Theatre Funding UK - A Guide

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation – The Foundation offers grants to promote the arts as well as funding 10 musical theatre course scholarships each year at UK musical theatre colleges. The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award– The Trust aims to help the development of bold, challenging and innovative performance and encourage the new generation of creative artists. [...] The Community Fund offers grants of up to £50,000 to ‘not for profit organisations wishing to improve leisure and recreation facilities’ like theatres. The funds are split into two – the Smaller Projects Fund (up to £20K) and Primary Fund (up to £50K). To qualify you have to be based within one of SUEZ UK’s active funding zones, which exist within a 3 mile radius of a qualifying SUEZ (formally SITA) site. ## Grants and Funding for Theatre Companies Foyle Foundation – [...] The Foundation offers funding to arts organisations that have a regular annual turnover of over £50,000 to help improve the quality of life for people and communities, and lead to genuine social change. They are interested in emerging talent and unusual and innovative projects. The average grant is £64,000. Stage One – Stage One offer a start-up fund to support new producers and productions with the overall aim to sustain the future of quality commercial theatre in the U.K.