Funding and Bursaries

The Les Enfants Terribles Award is designed to help one new theatre company who’re producing original work to be able to bring their show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Les Enfants Terribles hope to encourage an entrepreneurial spirit amongst young companies, helping them to achieve their goals by rewarding their artistic achievement, ambition and desire to produce …

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Disabled artists and arts organisations with a strong track record in their field can apply for funding from Unlimited to create and present new work, across all art forms. The work may still be at a very early stage of conception, or have already undergone some research and development. The Unlimited commission awards will range …

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The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts.  Applications are invited for projects of up to £40,000 through their small grants programme. The aim of the awards is to support arts projects …

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The Artists’ International Development Programme is a £750,000 fund, jointly funded by the British Council and Arts Council England. The programme offers early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self-employed artists based in England to spend time building links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers in another country.  The deadline for Round eight of …

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(Note: this opportunity is open to playwrights but not TV/ Film scripts) Sky Academy invites IdeasTap members to apply for one of five £30,000 Arts Scholarships (€38,000). These life-changing bursaries, which include a programme of expert mentoring, allow each scholar to focus exclusively on their creative practice for an entire year. Get ready to give …

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Filmmakers! IdeasTap are offering £10K to fund the production of a short film of any genre. The only restriction is that they are looking for film makers who have at least one short film under their belt. The length of the film can be anything up to 25 minutes.  They will issue the cash by the …

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As part of the BBC Performing Arts Fellowship, Pentabus are looking for a theatre maker (director, writer, producer etc) who has shown dedication and passion towards a career in theatre and who demonstrates potential but needs guidance in taking the next steps. Pentabus will be offering the chosen person a tailor-made opportunity. The Fellow will be …

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