide financial support towards these costs.
Music and Dance Scheme
A national grants scheme for exceptionally talented children, which will allow them to gain access locally to specialist training. Go to
the website to find out more about the participating schools and designated centres of excellence across the U K.
The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS)
NADFAS has two grant-making funds, the Britcher Furlong Bequest and the Patricia Fay Memorial Fund.
Applications for grants will be considered from NADFAS Volunteer Groups or outside bodies supporting youth organisations, and projects put forward by NADFAS Societies and Areas. Applications from students for grants to assist in paying fees for second degrees in conservation and art-oriented subjects are also welcomed.
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
NESTA invests in exceptional talent and innovative ideas. Information can be found at the website.
Queen Elizabeth Scholarships
QES are awarded to fund further study, training and practical experience for individuals wishing to improve their craft or trade skills. Scholarships are worth between £2,000 and £15,000 and can be awarded for a wide range of modern and traditional crafts. There is no age limit but applicants must demonstrate a high level of skill and commitment and must live and work in the UK.
Youth in Action Call for Proposals
Youth in Action is the new EU Programme in the field of youth, with a total budget of 885 million euros. The key aims of the programme are to promote active citizenship among young people in general and European citizenship in particular.
Funding is available through Connect Youth International, which is part of the British Council. Within the programme funding is available for youth exchanges, volunteering in other European countries, projects managed by and involving young people to improve local communities and actions that enable those working with young people to develop projects that meet the objectives of the Youth in Action Programme.
Abbey Charitable Trust
Abbey's Charitable Trust was set up in 1990 to provide a focus for the bank's activities with the voluntary sector. The trustees are committed to supporting local communities, particularly in those areas where Abbey has a significant presence, by supporting disadvantaged people through:
education and training;
local regeneration projects which encourage
cross community partnerships;
financial advice which helps them manage their
money.
Donations in these areas can range from £250 to a maximum of £20,000, but in practice most donations will be in the range of £1,000 to £4,000. Only organisations with charitable status are eligible to apply, and the trustees prefer to fund
a complete project rather than make a partial donation to a fund-raising campaign. Requests should be for something that is suitable for one off funding. Smaller charities, local charities or local appeals from national charities are favoured.
The Trust Help Line number is 0870 608 0104 and
is open from 10am until 2pm Monday to Friday, or you can
email: communitypartnership@abbey.com
Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures
The foundation is seeking proposals for activities and initiatives that support intercultural dialogue in the 37 Euro-Mediterranean countries. The programme is co-funded by the European Union and the 37 members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
It works in the following areas and seeks to use these sectors to explore and enhance intercultural dialogue: Arts, Education, Human rights, The Media, Religion.
Baring Foundation
The Baring Foundation's purpose is to "improve the quality of life of people suffering disadvantage and discrimination." They aim to achieve this trhough making grants to strengthen voluntary sector organisations which serve them directly or indirectly.
The BRIT Trust
The BRIT Trust was established in 1989 and is entirely funded by the music industry. Its mission is to give young people a chance to express their musical creativity regardless of race, class, sex or ability. Since its inception, over £8.8million has been donated by the BRIT Trust to various charities.
The Carnegie UK Trust
The trust supports community needs in art, heritage and social welfare.
Charles Hayward Foundation Funding
UK registered charities working at a community and neighbourhood level can apply for funding between £1,000 and £20,000. The foundation will fund capital costs and project funding may be offered for start-up or development activities. The foundation is interested in funding projects that cover arts, preservation and the environment.
Clore Duffield Foundation - The Clore Performing Arts Awards
The Clore Performing Arts Awards (previously the Small Grants Programme) funds performing arts education initiatives aimed at children and young people (aged 0-18) across the UK. The Awards will be worth a total of £1 million to the sector over a five-year period from 2005 to 2010.
Clore Duffield Foundation - The Clore Jewish Develoment Fund
The Clore Duffield Foundation has launched a new initiative to support Jewish communities outside of London. Known as Sparks: The Clore Jewish Development Fund, the initiative will fund innovative cultural, educational and community development projects.
BBC
Visit the website for Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composer Competition and other helpful info.
