Funding

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £200,000 over two years to the Royal Court to support two writer development programmes that will sit at the very heart of the theatre’s mission. The first builds upon a vital legacy, namely the Jerwood New Playwright which offers production and development opportunities to an early career playwright and the second is the inaugural Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning Scheme at the Royal Courtwhich is a brand-new, national initiative to increase investment and support new writing on stages right across the UK.

Jerwood Foundation has continued its support of Hofesh Shechter Company, by awarding a grant of £80,000 over two years to fund Jerwood x SII; a continued professional development offer to eight exceptional contemporary dancers selected as part of Shechter II 2026. Shechter II is the only paid, professional artist development programme of its kind for emerging contemporary dancers in the UK.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded the Royal Shakespeare Company a grant of £25,000 to support their launch of a new actor training programme, created in collaboration with leading voice practitioner Professor Patsy Rodenburg.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded Arvon a grant of £40,000 to support Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies. A bespoke talent development programme designed to propel 12 promising writers from an unseen manuscript to a visible presence in the writing world.

Jerwood Foundation has continued its support of MK Gallery, by awarding a grant of £20,000 to fund the catalogue accompanying the first major survey exhibition of British painter Euan Uglow’s work in over 20 years, taking place at MK Gallery from 14 February to 31 May 2026.

Over the next three years Jerwood Foundation will support four artist development workshops each year through the National Theatre’s New Work Studio. Jerwood Workshops will enable 60 talented theatre artists to develop 12 new pioneering works for new audiences outside London. The National Theatre offers the widest access to high quality theatre in the world, and these workshops will allow artists the resources they need to hone their craft, develop new work and be innovative.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded the Young Vic Theatre a total grant of £70,000 over two years to support their Jerwood Assistant Directors Programme, which will give eight early career directors experience working on a Young Vic show and learning how a producing house operates.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a total grant of £70,000 to Forward Arts Foundation to support the Forward Prizes for Poetry over the next two years.  In recognition of Jerwood’s support, the category of Best First Collection has been named; Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection. This is a vital award for the most exciting debut poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded The Walk Productions a grant of £37,500 to support THE HERDS Emerging Company in the UK. THE HERDS is a groundbreaking public art and climate initiative designed to inspire action and reignite our connection with the natural world. Since April 2025 herds of life-size puppet animals have been stampeding through city centres from Kinshasa to Marrakech then on to  Europe as part of a 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle. Jerwood funding will support 25 early career performers to participate in the Emerging Company activities in the UK over two weeks from 23 June to 6 July.

Over the next three years Jerwood Foundation will support the Jerwood Artist in Residence Programme at Sir John Soane’s Museum. This unique and important residency will provide six artists of exceptional talent, whose work engages deeply with drawing as a conceptual, material, or procedural foundation with the opportunity to develop their drawing practice in response to the Museum and its collection.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a total grant of £44,000 to support Jerwood Fellowship for Emerging Writers at New Writing North. This fellowship will provide bursaries, mentoring and support from New Writing North to three talented emerging writers living in the North of England, to allow them to create their most significant piece of work to date.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded Mahogany Opera a total grant of £40,000 over two years to support their Jerwood Opera Designers Award, which will enable three exceptional design teams to create the sets, costumes, lighting, video, and projections for three opera commissions. 

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 of Europe’s leading independent university-level institutions for education and research in the visual creative disciplines. This total grant of £38,666 will allow them to stage an ambitious fellowship programme, which will give two talented emerging curators  an opportunity to develop a new perspective on artworks from Jerwood Collection and deliver an exhibition in a public institution.  

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 opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists.  

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 Jerwood Space a major grant of £480,000 to support a substantial refurbishment of the building to enable rehearsal space to continue to be offered at a subsidised rate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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 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.