The Spring/Summer funding round (April-September 2008) is now closed. Details of the Autumn/Winter funding round (October 2008-March 2009) will be posted here in due course.

OTHER SOURCES OF FUNDING:

Arts Council England www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/

Grants for the arts
We fund arts activities that benefit people in England, or that help artists and arts organisations. If you have an idea for something you want to do with the arts, find out more about Grants for the arts, our main open application funding programme.

Regular funding for organisations
We regularly fund over 1,100 arts organisations on a three-year basis, investing around £400 million in these organisations in 2006/07. Our support helps bring high quality work to a wide range of people - as both audience and participants.

Cultural leadership programme
We launched this two-year programme in May 2006 to promote excellence in management and leadership.

Own Art
This interest-free loan scheme is designed to make it easy and affordable for people to buy contemporary works of art.

Managed funds
Managed funds allow us to identify new opportunities for the arts, take new initiatives, establish new partnerships and address particular ambitions for growth. These funds are not normally open to application.

Urban cultural programme
The Urban cultural programme provided lottery funding for cultural projects in urban areas across the UK, between 2004 and 2006.

Awards for All www.awardsforall.org.uk/england

Awards for All England is supported by the Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. We award grants of between £300 and £10,000 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. You can apply at any time. The application form is short and simple. You will be told if you are successful or not within eight weeks.

Big Lottery www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/london

BIG hands out half the good causes money from the National Lottery. We are committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.

Bridge House Trust - see City Bridge Trust www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk

British Council www.britishcouncil.org/arts-support-and-funding-overview.htm

The British Council is not a funding body in the usual sense, and there is no application form, except for the grants to artists scheme In the majority of cases we approach the UK artists who we think may be interested in working with us, rather than vice versa. Much of our work is done in collaboration with partners overseas, who provide funding for work brokered by us. Still, we are always keen to hear well-thought out proposals from arts professionals.

City Bridge Trust www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk

The City Bridge Trust aims to address disadvantage by supporting charitable activity across Greater London through quality grant-making and related activities within clearly defined priorities.

We try to add value to our grant-making through a number of proactive initiatives. We work collaboratively with London’s Voluntary and Community Sectors identifying new areas of need and new solutions.

The Trust makes grants to charitable organisations for the benefit of the inhabitants of Greater London - 32 London boroughs and the City of London. Applications may be submitted at any time and we aim to make a decision within four months of receipt. All decisions made by the Trustees are final.

Clore Duffield Foundation www.cloreduffield.org.uk

The Foundation is a grant-giving organisation which concentrates its support on education, the arts, museum and gallery education, cultural leadership training, health and social welfare, whilst placing a particular emphasis on supporting children, young people and society’s more vulnerable individuals. The Foundation is chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield DBE.

It should be noted that the Foundation is already heavily committed for 2007 through the Main Grants Programme, so very few submissions are likely to meet with success at the current time.

The Small Grants Programme for Performing Arts Education has now been renamed the Clore Performing Arts Awards, grants for creative projects with under 18s. The deadline for Round 6 is 12 September 2007.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Arts programme

Visual Arts - Key Focus until mid-2008
Until mid-2008 we will focus primarily on the contemporary visual arts including crafts, design, fine art, new media, photography and sculpture. We are particularly interested in visual arts proposals that fit one or both of our main funding priorities below: Serving Audiences and Supporting Artists.

Performing Arts and Multi-Disciplinary Arts
Until mid-2008, we will concentrate on building on our prior grant investment within this sector. Applications for performing arts and multi-disciplinary arts will, therefore, only be considered from organisations that have received a grant from since 1999 and where the proposal fits one or both of our main funding priorities:Serving Audiences and Supporting Artists.

Foyle Foundation www.foylefoundation.org.uk

The Foyle Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities whose core work is in the areas of Learning, the Arts and Health. Since it became operational in November 2001 The Foundation has already disbursed over £26.2m in grants.

