Grants database

Glasgow Sculpture Studios supports creative practice in sculpture, sustaining a vibrant artistic community and running extensive engagement projects with the wider community. This grant supports their 2025–2028 programme, which builds on the positive outcomes achieved over the past five years and ensures resources are focused where their work has the greatest impact.

The Garage work with local and national partners to provide high quality performing arts programming, participation, education and training for all ages, with a particular focus on young people. This grant will support The Garage to explore effective intervention models for primary school pupils at risk of exclusion. Working in schools across Norfolk the programme focuses on five key areas: Teambuilding, Confidence, Personal Development, Skills Development and Wellbeing.

Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) is the platform for the visual arts at the heart of Edinburgh’s August festivals, bringing together galleries, museums and artist-run spaces in a city-wide celebration of visual art. This grant will enable EAF to work towards providing a truly inclusive festival, and offer increased opportunities for those who have been marginalised or under-served in Scotland to work alongside them to address this.

Cubitt Artists is a London-based artist-led cooperative, comprising community and civic programmes, a public gallery, and affordable artist studios. This grant will support Cubitt to continue to model methods and share approaches for advancing equity in the arts, working alongside local communities to resource and amplify their creativity as a tool for liberation.

Counterpoints Arts is a creative hub producing projects by and about refugees and migrants. This grant will be used toward supporting their core costs, organisational development, programming plans, capacity building and learning.

Common/​Wealth create political and contemporary experimental theatre with, by and for people new to the arts. This grant provides funding for increased staffing to help maximise the potential of each campaign, alongside provision of creative residencies and additional wellbeing support for their collaborators.

Comics Youth is a multi-national organisation that provides comics-based literacy and wellbeing projects for marginalised children and young people aged 8–25 within Liverpool City. This grant provides core funding allowing Comics Youth to grow and develop its youth-led publisher, deepening their impact and the role they play in the comics sector.

The Mercury Theatre produces award-winning theatre and connects with its diverse local communities through participation programmes. This grant supports Colchester Mercury Theatre to work with 7 mainstream primary schools in Essex, using drama and theatre-based approaches to learning, specifically with pupils experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance and/​or who have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (EBSA).

Bradford Literature Festival is an annual arts event and year-round cultural outreach programme. They aim to create high quality cultural activity and build stronger communities through dialogue, cohesion, and promotion of intercultural fluency. This grant will strengthen Bradford Literature Festival’s long-term sustainability, deepen its impact, and drive systemic change in the cultural sector.

Arts at the Old Fire Station is an arts centre that brings art to the public and provides professional development for artists and support for people experiencing homelessness in an inclusive public space. This grant provides core funding to support the development of a new strategy and investment into organisational culture, aiming for long-term systemic impact.

Arts and Homelessness International works to bring positive change to people, projects and policy in homelessness through arts and creativity. They focus on connecting and strengthening projects and advocating for arts to be a part of homelessness support and policy. This grant will support the implementation of their 2025–28 strategic plan, focusing on connecting and strengthening the sector.

The Art House is home to over 50 artists, makers and creative businesses, and exists to champion equality of access and higher diversity in contemporary visual arts practice. Artists and audiences are invited to engage with the creative process through a rich programme of residencies, exhibitions, events, workshops, and professional development opportunities. This grant will support the growth of their Sanctuary work, ensuring they can meet the evolving needs of the local refugee communities.