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The Skinners' Charity Foundation - Arts, Heritage & Communities

The Skinners' Company supports community initiatives that combine arts or heritage activities to foster unity and support among residents. Funding supports both single events and long-term projects.

Eligibility

  • Arts, heritage, and related local community projects
  • Projects primarily based in London and Kent
  • Projects that can evidence successful outcomes and show clear public value
  • Ideally, projects should be run by a registered not-for-profit organisation with audited or independently examined annual accounts.
  • The organisation's annual turnover should not exceed £300,000
  • Organisations with reserves of more than 12 months’ expenditure are not eligible.

Funding amount

Grants of up to £5,000 per year are available for projects and/or capital items.

Closing date

5 September 2025

More information

Please visit the Skinners Foundation website.


Shaftesbury Young People Trust

The Shaftesbury Young People Trust supports children and young people across London, especially those facing disadvantage due to disability, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, or past offending. Its grant programme funds initiatives that promote education, improve health, and give young people a voice in shaping their future.

Eligibility

Constituted, not-for-profit organisations such as CICs, associations, societies, exempt and non-registered charities that can demonstrate clear, transparent use of funds. Preference is given to smaller, community-based groups working mainly within Greater London.

Funding amount

Grants up to £10,000.

Closing date

29 September 2025

More information

Please visit the SYP Trust website. 


Drapers' Charitable Fund Grant (UK)

The Drapers' Charitable Fund (DCF) provides grants to improve the lives of disadvantaged communities, especially in Greater London. The fund supports initiatives, related to education, social welfare, textiles, and heritage.

Eligibility

Registered charities, CICs, and arts organisations. Projects should focus on education and young people, social welfare (homelessness, prisoners), ex-servicemen and women, general welfare, disability, and textiles and heritage

Funding amount

There is no minimum or maximum amount but grants typically are up to £25,000.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the The Drapers Charitable Fund website.


 The Garfield Weston Foundation - Projects/Specific Activity Grant

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a charitable grant-making foundation. The foundation's Projects/Specific Activity Grant programme offers funding for particular projects. Each project has a clear scope and timeline. For instance, consider a theatre's nine-month outreach to marginalised communities or a health organisation's two-year advice service.

Eligibility

UK registered charities and CIOs (Charitable Incorporated Organisations).

Funding amount

Grants vary depending on the total cost and scope of the project however grants tend to be 10–20 per cent of the total project cost.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

For information

Please visit the Garfield Weston Foundation website.


 Arts Council England - National Lottery Project Grants (England)

The National Lottery Project Grants scheme aims to support thousands of artists and community and cultural organisations.

The fund aims to create and sustain quality work. It also seeks to help people across England engage with arts and culture.

Projects must focus on these artforms and disciplines:

  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Visual arts
  • Literature
  • Combined arts
  • Musuem practice

Eligibility

Museums, libraries, individuals and organisations with projects focussing on the above artforms and disciplines. 

Funding amount

Grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 for a 3-year project.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

For information

Please visit the Arts Council England website.


 The Golsoncott Foundation (UK)

The Golsoncott Foundation is an arts-funding trust whose objective is to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts, particularly the fine arts and music.  

Eligibility

Registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), and arts organisations.

Funding amount

Grants of up to £5,000.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the Golsoncott website.


The Victoria Wood Foundation

Established in memory of the celebrated comedian Victoria Wood, the Victoria Wood Foundation fosters Arts initiatives throughout the United Kingdom. Their funding prioritises arts projects in London and the North of England.  

Eligibility

Arts organisations and groups are invited to submit funding applications for consideration by the Foundation's trustees, who convene twice annually in July and December. To ensure timely review, applications should be received at least two weeks before the relevant meeting date. 

Funding amount

Grants of up to £5,000.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the Victoria Wood Foundation website.


John Ellerman Foundation

The John Ellerman Foundation gives money to UK charities that make between £100,000 and £10m. Funding is available to charities that focus on the arts, environment, and social action. The grants it gives are usually between £10,000 and £50,000 each year, for up to three years.

The foundation's goal is to make people, society, and the natural world better by giving money.

Eligibility

UK Registered Charities.

Funding amount

Between £10,000 and £50,000 per year, for up to three years.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the John Ellerman Foundation website.