Grants & Stipends
Money for your practice: project grants, travel bursaries, production costs and living stipends, with amounts and who may apply.
36 open listings · Updated 22 October 2026
What grants pay for, and what they do not
A grant funds something specific: a project, a body of work, travel, production costs, or a period of living expenses while you make something. That specificity is the point: funders are buying an outcome, not supporting you in general, and applications that ask for unrestricted support usually fail against ones that name a thing to be made.
Stipends work differently. A stipend covers your time rather than your materials, and tends to come attached to a residency or fellowship rather than standing alone. If what you need is rent while you work, a stipend-bearing programme is a better fit than a project grant.
How grant applications are assessed
Most panels read for three things: whether the project is clear, whether you can plausibly deliver it, and whether the budget matches what you have described. Clarity beats ambition. A modest proposal with a credible plan is funded more often than an expansive one that leaves the panel guessing what will actually happen.
The budget is read more carefully than artists expect. Numbers that do not add up, or that omit obvious costs, read as inexperience even when the project is strong. Itemise honestly, including your own time where the funder allows it.
Deadlines, reporting and what comes after
Grant cycles are slower than open calls. Decisions commonly take two to four months, and funds often arrive in instalments tied to milestones. Plan on that timeline rather than applying for something you need to start next month.
Most grants require a report at the end, what you did, what you spent, what came of it. Keep records as you go. A funder who receives a clean final report is markedly more likely to fund you again, and repeat funding is how most sustained practices are actually financed.
