These organisatiions can provide creative practitioners with general advice about funding options open to them.

•   29 September GrantsNet
  website

  http://www.grantsnet.co.uk

  GrantsNet gives information about grant schemes available to businesses and charities in the UK. You will find comprehensive information about grant support schemes for UK businesses and charities. GrantsNet aims to reduce the efforts and costs, of identifying and applying for a grant.

•   29 September IFA Promotions
  website

  http://www.unbiased.co.uk
  telephone

  0117 971 1177

  Gives out details about financial advisors in your locality, who can give you guidance on insurance, loans, investments, savings and pensions, you also get a voucher for a free half hour consultation

•   29 September Social Enterprise London
  email

  info@sel.org.uk
  website

  http://www.sel.org.uk
  fax

  020 7704 7499
  address

  1a Aberdeen Studios, 22-24 Highbury Grove, London N5 2EA
  telephone

  020 7704 7490

  Useful web site explaining about social entrepreneurship, businesses in the community which provide a service, social, educational or cultural. Offers information on training, and access to finance.

•   29 September The Directory of Social Change
  email

  info@dsc.org.uk
  website

  http://www.dsc.org.uk
  fax

  020 7209 5049
  telephone

  020 7209 5151
  address

  24 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP

  The Directory of Social Change is an independent voice for social change, set up in 1975 to help voluntary and community organisations become more effective. They do this by providing practical, challenging and affordable information and training to meet the current, emerging and future needs of the sector. Their main (and most useful) activity is researching and publishing reference guides and handbooks to grant making trusts, foundations and companies in the UK and overseas. Check their website for details on organisations making substantial donations, but also for 'small grants' (usually up to £5,000).

•   29 September Government Grants website
  website

  http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk

  Online route to grants for the voluntary and community sector from the Department for Education and Skills.

•   29 September Association of Charitable Foundations
  website

  http://www.acf.org.uk
  email

  acf@acf.org.uk
  address

  2 Plough Yard, Shoreditch High Street, London EC2A 3LP

  ACF's website has downloadable copies of their advice leaflets, facts and figures about trusts and foundations, and links to all known trust and foundation websites, UK and international umbrella bodies, and other useful resources for grant-seekers.

•   29 September Financial Services Authority Consumer Help Line
  website

  http://www.fsa.gov.uk
  email

  consumerhelp@fsa.gov.uk
  telephone

  0845 606 1234

  When you have been given the details of a financial advisor you can check they are registered with the Financial Services Authority on this Consumer Help Line.

•   29 September Arts Council England - London
  website

  http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
  telephone

  0845 300 6200
  address

  14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ

  Arts Council England supplies funding through it's Grants programme.  Eligible projects include research and development, travel, networking events and independent projects promoting critical debate on the production and presentation of contemporary visual art.

•   29 September engage
  address

  Rich Mix, 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
  telephone

  020 7729 5858
  fax

  020 7739 3688
  email

  info@engage.org
  website

  http://www.engage.org

  engage is the professional body which promotes greater understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts by engaging with the public, artists, galleries and educators. engage also distributes a number of research grants from national and regional sources, and can assist artists in finding employment in the gallery education sector. Their library holds a unique collection of books, reports, research papers and teaching materials for gallery educators' information, research and professional development providing a theoretical background to gallery education practice. You need to subscribe to access some of their resources.

•   29 September Co-operative & Community Finance
  address

  Brunswick Court, Brunswick Square, Bristol BS2 8PE
  telephone

  01179 166 750
  fax

  01179 166 751
  email

  info@co-opandcommunityfinance.coop
  website

  http://www.icof.co.uk

  Co-operative & Community Finance has been providing loan finance for co-operatives, employee owned businesses and social enterprises for 30 years. They raise money primarily by public share issue and lend it for social purpose and collective benefit, also managing loan funds for several other organisations providing co-operative and community finance. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the conduct of investment business.

•   29 September CASH
  address

  Community Accountancy Self Help, 1 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL
  contact

  tom@cash-online.org.uk
  telephone

  020 8969 0747
  website

  http://www.cash-online.org.uk

  Community Accountancy Self Help (CASH) is a London based community accountancy project that provides financial advice and training to small charities and voluntary groups.

•   29 September Crafts Council
  address

  44a Pentonville Road, London, N1 9BY
  telephone

  020 7278 7700
  fax

  020 7837 6891
  email

  info@craftscouncil.org.uk
  email

  busdev@craftscouncil.org.uk
  website

  http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk
  website

  http://www.photostore.org.uk/seSIMP.aspx?TYPE=CRAFTSCOUNCIL

  The Crafts Council's National Register of Makers provides the most comprehensive listing of contemporary craftspeople in Britain. Registration is free and open to practitioners living and working in Great Britain designing and making their own work. Registration is used by members of the public to contact individual makers, as well as shops, galleries, designers and businesses.  The Crafts Council also manages a Development Award, business advice unit, reference library and Photostore, containing over 35,000 selected images of work for viewing by potential clients.  Development Award deadlines are 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 November and candidates must be about to, or have set up their first workshop within the last 3 years. 

• making applications
• developing your practice
• money
• making new work
• earning a living
• sustaining your practice
• CV
• artist statement
• writing about your work
• artists biog