Grants for the Arts - see Arts Council England www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/

Heritage Lottery Fund www.hlf.org.uk/english/InYourArea/London/

We are keen to work together with local and regional groups to develop projects that will give people a better opportunity to experience, enjoy, care for and protect our heritage. We are happy to discuss potential applications with you

Jack Petchey Foundation www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk/grants

The Jack Petchey Foundation can offer the following:

Grants to assist projects that benefit young people within our catchments area (for examples of recent Project Grants see our Latest News section). Grants are normally valued between £500 and £50,000.

Grants to assist schools to obtain specialist school status
Sponsorship Grants to assist young people in fundraising or personal development activities

Grants to assist schools/colleges in producing Leavers Books

Our grants programme continues to enable thousands of youth organisations and schools/colleges to develop and nurture their young people, and the services they provide.

J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust www.jpgettytrust.org.uk

There are 4 main beneficial areas: Social Welfare, Therapeutic Use of the Arts, Conservation and the Environment. Most of the funding is given to Social Welfare. Grants are usually in the £5-15,000 range, for both capital and revenue. Those for salaries or running costs can be repeated on an annual basis for a maximum of 3 years. Applications are processed all the time, and three months is the least it usually takes to award a grant. Some small grants of up to £2,000 are also made in between the quarterly trustee meetings. Priority is likely to be given to projects in the less prosperous parts of the country, particularly outside London and the South East, and to those which cover more than one beneficial area. [Check exclusions]

London Councils www.londoncouncils.gov.uk

London Councils invests £28m a year on funding over 400 voluntary organisations on behalf of all the London boroughs. London Councils is now commissioning the voluntary sector to provide 59 priority services to meet key areas of need in the capital. The application process will be open in phases between February and September 2007. Phase 3/4 is now open. London Councils has decided to extend the deadline for the submission of applications for single stage services to noon on Friday 21 September 2007. [Click on Grants button on Home page]

Mediabox www.media-box.co.uk

If you're aged 13-19 and living in England, Mediabox could offer you grants to make creative media projects for film, television, radio, online, print and multi media platforms.You can apply anytime for up to £1,000 with My Mediabox. Organisations working with young people can apply for up to £80,000 with Mid and Big Mediabox. The next application deadline for Mid & Big Mediabox is 18 September 2007.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation www.phf.org.uk

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is one of the larger independent grant-making foundations in the UK. We make grants to organisations which aim to maximise opportunities for individuals to experience a full quality of life, both now and in the future. In particular we are concerned with children and young people, and others who are disadvantaged.We prefer to support work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, is too risky or is unpopular. We also take initiatives ourselves where new thinking is required or where we believe there are important unexplored opportunities

Prince's Trust www.princes-trust.org.uk

If all that’s stopping you kick start your idea is cash, we could help. How? Through a Prince's Trust Group Award. What's the catch? There isn’t one. You just have to come up with an idea that can bring benefits to your community. A new basket ball court, a music studio, a youth club, sex workshops in schools, a youth advisory board, even a local magazine. Something that will add value to life in your local community. Who can apply? Anyone between 14-25 who is either:

Unemployed – out of work, or working less than 16 hours a week

Offenders or ex-offenders – if you hold a criminal record, have been or are currently on probation

Care leavers – if you’re in or have recently left care; or

Educational underachiever – if you got less than five GCSEs.

If you don’t fall under any of these categories, don’t worry, it doesn’t mean you can’t get funding for your project. In fact, if you’re aged 11-25 you could still get funding through The Big Boost. How do I apply? Call us free on 0800 842 842 or visit the website (address above)

Tudor Trust www.tudortrust.org.uk

The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making charitable trust which supports organisations working across the UK. We do not focus our funding on specific themes or programmes. Instead we want to fund a wide range of people and organisations working to achieve lasting change in their communities. Our role is to support and enable their visions, trusting the groups we fund to do the work that is needed.

Tudor aims to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society. We are interested in how organisations tackle these needs, and their root causes. We want to encourage growth, progression and development, not just keeping things as they are.

Although we still make grants across our established funding areas (youth, older people, community, relationships, housing, mental health, substance misuse, learning, financial security and criminal justice) we are also open to hearing about work in areas we have not funded before.

W F Community Councils www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/council/community-councils.htm

The London Borough of Waltham Forest has six Community Councils, each having £10,000 per annum to allocate in support of community activities in their particular area. For full details click on the web link above.