Resources for Funding

Downloads from other organisations

CABE: Client guide for arts capital programme projects
This document acts as a guide for clients involved in construction projects for arts capital programme projects and is designed to complement usual training sessions and professional advice

Useful Links

Arts Council
The Arts Council funds a wide range of projects and contributes to community building enterprises and encourages artists and creative people to engage in community development.
www.artscouncil.org.uk

Awards for all
Lottery grants scheme offering funding for small, local community-based projects in the UK. The fund aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need and offers grants of between £300 and £10,000.
www.awardsforall.org.uk

Big Issue Invest
A provider of finance to social enterprises which create social and environmental transformation
www.bigissueinvest.com

Big Lottery Fund
The national lottery fund. Gives millions of pounds to community groups and projects that improve health, education and the environment.
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Aims to help enrich and connect the experiences of people in the UK and Republic of Ireland and secure lasting and beneficial change in their lives by providing funding for cultural, educational and social projects.
www.gulbenkian.org.uk 

Energy savings Trust
The EST holds a funding database for energy conservation and renewable energy production across the UK and is an excellent place to look for additional funding to ensure that your project is environmentally sustainable. Whilst funding may not pay for a whole building, it may act as match funding and ensure that your environmental objectives are met
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/cafe/Green-Communities/Funding-Advice/Green-Communities-Funding-Database

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
EFE focuses on funding projects that relate to culture, education and learning. They aim to inform communities and thus make them stronger. There is main fund and specific strands in addition to this.
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Government Funding
Provides a common point of access to government grant funding for the Voluntary and Community Sector
www.governmentfunding.org.uk

Housing Market Renewal [HMR]
HMR is central government funding whose primary aim is to increase the value of housing in the most deprived areas of the country. In order to achieve this, regeneration and development needs to take place. Therefore HMR offers a range of opportunities to develop community facilities and could help fund your project. There are a number of pathfinder areas around England that if you are in you can contact.
www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/housing_market_renewal

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Foundation focuses on improving the lives of those living in poverty. Part of this remit is to create stronger more active communities. JRF sends out specific calls for funding and applicants need to tailor their applications to the call requirements.
www.jrf.org.uk

Meanwhile Project
The Meanwhile project offers a range of ‘Space for Sports and Arts’ project funds for schools that wish to open out their facilities for wider community use, particularly where sports and arts are concerned
www.meanwhile.org.uk

Sport England
Sport England are committed to developing ‘community sport’ and fund a range of capital projects to enable this. A building does not have to be solely used for sport to gain funding, although it needs to be a priority. There are a wide range of sporting activities that can be consider as fundable by SE, so don’t assume that your building has to have a football pitch in it.
www.sportengland.org

Sust.org: Grant Aid for design
Website to access small grants of up to £7,000 are available to community groups in Scotland to assist putting sustainable design into practice.
www.sust.org/?view=43&parent=2

The Tudor Trust
An independent grant-making trust which supports organisations working across the UK. It aims to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of society, and is particularly interested in helping smaller, under-resourced organisations, which offer direct services and involve the people they work with in their planning.
www.tudortrust.org.uk