Theatre
The Actors Children Trust have a few options for grants – find out more.
Dance
Are you a dancer, dance teacher or choreographer looking for support? The Dance Professionals Fund might be able to help.
Music
Hen Hoose (Scotland) are hosting a session to explore public funding opportunities for music, with practical tips on finding funds, building applications, and budgeting – 29th October 2026 – 6pm – Glasgow
Arts Council England The Music Creators Growth Fund (MCGF) will provide direct support for artists, artist collectives, bands, composers, DJs, groups, producers and songwriters through grants designed to help them grow their careers in music.
Cross Sector
Grand Plan is for people of colour, aged over 18, living in the UK, looking to make a leap with their creative practice. Grants can cover: the cost of equipment, courses, your time, materials, travel, or whatever you / your project needs.
Black Artists Grant offered by Creative Debuts is a no-strings attached financial support to help Black artists. Spend the grant on whatever you want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one-off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month.
Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) from Arts Council England is a funding programme that supports you as an individual creative and cultural practitioner to focus on your career development.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has opened a range of funding programmes to support the work of individual artists.
Arts Council England (ACE) can fund childcare costs as part of their National Lottery Project Grants and other funding programmes, such as Developing Your Creative Practice. These are classified as Personal Access Costs to enable individuals to carry out their creative work.
Creative Scotland ‘Open Fund for Individuals’ will fund short-term childcare costs for attending a conference or skills development session that is unpaid and essential for your professional development, or one-off childcare expenses incurred specifically for project-related activities, inclusive of creche provision for participants – under Project Access costs.
Arts Council Wales support reasonable childcare costs where it’s necessary to allow individual freelancers to take part in the project – read more here.
Tool – Free freelancer rates calculator to help plan your finances.
Guide – A guide to tax relief for creatives in the UK.
