Hugo Burge Foundation – Creative Grants

The Hugo Burge Foundation provide grants to support the arts, crafts and creative industries across the UK. Grant funding is available to support projects, individuals, and organisations across the UK that promote creativity through three key areas: Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals.

Objectives of Fund

The funding is intended to support creativity across the UK. There are three key areas:

• Creative Education: Supporting projects that provide young people (ages 0-29) with opportunities to engage in creative activities. This includes funding for workshops in schools, field trips to cultural sites, and the purchase of materials for student engagement.
• Creative Communities: Aiding organisations, festivals, fairs and community groups that develop and deliver cultural and creative arts initiatives within their local areas.
• Creative Individuals: Providing individual artists, including those in visual and expressive arts, writers and craftspeople, with funding to support their artistic projects.

Value Notes

For the Creative Education and Creative Communities strands, the maximum award is £15,000. For Creative Individuals, the maximum award is £5,000.

Who Can Apply

The grants programme is open to a broad range of applicants across the UK:

• Creative Education – individuals, schools, and arts and culture organisations.
• Creative Communities – organisations, festivals, fairs and community groups.
• Creative Individuals – artists who are over 18. In the first round of funding for the Creative Individuals strand, applications will be limited to artists who primarily reside and practice within Scotland.

Location

United Kingdom

Eligible Expenditure

Grants can be used to support a wide range of activities including individual projects, community arts festivals and cultural fairs, workshops in schools and field trips to arts or cultural sites.

How To Apply

For 2025, there will be two funding windows:

• Round One: 1-31 May 2025
• Round Two: 1-30 September 2025

Applications must be made during these windows through the Submittable platform.

Further information and FAQs can be found on the Hugo Burge Foundation website.