Jerwood Bursaries is a grant from Jerwood Arts that funds emerging artists and arts organizations in the United Kingdom whose work advances excellence and makes art available for public benefit. The 2026 funding round supports projects starting or opening to the public between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027. Applications closed March 18, 2026 at 2:00 p.

m. , with decisions announced by May 13, 2026. Jerwood Foundation also welcomes applications from organizations interested in working with the Jerwood Collection.

A future 2027-2028 funding round is planned with applications opening in February.

Edward Bawden RA (1903-1989), 'Brighton Pier', 1958. ©The Estate of Edward Bawden Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent in the arts in the UK, and welcomes funding applications from organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit, and also organisations interested in working with Jerwood Collection. Our 2026 funding round is now open for applications (closing 2pm 18 March).

Blood Harmony. Photo credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan For projects starting or opening to the public: 1 July 2026-30 June 2027. Applications are now open (closing 2pm 18 March) 2026.

Decision at Trustee meeting on 29 April. All applicants will be contacted by 13 May. For projects starting or opening to the public: 1 July 2027-30 June 2028.

Applications open 9am 3 February (closing 2pm 17 March) 2027. Decision at Trustee meeting on 28 April. All applicants will be contacted by 11 May.

DCA Print Studio. Photographer Erika Stevenson. Your applic ation should be a maximum of 10 sides of A4 (excluding audited accounts) and must include: a short summary including where your organisation is based and where the planned activity will take place; requested grant amount and payment date; project description; start date and summary timeline; number of direct beneficiaries and projected audience figures.

Please note that without this summary and information your application will be rejected; any additional information about your organisation or proposed project that is relevant to your application; budget and fundraising plan; a copy of your organisation's latest audited accounts or , if you are a small charity and not required to produce audited accounts, your annual budget (with income and expenditure detail).

We do not accept applications for projects that have started or provide funding to individuals, fund educational courses, core organisational costs or capital endowments. Applications should be sent either by email (with the application and accounts attached as pdfs) to info@jerwood. org or by post to PO Box 186, Ludlow, SY8 9DX.

We cannot accept amendments or additional information once applications have been sub mitted . All applications will be acknowledged and considered; however, we do not provide feedback. Answers to frequently asked questions are here .

Signposting to other funding sources is here . Rambert: Jerwood Commission at Rambert Jerwood Foundation has awarded Rambert a grant of £27,950 to support the first year of a new commissioning programme launching in 2026, Rambert’s centenary year.

During 2026 one choreographer and one paid choreographic assistant at a pivotal career moment will be supported to create and premiere bold new work with Rambert’s ensemble of 18 dancers, drawing on the company’s artistic leadership, production expertise and touring networks.

Ikon Gallery; Break the Mould Exhibition Jerwood Foundation has awarded Ikon Gallery a total grant of £19,000 to support Break the Mould , a group exhibition presented at Ikon Gallery which focuses on ceramics, positioning clay as a site of experimentation.

The exhibition brings together a dynamic cohort of ceramicists, including Halima Cassell, Roo Dhissou and Jack Ky Tan, for a series of residencies, alongside artworks by Kara Chin, Mark Essen and Laurie Ramsell.

Northern Ballet: Conducting Fellowship Jerwood Foundation has awarded Northern Ballet a grant of £16,000 to support their Conducting Fellowship which offers an early-career conductor the experience and mentorship within a touring professional ballet company to develop the skills, insight and confidence required to pursue a career in the highly specialised skill of conducting for ballet.

Royal Court Theatre: Jerwood New Playwright and Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning Scheme Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £200,000 over two years to the Royal Court to support two writer development programmes that will sit at the very heart of the theatre’s mission.

The first builds upon a vital legacy, namely the Jerwood New Playwright which offers production and development opportunities to an early career playwright and the second is the inaugural Jerwood Royal Court Commissioning Scheme at the Royal Courtwhich is a brand-new, national initiative to increase investment and support new writing on stages right across the UK.

Hofesh Shechter Company: Jerwood x SII Jerwood Foundation has continued its support of Hofesh Shechter Company, by awarding a grant of £80,000 over two years to fund Jerwood x SII ; a continued professional development offer to eight exceptional contemporary dancers selected as part of Shechter II 2026. Shechter II is the only paid, professional artist development programme of its kind for emerging contemporary dancers in the UK.

Royal Shakespeare Company: Voice Training for Actors Jerwood Foundation has awarded the Royal Shakespeare Company a grant of £25,000 to support their launch of a new actor training programme, created in collaboration with leading voice practitioner Professor Patsy Rodenburg. Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies Jerwood Foundation has awarded Arvon a grant of £40,000 to support Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies.

A bespoke talent development programme designed to propel 12 promising writers from an unseen manuscript to a visible presence in the writing world.

MK Gallery: Euan Uglow Solo Exhibition and Catalogue Jerwood Foundation has continued its support of MK Gallery, by awarding a grant of £20,000 to fund the catalogue accompanying the first major survey exhibition of British painter Euan Uglow’s work in over 20 years, taking place at MK Gallery from 14 February to 31 May 2026.

National Theatre: Jerwood Workshops Over the next three years Jerwood Foundation will support four artist development workshops each year through the National Theatre’s New Work Studio. Jerwood Workshops will enable 60 talented theatre artists to develop 12 new pioneering works for new audiences outside London.

The National Theatre offers the widest access to high quality theatre in the world, and these workshops will allow artists the resources they need to hone their craft, develop new work and be innovative.

