Creative and Visitor Economy Funding Opportunities Round Up – August 2024

A round-up of the latest funding opportunities for the region’s cultural, creative and visitor sectors.

Innovate UK Launches New Round of Smart Grants 

The Smart Grants programme is a ‘responsive’ grant funding programme from Innovate UK (IUK). It has focused eligibility criteria and scope to support SMEs and their partners to develop disruptive innovations with significant potential for rapid, economic return to the UK.

Find out more here. 

Henry Moore Foundation Accepting Applications for Sculpture Projects Across the UK 

The objective of the Foundation is to support sculpture across historical, modern and contemporary registers, seeking to fund research that expands the appreciation of sculpture.

Find out more here. 

Arts Council England – Creative People and Places National Portfolio Programme 2026-2029 

The funding is intended for groups of local organisations or consortia who work together to bring creative opportunities to the lives of local people. The arts activities need to be designed by, for, and with people from the local community.

Find out more here. 

LNER Customer and Community Investment Fund 

The fund aims to support charities and causes along its route. It provides vital funding to small and medium sized projects that deliver a positive impact to issues that are important to us.

Find out more here. 

PRS Foundation – Women Make Music 

Women Make Music supports the development of outstanding women, trans and non-binary songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career.

Find out more here. 

Round Seven Deadline Approaching for Youth Music’s Trailblazer Fund 

The funding aims to support young people who want to change their lives through music but cannot because of who they are, where they are from or what they are going through. The grants are for organisations that want to trial work for the first time, test a new way of working, or disrupt the status quo.

Find out more here. 

Arts Council Advice Sessions for First Time Applicants in the North

This is an opportunity for you to find out more about what Arts Council England do and how you can apply for funding.

These webinars are for first time applicants based in the North of England. The sessions will be online via Zoom. There will be BSL interpretation and Live Captioning during the sessions.

Find out more here.

Historic England Everyday Heritage Grants: Tees Valley Briefing