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.
18 grants available to your project Refine your search
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* |
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 |
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 |
Small Grants Programme
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 |
Lottery Project Funding
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 |
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Broadcast Content Fund
The Broadcast Content Fund supports 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 |
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Distribution Fund
The Distribution Fund supports the distribution of Scottish feature films to reach a wide and diverse audience in Scotland. |
Nationwide |
£5,000 - £15,000 |
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Market and Festival Attendance Fund
The Market and Festival Attendance Fund supports the progression of film and TV projects through attendance at key UK and international markets and festivals. |
Scotland |
£150 - £3,000 |
Open Fund for Individuals
The Open Fund for Individuals supports Scotland-based artists and creative practitioners to undertake periods of research, development, and/or the delivery of creative activity. |
Scotland |
£500 - £50,000 |
National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations
The National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations supports organisations to undertake creative activity such as a specific project or production, a programme of creative work, or a period of research and development. |
Nationwide |
£1,000 - £100,000 |
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - 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. |
Nationwide |
£200,000 - £500,000 |
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - 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. |
Nationwide |
£3,000 - £500,000 |
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland) - Screen Education Fund
The Screen Education Fund supports pilot programmes with innovation at their core, alongside programmes of work which aim to develop increased understanding of the potential of screen education, and support the provision of screen education in formal, informal, and non-formal settings. |
Scotland |
£5,000 - £20,000 |
Screen Scotland (Creative 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 |
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 |
National Lottery Rural Engagement Programme
The purpose of the Rural Engagement Arts Programme (REAP) is to provide an integrated, cohesive approach to supporting arts projects in rural communities while while recognising some specific issues they face. The impact that loneliness and social isolation can have on the physical, mental and social health of isolated older people is well documented. Participating in the arts, and coming together as communities, can make a vital contribution to improving health and wellbeing, building confidence and integrating communities. |
Northern Ireland |
£500 - £10,000 |
National Lottery Arts and Older People Programme
The Arts & Older People Programme aims to strengthen the voice of older people and promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing through the arts. It achieves this by providing funding to arts-based projects that address related social issues such as poverty, isolation and loneliness, as well as promoting positive mental health. |
Northern Ireland |
£1,000 - £10,000 |
National Lottery Organisations Digital Evolution Awards
The aim of this programme is upskilling NI arts organisations in the use of new, emerging, and immersive technology and supporting the creation of high quality Digital Art. |
Northern Ireland |
£10,000 |
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Sarah Storey
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Manchester Village Spartans
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