Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent in the arts in the UK and welcomes funding applications from organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with our Collection.
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Our Winter funding round will open on 27 August 9am (closing 4 October 5pm) and will be awarded in November 2024.
Trustees will only consider applications for projects starting more than 3 months, but less than 12 months, from the funding round closing date.
Successful applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of the Trustee meeting date.
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DCA Print Studio. Photographer Erika Stevenson.
How to apply for a grant
The focus of our charity is on the promotion of the arts for the public benefit. We do not provide funding to individuals, fund educational courses, core organisational costs or capital endowments.
Your application should be a maximum of 10 sides of A4 (excluding audited accounts which can be sent as a separate document) and include:
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a one-page covering letter with a summary of your project; requested grant amount and payment date; a short description; and start date
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any additional information about your project or organisation that is relevant to your application
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your budget and fundraising plan
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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).
Applications should be sent either by email to info@jerwood.org or by post to PO Box 186, Ludlow, SY8 9DX.
We cannot accept amendments or additional information for applications once they have been submitted. All applications will be acknowledged and considered; however, we are unable to provide feedback on individual applications.
Click here for answers to frequently asked questions and a list of signpost funding here.
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Tracing Movement. Photo credit Robin Kent.
2024 Funding Rounds
SPRING
For projects starting, or opening to the public: 1 June 2024 - 1 March 2025
Applications now closed.
Decision at Trustee meeting on 24 April. Successful applicants will be contacted by 8 May.
SUMMER
For projects starting, or opening to the public: 1 September 2024 - 1 June 2025
Applications now closed.
Decision at Trustee meeting on 23 July. Successful applicants will be contacted by 6 August.
WINTER
For projects starting, or opening to the public: 1 January 2025 - 1 October 2025
Applications open: 27 August 9am (closing 4 October 5pm)
Decision at Trustee meeting on 20 November. Successful applicants will be contacted by 4 December.
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Recent projects we've funded
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Art Fund: Jerwood Art Fund Commissions
£402,000 Awarded Years: 2024-2027Through 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.
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Pentabus: Jerwood Writer in Residence
£40,000 awarded Years: 2024/25This 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.
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Granta Trust: Jerwood Photography Commissions
£15,820 awarded Year: 2024This 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.
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Scherzo Ensemble: Longhope Orchestra production of Donizetti Don Pasquale
£10,000 awarded Year: 2024This 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.
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Forward Arts Foundation: Jerwood Best Single Poem-Performed
£30,000 awarded Year: 2024Jerwood 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.
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Royal Court Theatre
£150,000 awarded Year: 2024Jerwood 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.
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Ransack Dance Company: Arrive at Home
£10,000 awarded Year: 2024Jerwood 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.
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Oxford Song: Young Artist Programme
£30,000 Awarded Years: 2024/25Jerwood 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.
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Outside In: Exploring Collections course
£15,080 awarded Year: 2023Jerwood Foundation's support enables Outside In to run two Exploring Collection courses in 2024. The courses allow participants and artists to gain the skills needed to find employment or volunteering opportunities in the arts and have access to both Jerwood and Outside In collections.
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Brixton Chamber Orchestra: Christmas and Summer Estates Tours
£25,000 awarded Years: 2023/24Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable Brixton Chamber Orchestra's Christmas 2023 and Summer 2024 tours of housing estates in Lambeth. The funds go toward the fees for young professional musicians.
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Paintings in Hospitals
£20,000 awarded Years: 2023/24This 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.
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Studio Wayne McGregor: Resident 6
£60,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood'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.
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London Symphony Orchestra: Jerwood Composer + 2024-2027
£72,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Funding 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.
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Persona Arts
£1,000 awarded Year: 2023Jerwood Foundation's grant helps fund Persona Arts production of the Flying Dutchman in July 2024. This is a culimination of a two year project of inspiring, educating and recruiting local volunteers, community singers and young people to be part of the process.
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Glyndebourne: Jerwood Pit Perfect
£180,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Funding 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.
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Arnolfini: Art for Enjoyment
£16,500 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood 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.
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Corn Exchange Newbury: Take it Outside
£42,947 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood'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.
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Bush Theatre: Staged by Jerwood
£60,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood's funding supports Staged by Jerwood, a two-year programme that enables the commissioning of four plays by the Bush’s Emerging Writers Group along with assisting with production costs.
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Dundee Contemporary Arts: DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies
£57,728 awarded Years: 2022/23/24Jerwood'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.
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Focal Point Gallery: FPG x Jerwood Presents
£45,000 awarded Years 2023/24/25Jerwood'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.
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Hofesh Shechter Company: Jerwood Shechter II
£60,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood has awarded a grant to support Shechter II’s 12-month Performance and Development Programme. This programme includes a six-week creation process, and a UK and international mid-scale sustainable tour with community and outreach delivery.
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Royal Court Theatre: Jerwood New Playwrights
£60,000 awarded Years 2023/24Jerwood'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.
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The Newbridge Project: Co-Act
£40,655 awarded Years: 2023/24Jerwood'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.
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Tŷ Cerdd Music Centre Wales: CoDI Composer Pathways
£64,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood'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.
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Natural History Museum: Contemporary Arts Programme
£30,000 awarded Years: 2022/23/24Jerwood 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. The second exhibition in the Contemporary Arts Programme, The Polar Silk Road, showcased 67 images by photographer Gregor Sailer.
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