Deadline: 13-Feb-24
Idlewild Trust is offering grants to support conservation and the arts.
Grant Programmes
- Thet run two grant programmes:
- Arts: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals
- Grants to improve opportunities for professionals working creatively within the arts at an early stage in their career.
- Aim: They want to improve opportunities for professionals working creatively in the arts at an early stage in their careers.
- Conservation: Objects and Works of Art
- Grants to support the conservation of historic or artistically important objects and works of art in museums, galleries, places of worship, historic buildings, or their grounds.
- Aim: They support the conservation of important works of art and objects that are being lost through the lack of funds to look after these works.
- Arts: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals
Funding Information
- They give grants of up to £5,000. The amount available varies year on year, but to give you an idea in 2022 they awarded 40 grants totalling £174,264 (22 grants totalling £108,035 in 2020).
- You can apply for 100% of the project costs or apply for funding towards a project where there might be multiple funding sources.
Location of Project Activity
- Idlewild supports projects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following information is applicable to both their grant programmes (1. Arts and 2. Conservation). Organisational status:
- Organisations applying must be one of the following:
- UK Registered Charity that is more than 2 years’ old: with two or more annual returns submitted on time to the Charity Commission
- UK Publicly Exempt Charity: most museums/galleries are Registered Charities, but not all.
- Church that is an Excepted Charity: ‘excepted’ because their income is £100,000pa or less and because it’s part of an organization.
- Other churches are required to register as a UK Registered Charity
- Organisations applying must be one of the following:
Ineligible
- Please note that they can’t fund the following organisations:
- higher, secondary or primary education institutions including universities, schools, colleges and conservatoires, whether state or private
- charities with the sole or main purpose of making grants
- organisations that have an income of £5,000pa or under
For more information, visit Idlewild Trust.