Jerwood Foundation welcomes applications for funding, particularly with a focus on working with our Collection and making art available for public benefit.
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How to apply for a grant
Applications should be sent either by email to jerwood@jerwood.org or by post to PO Box 186, Ludlow, SY8 9DX. The next meeting will be held in May 2023, if you would like to submit an application for consideration, it must be received by 17 April 2023.
The Trustees will only consider applications for projects starting more than 6 months from the meeting date. Please therefore include the start date of your project in your application.
Please send your application as one document, this should be a maximum of 10 sides of A4 including your budget and fundraising plan and any other relevant information, either as a Word document or PDF. Please provide a copy of your organisation’s latest audited accounts or if you are a small charity and not required to produce audited accounts, please provide your annual budget (with income and expenditure detail). Please note the focus of our charity is on the promotion of the arts for the public benefit. We cannot provide funding for the promotion of individual artists, which is generally not charitable. In addition, we do not fund core organisational costs or capital endowments.
All applications will be acknowledged and considered; however, we are unable to provide feedback on individual applications.
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Recent projects we've funded
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Messums 4X20 Choreography Platform
£10,000 awarded Year: 2023Location: Wiltshire
Jerwood Foundation awarded a £10,000 grant to Messums 4X20 Choreography Platform. This support helps fund the commission award of £3,500 presented to each selected choreographer and the supporting costs. The 4X20 Choreography Platform is the cornerstone event of the Messum Wiltshire Festival of Dance
Messums 4X20 Photo Credit Jamie Randall
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Scherzo Ensemble
£19,150 awarded Year: 2023Location: London and Hampshire
Jerwood Foundation renewed its support of Scherzo Ensemble for a third year. Scherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for young singers who have recently completed their training. Jerwood Foundations funding helps young professional performers at the start of their career.
2022 Longhope Summer Opera. Photo credit: Tom Lovatt
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Glyndebourne Jerwood Pit Perfect
£60,000, total awarded £180,000 Years: 2023/24/25Location: Glyndebourne
Thanks to new funding from Jerwood Foundation, Glyndebourne is expanding its talent development scheme for orchestral instrumentalists. The renamed Jerwood Pit Perfect offers recent graduates the opportunity to join The Glyndebourne Sinfonia during Glyndebourne's autumn season. The programme, which has been made possible by Jerwood Foundation's support over three-years, is able to offer two additional Associate Pit Perfect positions.
2022 Pit Perfect participants.© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo credit: James Bellorini
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Arnolfini
£5,000 in 2023/24, total awarded £16,500 Years: 2023/24Location: Bristol
Jerwood Collection and Arnolfini are collaborating on a three-year project which will draw on Jerwood's extensive collection of modern and contemporary British art to bring to life Arnolfini's exhibition archive. The project offers an exciting opportunity for a MA Curating student to delve into Arnolfini's past exhibitions and Jerwood's collection.
Arnolfini Bristol. Photo credit: Hannah Atkinson
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Trinity Laban
£12,000 in 2022/23, total awarded £36,000 Years: 2022/23Location: London
Jerwood Foundation has given an annual grant to Trinity Laban for the Jerwood International Chair of Violoncello and Chamber Music at Trinity Laban for three years and Trinity Laban String Ensemble: Jerwood Concerts and Tour over two years. This grant enabled Trinity Laban to employ Raphael Wallfisch as their inernational Chair of Violoncello and Chamber Music from the academic year 2022/23
String Ensemble. Photo credit: John Hunter
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Natural History Museum
£10,000 in 2022/23, total awarded £30,000 Years: 2022/23Location: London
Jerwood Foundation awarded an annual grant to the Natural History Museum to support three exhibitions, which will be shown in the Jerwood Gallery at the Museum. Jerwood Foundation's support helps the Natural History Museum to reach new audiences with this contemporary arts programme. The first exhibition, The Lost Rhino, curated by Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg explores how an idea of an animal can be more powerful than the animal itself.
Installation view of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's 'The Substitute' at Esch, Luxembourg, 2022. Photo credit: Franz Wamhof
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Oxford Lieder
£1,000 awarded Year: 2022Location: Oxford
Jerwood Foundation made a grant to support young performers' recitals at the 2022 Oxford Lieder Festival. Oxford Lieder showcases the finest rising young and emerging talents from across the UK through their artistic programme. They offer a prestigious performance platform, which benefits participants as well as audiences.
Oxford Lieder, Marie-Laure Garnier, in her performance with Celia Oneto Bensaid and Quatuor Hanson: La bonne Chanson. Photo credit: Ian Wallman
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Glyndebourne Pit Perfect
£12,000 awarded Year: 2022Location: Touring
With the support of Jerwood Foundation, players from Glyndebourne's Pit Perfect development scheme presented an informal programme of instrumental music to audiences in Sussex, Milton Keynes, and Liverpool during the 2022 autumn season. Recently graduated instrumentalists on Pit Perfect gain professional experience with the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra, vital to their development.
Glyndebourne Producations Ltd. Photo credit: James Bellorini
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