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The Rayne Foundation

The Rayne Foundation offers grants to organisations in the areas of arts, education, and social welfare ranging from £5,000 to £200,000.
The Foundation will make grants to organisations with a charitable purpose which are registered and working in the UK (to include registered charities, companies and universities amongst others), including national or umbrella organisations.

The Rayne Foundation

The Foundation will fund:

- capital costs of buildings and equipment (unless the Foundation has more specifically said it is unlikely to support this in some sectors);
- salaries and all types of project costs;
- reasonable contribution to overheads (there is no fixed percentage);
- general running or core costs (normally for a maximum of three years).
Applications should meet all of the Foundation's aims:
- helping the most vulnerable or disadvantaged in society;
- providing direct benefits or services to people;
- achieving excellence;
- supporting neglected causes;
- assisting in levering funding from other sources.

For further information please contact: The Rayne Foundation
Carlton House, 33 Robert Adam Street, London W1 3HR
E: info@raynefoundation.org.uk W: www.raynefoundation.org.uk

Co- op Foundation

The Co-operative Foundation is keen to support community and voluntary sector activity through grants to local groups and organisations across its trading area. Grants from £500 to £30,000 are available for part or total funding for one year projects.

For more details, contact the Charity Manager at foundation@coop.co.uk or by phoning 01706 202032 or the Foundation Office to discuss your project and request an application form and guidelines on 0161 246 3044

East Lancashire Creative Industry Awards

CREATIVITYWORKS AWARDS

Lancashire Creative Industry Awards

Jobs, contracts, commissions for artists of all media. All here and regularly updated. If you want to put your commission on our website just email us..

Now in its fourth year these awards have really taken off and attracted a huge array of creative talent from the region. Application forms are available through http://www.creativityworks.info/ , whilst you are there why not register to receive the regular newsletter and updates on the Awards.

Previous winners of awards have included Tony Wilson and partner Yvette Livesey for their work with Elevate, Frankland and Duxbury one of East Lancashire's oldest foundries and Horse and Bamboo Theatre, one of Europe's leading visual theatre companies.

For more information regarding the awards please either email mailto:creativityworks@ntlworld.com or call 01254 660360.

Creativeconomy.org.uk

Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards

FUNDS: Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards

The Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards, sponsored and organised by the Commonwealth Foundation, aim to increase mutual understanding between people from different Commonwealth cultures through artistic exchange.
Every two years, around ten awards of up to 8,000 are made to craftspeople and artists from Commonwealth countries who show promise and initiative in their own country but who have had little opportunity of working in another country. The Awards are intended to help winning artists explore their art in another Commonwealth country by working alongside other artists or within an arts institution.
Through the Awards awareness and appreciation of different cultures is increased and artists and craftspeople acquire artistic, personal and organisational skills, while sharing their own skills and talents. Further information, guidelines and application forms can be found at www.commonwealthfoundation.com

Arts Fundraisers.org

The AAF was founded in 1994, and has grown steadily to encompass fundraisers from arts organisations large and small, local authority arts officers, regional arts boards, freelance fundraisers and other interested parties.

BBC Arts News

How the UK's arts funding is spent
Old article but still of interest

Crafts Council Development Award

The development award has been re-launched and is now open to designer-makers . The scheme has 4 deadlines each year, in March, June, September and December.
Those in receipt of an award get a 2,500 maintenance grant, equipment grants of up to 5,000, a residential course in business training and 1000 promotional postcards.
For further details please see the website - www.craftscouncil.org.uk/guide or email reference@craftscouncil.org.uk

FUNDS: Creative industries loans

A dedicated loan fund for Creative Industries across the North West seeking to raise finance to start or grow a business

The fund offers loans of up to £10,000 for new businesses and loans of up to £20,000 for existing businesses

For more information contact BBV Ltd, Bolton Business Centre, 46 Lower Bridgeman Street, Bolton BL2 1DG. T: 01204 391400 F: 01524380076 E: info@bbvonline.net www.bbvonline.net

British Arts listing of funding opportunities

The aim of these fact sheets is to give guidance on the whole process of fundraising from deciding what you need funds for to making the application. It is designed for groups that have not yet begun fundraising, and as a useful tool for more experienced fundraisers.

EDINBURGH.- Developmental support of artists towards the creation of new work is a primary aim of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). The RSA strives to achieve this through its series of Awards, Bursaries and Scholarships as well as its annual New Contemporaries Exhibition, Annual Exhibition and rolling exhibition programme that showcase new and innovative experimental art.

EUCLID is the official UK "Contact Point" for the EU's Culture programme

FUNDING: Young people and communities

www.helpyourselves.org.uk

Sciart
Wellcome Trust, London, UK

FUNDS: Art and science projects

Sciart, Wellcome Trust, London, UK

Collaboration between art and science is a buoyant field of activity. Visual art, music, digital media, moving image, creative writing and performance provide fresh ways of interacting with scientific research, and engaging a wide range of audiences in scientific issues. In turn, science - with its vivid history, complex contemporary advances - offers a rich supply of inspiration for the arts.

Projects should aim to stimulate fresh thinking and debate in both disciplines. Innovation and experimentation are crucial. At the same time projects should be accessible to diverse audiences and should attempt to engage the public in the social, ethical and cultural issues that surround contemporary biomedical science.

Sciart is offering to further support and encourage innovative arts projects investigating biomedical science and its social contexts.

For more information and an application form: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/sciart

All enquiries and application forms should be addressed to: Sciart Programme, Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK | T +44 (0)20 7611 7222 | F +44 (0)20 7611 8545 | sciart@wellcome.ac.uk

Scottish Arts.org

Visiting Arts's purpose is to strengthen intercultural understanding through the arts.

Voluntary Arts listing of funding information

The Cumbria Network
is a hub for artists to locate resources and generate action.
Tel: 01931 714070
Email: thecumbrianetwork.co.uk
Website: The Cumbrian Network

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