Funding

Research & Development


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Clore Leadership Programme

South Building, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7420 9430
Fax: 020 7420 9433
Email:
Website: www.cloreleadership.org

The Clore Leadership Programme, established in 2003 by the Clore Duffield Foundation, is an initiative to strengthen leadership across the arts. Applications are open to any EU resident who has had at least five years' work experience, in the cultural sector or beyond. The flexibly designed fellowship will normally last for one year, during which Clore Fellows will attend two intensive residential leadership courses, receive individual tuition and mentoring, extend their management experience through a high profile secondment and have an opportunity to engage in reflection and research. Fellows will have the option of remaining with their present employers, and following the course in stages, or of receiving a full-time bursary of £20,000. Every year they offer General Fellowships and a number of Fellowships focused on particular specialisms or geographical areas, that change every year. The Short Courses have been designed for people in the middle ranks of cultural organisations or those at or near the top of smaller ones, and who have a minimum of five years' work experience. The teaching is a potent mixture of the practical and the academic, providing a large measure of intensive personal development, an examination of the nature of good leadership and an introduction to key areas of expert knowledge essential to effective cultural leadership.
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Arts Council England - London

2 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R 0DS — Google Maps
Tel: 0845 300 6200
Fax: 020 7608 4100
Minicom: 020 7608 4101
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk

London's Government-funded visual art and crafts funders, Arts Council England supplies monies via its Grants for the Arts programme, recently cut by 35% in the face of money being redirected by government to the Olympics, making this even more competitive. They run free seminars to answer your questions, and their website (above) provides further advice. In 2003/04, Grants for the Arts distributed £1.78 million to individual artists working in London through 316 awards (and £7.4 million to organisations through 445 awards, and £4 million for touring through 97 awards). In all, ACE received 2,500 application, including some that were ineligible. ACE are currently working to encourage more applications from freelance curators, project organisers and critics, who are currently under-represented in the funding allocation. Eligible projects include research and development, travel (including international), networking events and independent projects. They are also keen to support activities promoting critical debate on the production and presentation of contemporary visual art; for example, events, seminars, conferences, publications (paper based / electronic), periodicals, catalogues and artists' books.
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Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2AE — Google Maps
Tel: 0117 987 6500
Fax: 0117 987 6600
Email:
Website: www.ahrc.ac.uk

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).
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

98 Portland Place, London W1B 1ET — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7636 5313
Fax: 020 7908 7580
Email:
Website: www.gulbenkian.org.uk
Website: www.gulbenkian.org.uk/innovation-fund

At present (2009) no more funding is available for individuals. The only funding they can provide is for not-for-profit organisations that can apply for Research and Development funding for a new idea that will enable them to work together with other organisations or experts outside their usual practice, or to enable them to undertake active research into areas they would not normally have the time or money to explore.
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Association of London Government (ALG)

591/2 Southwark Street, London SE1 0AL — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7934 9999
Email:
Website: www.londoncouncils.gov.uk
Website: www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/grants/default.htm

The ALG Grants Committee invests nearly £30 million a year in voluntary organisations on behalf of all the London councils. This investment is targeted at organisations that work in more than one London borough: many of them operate on a sub regional or London wide basis. Each year, the committee sets funding priorities for voluntary organisations to bid for grants. In recent years a programme of new initiatives has been introduced, designed to promote new and innovative projects or to fund community-based organisations which may not have been previously funded. Grants are given in a wide range of areas including regeneration, help for homelessness, health, the arts, legal advice and the promotion of racial equality. All the grants made seek to tackle disadvantage and promote social inclusion, as well as improving the lives of people who live, work and visit London. See the website for full criteria and how to apply.
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Awards for All

Regional office: 9th Floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7UF — Google Maps
Tel: 0845 600 2040
Tel: 020 7587 6600
Fax: 020 7587 6610
Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk

Awards for All is a scheme jointly run by several lottery distributors in England, with applications being considered by nine regional committees. The scheme is administered by the National Lottery Charities Board (known as Community Fund from 8 April) and offers a one-stop-shop service, distributing grants of between £500 and £5,000 to community and voluntary groups for arts, charities, sports or heritage activities. Priority will be given to organisations with an annual income of under £15,000. There are no deadlines for the scheme and it aims to reach decisions within four months of receiving the application.
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NESTA

1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7438 2500
Website: www.nesta.org.uk
Website: www.nesta.org.uk/programmes/creative_pioneers/index.aspx

NESTA's offer business support to creative individuals who are in the early stages of their careers. Their initiatives provide the business training, early-stage funding, mentoring and expertise needed to turn promising ideas into successful business ventures.
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American Airlines

Trinity Square, 23-59 Staines Road, Hounslow, Middlesex TW3 3HE — Google Maps
Fax: 020 8572 8646
Website: www.aa.com

During the last two years, the company has mainly concentrate on the arts but considers all requests. Tend to concentrate on performing arts, but some visual arts considered. Send unsolicited requests via letter or fax, enclosing a short proposal to Petra Luckman, Sponsorship and Events Manager.
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British Academy

10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7969 5200
Fax: 020 7969 5300
Email:
Website: www.britac.ac.uk

