The Goldsmiths’ Foundation has launched its Inaugural Grants Programme to support UK charities that focus on vocational skills and training, working at the intersection of creativity and social change.
The deadline for applications is Monday 5th May 2025.
The aims of the Foundation are to:
o Build capacity and resources for technical and vocational skills development in creative industries, especially within historically underfunded communities.
o Realise the role that skills development, and creative people, makers and designers can play in addressing issues of social justice, and
o Create the infrastructure for a more equitable creative industry sector.
For this inaugural grant funding round, the Foundation is seeking to funding organisations working in the one or more of following areas:
o Craft.
o Design.
o Art, and
o Architecture.
The Foundation wants to support a portfolio of organisations who represent change through development of technical and vocational skills, who wish to learn from each other and (further) realise the potential of the creative industries for personal, cultural and social transformation.
Grants of between £30,000 – £50,000 are available for applications from:
o UK registered charities.
o Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), and
o Exempt and excepted under Charity Commission guidance.
Funding is not available for:
o Individuals.
o Community Interest Companies (CICs).
o Community Benefit Societies.
o Social enterprises, or
o Local authorities and councils.
Further information and guidance, including details about how to apply, is available on the Foundation’s website.
