Fidelio Charitable Trust

Fidelio welcomes applications for grants in support of the Arts, in particular the dramatic and operatic arts, music, speech and dance. Institutions, colleges, Arts Festivals and other arts organisations in the United Kingdom, may seek financial support…

http://www.fideliocharitabletrust.org.uk/index.php

The Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme

Grants awarded through this programme aim to help sustain and promote curatorial development and collections based research through making grants to individuals. The Art Fund will award grants totaling £50,000 annually through this scheme.…

http://cfba.org.uk/jonathan-ruffer-curatorial-grants-programme/

The Fenton Arts Trust

The Trust has three objectives: to support final year and postgraduate students through the award scholarships or bursaries, to provide grants to support and reward work or performance by individuals early in their careers, and to…

http://www.fentonartstrust.org.uk/

FLAMIN

FLAMIN supports London based artists working in moving image and administers the Jarman Award in association with Channel 4 and the Whitechapel Gallery. This award offers a £10,000 cash prize and a Broadcast Commission for a series of short…

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/

The John Ruskin Prize

  The Campaign for Drawing, in collaboration with the Guild of St George, announces a new art award: The John Ruskin Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best wall mounted artwork on the theme A…

http://www.thebigdraw.org/ruskinprize

Crowdfunder

Dedicated to the creative industries in the UK but does not seem to be as popular as the other sites; if the target is not raised no money changes hands. The site deducts 5%.  

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/

IndieGoGo

International site, well established. IndieGoGo charges a 4% fee on the money you raise when you meet your funding goal. (The fee is 9% if you do not meet your funding goal, but it will allow to keep the…

http://www.indiegogo.com/

Kickstarter

Kickstarter is the most successful site at present – $340m for 70,000 projects since 2009 – and has a huge audience. They charge 5% fees on successful projects. Pledges accepted from anywhere in the world, and support recently added…

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/school

John Moores Painting Prize

The Prize is held every 2 years, in partnership between National Museums Liverpool and the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust. The prize is open to all painters in the UK, and ir remains true to its founding…

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/

Arte Laguna Prize

The Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in collaboration with Arte Laguna, organises the yearly prize. Work accepted in the following medium:paintings, sculpture, photographic art, video art and preformance, virtual art. There are a number of…

http://www.artelagunaprize.com/

Gilchrist-Fisher Award

The Gilchrist Fisher Award is a biennial prize established in 1987 and open to all artists under the age of thirty whose work deals with the broad theme of Landscape. Although originally instituted as a painting prize, work…

http://www.gilchristfisheraward.co.uk/home/

The Henry Moore Foundation

Awards grants in six categories including New Projects, Research and Fellowships for Artists every 3 months. 

http://www.henry-moore.org/grants

Digital Art Museum (DAM)

Online resource for the history and practice of digital art. Features selected artworks, biographies, and texts of the most influential artists in the history of digital art from the 1960s to now, alongside chronologies of events…

http://www.dam.org

The Jerwood Foundation

Awards include the Jerwood Painting Prize, Drawing Prize, Makers Award and Moving Media Awards in addition to commissions and grants to artists. 

http://www.jerwood.org

A. Onassis, Public Benefit Foundation

The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation funds an annual programme of research grants offered in architecture, visual arts, music, dance, photography and film studies. The grantees are invited to deliver a lecture or to…

http://www.onassis.gr/main.php?ID=0&lang=en

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

A prize for representational painting and drawing, completed in the last three years. This annual exhibition is open to all UK artists with prize money totalling £22,500 and an engraved gold medal for the winner. The competition…

http://www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk

Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary

This annual bursary for deaf and disabled artists working in the visual arts has been established in memory of Adam Reynolds by Shape in collaboration with his friends and family. Each year the bursary will be…

http://arq.st/1z1T7hE

Oppenheim – John Downes Memorial Awards

The Oppenheim – John Downes Memorial Trust makes awards to deserving artists of any kind who are unable to pursue their vocation by reason of their poverty. Applicants must be British subjects and be…

http://www.oppenheimdownestrust.org/index.html