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Who can apply: Organizations working in the arts or education in the UK. Specific criteria are not provided in the scraped content.
Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent across the UK arts, with a strong emphasis on visual art, theatre, and writer development. Its giving combines open annual project grants for UK arts organizations with strategic, partner-delivered programs such as commissions, fellowships, residencies, and play development schemes. A distinctive feature is its use of the Jerwood Collection to create public access through loans and exhibitions, alongside direct support for early-career artists and writers.
Mix of annual open grant rounds and invitation/partner-led program funding. Grants tend to support specific projects, commissions, fellowships, and residencies rather than unrestricted operating support, with recurring annual cycles for the main funding round and periodic commissioning rounds.
Monitor the annual funding round closely and apply through the foundation’s published timeline; the 2027 round opens and closes on specific dates, so timing matters. Most opportunities are UK-based and program-specific, often routed through partner organizations or invitation/commissioning schemes rather than open general proposals, so applicants should align projects with the foundation’s themes of public benefit, emerging talent, and access to art.
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Current and upcoming funding from Jerwood Foundation that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Organizations working in the arts or education in the UK. Specific criteria are not provided in the scraped content.
Who can apply: Organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and organisations interested in working with Jerwood Collection. Jerwood does not fund projects that have already started, individuals, educational courses, core organisational costs or capital endowments. Applications must include a short summary, project description, budget and latest audited accounts (or annual budget for small charities).
Deadline: Annual funding round. 2026 round closed. 2027 applications open 9:00 2027-02-03 and close 14:00 2027-03-17. Projects should start/open to the public between 1 July 2027 and 30 June 2028.
Who can apply: Open-access national scheme (applied to playwrights and producers in inaugural year). Administered by Royal Court Theatre. Specific eligibility and application details published by Royal Court.
Deadline: Second round (2027) to be announced by Royal Court later in the year (statement in April 2026).
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