Funding

Jerwood Foundation has awarded the Natural History Museum a total grant of £75,000 over three years to support programming in the Jerwood Gallery, a capital project of Jerwood Foundation within the world-renowned Museum in South Kensington, London. Our Story with David Attenborough, produced by Open Planet Studios in collaboration between Sir David Attenborough, opens in the Jerwood Gallery at the Natural History Museum on 19 June 2025 and runs until January 2026.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £30,000 to support the Assistant Curator position at the Holburne Museum. The Holburne Museum is a historic art museum founded in 1882, based on the collection of Sir William Holburne. The Assistant Curator role will involve working closely with their curatorial team in the development and delivery of a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions and overseeing their historic collection of over 10,000 artefacts. 

Jerwood Foundation has awarded NMC Recordings with a grant of £25,000 to support a new digital only series that will focus on talented composers. Four composers, Bushra El-Turk, Ben Nobuto, Yshani Perinpanayagam and  Alex Ho will be given tailored support to release digital EPs as Jerwood Series. 

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a two-year grant of £40,000 to fund IMPERMANENCE Presents… Powered by Jerwood. This support will give sixteen cutting-edge choreographers the opportunity to present their work at IMPERMANENCE’s new artist-led dance house, The Mount Without in Bristol which will not only provide a vital platform to present their work but an opportunity for transformative ideas to thrive and for artists to push boundaries enabling the development of dance in the UK.

Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support Sound Roots’ Artist Mentoring Programme. Sound Roots supports grassroots music careers in folk and beyond and this funding will provide world-class mentoring and performance opportunities for eight outstanding UK folk and grassroots artists at a pivotal stage in their career to enable them to emerge as fully-fledged artists.

Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support the Jerwood HighTide Writers Group, through a new partnership with HighTide Theatre. This will allow the existing programme to support six emerging writers from the East of England per year for two years. 

Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support NORMGROUND, through a new partnership with Far From The Norm. The grant will allow two editions of the existing artistic learning and development programme; in London in 2025 and Manchester in 2026.

Jerwood Foundation has continued to support the work of Brixton Chamber Orchestra by awarding them a grant of £25,000. This support helps enable their Christmas and summer tours of housing estates in Lambeth. The funds will go toward the fees for young professional musicians. 

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This support of National Life Stories: Crafts’ Lives will enable five life story recordings with leading makers in 2024 and 2025. Crafts’ Lives was established a quarter of a century ago, and the project documents the lives of Britain’s leading craftsmen and craftswomen for National Life Stories (NLS), the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded Artists’ Lives a grant of £15,000 to make three long-form life story recordings with important British artists in 2024 and 2025. Artists’ Lives is part of National Life Stories (NLS), an oral history charity based in the British Library; the archive now comprises over 450 in-depth autobiographical testimonies with artists and art world professionals.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £10,000 to Richard Chappell Dance, towards Supporting Acts, which will enable four early career choreographers based in, or from the Southwest of England the chance to create new work through bespoke commissioning, residency, mentoring and programming. Supporting Acts has been shaped to empower dance makers to deepen their creative practice and develop their artistic voices. The four commissioned artists will be creating work from Spring to Autumn 2025.  

This support of Complicité’s Artist Development Programme, Mudlarks’ will fund two of the three strands within the programme namely: Mudlarks ‘International Residency’ and ‘Supported by’, that make up this comprehensive artist development initiative, designed to provide early career practitioners with the time and support to develop their practice.

Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support Almeida Makers, through a new partnership with the Almeida Theatre. This new programme will support eight early and mid-career directors and designers each year. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Associate Director Justina Kehinde will be the first artist platformed by Almeida Makers.

Through this new partnership with Edinburgh Printmakers, six talented emerging printmakers will be supported in the development of their etching and intaglio skills to enable them to pursue high-level careers in printmaking. A folio of their work will be exhibited and produced for both Jerwood and Edinburgh Printmakers Permanent Collections. As part of this award, selected works from the Jerwood Collection will also be exhibited at Edinburgh Printmakers in 2025.

Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will provide support for BRB2, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Junior Company. BRB2 is a company comprised of some of the very best young ballet graduates from around the world. This funding will support 15 dancers (BRB2 cohort 2, 3 & 4) and deliver 2 regional tours of a new ballet programme to 8-10 venues, reaching over 12,000 audience members to enable the next generation of ballet dancer to thrive and launch the careers of these future ballet artists.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £10,000 to the Curwen Print Study Centre. Established in the late 1990s by Master Printer Stanley Jones MBE and local entrepreneur and art lover Sam Alper OBE, the Curwen Print Study Centre is dedicated to the protection and preservation of fine art printmaking and has established a reputation for excellence in its field. This grant will enable the completion of their archive project through the development of a free, online resource for the public.

This partnership and support of Britten Pears Young Artist Programme (BPYAP) over the next two years will offer career enhancing training and performance opportunities to early career singers, instrumentalists, composers and conductors. Its residential courses based at sites in coastal Suffolk see the next generation of classical musicians being tutored at the highest level of musical training by industry leading artists.

