Ten Bursaries awarded each year to sculptors of outstanding talent and potential. They welcome applications from artists of any age and nationality, with or without formal training, who are at the beginning of their practice. The 10 winners will participate in a curated exhibition at the RBS Gallery and will enjoy all the benefits of RBS membership for two years.

The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the Will of the First Viscount Leverhulme with the instruction that its resources should be used to support 'scholarships for the purposes of research and education'.provided funding for research projects, fellowships, studentships, bursaries and prizes; it operates across all the academic disciplines, the ambition being to support talented individuals as they realise their personal vision in research and professional training. They also will support the residency of an artist of any kind in an institution of higher education or a museum in the UK in order to foster a creative collaboration between the artist and the staff and/or students of that institution.

AHRC have a range of UK-wide programmes supporting the highest quality research and postgraduate training in the arts and humanities. From around 1500 applications to their seven Research schemes they make around 550-600 awards. From around 5500 applications to their Postgraduate schemes for funding people in Higher education they make around 1500 awards. In addition, AHRC manage on an agency basis for HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) almost £10 million to fund museums, galleries and other collections in English HEIs (Higher Education Institutions).

The Big Lottery Fund will give out grants of up to GBP 50,000 over five years for projects that: offer people better chances in life, including being able to get better access to training and development to improve their life skills; build strong communities, with more active citizens, working together to tackle their problems; develop improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy; create healthier and more active people and communities. Minimum grant: GBP10,000 maximum: GBP 50,000

New Contemporaries is an annual exhibition of work by students and recent graduates from the UK's art colleges, offering an important platform for emerging artists' work to be seen and discussed. New Contemporaries is shaped by a process of selection from slides, videos, CD-Roms, photographs and audio-tapes through to a shortlist of actual works. The exhibition tours major UK arts venues each year. For applications information and deadlines, contact New Contemporaries as above and check the London Almanac's deadlines list.

Started in 1980, the BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious competition and exhibition of its kind, held annually in the National Portrait Gallery. A registration fee of GBP 27 is payable, on return of the form. Open to paintings in oil, acrylic or tempera and must be from life. One entry per person, the artist have to be 30 years old or younger. First prize: GBP 25,000 (plus discretionary GBP 4,000 commission). Second prize GBP8,000.

The Fund is committed to a grant-giving programme which supports work in the UK and internationally with people living on the margins. No demand-driven open grants rounds are currently envisaged, apart from a restricted amount of funding to be made available through an open grants process under the Refugee and Asylum Seekers Initiative.

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Arts programme and application procedures to favour the visual arts and crafts over the performing arts. The priorities are expected to remain in this way until 2008. Although their focus is on developments outside of London, London-based organisations are still eligible to apply. One of their main focuses is on touring exhibitions and displays. Applications from individuals are not accepted. The Foundation will be taking a new approach to grant-making from January 2008, see new information on their website.

The Gilchrist-Fisher Award was established in 1987 in memory of Alasdair Gilchrist Fisher who died of cancer in December 1986 at the age of twenty-four. The Gilchrist Fisher Award is a biennial prize open to all artists under the age of thirty whose work deals with the broad theme of Landscape. Six finalists are selected and their work is exhibited at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. On the basis of the exhibition a First Prize of GBP3,000 is awarded, and a Second Prize of GBP1,000.

The award is aimed at exceptional emerging sculptors based in Greater London and it is intended to subsidise the creative work over one year. GBP 6000 goes direct to the receiving artist towards the production of new work and GBP 4000 funds and promotes the solo exhibition held at Standpoint Gallery the following year. The selectors look for ambitious, outstanding work within fine art practice, particularly that demonstrates a commitment to process and material. Selection by panel. Guest selector each year is a different prominent sculptor. Deadline is always 31 May.

The main awards offered by The Jerwood Charitable Foundation include the Jerwood Painting Prize, Drawing Prize, Makers Award and the Moving Media Awards, as well as commissions and grants to artists. Most prizes are open to all UK-based artists of all ages.