The Biffaward Small Grants Scheme
Recognised as one of the most respected Landfill Communities Fund (formerly Landfill Tax Credit Scheme) distributors, Biffaward has allocated more than £80 million to some 1,000 projects throughout the U K. The Biffaward Small Grants Scheme has been established to enable groups to quickly access lower levels of funding in order to improve the quality of life in their community. The aim is to make it easier for small groups to access funding in their communities.
Projects which have the primary aim of improving an amenity located within 10 miles of a Biffa operation and which will have the end benefit of fostering vibrant communities by improving the environmental, economic or social circumstances of a community are given priority. These may include Access to sport, culture or recreation. The Small Grants Scheme is open to any not-for-profit community led organisation with its own bank account. Groups can apply for between £250£5,000 although the total cost of your project must be no more than £10,000.
The Big Boost
The Big Boost gives awards of between £250 and £5,000 to young people aged 11 to 25, to help them get their ideas off the ground. The programme is funded by Big Lottery Fund and is part of their Young People's Fund initiative. There are two types of awards: one is for 11 to 16 year olds and the other for 16 to 25 year olds.
The awards focus on encouraging social entrepreneurs among young people. They are intended to encourage and support new community projects from the young people themselves, (they are not intended to support existing initiatives).
The awards are for young people living in England, applying as an individual (or as a small informal group) who want to run a project that is a benefit to the community within the UK and a learning opportunity for the applicant(s).
Charity Technology Trust
Charity Technology Trust has launched its CTX Programme, distributing donated MICROSOFT software and other donated technology products to UK charities. All the most popular Microsoft products are available to charities for a nominal administration fee.
Community Radio Fund
The Office of Communications (Ofcom) has a Community Radio Fund established to help fund the core costs of running a community radio station. For more information see their website.
Crafts Council Development Award
The Crafts Council has announced that it is seeking applications for funding through its Development Award scheme. The scheme is open to designer-makers who are about to set up their business in England, or who are within three years of doing so. The award is for a year and training, aimed at small creative practices; 1,000 promotional postcards and inclusion on the Crafts Council's Photostore online database.
First Light Funding for Young Film Makers
First Light, which is supported by the UK Film Council and the National Lottery, provides grants to young people aged between 5 and 19 to participate in all aspects of film productions. Support is available through two funding streams:
The Pilot Awards - provides grants of up to £4,000 for the production of a 5 minute film
The Studio Awards - provides grants of up to
£20,000 for films up to 10 minutes long
First Light is keen to support teaching professionals who wish to use film making in the class room. For more information
visit the website.
Heritage lottery Fund East of England - Young Roots
Young Roots offers grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 to engage young people in exploring their heritage. Young people aged between 13-20 years (up to 25 years for those with additional needs) are encouraged to identify their own heritage and share their learning with the wider community. For more information, advice and support contact your local Young Roots Co-ordinator.
Mediabox
Mediabox is a new fund that gives 13 to 19 year olds the chance to create media projects, on film, television, print, radio or online to express their own opinions, ideas and views, learn new skills, be creative, do something different and get their voices heard. There are three different types of grants offered by Mediabox.
My Mediabox - open to individual young people and groups of young people. Grants start at £100 and go up to £1,000. Mid Mediabox and Big Mediabox-open to youth and/or media focused organisations. Grants go up to £80,000.
The Rayne Foundation
The Rayne Foundation is a grant-making trust that awards grants of between £5,000 - £20,000 to UK registered charities whose work helps society's most vulnerable or disadvantaged individuals, especially children, young people and the elderly.
They support all types of art and culture in the arts sector, but current areas of interest in the arts sector are:
Building projects for performance/display / conservation facilities (but not building maintenance or repairs).
Specialist arts-education organisations or the education department of general arts organisations which help children and young people with the transition between the different levels of formal education.
They are unlikely to support applications for performances, temporary exhibitions or festivals.
The Sutton Trust
The Sutton Trust funds projects that provide educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds. The Trust will consider every project on an individual basis, and are particularly interested in innovative projects and pilot schemes that have the potential to benefit large numbers, and in new research.
