Grant News

The Arts Award Access Fund will soon offer grants of between £100 £1500 to Arts Award centres working on Arts Award projects with young people for whom access and inclusion are issues.

All registered Arts Award centres based in the UK will be eligible to apply, with priority given to those working with young people for whom access and inclusion is an issue and where the grant will be used to support the organisation to pilot, embed or develop their Arts Award work with these groups.

This can include young people that:

• are disabled
• have special educational needs, learning difficulties, or other specific individual requirements
• live in areas of rural isolation and/or socio-economic deprivation
• are in the youth justice system
• are looked after by foster carers or in residential children’s homes
• are young carers or young parents
• are in a specific minority group (eg LGBTQIA+, ethnic minorities, homeless, traveller, asylum seeker, refugee, particular faith group)
• are not in full-time education, employment or training/excluded from school/are in alternative education
• are hospital outpatients/inpatients or suffering long term health problems (including mental health problems)
• other access/inclusion issue (you will be required to tell us more in your application)

Grants can be used for a range of activities including:

• Discover, Explore or Bronze arts logs
• Fees for workshops with a professional or specialist
• General art materials, printing costs, etc
• Tickets for events
• Travel to and from a venue
• Contribution towards the costs of Gold leadership projects
• Hire of specialist equipment or specialist venue
• Adviser/project management/staff time
• Discover certificates
• Qualification fees for Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold
• Specific access requirements e.g. BSL/other translators; assistive technology specifically related to the Arts Award project (where renting is not cost effective)

The fund opens for applications on the 2nd September 2024 and closes on the 4th October 2024.

Useful Links:

Previously Funded Projects

How to Apply