Deadline: 6-Jun-25
The Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy has launched its Networks Funding Program to harness the opportunities that fundraising offers, helping to develop diverse and entrepreneurial practice, as well as building and growing a skilled fundraising workforce.
This round of Networks Funding intends to provide core financial support to arts, culture and heritage organisations. It can contribute to the development of new training events, conferences, seminars or meetings, with the aim of strengthening fundraising skills and building robust partnerships across the sector. They achieve this through the following strands of delivery:
- Ideas and innovation: developing new ideas and practical solutions to support organisations to achieve their fundraising potential.
- Strategy and fundraising leadership: stimulating new sources of private income and cultivating commercial opportunities as part of impactful business planning.
- Training and lifelong learning: creating and sharing ideas for innovative practice via face to face, online and accredited training and learning.
Funding Information
- Up to a maximum of £2,500 is available for any single event, or group of events (in-person), to cover the costs of co-ordination, participants’ travel costs, venue hire, catering and speakers/guests. Activity must benefit a minimum of ten people.
- Up to a maximum of £1,000 is available for entirely virtual activity, to cover the cost of software, administration or external training support. Virtual activity must benefit a minimum of ten people.
- Organisations can apply for a further £500 to support access costs for their online or in-person event.
Eligible Activities
- Funding could be used to:
- Provide training in fundraising, business planning or governance.
- Support the wellbeing and resilience of fundraisers or cultural leaders.
- Improve knowledge and skills at a governance level.
- Strengthen skills in a particular area of fundraising such as Legacy Giving, Corporate Fundraising or Crowd funding.
- Explore place-based fundraising and collaboration.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome applications from a wide range of organisations, to reflect the diversity of artists and audiences for art and culture across England.
Application Requirements
- Your organisation name, status (registered charity, CIC, CIO, Other), artform, and annual income
- Lead contact name, number and email
- The location of your organisation
- The name of your network
- Whether your network will be online, in-person or hybrid
- A summary of your network and its purpose (300 words)
- A summary of what the funding will cover (300 words)
- An overview of your intended impact and how you will share learning with other organisations/fundraisers (600 words)
- A summary of any additional access requirements needed (300 words)
- A detailed budget, with expenditure and income for the activity, including a breakdown of the costs you would like to be covered by AFP and any income from other sources either cash or in-kind.
For more information, visit Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy.