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
28 March 2025
More information
Please visit the Skinners Foundation website.
Youth Music Catalyser Fund
The Youth Music Catalyser Fund offers grants to organisations to sustain work, scale up delivery, or create change in sector practice to support children and young people facing barriers to accessing music education. The purpose of the fund is to make music activity more inclusive.
Eligibility
Organisations wishing to apply must meet one of the themes below:
- Early Years
- Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
- Youth justice system
- Young People Facing barriers
- Young adults
- Organisations and the workforce
Funding amount
Grants between £30,001 and £300,000 are available
Closing date
Expression of Interest Deadline: 2 May 2025
Notification: 20 June 2025
Full Application Deadline: 01 August 2025
Notification: 24 October 2025
For programmes starting between: December 2025 and February 2026. All deadlines are 5 pm.
More information
Please visit the Youth Music Catalyser Fund 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.