If you are in need of financial support, an arts grant or funding for your next big creative project, community arts event or just to get your arts project off the ground, there are bucket loads of schemes available. However, they are all very different, and usually have very specific criteria and timescales. So it is easier for us to list the resources, and you can then check out each of them out individually and see if any meet your specific needs.
As always with any pools of funding – they change all the time. So although we endevaour to keep this list updated, some may have expired or changed criteria. Any you discover that have changed, please get in touch with us and let us know
As well as the list below – Staffordshire Arts highly recommends that those involved in the creative industries check out the resources section of the UK CREATIVE INDUSTRIES website and the CREATIVE FINANCE NETWORK
Local Arts Funding in Staffordshire
Staffordshire County Council Community Arts Fund
Applications of up to £1,000 are welcome to run an arts activity or event which benefits the community, widens participation and promotes accessibility.
UPDATE: This funding has come to an end – More about this decision here
Staffordshire Community Arts Development Programme
This fund is open to applications of up to £2500 to develop strategic arts projects with a focus on community engagement, cohesion and sustainability.
UPDATE: This funding has come to an end – More about this decision here
Stoke on Trent Community Festival and Event Fund
Appetite Stoke is working in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent City Council to launch a Community Festival and Event Fund to help local groups deliver community focused festivals and events in Stoke-on-Trent.
Community Festival & Event Fund
East Staffordshire Borough Council
Burton & District Arts Council
BADAC act as the agent for distribution of the ESBC Small Grant Aid
Who can apply: Voluntary Arts Groups
Tel: 01283 543559
info@badac.org.uk
Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council
Cultural Grants Fund
Who can apply: Arts or Community Groups
How much: Maximum £1500
Contact: Joint Cuture & Arts Managers Tel 01782 619705
Tamworth Borough Council
Local Arts Grants
Who can apply: Any group in the Borough involved in arts activity.
How much: Maximum £500
Contact: Karen Clancy Tel 01827 709565
South Staffordshire Council
Community Funding
Contact: Policy and Partnerships
Tel: 01902 696410
Email: localities@sstaffs.gov.uk
South Staffordshire 4 Community
Funding support website for the South Staffordshire area – A useful website to search for local funding.
Register online to get frequent updates:
www.idoxopen4community.co.uk/sstaffs?bcr=MTIzNA
Staffordshire Moorlands Arts Forums
Each Forum has a budget of £3,500 (from Staffordshire Moorlands District Council) to administer two grants schemes:
– Art Development Grants for Groups (maximum £500)
– Art Development Grants for Individual Artists (maximum £150)
Applicants must attend a minimum of 3 Forum meetings per year to be eligible to apply.
Contact: Support Staffordshire (Staffordshire Moorlands)
Tel 01538 381356
Email: grants@smcvs.co.uk
Lichfield District Council
Grant Aid
Community Funding
Who can apply: Community Groups in Lichfield
How much: Maximum £1000
Contact: Tel 01543 308221
Stafford District Arts Council
SDAC receives its funds principally from Stafford Borough Council and provides grants to its members. Applications are considered by the Executive committee at its monthly meetings.
SDAC website
Stafford Borough Council Small Capital Grant Scheme
Administered by VAST on behalf of Stafford Borough Council – provides small grants (£200 – £1000) for small community organisations, with a specific need for a capital purchase.
VAST website
Staffordshire Community Foundation
Each area in Staffordshire now has it’s own Community Fund, with a separate fund for Penkridge, although this area is also covered by the South Staffordshire Community Fund.
Community Funds
Tel 01782 683000
info@staffsfoundation.org.uk
Local Community Fund
Each county councillor has £7,500 to spend on community projects in their area through the Staffordshire Local Community Fund.
Contact: Tel 01785 276019
Staffordshire Local Community Fund
Community Learning
Supporting people into volunteering and jobs.
Contact: Tel 01785 278771/07800 626 536
julie.staniforth@staffordshire.gov.uk
Grants for Community Learning
Village Halls & Community Centres Grant Scheme
For any capital expenditure on the building or its surroundings.
Administered by the Community Council of Staffordshire.
Deadline for applications is the end of December.
Contact: Tel 01785 242525
cathy@staffs.org.uk
The Robbie Williams Give it Sum Fund
Set up by Robbie in 2000 the Robbie Williams Give it Sum Fund is open to a broad range of self-help projects, community groups and voluntary organisations based in North Staffordshire. The Fund aims to support local people to find solutions to local problems.
For help with completing your Give it Sum application please contact the local Advisor on 01782 720 040.
For detailed information on Give it Sum grant criteria please check the Grant Making Guidelines on the BBC Stoke & Staffordshire website.
