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Arts, culture and heritage grants in North West

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 with a registered address in North West.

63grants
£2mtotal awarded
£5,000median grant
14funders

Top funders

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

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Westminster Foundation4£669k£158k
Youth Music5£361k£100k
Forever Manchester29£275k£2,500
Steve Morgan Foundation1£255k£255k
Garfield Weston Foundation3£175k£50k
The Clothworkers Foundation1£100k£100k
A B Charitable Trust4£95k£23k
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside8£40k£4,060
Rank Foundation1£31k£31k
The Greggs Foundation1£20k£20k

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
Together Energy FundForever Manchester92023, 2024, 202510 Dec 2025
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust42013 to 202615 Jul 2026
Zuto Make A Difference FundForever Manchester22021 to 202620 May 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation22017 to 202615 May 2026
Community Impact GrantsBenefact Trust22023 to 202627 Apr 2026
Rossendale Community FundCommunity Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside22023, 2025, 202626 Mar 2026
Other GrantsWestminster Foundation22018 to 202611 Dec 2025
NextGen FundForever Manchester12025, 202624 Jun 2026
Bright Futures FundForever Manchester12024, 2025, 202616 Apr 2026
Alfred Shaw Trust FundCommunity Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside12022 to 202624 Feb 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

21 open schemes on Find a Grant covering North West 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, Benefact Trust, Charles Hayward Foundation, Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Forever Manchester, Garfield Weston Foundation, Rank Foundation, Steve Morgan Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Greggs Foundation, Westminster Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Community Foundation for Calderdale: 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.