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Funding

– At CWVA, we manage different funding pots to help distribute grants to community sector organisations.

We also signpost organisations to the funding opportunities available locally and nationally. Below is a list of funding pots that are currently open for applications.

D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Closing Date: 04/02/2025

Amount: £500 to £6,000

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Grants are available for UK registered charities working in the UK in the areas of advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare, and improvement or protection of the environment. The funding is for charitable work in the UK that addresses the objectives of the Trust, which are: · The advancement of the arts. · Health and medical welfare. · Environmental protection or improvement.

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Equilibrium Foundation – Community Support Scheme

Closing Date: 02/03/2025

Amount: Up to £500

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This fund aims to support a variety of projects and activities that make local communities a better place and improve the lives of those within it, such as through sports, arts, education, helping the disadvantaged or improving the environment.

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Youth Music Trailblazer Fund (Round 8)

Closing Date: 21/03/2025

Amount: £2,000 - £30,000

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The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants of £2,000 to £30,000 to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. The project should trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).

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Funding for Places – The Wolfson Foundation

Closing Date: 31/03/2025

Amount: Variable

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There's a wide range of funding programmes and activities. Their fundamental aim is to improve the civic health of society, mainly through education and research. More specifically, they support excellence in the fields of education, science & medicine, health & disability, and heritage, humanities & the arts.

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National Lottery Project Grants – Arts Council England

Closing Date: 31/12/2025

Amount: £1,000 - £100,000

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National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations. Individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries can all apply. National Lottery Project Grants is open all the time, there are no deadlines. Grants of between £1000 and £100,000 are available. No deadline, rolling applications.

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BlueSpark Foundation grants

Closing Date: 31/12/2025

Amount: Up to £5,000

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Schools, colleges and community groups in England can apply for grants to Blue Spark Foundation for a wide range of projects. The Foundation value academic, vocational, artistic and sporting endeavour in equal measure but are particularly keen to support projects which will help enhance the self-confidence, team working skills and future employability of children and young people. Many grants will be under £2,000 and none are more than £5,000. Projects which could be supported include drama, music, sport, art and design, debating, public speaking, academic education, vocational training, community projects, enterprise projects and educational excursions. This list is illustrative and not exclusive as to the types of projects that the Foundation support. No deadline, rolling applications.

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