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Arts, Culture, and
Heritage Grants
Glasgow
Cultural Grants
Grants of up to 50% of the costs of arts activity
by professional arts organisations and/or arts projects with children and young
people and socially and culturally diverse groups are available. Apply by end
January each year.
Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation
Arts and Heritage is one of four programme areas supported
by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Arts cover visual arts, performing arts and
multi-disciplinary arts through expanding high quality provision and/or supporting
the professional development of talented artists. Heritage covers preserving
and providing public access to national heritage.
The Foundation
for Sport and the Arts
The Foundation aims to encourage active participation
by young people in most socially inclusive sports and the arts. Grants are up
to £40,000.
The
Foyle Foundation
The Foundation’s aim is to widen the opportunity
to enjoy and be stimulated by the performing and visual arts and to foster creative
endeavour. This will be achieved by helping to make the arts more accessible,
developing new audiences, supporting tours, festivals, educational projects
and by helping to develop new work. Building and infrastructure projects to
construct new arts facilities, improve or re-equip existing venues will also
be considered.
John Paul Getty (jnr) Trust
The Trust has limited funds available for therapeutic
use of the arts and conservation.
Heritage Lottery
Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) enables communities
to celebrate, look after and learn more about our diverse heritage, including
museums, historic buildings, nature reserves, parks, traditions, customs and
history. There are a range of grant programmes, depending on how much / what
you are applying for.
The MacRobert Trust
Grants are only given to charities, with a preference
for those in Scotland. Youth is one of the current major categories supported.
Paul
Hamlyn Foundation
The Foundation aims to open up the arts and education
to everyone, but particularly to young people.
The Pilgrim Trust
The Trustees have a particular interest in preservation
of historic buildings and architectural features and conservation of works of
art, books, manuscripts, photographs, documents and museum objects.
Scottish Arts Council
The Scottish Arts Council is the principal channel
of public funding for the arts in Scotland. It allocates funding from the Scottish
Executive and the National Lottery to organisations and individuals.
Clore
Duffield Foundation
The Clore Small Grants Programme aims to provide children
and young people (aged 0 – 18) across the UK with opportunities
to experience performing arts education at its best.
Lankelly
Chase Foundation
The Foundation has a particular interest in supporting
arts activities for people with special needs, charities delivering dance to
people of any age, ability or limiting circumstance, arts activities bringing
together all ages in a community and providing capital grants to organisations
managing buildings of architectural merit and historic interest that are used
by and accessible to the community.
Wider Action:
Communities Scotland “Wider Role”
£3m is available each year in Glasgow to assist Registered
Social Landlords (RSLs) such as housing associations to develop projects that
improve the economic, social and environmental circumstances of the local communities
within which RSLs operate.
Head Office:
Adelphi Centre, 12 Commercial Road, Glasgow G5 0PQ
tel: 0141 429 6314 fax: 0141 429 2649
e: info@gsera.org.uk