Hugo Burge Foundation - Creative Grants
The Hugo Burge Foundation provides grants to support the arts, crafts and creative industries across the UK. It has three focus areas:
- Creative Education - supporting projects that provide young people (ages 0-29) with opportunities to engage in creative activities. This includes funding for workshops in schools, field trips to cultural sites, and the purchase of materials for student engagement.
- Creative Communities - aiding organisations, festivals, fairs and community groups that develop and deliver cultural and creative arts initiatives within their local areas.
- Creative Individuals - providing individual artists, including those in visual and expressive arts, writers and craftspeople, with funding to support their artistic projects.
Eligibility
- Creative Education - schools, local authorities, community groups, charities, museum/gallery spaces, educational institutions and arts organisations, and more may apply.
- Creative Communities - festivals, charities, arts organisations and community groups may apply.
Funding amount
For the Creative Education and Creative Communities strands, the maximum award is £15,000.
Closing date
31 July 2026
More information
Visit The Hugo Burge Foundation website for more information and to apply.
Metal for Good Fund
Metal for Good supports community groups and projects that use music and the values of the rock and metal community as a tool for social change, helping to create an equal society.
Projects and services must focus on one or more of the following themes:
- providing helping young people to thrive. This funding area is focused on projects which support children and young people (aged 0-24).
- addressing inequalities. This funding area is focused on projects which support all age groups.
- improving wellbeing. This funding area is focused on projects which support all age groups.
Eligibility
Voluntary and community organisations with a constitution and a bank account in their name.
Funding amount
Six grants of up to £3,000 are available.
Closing date
The upcoming application windows are:
- 24 August – 7 September 2026
More information
For full grant guidance and criteria, please visit the Metal For Good website.
Youth Music Trailblazer Fund
Two grant steams are available to support young people who want to change their lives through music but face barriers because of their identities, backgrounds, or life experiences.
The grants are for organisations who want to trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three).
Your work must meet one of the following themes:
- Early years
- Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
- Youth justice system
- Young people facing barriers
- Young adults
- Organisations and the workforce.
Eligibility
Legally constituted, UK-based VCS organisations may apply. Match funding of 10% is required. More details on the grant’s eligibility and match funding requirements can be found on the Trailblazer Fund webpage.
Funding amount
Grants of £2,000 to £15,000 are available to organisations of less than one year old.
Grants of £2,000 to £30,000 are available to organisations of more than one year old.
Closing date
The upcoming application windows are:
- 31 July until 28 August 2026 at 5.00pm
More information
Visit the Trailblazer Fund | Youth Music webpage for more information and to apply.
Drapers' Charitable Fund Grant (UK)
The Drapers' Charitable Fund (DCF) provides grants to improve the lives of disadvantaged communities, especially in Greater London. The fund supports initiatives, related to education, social welfare, textiles, and heritage.
Eligibility
Registered charities, CICs, and arts organisations. Projects should focus on education and young people, social welfare (homelessness, prisoners), ex-servicemen and women, general welfare, disability, and textiles and heritage
Funding amount
There is no minimum or maximum amount but grants typically are up to £25,000.
Closing date
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
More information
Please visit the The Drapers Charitable Fund website.
Arts Council England - National Lottery Project Grants (England)
The National Lottery Project Grants scheme aims to support thousands of artists and community and cultural organisations.
The fund aims to create and sustain quality work. It also seeks to help people across England engage with arts and culture.
Current, time limited priorities of the fund are detailed on the Art Council website.
Eligibility
Museums, libraries, individuals and organisations with projects focussing on the above artforms and disciplines.
Funding amount
Grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 for a 3-year project.
Closing date
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
For information
Please visit the Arts Council England website.
The Golsoncott Foundation (UK)
The Golsoncott Foundation is an arts-funding trust whose objective is to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts, particularly the fine arts and music.
Eligibility
Registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), and arts organisations.
Funding amount
Grants of up to £5,000.
Closing date
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
More information
Please visit the Golsoncott website.
The Victoria Wood Foundation
Established in memory of the celebrated comedian Victoria Wood, the Victoria Wood Foundation fosters Arts initiatives throughout the United Kingdom. Their funding prioritises arts projects in London and the North of England.
Eligibility
Arts organisations and groups are invited to submit funding applications for consideration by the Foundation's trustees, who convene twice annually in July and December. To ensure timely review, applications should be received at least two weeks before the relevant meeting date.
Funding amount
Grants of up to £5,000.
Closing date
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
More information
Please visit the Victoria Wood Foundation website.