Available Funding

Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts-based Learning Fund

The foundation supports arts and cultural organisations to work in partnership with schools and make arts-based learning a core part of education. 

The fund envisions a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is a core part of all children’s education. They believe that arts-based teaching and learning can add value and help schools achieve their aspirations for pupils. 

The fund achieves this by: 

• supporting arts organisations to work in partnership with formal education settings leading to a mutual exchange and enrichment of expertise; 

• focusing on pupils who experience systemic inequity and enabling them to make progress and overcome barriers to learning; 

• exploring the role of arts-based learning in addressing issues of inclusion, especially racism, in education; 

• creating more opportunities for high quality arts-based teaching and learning in education settings, especially in those which have not had this work in the past; 

• enabling arts-based learning to be embedded in curricula and practice for the long-term; and 

• building a body of evidence and practice, and understanding how the work improves equity for pupils. 

Grant amount: between £30,000 to £100,000 

Deadline: rolling