Awards for Young Musicians supports the UK’s most talented young musicians (aged 5 to 18), who, because of financial need, may be prevented from fulfilling their creative potential. Each year awards of between £200 and £2000 are made, based on evidence of musical talent and financial need.

Bournemouth Arts Grants support small-scale arts projects taking place in or with clear links to Bournmeouth, which involve people working through creative ideas. Grants are for £100-£800, and have previously funded such projects as festivals and theatre groups, older people working with school children, artists’ residencies in day centres, arts in hospitals, writing, video, and much more. Open to individuals, charities, arts organisations and schools.

The Youth Opportunities Fund is a pot of government money open for young people to use for local projects. In Bournemouth there is still money available to support the ideas and projects of young people aged 13-19! Ideas must be independent – not driven (but most likely supported) by adults, and ideally have a positive effect on the community as a whole.

CABE offer education grants of up to £1,500 to support imaginative teaching and learning about architecture and the design and use of buildings and public spaces. Successful applicants will create opportunities to involve pupils, aged from 5-19, in exemplary learning experiences. The deadline for applications is 9th Nov 09.

New in 2009, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has launched the Innovation Fund, to support genuinely innovative ideas and unusual partnerships across our cultural, educational and social interests. This is now the only funding stream open to applications, which are welcomed from non-for-profit organisations only.

The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts is an educational charity committed to helping children experience the arts in a high quality and sustained way. The main funding programme run by the Foundation is called Start, which supports cultural organisations to develop and deliver arts enrichment programmes for primary and secondary school students, particularly who have not accessed the arts or culture before.

Grants, which must always be for clearly educational purposes, aim to focus upon the needs of children and young people. Only UK registered charities or not-for-profit organisations may apply and priority will be given to those which represent small regional or local organisations. Areas of interest include: conservation and the rural environment; the arts, crafts and architecture; the encouragement, through education, of young people; and research devoted to these main areas of work.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life throughout the UK, by funding the charitable activities of organisations (not individuals) that have the ideas and ability to achieve change for the better. Primary interests are in the cultural life of the UK, education and learning, the natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society.

The European Commission is inviting applications from non-profit organisations, youth groups, networks and public bodies to be a part of it's Youth in Action Programme. The action seeks to support projects that encourage creativity and innovation in non-formal education and youth work. In 2009, priority will be assigned to projects focussing on the themes of media literacy of young people and e-youth work.

The European Youth Foundation is an independent, international, non-governmental organisation dedicated to the positive development of children and young people. The Foundation makes grants to international not-for-profit youth organisations and networks for activities such as international youth meetings, specialised publications, exhibitions and the production of audio-visual materials, and the development of websites etc.

First Light is the UK’s leading initiative enabling young people to realise their potential via creative digital film and media projects. It funds and inspires film projects with five to 19 year-olds throughout the UK through a number of youth funding schemes including: The Young Film Fund distributing £1.1 million pounds of UKFC National Lottery cash each year, Mediabox and Second Light.

The Hedley Foundation considers applications from charities only (not individuals), that support young people:  their education, recreation, support, training, health and welfare. The main objective of the Trustees' grant-making is to assist and encourage development and change. 

The Hilton Foundation Grants are for organisations and charities working with young people under the remits of education and health. Key areas of need that the Foundation support are: Disabled children, Children in hospital, Homelessness and Life-limited children in hospices.

The Learning Launchpad fund provides investment to emerging social organisations that are working to raise the aspirations and release the potential of young people aged 14-25 in their transition to adulthood. Applications are welcome from individuals, charities, for-profit businesses and social enterprises, and the next deadline is 24th Nov 09.

The Links Foundation provides grants to help disadvantaged communities throughout the UK. The Foundation supports new or existing projects in the provision of facilities or services necessary to improve their community's conditions of life. Grants can help meet costs such as salary, rent and stationery as well as capital costs, although cannot fund individuals directly.

The Macintoch Foundation will consider applications for projects within the fields of Theatre and the Arts or Children and Education. Applicants must be registered as charities, and most grants are for less than £10,000.

The MBF (Musicians Benevolent Fund) Young Talent Awards are an important source of funding for young musicians and are made to those with a high level of musical achievement where there is financial need. Awards are offered to those who will be under 18 years of age on 1st September in the year of application, and to young people who are already 18 for help with instrument purchase.

The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-making organisation which concentrates its support on education, the arts, museum and gallery education, cultural leadership training, health and social care and enhancing Jewish life, whilst placing a particular emphasis on supporting children, young people and society's more vulnerable individuals. Through two main funding strands, the Foundation can support arts organisations, charities, voluntary and education settings.

The Community Foundation for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole is an independent charitable grant-making trust that administers a variety of funding programmes for projects in the area, supporting charities and voluntary groups working to benefit those at most disadvantage in our local communities.

The Elephant Trust provides grants up to £2,000 for new, innovative arts projects, particularly in the visual arts. Set up to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds, the Trust is committed to helping artists, small organisations and galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities.

The Fenton Arts Trust aims to give encouragement and financial support to those actively contributing to the creative arts in the UK. It seeks to assist, through grants and bursaries, individuals and groups who are making a worthwhile contribution to the artistic and cultural life of this country. The Fenton Arts Trust grants are available to support individual works, activities, performances or prizes in the fields of drama, painting, sculpture, ballet, music and poetry.

The Gordon Foundation helps young people (up to the age of 30) grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. The Foundation provides a number of bursaries, currently with the following organisations: The Actors Centre, The Maritime Rescue Institute, Parkhouse Award, Rambert Dance Company, The Royal Academy of Music and Wigmore Hall. It also offers a small number of grants to support young people engaging in educational travel which involves physical challenge and endeavour.