10 Creative Funds for 2025

GO BIG OR GO HOME.

As 2025 approaches, it’s time to think bigger, dream bolder, and push your creative boundaries. The world is ripe with opportunities, and these funding options are here to back the daring, the innovative, and the audacious. This is your call to stop holding back and make your wildest ideas a reality.

1. Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) – Arts Council England

• Eligibility: Individual cultural and creative practitioners in the UK

• Award: Flexible funding for personal artistic development

• Deadline: Rolling (applications reviewed periodically)

• Website: DYCP - Arts Council England

2. Riónce Ripple Fund

• Eligibility: Creatives and photographers looking for free studio time and tailored support

• Award: 3 months of studio time worth £8,000, Success Circle mastermind access, and concierge services

• Deadline: Friday, 3 January 2025, at 7 pm GMT

• Website: Riónce Ripple Fund

3. PRS Foundation Open Fund for Music Creators

• Eligibility: Music creators of any genre across the UK

• Award: Grants to support new compositions, recordings, and performances

• Deadline: 29 January 2025

• Website: PRS Foundation

4. Jerwood New Work Fund

• Eligibility: Artists, curators, and producers working on ambitious projects

• Award: Grants for bold, innovative ideas

• Deadline: February 2025 (exact date TBC)

• Website: Jerwood Arts

5. Unlimited Commissions for Disabled Artists

• Eligibility: UK-based disabled artists

• Award: Grants to support boundary-breaking work

• Deadline: 15 February 2025

• Website: Unlimited

6. Wellcome Public Engagement Fund

• Eligibility: Creatives blending storytelling with science or health topics

• Award: Funding to engage audiences in innovative ways

• Deadline: 1 March 2025

• Website: Wellcome Trust

7. Fenton Arts Trust

• Eligibility: Emerging artists, musicians, and writers in the UK

• Award: Grants to develop new artistic talent

• Deadline: 15 March 2025

• Website: Fenton Arts Trust

8. The Elephant Trust

• Eligibility: Artists with unconventional and ambitious projects

• Award: Grants for small, innovative works

• Deadline: 15 January 2025

• Website: The Elephant Trust

9. Artangel Open

• Eligibility: Artists creating projects in unusual or transformative spaces

• Award: Grants to support bold, site-specific ideas

• Deadline: March 2025 (exact date TBC)

• Website: Artangel Open

10. John Ellerman Foundation Arts Grant

• Eligibility: UK-based projects connecting communities through creativity

• Award: Funding for projects with significant social impact

• Deadline: 1 March 2025

• Website: John Ellerman Foundation

This is your time to step up and make waves. Whether you’re working on a masterpiece, innovating with tech, or connecting communities through creativity, these funds are your ticket to doing it bigger and better.

What’s keeping you? Get your ideas down, your applications in, and start plotting how you’ll shake up 2025.