The British Academy is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of around 750 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.
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Dreamtime

NESTA, Fishmongers' Chambers, 110 Upper Thames Street, London EC4R 3TJ — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7645 9500
Fax: 020 7645 9501
Email:
Website: www.nesta.org.uk

The Dreamtime Fellowship programme is for 'exceptional achievers' who want concentrated time to follow a passion but who then intend to return to their career, and put what they have discovered into good use. Like all NESTA's awards, Dreamtime will be highly competitive.
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A. Onassis, Public Benefit Foundation

Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 7 Aeschinou Street, GR 105-58 Athens, Greece — Google Maps
Tel: 00 30 210 371 3000
Fax: 00 30 210 371 3013
Email:
Website: www.onassis.gr/main.php?ID=0&lang=en

The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation funds an annual programme of research grants and educational scholarships starting around October each year, which is addressed to foreign full members of national academies, university professors of all levels, researchers including Ph.D. holders, artists, translators of Greek literature, elementary and secondary school teachers of the Greek language as a foreign language, postgraduate students, and Ph.D. candidates. Research grants are offered in architecture, visual arts, music, dance, photography and film studies. The grantees of category AII will be invited, on a case by case basis, to deliver a lecture or to conduct a seminar during their stay in Greece, either at the Onassis Cultural Centre of Athens or at a university or another scholarly or research or cultural centre.
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Foundation for Sport and the Arts

Grattan Endicott - Secretary
PO Box 20, Liverpool L13 1HB — Google Maps
Tel: 0151 259 5505
Fax: 0151 230 0664
Email:
Website: www.thefsa.net/about.htm

The foundation, which gets its income from the football pools, distributes about £10-£11million annually. One third of this goes to the arts. The FSA supports both amateur and professional activities and gives grants to most art forms. Grants include visual arts and crafts, and are made for capital projects, artistic productions and to support individual students. In 2012 the Foundation will be closing after twenty one years of continuous support of communities across the UK. Please note that they have ceased to take applications from March 2009
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MS Society Millennium Awards Scheme

Millennium Awards Team, MS Society, MS National Centre, 372 Edgware Road, Staples Corner, London NW2 6ND — Google Maps
Tel: 020 8438 0700
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The MS Society has grants available of between £2,000 and £5,000 for individuals affected by MS to set up a project which will be of benefit to themselves and the community.
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Oppenheim - John Downes Memorial Awards

Hamish Frost, Trust Manager
Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, 50 Broadway, Westminster, London SW1H 0BL — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7227 7000
Email:
Website: www.oppenheimdownestrust.org/index.html

The Oppenheim - John Downes Memorial Trust will make awards to deserving artists of any kind whether writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, craftsmen or inventors who are unable to pursue their vocation by reason of their poverty. Awards are restricted to persons who are natural born British subjects, of parents and grandparents all of whom are British subjects (Section 43 of the Race Relations Act applies) and applicants must be over 30 years of age. The awards are made in December of each year, closing date for applications is 15 October.
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The Eranda Foundation

Gail Devlin-Jones
PO Box 6226, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 0XF — Google Maps
Tel: 01296 689157
Email:

Very little information given as to what specific types of arts are funded; contact the correspondent for more details. The foundation prefers to remain anonymous when funding, but made donations totalling £528,000 in the year 1998/99 to the arts. Individuals not supported.
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The European Cultural Foundation (ECF)

Email:
Website: www.eurocult.org/we-support-cultural-cooperation/programmes/mobility/apply-step-beyond/
Website: mobility.eurocult.org

Travel grant for art professionals, cultural operators, cultural researchers, cultural journalists and cultural translators from all European countries . The ECF mobility fund, STEP BEYOND (Supporting Travel for European Projects), encourages travel by making a contribution to travel costs, visa costs, and, in certain cases, accommodation costs of those awarded a grant.
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The Goldsmiths' Company's Charities

Correspondent: R. D. Buchanan-Dunlop, Clerk
Goldsmith's Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7606 7010
Fax: 020 7606 1511

The charity gives support to higher and further educational establishments, to students and apprentices, to promote excellence in design and craftsmanship and to help young people develop their potential to secure jobs in the precious metals and jewellery industry. Contact the correspondent for more details on eligibility and how to apply.
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The National Lottery, Good Causes

Website: www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk

Main website for Lottery funding, including all criteria for eligibility of funding.
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The Woo Charitable Foundation

The Administrator, Arts Bursaries, 277 Green Lanes, London N13 4XS — Google Maps

The Foundation is inviting applications from professional full time artists who have completed their education at least ten years previously and are resident in the UK. Five bursaries of £10,000 each are available to applicants working in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, ceramics, still photography, glassmaking and metal work. There is no application form.
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Wellcome Trust Arts Awards

Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7611 7222
Email:
Website: www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts

The Wellcome Trust believes the arts are an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. Visual art, music, moving image, creative writing and performance can reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. Funding can be applied for at two levels: small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000). Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists. Large projects (above £30 000), the funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical science. There is a deadline in January for the large Award scheme and four deadlines a year for the smaller Awards.
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