Autumn 2024: Funding Calls for Creative and Cultural Practitioners
Looking for additional funding for your creative arts collaborations? We’ve got you covered! Here are some upcoming funding opportunities you can apply for.
If you’re working within academia, don’t hesitate to reach out to your Knowledge Exchange or Research team to explore additional support options.
UK-BASED OPPORTUNITIES
Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP)
📅 Deadline: Thursday 12 December 2024
🔍 Scope: Funding to support individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.
👥 Applicant: Individual creative or cultural practitioners.
💰 Funding: £2,000-£12,000
Creative Debut Black Artists Grant
📅 Deadline: Ongoing
🔍 Scope: No-strings attached financial support to help black artists. You can spend the grant on whatever you want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
👥 Applicant: As the fund states, ''This is specifically for UK-based Black artists (those with Black heritage and identify as Black), not politically Black, not POC or BAME.''
💰 Funding: £500
The Open Fund for Music Creators
📅 Deadline: 30th September 2024
🔍 Scope: Supporting the development of outstanding music creators of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career
👥 Applicant: of all genres and backgrounds
💰 Funding: Up to £5,000
Momentum Music Fund Round 4
📅 Deadline: 4th November 2024
🔍 Scope: Activities eligible for support include recording, touring and marketing
👥 Applicant: UK based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers
💰 Funding: £5,000- £15,000
Arts Council England- National Lottery Project Grants
📅 Deadline: Ongoing
🔍 Scope: National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects.
👥 Applicant: This fund supports thousands of individual practitioners, community and cultural organisations.
💰 Funding: Between £1,000 and £100,000
British Council Film Travel Grant Fund
Could your film benefit from an International Travel Grants Fund?
— British Council Arts (@BritishArts) August 31, 2024
UK filmmaker Michael Groom attended The Marketplace at the Galway Film Fleadh in July and had the opportunity to pitch Confessions of a Pagan Nun to potential financiers and partners.
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📅 Deadline: Ongoing
🔍 Scope: Enabling you to represent your work abroad, develop new contacts and networks, and reach new audiences
👥 Applicant: UK filmmakers and XR creatives
💰 Funding: Awards for short and feature film festival grants range from £100 to £1,500 but will not normally exceed £750. Awards for XR projects are divided into two tiers: travel only (£100 to £1,500) and a limited number of travel / technical grants for larger scale showcasing, capped at £7,000
GLOBAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Unlimited International Partner Awards
📅 Deadline: Expressions of interest are required by 30th September 2024
🔍 Scope: In partnership with Unlimited, the British Council is delighted to offer five International Partner Awards of up to £50,000 for collaboration between UK-based and international disabled artists.
👥 Applicant: Professional disabled artists, or disabled artists leading the creation of work within disabled-led companies also collaborations led by a disabled artist based in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales)
💰 Funding: Awards for up to £50,000 for collaboration between UK-based and international disabled artists
PRS Foundation- International Showcase Fund
📅 Deadline: Ongoing
🔍 Scope: Have you been invited to perform or create new music at international industry facing showcasing festivals, song writing camps or conferences? Then check this one out!
👥 Applicant: UK-based artists, bands, songwriters and producers (Previous recipients of this fund include Glass Animals, Little Simz, Sam Fender, AJ Tracey, Wolf Alice and more...)
💰 Funding: £5,500
Prince Claus Fund SEED Award
📅 Deadline: 2025 SEED Award call for applications is in December 2024
🔍 Scope: Encouraging 100 emerging artists by nurturing their personal and artistic development, amplifying the talent of a new generation of global changemakers
👥 Applicant: Eligible applicants must be from, live, and work in their eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe
💰 Funding: Recipients receive €5.000 to freely invest in their practice, alongside global recognition, connections, and opportunities