Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Arts Programme
Overview
The Arts programme supports the development and dissemination of new ideas to increase people's experience, enjoyment and involvement in the arts in the UK.
Our funding benefits organisations and groups through our Open Grants and Special Initiatives. Our Open Grants scheme recieves applications from organisations proposing innovative activities that we think will have a valuable impact for individuals and communities, organisations, and policy and practice. We work closely with applicants to develop high-quality proposals for consideration by the Arts Committee and Board of Trustees.
We also operate Special Initiatives. Some of these, such as Awards for Artists and the Breakthrough Fund, seek to support individuals and organisations, and others, such as our new work on Artists working in participatory settings, focus on developing a sector within the arts.
We also seek to further the understanding of the relationships between the arts and our other programmes. We are interested in how participation in the arts contributes to education and learning processes, and how the arts and/or education and learning affect social change.
The programme operates in the UK only.
The Arts Open Grants Scheme supports work that increases people's enjoyment, experience and involvement in the arts. All applications to the Arts Open Grants scheme must relate to this theme.
Our grants aim to enable organisations to experiment with and develop new ways of engaging with audiences and participants. This might mean introducing more people to traditional cultural activities or ensuring that the widest range of people have a greater opportunity to shape their own experience of the arts and culture.
Within this theme, we will support work for people of all ages, with an emphasis on inter-generational initiatives where young people (up to 25 years old) are one of the groups involved.