Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent in the arts in the UK and welcomes funding applications from organisations.
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Our 2025 Summer funding round is now closed and all applicants will be contacted by 17 July.
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DCA Print Studio. Photographer Erika Stevenson.
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Tracing Movement. Photo credit Robin Kent.
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Recent projects we've funded
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Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art
£ 38,666 AWARDED YEARS: 2025-2027 Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art . The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one... -
ThickSkin Theatre: Jerwood Associate Artist Placement Programme
£40,000 awarded YEARS: 2025-2026 Jerwood Foundation has awarded ThickSkin theatre a total grant of £40,000 over two years to support ThickSkin’s Associate Artist Placement programme, which offers unique professional opportun it ies for emergin... -
Natural History Museum: Programming in the Jerwood Gallery
£75,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2025-2027 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... -
Major Grant: Jerwood Space
£480,000 AWARDED YEAR: 2024 Jerwood Foundation has awarded Jerwood Space a major grant of £480,000 to support a substantial refurbishment of the bu i lding to enable rehearsal s pace to continue to be... -
Jazz re:freshed: RE:PRESENT
£15,000 AWARDED YEAR: 2025 Through a new partnership with Jazz r e: f reshed , Jerwood Foundation is support ing RE:PRESENT , Jazz re:freshed’s flagship talent development programme throughout 2025 , enabling emerging jazz... -
The Holburne Museum: Assistant Curator
£30,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2025 / 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... -
NMC Recordings: Extended Play - Jerwood Series
£25,000 AWARDED YEAR: 2025 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... -
IMPERMANENCE Presents…Powered by Jerwood
£40,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2025/2026 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... -
Sound Roots Artist Mentoring Programme
£20,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2025/2026 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... -
HighTide Theatre: Jerwood HighTide Writers Group
£40,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2025/2026 Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support the Jerwood HighT i de Writers Group, through a new partnership with HighTide Theatre . This will allow the existing programme... -
Far From The Norm: NORMGROUND
£20,000 awarded Years: 2025/2026 Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support N ORMGROUND , through a new partnership with Far F rom T he Norm . Th e grant will allo w two... -
Brixton Chamber Orchestra: Christmas 2024 and Summer 2025 Estates Tours
£25,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
National Life Stories: Crafts’ Lives.
£18,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
National Life Stories: Artists’ Lives
£15,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
Richard Chappell Dance : Supporting Acts
£10,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
Complicité’s Artist Development Programme: Mudlarks
£20,900 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
Almeida Theatre: Almeida Makers
£50,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/25/26 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... -
Jerwood Residencies at Edinburgh Printmakers
£45,235 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/25/26 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... -
Birmingham Royal Ballet: BRB2
£100,000 AWARDED YEARS: 2024/25/26 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... -
Curwen Print Study Centre
£10,000 AWARDED YEAR: 2024 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... -
Britten Pears Arts: Britten Pears Young Artist Programme
£50,000 awarded YEARS: 2024/25/26 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... -
Royal College of Music: Jerwood Visiting Artist Fund
£30,000 Awarded YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
DanceEast Commissioning Programme
£50,159 Awarded YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
Film and Video Umbrella: FVU New Takes
£10,000 Awarded YEARS: 2024/2025 This support of Film and Video Umbrellas’ New Takes programme will offer the commissioning opportunity for three early career visual artists to test ideas and realise new moving image works with the... -
Arcangelo: Arcangelo’s New Ensemblists Programme
£20,000 Awarded YEARS: 2024/25/26 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... -
London Philharmonic Orchestra: Young Composers Programme
£60,000 Awarded YEARS: 2024/25/26/27 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,... -
Art Fund: Jerwood Art Fund Commissions
£402,000 Awarded YEARS: 2024/25/26/27 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,... -
Pentabus: Jerwood Writer in Residence
£40,000 awarded YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
Granta Trust: Jerwood Photography Commissions
£15,820 awarded YEAR: 2024 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... -
Scherzo Ensemble: Longhope Orchestra production of Donizetti Don Pasquale
£10,000 awarded YEAR: 2024 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... -
Ransack Dance Company: Arrive at Home
£10,000 awarded YEAR: 2024 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. -
Oxford Song: Young Artist Programme
£30,000 Awarded YEARS: 2024/2025 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... -
Studio Wayne McGregor: Resident 6
£60,000 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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... -
London Symphony Orchestra: Jerwood Composer + 2024-2027
£72,000 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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... -
Glyndebourne: Jerwood Pit Perfect
£180,000 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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... -
Arnolfini: Art for Enjoyment
£16,500 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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. -
Corn Exchange Newbury: Take it Outside
£42,947 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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. -
Dundee Contemporary Arts: DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies
£57,728 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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... -
Focal Point Gallery: FPG x Jerwood Presents
£45,000 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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... -
The Newbridge Project: Co-Act
£20,000 awarded YEARS: 2023/2024 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... -
Tŷ Cerdd Music Centre Wales: CoDI Composer Pathways
£64,000 awarded YEARS: 2023/24/25 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...
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