Give it Sum North Staffs Community Chest
The Community Chest makes grants of up to £1,000 per year throughout North Staffordshire (Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire Moorlands) to address poverty and disadvantage.
The fund is available to voluntary and community organisations based in North Staffordshire with an annual income of less than £10,000.
For an application form or advice contact;
Voluntary Action Stoke on Trent, Tel 01782 683030
Newcastle Community & Voluntary Services, Tel 01782 629269
Staffordshire Moorlands Community and Voluntary Services, Tel 01538 381356
Staffordshire Community Foundation
A permanent endowment fund that distributes grants to specific areas. All donations are pooled together and invested according to Charity Commission Guidelines.
Community Funds
Tel 01782 683000
info@staffsfoundation.org.uk
Other Sources of Arts Funding
Funding Central
Funding Central is a free website for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. The site provides access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
Arts Council England Website
A useful source of information on other sources of funding can be found on the Arts Council website. They list some of the main sources of funding for the arts in the UK, particularly for those activities that the Arts Council do not provide garnts for.
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/apply-funding/other-sources-of-arts-funding/
National Funding Schemes
Arts Council England
Grants for the arts is an open-application funding programme, which funds arts activities that engage people in England, or that help artists and arts organisations carry out their work.
There are several active funding programmes delivered byt the Arts Council. See the full list of Arts Council funding schemes here
Awards for All (National Lottery)
Awards for All is a grants programme set up to help small groups. It is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of England and Sport England.
The National Lottery
As well as the links to Awards for All and Big Lottery above, you can find out which organisations in your area have received Lottery grants and what the money was spent on here:
The Heritage Lottery Fund
A number of heritage projects in healthcare settings have received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The application process is simpler than for other Lottery funders.
The Baring Foundation
The Baring Foundation have recently taken an interest in arts and health, although funds are limited and restricted to annual bidding rounds.
BBC Children in Need
Grants of up to three years for organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under.
The William Adlington Cadbury Charitable Trust
A West Midlands-based trust with interests in healthcare, the arts and vulnerable groups elderly, children and young people, the disabled, asylum seekers and similar minorities.
Comic Relief
Current areas of interest (to 2012) include young people and mental health; young people and alcohol; sexually exploited and trafficked young people; older people; domestic and sexual abuse; refugee and asylum-seeking women; mental health; local communities and sport for change. The charity also administers the Robbie Williams Give it Sum Fund (for North Staffordshire).
Community Foundations
Distribute small grants on behalf of others, across the UK. Community Foundations in the West Midlands include the Birmingham and Black Country Community Foundation, the Community Foundation for Shropshire and Telford, the Heart of England Community Foundation (covers Coventry & Warwickshire), the Herefordshire Community Foundation, the Staffordshire Community Foundation and the Worcestershire Community Foundation.
www.communityfoundations.org.uk/community_foundations/map
Enhancing the Healing Environment (King’s Fund)
The Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme encourages and enables nurse-led teams to work in partnership with patients to improve the environment in which they deliver care. Grants and support from this organisation have transformed hospital, mental healthcare and end-of-life care settings across the UK including Norbury House in Stafford.
www.enhancingthehealingenvironment.org.uk
Ford Britain Trust
The Ford Britain Trust provides grants of up to £3,000 in areas with which it is associated – in the Midlands this means Daventry. Grant applications supporting the following activities will be considered: work that has clear benefits to the local community/environment; work with young people/children; education/schools (mainstream); special education needs; people with disabilities.
www.ford.co.uk/AboutFord/CorporateSocialResponsibility/FordBritainTrust
The Garfield Weston Foundation
A smaller trust with particular interests in health and community projects, and a straightforward application process.
The GSK Impact Awards
Awards designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health’. Arts in health charities have won cash awards and training in the past.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/current_projects/gsk_impact_awards/
The Lloyds-TSB Foundation for England and Wales
The Foundation funds local, regional and national charities working to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales. Seventy percent of the Foundation’s funding is for core costs including salaries. The focus is on supporting underfunded charities that can make a significant difference to the lives of disadvantaged people by helping them to play a fuller role in the community.
www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
The Digital Research & Development Fund for Arts and Culture is looking to support arts and cultural organisations across England who want to work with digital technologies to expand their audience reach and engagement and explore new business models.
The Rayne Foundation
The Rayne Foundation helps and encourages inspiring individuals and organisations who can help build bridges within our complex world.
