Funding Directory

National Arts Funding Organisations

• Arts Council England

• Creative Scotland

• Arts Council of Northern Ireland

• Arts Council of Wales

• Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

• British Council Arts

Awards, Prizes & RESIDENCIES

• ACS Studio Prize (studio costs) – multidisciplinary, UK, EU and EEA

• Artist Grant - unrestricted grants

• Anna Plowden Trust – conservation, UK

• Artcry - supports responsive, political artworks in public space with small grants

• Artsadmin – contemporary performance practices, UK

• The Arts Foundation Futures Award – multidisciplinary, UK

• The Residency by CURA Art -under-represented artists

• The Ingram Prize - visual artists

• Cockpit Awards (business support & studio spaces) – multidisciplinary, London

• The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust – ceramics, UK

• Delfina Foundation Artist Residencies and Open calls

• The Eaton Fund (materials or exhibition costs) – multidisciplinary, UK

• Edge Fund – funds grassroots groups

• The Elephant Trust (new work or exhibitions) – multidisciplinary, UK

• Fenton Arts Trust (early career artists, early career academics)

• Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (funding, guidance and development opportunities) 

• Freelands Foundation (grants, fellowships and awards)

• France Brodeur Young Artist Award – multidisciplinary, UK

• Gilchrist Fisher Award – artists under the age of 30

• The Gane Trust (small amount for materials/equipment) – multidisciplinary, UK

• Golden Fleece Award – multidisciplinary, Ireland

• Hand & Lock Prize – embroidery, international

• Henry Moore Foundation – sculpture, UK

• Heritage Crafts – endangered crafts, UK

• Hugo Burge Foundation - creative individuals

• The Inches Carr Trust – multidisciplinary, Scotland

• International Binding Competition – bookbinding, international

• Jerwood – Funding for organisations 

• John Moores Painting Prize – painting, UK

• LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize – multidisciplinary, international

• The Mall Galleries – fine art, UK

• Maureen Duke Educational Award – bookbinding, UK

• The National Sculpture Society – Sculpture Awards and Grants

• New Contemporaries – multidisciplinary, UK 

• Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST)

• Ruskin Prize – multidisciplinary, UK

• Sculpture in the City – sculpture, UK

• SPAB Fellowship – building conservation, UK

• Stuart Croft Foundation – new moving image works

• UK Jewellery Awards – jewellery, UK

• Visual Art Open Emerging Artist Award – multidisciplinary, international

• Wellcome Trust – research

• Wakelin Award – multidisciplinary, Wales