Round 3: The Leche Trust Grant Programme in the UK

Deadline: 2-May-25

Applications are now open for the Leche Trust Grant Programme.

Areas

• The Leche Trust offers grants in two areas:
  • Performing Arts and
  • Heritage Conservation.

Priorities

• Performing Arts
  • The priorities are:
    • New Works in Performing Arts: the commissioning, development, production and/or performance of new works in music, theatre, dance and performance across all genres
    • Artists’ Professional Development: to support artists’ professional development through programmes that address a clear need or gap in development.  These programmes can be aimed at early or mid-career artists, but they need to reflect current context and practices.
• Heritage Conservation
  • They support the conservation of historically, artistically and culturally significant buildings and objects dating from before 1837 that are in urgent need of remedial treatment.
  • These might include individual paintings, sculpture and monuments, wall paintings and non-structural architectural fittings such as decorative plaster work and panelling. They will also consider applications relating to archaeological finds, items within archives and libraries and other decorative art objects.
  • Applications for heritage conservation must be accompanied by a fully costed estimate and condition assessment carried out by an appropriately qualified conservator, normally Accredited with the Institute of Conservation (ICON).

Funding Information

• Performing Arts: The performing arts grants are typically around £4,000 – sometimes smaller and rarely larger. They prefer to give grants to smaller projects, or specific elements of projects, where the contribution can have a greater impact.
• Heritage Conservation: The heritage conservation grants are typically under £5,000, but occasionally larger.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be UK registered charities or public authorities.
• They do not fund CICs
• They do not accept applications from individuals.
• Projects, whether for performing arts or conservation, must be located in the UK.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They do not fund:
  • Performing Arts
    • projects that will commence less than six weeks from the published date of the trustees’ meeting concerned
    • amateur/non-professional performances or the training of amateur/non-professional artists
    • general arts programmes or appeals submitted without specific details about the new works or training that they will include
    • projects in which the primary purpose is health, therapy or social welfare
    • visual arts projects
    • capital developments at arts venues or purchase of equipment
    • projects not taking place in the UK
  • Heritage Conservation 
    • items that are Victorian or later in date, i.e. post 1837
    • new buildings or structural repairs, such as roof repairs, mechanical and electrical services, archaeological structures, such as earthworks and ditches etc
    • cost related to displays and exhibitions, such as catalogues and publications, display cases and interpretation etc
    • equipment and materials relating to environmental control and protection, such as UV film, blinds and storage
    • general appeals for funding without details of specific, eligible works. Including applications for core costs related to the running of an organisation

For more information, visit The Leche Trust.