Resources for Creatives
Free Funding Databases & Listings
- Grants Online online listings for grant funding opportunities across arts and charity.
- Funds Online online listings for grant funding opportunities across arts and charity.
- Get Grants online listings for grant funding opportunities across arts and charity.
- IncuArts share a list of funding opportunities for artists of colour
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation Funding directory for Visual artist and composers.
- Arts Council England Other Funding Sources list.
- British Council opportunities: including funding, commissions, open calls.
- Funding for All online database.
- There are other funding databases that you can access through a subscription fee, including the Directory of Social Change database.
- Charity Excellence Framework Funder Finder (may be more useful for organisations, but some individual funding on there)
- The Space has a useful listing of fund and commissions
- The List, developed by a freelancer, Jo Jeffrey, is a database which provides updates on changes in trust and foundation grants.
Art form specific listings
- Help Musicians Funding Wizard - directory for music funders.
- Artwork Archive publish annual artist opportunities and grants list
- The Youth Music Guide to other music funders and funding opportunities.
- The Royal Society of Literature has a great listing for funding/grants for writers
- Community Dance have a listings page of funders
- Films on a shoestring have a listing for grants/funding for actors
- Paul Hamlyn funding directory for visual artists and composers
- Independent Society of Musicians list funding on their website for performers, musicians, composers.
- BFI lists funding opportunities for film makers
- Uk filmmakers funding opportunities on UK Film