Follow the links below to find out about all our funding programmes which are open for application.
For information on all other programmes visit the Our investment section.
Grants for the arts
Grants for the arts is an open-application funding programme, which funds arts activities that engage people in England, or that help artists and arts organisations carry out their work.
Grants for the arts Libraries fund
The Grants for the arts Libraries fund will invest £6 million of the Arts Council's Grants for the arts National Lottery money in projects delivered by public libraries or library authorities working in partnership with cultural organisations across all art forms.
Artists' international development fund
This programme offers early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self employed artists based in England to spend time building links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers in another country.
Capital investment programme
Our investment will prioritise the consolidation and improvement of existing arts buildings and equipment rather than investing in significant expansion or new infrastructure.
Catalyst Arts
The £7 million Catalyst Arts: building fundraising capacity scheme aims to enable arts organisations with an underdeveloped fundraising model to increase capacity and expertise in this area and improve their resilience.
Creative Industry Finance
An Arts Council England initiative offering business development support and access to finance for creative industry enterprises.
Digital R&D fund for the arts
This fund is unique in encouraging collaboration between the arts, digital technology providers and the research community in order to undertake experiments from which the wider arts and cultural sector can learn.
PRISM
The PRISM Fund supports the acquisition and/or conservation of objects illustrating the history of any branch of science, industry or technology.
Strategic touring programme
Encourages collaboration between organisations, so that more people across England experience and are inspired by the arts, particularly in places which rely on touring for much of their arts provision.
