Idlewild Trust’s Arts and Conservation Funds – United Kingdom

Deadline: 13-Feb-24

Idlewild Trust is offering grants to support conservation and the arts.

Grant Programmes

• Thet run two grant programmes:
  • Arts: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals
    • Grants to improve opportunities for professionals working creatively within the arts at an early stage in their career.
    • Aim: They want to improve opportunities for professionals working creatively in the arts at an early stage in their careers.
  • Conservation: Objects and Works of Art
    • Grants to support the conservation of historic or artistically important objects and works of art in museums, galleries, places of worship, historic buildings, or their grounds.
    • Aim: They support the conservation of important works of art and objects that are being lost through the lack of funds to look after these works.

Funding Information

• They give grants of up to £5,000. The amount available varies year on year, but to give you an idea in 2022 they awarded 40 grants totalling £174,264 (22 grants totalling £108,035 in 2020).
• You can apply for 100% of the project costs or apply for funding towards a project where there might be multiple funding sources.

Location of Project Activity

• Idlewild supports projects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Eligibility Criteria

• The following information is applicable to both their grant programmes (1. Arts and 2. Conservation). Organisational status:
  • Organisations applying must be one of the following:
    • UK Registered Charity that is more than 2 years’ old: with two or more annual returns submitted on time to the Charity Commission
    • UK Publicly Exempt Charity: most museums/galleries are Registered Charities, but not all.
    • Church that is an Excepted Charity: ‘excepted’ because their income is £100,000pa or less and because it’s part of an organization.
    • Other churches are required to register as a UK Registered Charity

Ineligible

• Please note that they can’t fund the following organisations:
  • higher, secondary or primary education institutions including universities, schools, colleges and conservatoires, whether state or private
  • charities with the sole or main purpose of making grants
  • organisations that have an income of £5,000pa or under

For more information, visit Idlewild Trust.