Find funding for your project
The National Lottery is funding projects in the arts, sport, heritage, charity, voluntary, health, education and environmental sectors.
Every project makes a real difference to lives and communities across the UK. Different types of grants fund different types of projects – take a look below or refine your search by using the tabs to the right.
16 grants available to your project
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| Grant | Location/Distributor | Funding Amount |
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BFI National Lottery Audiences Project Fund The BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund supports ambitious, audience-facing independent UK and international film and broader screen activity of national scale. The Fund supports projects that focus on increasing awareness and growing the participation of audiences that represent the UK population. The Fund supports film exhibitors, film distributors, and other organisation delivering audience development activity with multi-year and short-term projects as well as research and development. |
Nationwide |
£20,000 - £200,000 with an upper limit of £500,000 for projects of exceptional scale and ambition* |
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Support for Individual Artists Programme (SIAP) The Arts Council’s SIAP scheme offers a range of funding awards to support the needs of individual artists. Broadly, awards can be for specific projects, specialised research or personal artistic development. These include travel awards, General Art Awards, Artists Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES), Artists International Development Fund (AIDF). Check Guidance Notes on the Arts Council website for full details of what you can apply for. How much funding you can apply for will depend on which award you apply for. |
Northern Ireland |
£62 - £15,000 |
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Annual Funding Programme (AFP) The aim of the Annual Funding Programme (AFP) is to support Northern Ireland’s arts infrastructure through grants to organisations in all artforms and practices for their core and programming costs. |
Northern Ireland |
N/A |
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The aim of this programme is to assist organisations to deliver arts projects which contribute to the growth of arts in the community for new and existing audiences and which reflect the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. |
Northern Ireland |
£500 - £10,000 |
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The Arts Council has designed this programme to assist organisations to deliver arts projects which contribute to the growth of arts in the community for new and existing audiences and which reflect the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,001 - £50,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The Broadcast Content Fund The Broadcast Content Fund aims to help the sustainable growth of Scotland’s broadcast production sector, encouraging the development of new projects, the scaling up of already successful activities and the production of commissioned programmes. |
Scotland |
£10,000 - £100,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The Distribution and Exhibition Fund The Distribution and Exhibition Fund aims to support wider distribution of completed Scottish films across Scotland and internationally, and especially to increase access to Scottish films for as wide and diverse an audience as possible within Scotland. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £15,000 |
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Screen Scotland - Film Festivals Fund The Film Festivals Fund aims to increase the range and diversity of films available to audiences in Scotland - projects supported through this fund should help to promote cinemagoing and cinemas in Scotland, and to raise the profile of film, especially specialised film. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £70,000 |
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Screen Scotland - Market and Festival Attendance Fund The Market and Festival Attendance Fund aims to support attendance at international film, TV and screen festivals and markets for screenwriters, directors and producers based in Scotland, to enable them to meet potential partners, access global markets and promote their completed projects. |
Scotland |
£150 - £1500 |
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The Open Fund for Individuals aims to support a wide range of activity initiated by freelance and self-employed artists and creative practitioners living in Scotland who are at least 18 years old. |
Scotland |
£500 - £100,000 |
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Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development The Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development is for organisations and groups based in Scotland whose work or project involves the arts and/or creative industries. |
Scotland |
£1,000 - £100,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The Production Growth Fund The Production Growth Fund aims to help grow Scotland’s screen production sector by attracting large scale productions into the country, and maximising spend in Scotland. |
Scotland |
£200,000 - £500,000 |
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Screen Scotland - The Film Development and Production Fund The Film Development and Production Fund exists to offer development and production funding for feature-length films and documentaries being made by filmmakers based in Scotland. |
Scotland |
£3,000 - £50,000 |
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Film Education Partnership Fund The aim of this fund is to develop increased capabilities in film education, typically through greater connectivity and partnership working between film education organisations and practitioners, and professional development for the film education practitioners involved. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £70,000 |
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Screen Scotland - Professional Development Fund This fund aims to contribute to this by providing support for individuals working in film and television to access training, mentoring and other professional development activity, nationally and internationally. |
Scotland |
£250 - £5,000 |
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Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants English National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations with projects that focus on: Combined Arts including festivals and carnivals, Dance, Libraries, Literature, Museums, Music, Theatre or Visual Arts. |
England |
£1,000 - £100,000 |