Arts grants

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What

Aims/actively encouraging

Community

Education

amount

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

to open up the arts and education to everyone, but particularly to young people

· partnership projects which aim to develop the arts within formal education

· initiatives which offer children who are not well served opportunities to enjoy the arts, within and out of school

· schemes which give teachers access to best practice in the creative arts

· combating disaffection and alienation in young people and supports initiatives which try to tackle these issues by encouraging learning and creativity.

· projects which focus on issues of school exclusion and truancy

· applications from supplementary schools

· innovative educational projects concerned with Young Offenders

NOT: buying, maintaining, refurbishing equipment or instruments; performance costs

X

X

Small grants up to £5000

DfES Music and Dance scheme

to help identify, and assist, children with exceptional potential, regardless of their personal circumstances, to benefit from world-class specialist training as part of a broad and balanced education, which will enable them, if they choose, to proceed towards self-sustaining careers in music and dance

Grants for individual children, means tested, to help in funding training via the top music/dance centres in the UK

 

Ages 8-16 music

Ages 11-16 dance

 

 

 

EMI Music Sound Foundation

Music education

Students buying instruments

Training for music teachers

• Non-specialist schools to fund music education
• Music students in full time education to fund instrument purchase
• Music teachers to fund courses and training

NOT: non-school based community groups

 

X

Up to £2500

Youth Music

Make It Sound

music-making activities for children and young people who find it hard to access opportunities that may help them to develop and progress. 

· Include structured music-making activities that develop children and young people’s music skills.

· Include composition, song writing and/or improvisation. 

· Include children and young people aged 5-18 (up to 25 with SEN).

· Be for a period of no less than 6 months and no more than 24 months. 

X

X but 75% project time needs to be outside school hours

£10,000-£30,000

Youth Music    Vocalise!

to support proposals where the voice is the principal means of making music. This can be through a range of vocal styles, not only traditional choral singing, for example beatboxing, rapping, any popular music styles with or without microphones, scat singing, musical theatre, opera, gospel, chant and all other vocal traditions from around the world.

· Include music-making where the voice is the main instrument

· Include structured singing or vocal activities that develop children and young people’s music skills.

· Include opportunities for children and young people to share their achievements, for example performing to their friends, family or wider community.

· Involve children and young people age 5-18 (up to 25 with SEN).

· Be for a period of no less than 6 months and no more than 18 months.

· Not spend more than 5% of the total award on equipment (e.g. instruments, technology, sheet music).

 

X but 75% project time needs to be outside school hours

£5,000-£20,000

Youth Music

First Steps

encourage and support regular creative music-making activities for children between 0 and 5 years

· Include creative music activities incorporating simple instruments, voice and movement.

· Include structured music activities that are planned to develop children’s skills and lead to a smooth transition to primary school.

· Include sharing music-making with parents and carers. First Steps aims to influence parents and carers to show that music-making is a fun learning tool and a natural part of growing. This does not necessarily mean that they have to be present at each workshop.

· Involve a skilled early years music specialist who is prepared to work with trainees (staff or parents) to hand on skills with the aim of ensuring that those staff and parents build confidence in music-making and can lead if and when the specialist’s involvement comes to an end.

· Include weekly, progressive group music-making and music of more than one culture.

· Be for a period of no less than 6 months and no more than 12 months

X

 

£5,000-£15,000

Awards for all

(lottery)

Arts activities

 

Community based/after school sporting activities

X

Community/extended schools work

£300-£10,000pa

 

8 week turn round

Foundation for Sports and the Arts

(Littlewoods Gaming)

create or maintain facilities and opportunities for the general community or will assist arts or sports provision that the community can enjoy

· prefer schemes in which the Foundation will be the lead funder.

· requests for top-up grants are refused

 

 

Max. generally £35,000

Most grants are lower

Llankelly Chase

· charities promoting arts activities for people with special needs.

· dance to people of any age, ability or limiting circumstance;

· for instance, requests from charities offering dance in prisons are equally as

· welcome as from those offering it to the elderly or those in rural areas

· Giving concert platform experience to promising young musicians

 

NOT:

There’s a long list! See the website!

X

no

Varies, some up to £500,000

First Light funding for film making by young people

Projects working with young people to create short films

Projects from organisations with a proven track record

 

 

£5000

 

£6,000-£36,000

DAFJ

 

Links with Japan

Small grants

Grants for individuals, societies, groups, etc. for educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events

Awards

Collaborative projects that enable British and Japanese partners to work together, preferably within the context of an institutional relationship. Projects in all academic, professional, cultural and educational fields are eligible. Arts, science & education

X

X

£1000-£5000

 

31 March

30 Sept

 

£5000-£15,000

 

31 May

Clore Duffield Foundation

 

Arts education

Main grants programme

Registered charities involved in:

· Education

· The arts

· Museums, galleries and heritage sites (particularly for education spaces*)

· Health, social welfare and disability

· Jewish charities with interests in any of the above areas

· Large scale projects AND small community endeavours

Clore performing arts awards

· Funding professional and amateur companies working in any under 18s education setting

· Limited companies and registered charities only

· New projects

 

 

£5000-£1million

Can be matched funding

 

ongoing

 

 

 

 

 

£1000-£10,000

 

14 Mar 2007