Tudor Trust
Tudor is an independent grant-making trust which supports organisations working across the UK. They aim to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society. It favours applications from groups with a turnover of less than £lm 'committed to growth, progression and development'.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation (UK)
Charities and not for profit organisations that are active in the fields of Health Care and Disability; Community Support and the Arts and Education are able to apply for one off funding through the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation. Areas of interest include:
projects which enable the disabled and people living in areas of need and poverty to participate in the performance arts and to experience artistic excellence in the performing arts;
projects which encourage and give opportunities to young talented people whose circumstances might otherwise deny them;
projects which help children at risk of exclusion.
UnLtd
UnLtd, a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better - gives out 1,000 "Level 1" Awards of between £500 and £5,000 each year across the UK. Support is aimed at individuals or informal groups of people who want to set up new projects and who have both the ideas and the commitment to develop projects which will benefit their community. They do not support organisations.
Wellcome Trust - 'People Awards'
The People Awards are up to £30,000 and provide fast-track funding for activities that:
communicate biomedical science to the public
stimulate thought and debate about biomedical
science improve understanding of the powers and
limitations of science.
All projects must be in the area of biomedical science and span either historical, social, ethical, cultural or contemporary issues.
The scheme is open to a wide range of people including: mediators and practitioners of science
communication, science centre/museum staff, artists, educators and health professionals
academics in bioscience, social science, bioethics and history.
Applications are accepted from a range of
organisations, and partnership projects (e.g. between different organisations, scientists and artists or ethicists and educators) are welcomed. Applications can be made at any time during the year and will be peer reviewed.
All enquiries and application forms should be addressed to: Dr Lesley Paterson, Project Manager, Engaging Science, Public Engagement Development Group, Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, Tel: 020 7611 7346, Email: people@wellcome.ac.uk
YouthBank UK
YouthBank is an innovative UK-wide grantmaking initiative run by young people for young people. Local Youth Banks provide small grants to projects led by young people, of benefit to the community and that also benefit the young people taking part. YouthBank is unique in that it is young people themselves who make decisions about how local Youth Banks are managed and run and, through a Board of young people, also direct the UK-wide programme.
Each Youth Bank decides its own criteria for grant giving and processes for applying for funds.
Comic Relief - Funding for Small Scale Regeneration Projects (UK)
Local community groups, community enterprises and registered charities that address social and economic deprivation within specific geographic areas such as a housing estate, neighbourhood or village may be eligible to apply for grants of up to £5,000 through Comic Relief's Disadvantaged Communities programme.
The focus of the programme is on small scale local projects which were started by local residents who came together to try to make their community better.
Fair Share Trust
Some parts of the UK missed out on Lottery funding in the past. The Fair Share programme has been helping to change that. Targeted at 77 areas, the Fair Share Trust is a £50 million trust providing sustained funding in Fair Share areas until 2013. The Community Foundation Network (CFN) is the sole UK trustee and has appointed delivery agents in each of the Fair Share areas. Selected neighbourhoods in each area are receiving targeted support from these agents and local people are getting the opportunity to make decisions on where the funding goes.
Makintosh Foundation
This foundation will consider applications for all projects with the fields of the Arts or Children and Education. Applications must be registered charities. Most grants are for less than £10,000.
For more information contact: Nicholas Makintosh, Appeals Director, Makintosh Foundation, 1 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RB. Tel: 202 7637 8866
New Music Award 2008 (UK)
The PRS Foundation for New Music is again providing £50,000 to inspire and stimulate the creation of an imaginative and original piece of new British music. The New Music Award is of up to £50,000 towards a new music project.
Music of any genre is welcome to be entered. The performance can be presented in any context or suitable media. The foundation will be looking for projects which will have a lasting musical impact. The Award is open to individuals, groups, organisations and consortia.
Vodafone UK Foundation
Over the next three years the Vodaphone UK Foundation will donate £50,000 to Vodaphone retail stores across the UK to encourage fundraising and charitable giving at a local level.
The new initiative invites each of Vodaphone's 15 retail regions to pitch for grants of up to £10,000 for charitable causes under the theme of unlocking the potential in young people.