Idlewild Trust Funding - Arts and Conservation

Idlewild Trust is an independent grant-making trust that runs two programmes supporting specific areas within conservation and the arts. They make grants of up to £5,000 and awarded 41 grants totalling £148,680 in 2018.

Their two funds: Arts and Conservation:

1.1 Arts: Nurturing Early Stage Professionals:
They want to improve opportunities for professionals working creatively in the arts at an early stage in their careers. They're interested in programmes that encourage and nurture the talent of professional musicians, dancers, actors, writers and artists in the performing, fine and applied arts at an early stage of their careers. Participants should be 18 years or over. Organisations applying should be UK Registered Charities in the arts sector, delivering high quality and professional work with a strong track-record. Programmes should be for talented early stage professionals with existing training or very relevant experience.

Idlewild Trust also funds programmes for other early stage professionals working creatively within the arts including composers, curators and theatre-makers (eg: directors and choreographers).

Idlewild Trust doesn’t fund private or state higher, secondary or primary education institutions including
universities, schools, colleges and conservatoires.

2 Conservation: Objects and Works of Art:
They support the conservation of important works of art and objects that are being lost through the lack of funds to look after these works. They’re interested in projects that aim to conserve historic or artistically significant objects and works of art including artefacts, textiles, furniture, metalwork, manuscripts, wall paintings, tombs and stained glass of high quality. Works must be in museums, galleries, places of worship and historic buildings or their grounds, and be accessible to the public.

They make decisions about grants twice a year.

13 February 2020 (midnight) for a decision in May 2020

10 September 2020 (midnight) for a decision in November 2020

We cannot fund projects that are completed by the time of our decision.

See more details at their website below.

For more information visit http://www.idlewildtrust.org.uk/