Deadline: 28 January 2025
The Scops Arts Trust is currently inviting applications for its grant opportunity to support local music festivals.
The overarching aim is to give people of all ages opportunities to understand, participate in and enjoy the performing arts.
The Trust has a focused grant-making approach to each of the three grants rounds per year, inviting applications for a particular area of the performing arts, different in each grants round. Music education and engagement projects for children will, however, be considered at every grants round.
Funding Information
- Grant awards start at a few hundred pounds and very occasionally they make multi-year grants of up to £15,000 pa.
Who can apply?
- The types of organisation they support are generally registered charities, but they will consider applications from social enterprises, community groups, etc, if they are formally constituted and have clear charitable purposes. Whilst they do not exclude large charities, applications from small to medium sized organisations will be looked on more favourably.
- They support organisations located in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Exclusions
- Grant requests which the Trustees will not support are:
- Projects with the primary purpose of health, therapy or social welfare
- Individuals
- Capital campaigns (construction of and fitting out of buildings)
- Sponsorship of fundraising events
- Contributions to general appeals
- Religious activity which is not for wider public benefit
- Public bodies to carry out their statutory obligations
- Schools
- Activities which have already taken place
- Grant-making by other organisations
- Privately owned and profit-distributing companies
For more information, visit Scops Arts Trust.
