Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent in the arts in the UK and welcomes funding applications from organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with our Collection.
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Our Summer funding round is now open (closing 14 June 5pm) and will be awarded in July 2024.
Trustees will only consider applications for projects starting more than 3 months, but less than 12 months, from the funding round closing date.
Successful applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of the Trustee meeting date.
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Recent projects we've funded
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Royal Court Theatre
£150,000 awarded Year: 2024Jerwood Foundation's grant will support Artistic Director, David Byrne, with his inaugural season of work, as well as the Court's overall ambition to cultivate, advocate for, and support theatre writers.
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Ransack Dance Company
£10,000 awarded Year: 2024Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable Ransack Dance Company's career development project, Arrive at Home, for emerging choreographers and dancers culminating with an emerging choreographers performance platform, Arrive Dance Platform.
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Oxford Song
£30,000 Awarded Years: 2024/25Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable the Oxford International Song Festival's Young Artist Programme from Spring 2024. The Young Artist Programme offers a range of high-quality training and performance opportunities for duos in the early stages of their careers.
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Outside In
£15,080 awarded Year: 2023Jerwood Foundation's support enables Outside In to run two Exploring Collection courses in 2024. The courses allow participants and artists to gain the skills needed to find employment or volunteering opportunities in the arts and have access to both Jerwood and Outside In collections.
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Brixton Chamber Orchestra
£25,000 awarded Years: 2023/24Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable Brixton Chamber Orchestra's Christmas 2023 and Summer 2024 tours of housing estates in Lambeth. The funds go toward the fees for young professional musicians.
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Studio Wayne McGregor
£60,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood's support helps enable a creative residency at Studio Wayne McGregor for emerging artists pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence. RESIDENT 6 gives six artists access to the studio’s full range of spaces for making, experimenting, and collaborating.
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Paintings in Hospitals
£10,000 in 2023/24, total awarded £20,000 Years: 2023/24This two-year grant enables Paintings in Hospitals to conserve, restore and digitise a portion of their extensive art collection so that the works can be enjoyed by the public again. By being able to restore the artworks, Paintings in Hospitals can increase the number of artworks offered for loan.
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LSO Jerwood Composer+
£72,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Funding from Jerwood enables the Jerwood Composer+ programme to support two composers a year in 2023 and 2024. LSO Jerwood Composer+ nurtures extraordinary early-career composers to realise their artistic ambitions through a 15-month placement.
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Persona Arts
£1,000 awarded Year: 2023Jerwood Foundation's grant helps fund Persona Arts production of the Flying Dutchman in July 2024. This is a culimination of a two year project of inspiring, educating and recruiting local volunteers, community singers and young people to be part of the process.
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Glyndebourne Jerwood Pit Perfect
£60,000, total awarded £180,000 Years: 2023/24/25Funding from Jerwood Foundation has enabled Glyndebourne to expand its talent development scheme for orchestral instrumentalists. The renamed Jerwood Pit Perfect offers recent graduates the opportunity to join The Glyndebourne Sinfonia during the autumn season.
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Arnolfini
£5,000 in 2023/24, total awarded £16,500 Years: 2023/24Jerwood Collection and Arnolfini are collaborating on a three-year project which will draw on Jerwood's extensive collection of modern and contemporary art to bring to life Arnolfini's exhibition archive.
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Take it Outside
£42,947 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood's support has helped enable the Take it Outside programme, offering 6 early career artists the opportunity to lead innoviation and artform development to create work for outdoor contexts.
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Staged by Jerwood, Bush Theatre
£60,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood's funding supports Staged by Jerwood, a two-year programme that enables the commissioning of four plays by the Bush’s Emerging Writers Group along with assisting with production costs.
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DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies
£57, 728 awarded Years: 2022/23/24Jerwood's support helps fund four, month-long residencies based in Dundee Contemporary Art's Print Studio. Artists will gain access to DCA’s equipment and support from expert printmakers in a collaborative studio environment.
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FPG x Jerwood Presents
£45,000 awarded Years 2023/24/25Jerwood's support enables FPG x Jerwood Presents to commission two artists to produce their first solo institutional exhibitions. Focal Point Gallery (FPG) will present four exhibitions alongside a programme of workshops, talks, and offsite projects.
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Jerwood SII, Hofesh Shechter Company
£60,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood has awarded a grant to support Shechter II’s 12-month Performance and Development Programme. This programme includes a six-week creation process, and a UK and international mid-scale sustainable tour with community and outreach delivery.
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Jerwood New Playwrights, Royal Court Theatre
£60,000 awarded Years 2023/24Jerwood's support enables an early-career writer/artist to become a Jerwood New Playwright and see their work produced in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre.
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The Newbridge Project
£40,655 awarded Years: 2023/24Jerwood's support helps enable Co-Act, a new Artist Development Programme for socially engaged artists hosted by The NewBridge Project. Co-Act brings together four early-career artists to develop collaborative and socially engaged ways of working.
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Tŷ Cerdd
£64,000 awarded Years: 2023/24/25Jerwood's support has helped enable CoDI, a multi-faceted development programme for Welsh and Wales-based music creators. Tŷ Cerdd’s CoDI Composer Pathways programme's aim ois to create a community of composers and provide them with developmental opportunities.
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Natural History Museum
£10,000 in 2023, total awarded £30,000 Years: 2022/23/24Jerwood Foundation awarded an annual grant to the Natural History Museum to support three exhibitions, which will be shown in the Jerwood Gallery at the Museum. The second exhibition in the Contemporary Arts Programme, The Polar Silk Road, showcased 67 images by photographer Gregor Sailer.
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