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Freelands Foundation has launched the Learning Through Making Fund, which offers grants of up to £25,000 for visual arts education projects in the UK. The fund will support hands-on creative work using different materials and making techniques.
Freelands Foundation supports artists, art education and visual arts learning across the UK.
The fund is open to UK-based visual arts organisations whose work has a charitable or public benefit purpose. This can include registered charities, exempt charities, local authority galleries or museums, charitable organisations based within universities, Community Interest Companies and Community Benefit Societies that meet the fund’s additional eligibility requirements. All activity must take place in the UK.
Funding can support projects that help audiences explore making and materials in creative ways. This could include:
- materials, transport, specialist expertise or access to facilities;
- research that tests new ways of working through practical activity;
- workshops, events or new learning activities;
- adding new hands-on making activities to an existing project or programme.
Projects can run from a few days to several months. They must take place between 1 January and 31 December 2027.
The fund is intended to support exploratory work, so applicants do not need to know exactly what the project will produce before it starts.
Applications are made through a one-stage process. Applicants must download the application documents and email the completed form to Freelands Foundation with the subject line “LTM Fund – Application”.
The deadline is 12pm on 11 September 2026. Applicants will be told the outcome on 23 November 2026.
Two online application support sessions will take place on 9 July 2026 and 12 August 2026.
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