• Dancers Career Development provide support for dancers through personal and professional change.
  • Dance Fund provide a range of bursaries and funding for individual dancers.
  • Community Dance have a listings page of funders.
  • National Youth Arts Trust provides bursaries for dance students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • Theatre community fund: providing support for theatre professionals. Including hardship grants and creative innovation grants.
  • Theatre alibi lists opportunities for artists and theatre makers.
  • The Actors benevolent fund provides grants to individual actors in need of financial support.
  • National Youth Arts Trust provides bursaries for drama students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • Backstage Trust makes grants to registered CICs and charities only.
  • Wingate Foundation offer personal awards and their areas of interest include music and performing arts. These grants are £5,000 and they are for individuals who identify a need for change or a gap in their sector. This funding is for projects, it cannot fund research, travel or training.
  • Check out the Arts Council England Funding and Artist Bursaries tabs too.