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Arts, culture and heritage grants across the UK

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for arts, culture and heritage.

678grants
£30.7mtotal awarded
£8,000median grant
53funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to arts, culture and heritage charities in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Wolfson Foundation31£9.1m£100k
John Lyon's Charity34£4.5m£104k
Garfield Weston Foundation33£1.9m£25k
Comic Relief2£1.8m£880k
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation14£1.2m£13k
Westminster Foundation9£1.1m£90k
Community Foundation North East107£976k£5,000
London Marathon Foundation8£949k£73k
John Ellerman Foundation6£860k£155k
Youth Music13£806k£33k

Open and recurring programmes

Funder programmes behind these grants that have made grants in at least two years, so are likely to run again. Check each funder's website for current deadlines.

ProgrammeFunderGrants (12 months)Years with grantsLatest grant
Main GrantJohn Lyon's Charity232019 to 202611 Mar 2026
Arts and HumanitiesWolfson Foundation192018 to 202610 Jun 2026
Donor FundsCommunity Foundation for Surrey132019 to 202630 Jun 2026
ArtsGarfield Weston Foundation132017 to 202618 Jun 2026
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust122013 to 202624 Aug 2026
Small Grants ProgrammeThe Clothworkers Foundation122018 to 202510 Dec 2025
Shelter and Security - Strengthened communitiesMaking a Difference Locally112024, 202518 Dec 2025
School Holiday Activity FundJohn Lyon's Charity102019 to 202623 Feb 2026
Together Energy FundForever Manchester92023, 2024, 202510 Dec 2025
TASK by TrusteeEsmée Fairbairn Foundation82020 to 202624 Sept 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

20 open schemes on Find a Grant in related sectors (live Grant Radar list). The 5 closing soonest:

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
DCMS Place-Based Philanthropy Community of PracticeDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport£996k to £997k9 Nov 2026
Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council£500k to £1.5m25 Nov 2026
Long-term cultural and sporting events legacy (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council£1.1m to £1.3m1 Dec 2026
Attendance and engagement at UK sporting, cultural and heritage sites (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council£1.1m to £1.3m1 Dec 2026
Gambling harms research grants (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council£1 to £2m8 Dec 2026

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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving (GrantNav), grants awarded 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 to registered charities, companies and other organisations (grants to individuals are left out). Cause and region come from the recipient charity's entry on the Charity Commission register (its registered charitable purposes and the postcode area of its registered address), so cause and region snapshots cover recipients registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Open government schemes are from Find a Grant (UK Government) via Grant Radar. "Recurring" programmes have grants in at least two calendar years. Figures are our own summary.

Licences: each funder publishes its data under its own open licence; we use only data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence. Data from A B Charitable Trust, Allen Lane Foundation, Benefact Trust, CHK Foundation, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, Camden Giving, Charles Hayward Foundation, Comic Relief, Community Foundation North East, Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside, Devon Community Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex Community Foundation, Forever Manchester, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, Herefordshire Community Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation, John Lyon's Charity, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Leeds Community Foundation, London Marathon Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, Quartet Community Foundation, Rank Foundation, Steve Morgan Foundation, The Ballinger Charitable Trust, The Berkeley Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Fore, The Foyle Foundation, The Greggs Foundation, The Leathersellers' Foundation, The Three Guineas Trust, The True Colours Trust, The Veterans' Foundation, Trust For London, United St Saviour's Charity, Virgin Money Foundation, Westminster Foundation, Wolfson Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Community Foundation for Surrey, The Pilgrim Trust: Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Architectural Heritage Fund, Barnwood Trust, Community Foundation for Calderdale, Oxfordshire Community Foundation: Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Find a Grant: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check each funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to these funders.