D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust typically awards grants of between £500 and £8,000 for project and core costs, with unrestricted funding available to charities with annual income below £250,000.

Activities could include community music-making, arts-based health projects, short breaks for young carers, animal-assisted therapy, horticulture, and projects that use traditional craft skills to support training and employment.

Their funding themes:

Performing Arts: Supporting community music-making, performing arts engagement and early-stage career development.

They fund:

• Amateur community music-making and singing.
• Performing arts engagement for underserved communities, particularly young people.
• Charities that provide early-stage career development to improve social mobility in the performing arts.

Creative Health: Funding non-clinical interventions that improve physical, emotional and mental health.

They fund:

• Arts-based interventions accessed through referral
• Short breaks for young carers
• Animal-assisted therapy and horticulture

Heritage Crafts: Protecting rare craft skills and linking traditional skills to training and employment.

They fund:

• Protection of rare or endangered heritage craft skills.
• Projects linking heritage skills to employment and training, particularly for young people

Grants may support defined projects or contribute to organisational costs.

Charities with an annual income under £250,000 may apply for unrestricted funding.

Project budgets may include proportionate core costs.

Please ensure that:

• You are applying on behalf of a UK-registered or regulated exempt charity.
• Your request is between £500 and £8,000.
• Your work will begin at least two months after you have been informed of the decision (please follow this link to the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust website for the timing of their next round), unless you have secured at least 75% of the funds you require.
• You can provide a project or organisational budget as appropriate to support the application.
• You have appropriate safeguarding policies in place.
• You can provide appropriately examined annual accounts for your most recent financial year.
• A senior-level colleague can co-sign the application to confirm suitability.
• You can provide bank details in the name of the organisation that is applying.