Through this partnership with the Royal College of Music (RCM), the establishment of the Jerwood Visiting Artist Fund will provide invaluable learning experiences for Royal College of Music students, by supporting a vibrant programme of masterclasses, concerts, and collaborations with leading international musicians during 2024-2025, developing the next generation of musical talent.

Jerwood Foundation is delighted to support the forthcoming Vanessa Bell exhibition at MK Gallery through the publication of a fully illustrated catalogue containing newly commissioned essays which will accompany the largest solo exhibition to date of Vanessa Bell’s work. The exhibition will also feature work on loan from Jerwood Collection.

This partnership with DanceEast’s world class commissioning programme will support the creation of two new dance pieces by some of the UK’s foremost dancemakers, seeking to further their careers in this industry. DanceEast will provide access to Jerwood DanceHouse’s state-of-the art digital studios and wraparound support from its sector-leading creative teams to help bring these new works to fruition to inspire new and existing audiences.

This funding of Arcangelo’s New Ensemblists Programme will provide innovative tailored training and professional support over two years, for five exceptional musicians, selected to join the third cohort of its successful programme. Arcangelo is an award winning, internationally acclaimed period performance ensemble.

This partnership with London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Composers Programme over the next three years, will support 15 early career composers as they seek to build successful careers in the industry, offering a platform for new and diverse compositional voices to be heard, which will enrich and expand the contemporary repertoire to inspire and excite new audiences.

Through this new partnership with Art Fund, Jerwood Art Fund Commissions will provide support for museums and galleries to collaborate with artists to make work of exceptional innovation and quality, across all visual art forms and disciplines on new commissions. Two successful organisations will receive grants of £70,000 – £100,000 per year over the course of three years.

This support and partnership will allow the continuation of the Writer in Residence Programme for emerging playwrights. In recognition of Jerwood’s support, the award will be renamed the Jerwood Writer in Residence.

This funding enables the Granta Trust to commission early career photographers for work to be published in Granta magazine and granta.com. Granta Trust’s primary aim is to introduce new voices to a wide readership and to provide authors and photographers with a platform for work that would not be published elsewhere.

This funding helps support the fees for the Longhope Opera Orchestra, which is made up of recently graduated young professionals, and enables the performance of Donizetti’s comedy Don Pasquale at Longhope Opera on 6 and 7 July 2024.

Jerwood Foundation's support and partnership will develop and elevate the impact of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry.  In recognition of Jerwood’s support, the newest prize category will be renamed the Jerwood Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed.

Jerwood Foundation's grant will support Artistic Director, David Byrne, with his inaugural season of work, as well as the Court's overall ambition to cultivate, advocate for, and support theatre writers.

Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable Ransack Dance Company's career development project, Arrive at Home, for emerging choreographers and dancers culminating with an emerging choreographers performance platform, Arrive Dance Platform. 

Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable the Oxford International Song Festival's Young Artist Programme from Spring 2024. The Young Artist Programme offers a range of high-quality training and performance opportunities for duos in the early stages of their careers.

This two-year grant enables Paintings in Hospitals to conserve, restore and digitise a portion of their extensive art collection so that the works can be enjoyed by the public again. By being able to restore the artworks, Paintings in Hospitals can increase the number of artworks offered for loan.

Jerwood's support helps enable a creative residency at Studio Wayne McGregor for emerging artists pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence. RESIDENT 6 gives six artists access to the studio’s full range of spaces for making, experimenting, and collaborating.

Funding from Jerwood enables the Jerwood Composer+ programme to support two composers a year in 2023 and 2024. LSO Jerwood Composer+ nurtures extraordinary early-career composers to realise their artistic ambitions through a 15-month placement.

Funding from Jerwood Foundation has enabled Glyndebourne to expand its talent development scheme for orchestral instrumentalists. The renamed Jerwood Pit Perfect offers recent graduates the opportunity to join The Glyndebourne Sinfonia during the autumn season.

Jerwood Collection and Arnolfini are collaborating on a three-year project which will draw on Jerwood's extensive collection of modern and contemporary art to bring to life Arnolfini's exhibition archive.

Jerwood's support has helped enable the Take it Outside programme, offering 6 early career artists the opportunity to lead innoviation and artform development to create  work for outdoor contexts.

Jerwood's support helps fund four, month-long residencies based in Dundee Contemporary Art's Print Studio. Artists will gain access to DCA’s equipment and support from expert printmakers in a collaborative studio environment.

Jerwood's support enables FPG x Jerwood Presents to commission two artists to produce their first solo institutional exhibitions. Focal Point Gallery (FPG) will present four exhibitions alongside a programme of workshops, talks, and offsite projects.

Jerwood's support enables an early-career writer/artist to become a Jerwood New Playwright and see their work produced in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre.

Jerwood's support helps enable Co-Act, a new Artist Development Programme for socially engaged artists hosted by The NewBridge Project. Co-Act brings together four early-career artists to develop collaborative and socially engaged ways of working. 

Jerwood's support has helped enable CoDI, a multi-faceted development programme for Welsh and Wales-based music creators. Tŷ Cerdd’s CoDI Composer Pathways programme's aim ois to create a community of composers and provide them with developmental opportunities.