Culture Grants Connecting Communities

Culture Grants Connecting Communities are awards of up to £15,000. They are open to applications from large scale, established cultural or heritage organisations which are registered charities, CICs or similar. They must be a not-for-profit and whose net earnings may not lawfully inure to the benefit of any private shareholder, member or individual. The full eligibility criteria for these grants can be found on this page.

Connecting Communities Grants are expected to support increased local community reach and impact of existing cultural activity in Wakefield district.

Please review the Connecting Communities 2025 Eligibility and Assessment Criteria document:

How does my organisation apply?

There is one round only for Connecting Communities Grants:

1. contact us at culturegrants@wakefield.gov.uk detailing how you meet the eligibility criteria. Please note that will not accept an application from any organisations who we have not confirmed their eligibility
2. following confirmation of eligibility, applicants must submit an initial Expression of Interest (EOI) by Monday 10 March 2025. This should be a maximum of 2-sides of an A4
3. we will confirm if the EOI can then be progressed into a full application submission. The deadline for the full application is Monday 31 March 2025

This grant process will be competitive. Organisations should only apply for the upper ends of the funding scale if you believe you can demonstrate that your proposal provides significant impact.