Our open funds
We're looking for organisations, artists, events, initiatives and others to apply for our funding and help us achieve our strategy, Let's Create.
Never applied to us before?Our open funds
National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
The aim of the Cultural Development Fund is to level up through investment in culture. The fund will unlock local growth and productivity, increase access to excellent creativity and culture, and regenerate communities. It will achieve this through capital investment in transformative place-based creative and cultural initiatives.
This is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England.
DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.
Recently closed funds
Get all the information you need on our Music Hub Investment Programme.
DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.
Information about our 2023-26 Investment Programme, including who will become a National Portfolio or Investment Principles Support Organisation from 1 April 2023.
We're delivering the Culture Recovery Fund on behalf of DCMS to support culturally significant organisations to survive and recover from the pandemic.
Creative People and Places is a funding programme focusing on parts of the country where involvement in creativity and culture is significantly below the national average.
Part of the Cultural Investment Funds programme, LIF Round 2 will support libraries across England to upgrade assets, enabling the provision, both physical and digital, of a modern, flexible, community-focused space and service.
This is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England to apply for funding to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance backlogs which are beyond the scope of day-to-day maintenance budgets.
This funding is designed to connect communities and help them cope with the impact of Covid-19.
Capital investment in transformative place-based creative and cultural initiatives.
This is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England to apply for funding to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance backlogs which are beyond the scope of day-to-day maintenance budgets.
Part of the Cultural Investment Funds programme, LIF Round 2 will support libraries across England to upgrade assets, enabling the provision, both physical and digital, of a modern, flexible, community-focused space and service.
Discover our funding programmes and development resources to support capital projects
We’re partnering with the Danish Arts Foundation and the Danish Embassy to support a second year of the International Touring and Environmental Responsibility Fund.
Support for your application
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Before you can start an application you need to create a user account and an applicant profile on our application portal, Grantium
We want everyone to be able to access our services or apply for funding
When you apply for a grant from us, you need to consider whether Subsidy Control rules apply