Scheme: Grants Programme
Category: Trust / Foundation
Keywords: Arts, education, community, culture
Funding Role: The Foundation funds activities in the arts, education, social welfare, and Anglo-Portuguese cultural relations. Within this, the Foundation focuses on a few specific grant priorities in any one year in order to do them justice - these change every 2 or 3 years.
Budget: There is a notional limit of £10-15,000 for any one grant.
Policy: Arts: Principally for arts organisations or individual professional artists working in partnerships or groups. Its purpose is to support the development of new art-making in any art form. It excludes activities which are linked to mainstream education.
Education: Assistance to primary and secondary schools and those agencies that work with them to enable them to provide educational opportunities for 'hard to reach' parents with particular regard to parenting skills; support to all parents at significant stages of their child's development. Also projects that will help: teachers initiate arts projects; teacher networking, dissemination of good practice; evaluation costs.
Social Welfare:Grants will remain strongly focused on capacity building in local groups and neighbourhoods and exploring new forms of area management and service delivery.
Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations: Aims to help projects that promote contemporary Portuguese culture in Ireland, cultural relations are taken to include social welfare, arts, crafts and education.
Applications: Please apply in writing, not by telephone, email nor in person. There is no standard application form. Guidelines for applications are available on-line.
Closing Date: There are three Trustee Meetings a year, usually held in the first week of March, July and November. Papers have to be finalised 6 weeks in advance, therefore initial proposals need to be submitted at least 10 weeks before the relevant Trustee Meeting.
Exclusions: The Foundation very rarely gives grants towards core costs or salaries, and never does so in response to a general fundraising appeal.
Cross-Border Relevance
Cross-border projects will be considered for funding.
Address:98 Portland Place London W1B 1ET
Tel: ROI/NI 00 44 207 636 5313
Email: info@gulbenkian.org.uk
Web: http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/