Featured artists
Funding for the Arts
General funding advice and information
East Midlands Funding Index
A comprehensive directory of funders for the East Midlands
Charities Information Bureau
The fit4funding website provides help and advice for community groups and voluntary
organisations who are seeking funding.
Funder Finder
Funder Finder provides a complete database of funders. This site will tell you how you can
get access to this database.
Lottery Funding
The main Lottery advice and information site.
Voluntary Arts
Network
National organisation supporting voluntary arts groups and activity.
DCMS
Arts Funding Guide
Department for Culture Media and Sport guide to arts funding
www.grantsexpert.co.uk
Funding index for a variety of grants
Funders - Local
Derbyshire Artists' Marketing Grants
Small grants of up to £500 for new and emerging Derbyshire Artiststo develop their
marketing practice
Derbyshire Small Arts Grants
Derbyshire County Council awards Small Arts Grants to organisations three times a year of up
to £1,000.
Derbyshire Community Leadership awards
Project support for work in the community
Derbyshire 4 Funding
A free service to help you search for sources of funding for your organisation or
project
Vickers Art
Award
The Vickers Art Award is a signficant new biennial award which brings a rising artist to
Derbyshire for a year's residency.
Derbyshire Community Foundation
Local not-for-profit organisation providing funding for voluntary community action throughout
Derbyshire
Peak District - New
Environmental Economy
Supports artists whose work is inspired by or uses resources from the Peak District.
Erewash Borough Council small grants scheme offers between £100 and £500 for individuals and groups to support arts activities.
Derbyshire Dales District Council small grants scheme. Individuals and groups can apply for up to £500. Download the Application Form (pdf 47KB)
Amber Valley Borough Council small grants scheme for individuals and groups. Download the Application form (pdf 151KB) and Guidance Notes (pdf 24 KB)
Funders - National
Allen Lane Foundation
Funds arts activities for people who are on the margins of, and excluded from
society
Arts Council
England
A number of funding opportunities are managed by Arts Council England, inclusing those for
individual artists
Arts and Humanities Research Board
Provides funding for research and postgraduate study
Audi Design
Foundation Grants
Awards are available to budding designers who need financial support to develop a
groundbreaking prototype
Awards for All
Lottery Funding Scheme for smaller and newly established community groups. Up to £10 000
available.
UPDATE 2009: Please note that Awards for All no longer fund projects or activities that are
predominantly based around Arts, Heritage or Sports
Big Lottery Fund
BIG hands out half the good causes money from the National Lottery
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Supports arts organistions in the making of new art, including international
collaborations
Clore Duffield Foundation
Supports the arts including The Clore Performing Arts Award for projects with young
people
Crafts Council
The national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Key focus until April 2008 is contemporary visual arts including architecture, crafts,
design, fine art, new media, photography, public art and sculpture
EM Media
Supports film, television and interactive media (games, digital media and new media) in the
East Midlands
EMI Music Sound Foundation
Grants are given to support music at non-specialist schools and bursaries are given to music
students for insturment purchase
Fenton Trust
The Fenton Arts Trust gives grants for individual works, activities, performances or prizes
in the fields of drama, painting, sculpture, ballet, music and poetry, in particular final year or
postgraduate students.
Heritage Lottery Fund
Supports projects that aim to give people better opportunities to experience,
enjoy, care for and protect our heritage
Idlewild Trust
A grant making trust that supports registered charities who encourage excellence in
the performing and fine arts and the preservation of public of buildings and items of
historical interest or national importance.
Lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship fund
Scholarship fund supporting dancers, choreographers, administrators, teachers, therapists,
journalists, photographers, and others working in dance/movement who want to enrich their practice
through travel.
Lloyds TSB
Supports arts activities for disadvantaged people, people with physical and mental
health need, and people with disabilities
NESTA - National Endowment for Science and the Arts
Supports talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Their mission is to transform the
UK’s capacity for innovation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Supports projects which address inequality of access and opportunity, particularly among
young people 'at risk' and young offenders
Performing Rights Society
British Music Abroad, supports emerging UK acts that have been offered key overseas
showcase opportunities
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
This trust makes awards ranging from £2,000 to £15,000 to craftsmen and women of all ages to
help them further their careers.
The Baring Foundation
Support arts organisations anywhere in the UK working with refugees and asylum seekers
The British Council
Works with overseas organisations to make arts events happen. Also "Grants to artists" scheme
can help with costs of transporting work to an exhibition in a gallery abroad.
UK - Film Council
The UK FILM COUNCIL provides funding for film production and training
Wellcome Trust
Sciart - Supports arts projects that investigate biomedical science. Pulse supports young
people's arts projects that engage with biomedical science.
Youth Music
Grants enable high quality and diverse music-making for young people who might otherwise lack
opportunity.
