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Radcliffe Trust: Heritage & Crafts Grants

Open (with deadline for applications) Archives and artefacts Arts, culture and heritage Craft and design Cultural heritage Performing arts Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Overview

The Radcliffe Trust supports the development and practice of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s heritage and crafts sector. This includes support for emerging craftspeople of high quality, craft and conservation projects and training, projects demonstrating creative outcomes by designer-makers, projects with potential for capacity building within the sector, and some special needs projects focusing on the therapeutic benefits of skills development.

The Trustees will consider making occasional grants in other areas of cultural creativity related to their concerns for heritage and crafts, including theatre, performance, and literature, especially where projects can be shown to contribute to the promotion and development of high-level skills among early career practitioners and disadvantaged groups.

General Eligibility

  • applications must be on behalf of a UK Charity, Not-For-Profit, or Exempt organisation
  • applications must be for a specific project and not for a general appeal, or endowment fund
  • applicants must be based in the UK
  • bursaries and other support fees will normally be paid to the training organisation
  • if you have applied before, it must be at least a year since your last successful application
  • if your organisation has received three years of consecutive funding from The Radcliffe Trust, you can apply again, but only after a one-year break

Please read their FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS if you have any further questions before applying.

Note

The Radcliffe Trust accepts applications from CICs, CIOs and other not-for-profit organisations.

Grants are generally in the region of £2,500-£5,000

Key dates

Application deadline for December meeting from 1 May until 31/07/2025
Applications for June meeting open 01/11/2025
Application deadline for June meeting 31/01/2026