The arts@leeds Grant Scheme offers financial support to organisations working with the arts in communities. It is administered by Arts Development Officers, whose role involves offering advice and guidance to arts organisations and promoting partnership working within the arts.
The deadline for applications for the arts@leeds funding year 10/11 has now passed. The deadline for funding applications next year will be mid-January 2011.
A list of organisations funded by arts@leeds for the last financial year is available to download in pdf format from this page.
Who can apply for an arts@leeds Grant
Applications are welcomed from non-profit making organisations involved in arts and cultural activities in the community. Work may include workshops, festivals, exhibitions, performances and publications. We work to a wide ranging definition of the arts and priority is given to applications which show evidence of local demand, fill gaps in current arts provision and demonstrate that they are effectively delivering work in the community.
Who cannot apply
- Leeds City Council, Education Leeds or ALMOs
- Schools
- Individuals
- Closed membership groups whose activities do not reach a wider public
- Students in full-time education or student-led groups
- Uniformed youth groups
- Organisations resident outside the UK
- Profit making companies or commercial organisations
- Organisations delivering the majority of their work in schools in school hours (in terms of either time or resources) or organisations whose primary purpose is to deliver schools or curriculum based work
Other sources of funding
A selection of other funding sources are listed on the Funding Sources spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from the right hand side of this page.
For more information on any of the above, please email us on arts@leeds.gov.uk or call to speak to an Arts Development Officer on (0113) 395 0678 or (0113) 247 6419.