Links, Funding & Advice

Welcome to the Links, Funding and Advice page. We have a Frequently Asked Questions page if you are looking for help with the website. You will also find some useful links below that cover all creative sectors, from Arts & Health to information on UK arts organisations. Unearth new resources to help you in your professional practice.

If you are an organisation that offers support to creators in your local area and beyond, email us on editor@artsderbyshire.org.uk for inclusion in this links directory. And, of course, we’d love you to register your venue or arts business in our directory.

Explore the resources we’ve found, by your particular area of interest.

· Arts and cultural diversity
· Arts and disability
· Arts and education
· Arts and health
· Audience development and arts marketing
· Crafts
· Creative Industries
· Derbyshire arts development officers
· Festivals
· Film and video
· Forums and Networks
· Funding for the arts
· Literature
· Local and regional arts support
· National arts organisations
· Participatory arts
· Performing Arts including Dance, Music, Sound Art and Theatre & Drama
· Value of the arts
· Visual arts
· Voluntary arts
· Youth arts

LATEST FUNDING NEWS

Cinema hit! Mayor wields sledgehammer on eyesore

EREWASH’S new mayor Harry Atkinson kicked off the demolition of a notorious eyesore in the borough – by grabbing a sledgehammer himself as crews set to work on the derelict cinema.

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Derbyshire Ecology Company – Baker Consultants, are looking to commission an artist for an art workshop at a company summer event!

Derbyshire based Ecology company - Baker Consultants are looking for an artist to run a work social event, on Monday 14th July.

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We are pleased to share a new opportunity funded through the Create Growth programme, now live and open for applications.

In a similar vein to the product photography support offered through the Derbyshire Makes programme; this new funding will support 10 Derbyshire-based creative businesses to explore product innovation through digital design.

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New Heritage Arts Trail will unlock Chesterfield’s past

Grant funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will help create a new heritage arts trail across Chesterfield town centre – to allow residents and visitors connect with the town’s history.

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Foster Care Fortnight 2025: Celebrating the Power of Relationships

Foster for East Midlands is proud to support Foster Care Fortnight, running from 12 to 25 May 2025—the UK’s largest campaign to raise awareness of fostering, led by National charity The Fostering Network.

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ACE recommends to Government that currrent National Portfolio extends to 31/3/28

ACE are stopping the launch of their next Investment Process in April, and instead are recommending to Government that their current National Portfolio extends to 31 March 2028.

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The Masonic Charitable Foundation – Dementia Grants

Funded entirely through the Freemasons and their families, the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) is one of the largest grant-making charities in England and Wales

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Animate awarded grant from The National Heritage Lottery Fund

We are pleased to announce that Derby based Animate Projects has been awarded a £147,170 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to deliver WORK Records, an 18 month creative heritage project that will 'animate' historic working lives across the East Midlands.

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