Education & Training and Culture Grants

Adult and Community Learning Fund

The Adult and Community Learning Fund provides resources to widen participation in learning and improve standards of basic skills. The Fund makes the important connection between learning and social regeneration....more info

Career Development Loans

Career Development Loans (CDLs) provide financial help to people to undertake learning that will advance their careers. CDL is a deferred repayment bank loan to help you pay for vocational learning or education. ....more info

Creative Partnerships

Creative partnerships are a £40 million pilot initiative which will enable children living in deprived areas to have access to an enhanced programme of artistic and creative opportunities through sustained partnerships with creative organisations. Creative partnerships are a joint development of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Arts Council of England and the Department for Education and Skills.....more info

DfES Innovations Fund

The Innovations Fund has been set up by the DfES to support projects, which focus on ways to boost equal opportunities for students and staff within higher education and improve links between higher education and employers....more info

Aim Higher Programme

The Excellence Challenge is a 3-year programme running from September 2001 that is committing over £190m to increase the number of young people from poorer backgrounds who apply for and enter higher education. A key purpose is to improve links between universities, colleges and schools....more info

Excellence in Cities and Excellence Challenge Programme

This programme raises aspiration and increases attainment among young people aged 13 to 19 from lower socio-economic groups. It will help to give them the qualifications, information and motivation to enter higher education. It will also build new partnerships between schools, further and higher education institutions....more info

Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG) programme

This programme helps raise the standards of school-based achievement of ethnic minority pupils, and those whose first language is not English and are most at risk of under-achieving....more info

Financial help for adults in Further Education and Training

A range of financial assistance available to adults who wish to enter further education or undertake training.... more info

Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

The Fund was established in 1995 to support projects aimed at stimulating developments in teaching and learning in higher education and to encourage the dissemination of good teaching and learning practice across the higher education sector....more info

Higher Education Funding Council - Research Grants

Provides grants to Universities and Colleges to undertake research....more info

Higher Education Reach Out to Business and the Community Fund

The fund is intended to develop the capability of HEIs to respond to the needs of business, and to contribute to economic growth and competitiveness....more info

Science Enterprise Challenge

This programme establishes university centres of enterprise. These encourage the commercialisation of science and technology research, and teach business skills to science students....more info

Specialist Schools Programme

Specialist schools receive a capital grant from the Government of £100,000, plus annual grants of £126 per student over four years. Specialist schools are maintained secondary schools that teach the full National Curriculum but place a particular emphasis on teaching and learning in their chosen specialism within the Specialist Schools Programme. Specialist schools must raise £50,000 in private sector sponsorship....more info

Space for Sport and the Arts scheme

This programme creates multi-purpose sport and arts facilities for primary schools in the most deprived local education authorities in England....more info

Union Learning Fund

The Union Learning Fund provides funding for activities that promote activity by trade unions in support of the Government's objective of creating a learning society and promotes learning in the widest sense....more info

University Challenge

Establishment of seed funds to finance the early stage development of new ideas with commercial potential.... more info

DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund

The DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund was established in July 1997 to enhance the services and facilities provided by public libraries in England. The Fund has run annually since 1997-98 providing to date over £11 million funding for 117 public library based projects....more info

Base Grants to AMCs and Single Regional Agencies

These are grants to Area Museum Councils and in the future will provide annual grants to the new, cross domain Single Regional Agencies. These are allocated through Annual Funding Agreements; the budget for this is not competitive and applications are not received against it....more info

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gift

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation places a major focus on helping to improve people's lives through health and learning. There is a budget of $4 million (c.£2.6m) on behalf of The Foundation to help provide ICT facilities in UK public libraries that are situated in areas of social deprivation....more info

Pilgrim Trust Conservation Awards

The Pilgrim Awards celebrate excellence in conservation and restoration projects. They are supported by English Heritage, the National Preservation Office, Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation....more info

Cross Domain Challenge Fund

Funding is provided to the English Regions to encourage strategic development, web-based activities, learning and social inclusion in a Cross Domain context (i.e. across Museums, Archives and Libraries) in line with Resource's strategic development priorities. Awards under this scheme total £490,000....more info

The Science Museum Prism Grant Fund

ts aim is to support scientific and industrial collections (in the broadest sense, and including natural history, medical and other instrument collections) in museums, archives and specialist libraries, through making grants towards acquisitions or conservation. This is an ongoing scheme currently worth £250,000 per year, and applications are considered at any time....more info

Resource/V&A Purchase Grant Fund

This grant contributes to the purchase of objects relating to the arts, literature and history by museums, galleries, record repositories and specialist libraries in England and Wales. Through the acquisitions it supports the Purchase Grant Fund aims to help and develop the quality and standards of regional collections for the understanding and enjoyment of the public. The Fund's vote for 2001-02 is £1 million. Objects, collections or archives of any date costing between £500 and £300,000 are eligible for support....more info

National Art Collection Fund

The Arts Fund is the UK's leading art charity gave over £5.8 million in 2001 to museums and galleries throughout the UK to help purchase items including paintings, sculpture, coins, costumes, decorative arts, furniture, and installations....more info

British National Bibliography Research Fund

The British National Bibliography Research Fund (BNBRF) supported small-scale projects in the book and information worlds, particularly in areas where the interests of different sectors (publishing, bookselling, libraries) interact.....more info

Cultural Diversity Network

Resource allocated this £10k funding package across each Area Museum Council to encourage the development of innovative methods of reaching Ethnic Minority Groups....more info

Finding our Past: The Portable Antiquities Scheme

This Scheme was set up to complement the Treasure Act 1997. It is a voluntary scheme to encourage members of the public, particularly metal detector users, to report archaeological objects for recording. The Scheme also offers guidance on why it is important to record finds and how to get involved in the heritage activities of museums and the archaeological sector....more info