The Wolverhampton Community Fund
Funding is intended to assist local voluntary and community groups and organisations, social enterprises and charities with projects that support local schools and communities. Eligible projects could include making areas safer and more attractive places to live and work, increasing educational attainment or extending ‘out of hours’ activities at schools, reducing drug and gang-related crime and providing good leisure activities.
www.inspirewolverhampton.co.uk/news/community-fund
Grants for the Arts
Grants for the arts is an open-application funding programme, which funds arts activities that engage people in England, or that help artists and arts organisations carry out their work.
View Grants for the Arts
Awards for All (National Lottery)
Awards for All is a grants programme set up to help small groups. It is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of England and Sport England.
View the Awards for All website.
The National Lottery
As well as the links to Awards for All and Big Lottery above, you can find out which organisations in your area have received Lottery grants and what the money was spent on here: View the Lottery culture website.
The Big Lottery Fund
1 Plough Place
London EC4A 1DE
Phone: 0845 410 2030
Textphone: 0845 039 0204
general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
The Big Lottery Fund provides funding for charities, voluntary organisations, and projects that improve the health, education and environment of communities.
Heritage Lottery Fund
7 Holborn Place
London SW1W 8NR
Phone: 020 7591 6000
Textphone: 020 7591 6255
enquire@hlf.org.uk
www.hlf.org.uk
The Heritage Lottery Fund helps communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about our heritage.
Lottery funding
Phone: 0845 275 0000
Textphone: 0845 275 0022
www.lotteryfunding.org.uk
This is a joint website run by all those who provide funding from the National Lottery. This site allows you to search for information on funding.
NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
1 Plough Place
London EC4A 1DE
Phone: 020 7438 2500
www.nesta.org.uk
NESTA runs various funding schemes to encourage UK talent and innovation in science, technology and art industries.
British Film Institute (BFI)
Phone: 020 7255 1444
www.bfi.org.uk
BFI is the lead body for film in the UK. The film fund distributes lottery funds to support film makers in the UK who are emerging or world class and capable of creating distinctive and entertaining work.
Youth Music
1 America Street
London SE1 0NE
Phone: 020 7902 1060
info@youthmusic.org.uk
www.youthmusic.org.uk
Youth Music is a UK-wide charity that targets young people living in areas of social and economic need. The charity funds music activities run by not-for-profit organisations for people aged up to 18.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
50 Hoxton Square
London N1 6PB
Phone: 020 7012 1400
info@gulbenkian.org.uk
www.gulbenkian.org.uk
The foundation supports original projects, particularly those which take place outside London. Their arts funding programme is mainly for professional arts organisations or professional artists working in partnerships or groups. Its purpose is to support the development of new art in any artform. It does not cover activities which are linked to mainstream education. The foundation welcomes applications from British-based organisations involving work with international artists.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Kings Place
90 York Way
London N1 9AG
Phone: 020 7812 3700
info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
The foundation is one of the largest independent foundations that provide grants in the UK. Approximately 75% of its Arts & Heritage grants budget go to the arts and 25% to heritage projects.
The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust
1 China Wharf
29 Mill Street
London SE1 2BQ
Phone: 020 7232 5477
www.pdhct.org.uk
Grants are awarded to organisations that provide opportunities to take part in the arts in educational and community settings, especially for people or groups with limited access to the arts.
The Baring Foundation
60 London Wall
London EC2M 5TQ
Phone: 020 7767 1348
baring.foundation@uk.ing.com
www.baringfoundation.org.uk
The Baring Foundation was set up in 1969 to give money to charities and voluntary organisations set up for charitable purposes. They have specific grants programmes concerned with strengthening the voluntary sector, the arts and international development.
The Clore Duffield Foundation
Studio 3
Chelsea Manor Studios
Flood Street
London SW3 5SR
Phone: 020 7351 6061
info@cloreduffield.org.uk
www.cloreduffield.org.uk
The foundation concentrates its support on education, the arts, museum and gallery education, health, social care and disability, placing a particular emphasis on supporting children, young people and more vulnerable people such as people with learning disabilities.
The Foyle Foundation
Rugby Chambers
2 Rugby Street
London WC1N 3QU
Phone: 020 7430 9119
info@foylefoundation.org.uk
www.foylefoundation.org.uk
The foundation is an independent trust that gives grants to UK charities whose main work is in the areas of learning, arts and health. Its priorities are to help make the arts more accessible by developing new audiences, supporting tours, festivals and arts education projects, encouraging new work, and supporting young and emerging artists.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
18 Queen Anne’s Gate
London SW1H 9AA
Phone: 020 7227 3500
information@phf.org.uk
www.phf.org.uk
The arts programme encourages new ways for people in the UK to enjoy, experience and be involved in the arts. Funding benefits organisations and groups through the grants scheme and special projects.
[Source: Arts Council England ‘Other Sources of Funding’]