Young Vic Theatre: Jerwood Assistant Directors Jerwood Foundation has awarded the Young Vic Theatre a total grant of £70,000 over two years to support their Jerwood Assistant Directors Programme , which will give eight early career directors experience working on a Young Vic show and learning how a producing house operates.

Forward Arts Foundation: Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection Jerwood Foundation has awarded a total grant of £70,000 to Forward Arts Foundation to support the Forward Prizes for Poetry over the next two years. In recognition of Jerwood’s support, the category of Best First Collection has been named; Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection .

This is a vital award for the most exciting debut poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland. THE HERDS Emerging Company Jerwood Foundation has awarded The Walk Productions a grant of £37,500 to support THE HERDS Emerging Company in the UK. THE HERDS is a groundbreaking public art and climate initiative designed to inspire action and reignite our connection with the natural world.

Since April 2025 herds of life-size puppet animals have been stampeding through city centres from Kinshasa to Marrakech then on to Europe as part of a 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle. Jerwood funding will support 25 early career performers to participate in the Emerging Company activities in the UK over two weeks from 23 June to 6 July.

Sir John Soane’s Museum: Jerwood Artist in Residence Programme Over the next three years Jerwood Foundation will support the Jerwood Artist in Residence Programme at Sir John Soane’s Museum.

This unique and important residency will provide six artists of exceptional talent, whose work engages deeply with drawing as a conceptual, material, or procedural foundation with the opportunity to develop their drawing practice in response to the Museum and its collection.

Jerwood Fellowship for Emerging Writers at New Writing North Jerwood Foundation has awarded a total grant of £44,000 to support Jerwood Fellowship for Emerging Writers at New Writing North. This fellowship will provide bursaries, mentoring and support from New Writing North to three talented emerging writers living in the North of England, to allow them to create their most significant piece of work to date.

Mahogany Opera : Jerwood Opera Designers Award Jerwood Foundation has awarded Mahogany Opera a total grant of £40,000 over two years to support their J erwood Opera Designers Award , which will enable three exceptional design teams to create the sets, costumes, lighting, video, and projections for three opera commissions.

Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art . The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s leading independent university-level institutions for education and research in the visual creative disciplines .

This total grant of £38,666 will allow them to stage an ambitious fellowship programme , which will give two talented emerging curators an opportunity to develop a new perspective on artworks from Jerwood Collection and deliver an exhibition in a public institution .

ThickSkin Theatre: Jerwood Associate Artist Placement Programme Jerwood Foundation has awarded ThickSkin theatre a total grant of £40,000 over two years to support ThickSkin’s Associate Artist Placement programme, which offers unique professional opportun it ies for emergin g and mid-career artists.

Natural History Museum: Programming in the Jerwood Gallery Jerwood Foundation has awarded the Natural History Museum a total grant of £75,000 over three years to support programming in the Jerwood Gallery, a capital project of Jerwood Foundation within the world-renowned Museum in South Kensington, London.

Our Story with David Attenborough , produced by Open Planet Studios in collaboration between Sir David Attenborough, opens in the Jerwood Gallery at the Natural History Museum on 19 June 2025 and runs until January 2026.

Major Grant: Jerwood Space Jerwood Foundation has awarded Jerwood Space a major grant of £480,000 to support a substantial refurbishment of the bu i lding to enable rehearsal s pace to continue to be offered at a sub sidised rate. The Holburne Museum: Assistant Curator Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £30,000 to support the Assistant Curator position at the Holburne Museum .

The Holburne Museum is a historic art museum founded in 1882, based on the collection of Sir William Holburne. The Assistant Curator role will involve working closely with their curatorial team in the development and delivery of a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions and overseeing their historic collection of over 10,000 artefacts.

IMPERMANENCE Presents…Powered by Jerwood Jerwood Foundation has awarded a two-year grant of £40,000 to fund IMPERMANENCE Presents… Powered by Jerwood.

This support will give sixteen cutting-edge choreographers the opportunity to present their work at IMPERMANENCE’s new artist-led dance house, The Mount Without in Bristol which will not only provide a vital platform to present their work but an opportunity for transformative ideas to thrive and for artists to push boundaries enabling the development of dance in the UK.

Sound Roots Artist Mentoring Programme Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support Sound Roots’ Artist Mentoring Programme . Sound Roots supports grassroots music careers in folk and beyond and this funding will provide world-class mentoring and performance opportunities for eight outstanding UK folk and grassroots artists at a pivotal stage in their career to enable them to emerge as fully-fledged artists.

HighTide Theatre: Jerwood HighTide Writers Group Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support the Jerwood HighT i de Writers Group, through a new partnership with HighTide Theatre . This will allow the existing programme to support six emerging writers from the East of England per year for two years .

Far From The Norm: NORMGROUND Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support N ORMGROUND , through a new partnership with Far F rom T he Norm . Th e grant will allo w two editions of the existing artistic learning and development programme ; in London in 2025 and Manchester in 2026. National Life Stories: Crafts’ Lives.

This support of National Life Stories: Crafts’ Lives will enable five life story recordings with leading makers in 2024 and 2025. Crafts’ Lives was established a quarter of a century ago, and the project documents the lives of Britain’s leading craftsmen and craftswomen for National Life Stories (NLS), the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library.

Almeida Theatre: Almeida Makers Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will support Almeida Makers, through a new partnership with the Almeida Theatre. This new programme will support eight early and mid-career directors and designers each year. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Associate Director Justina Kehinde will be the first artist platformed by Almeida Makers.

Jerwood Residencies at Edinburgh Printmakers Through this new partnership with Edinburgh Printmakers, six talented emerging printmakers will be supported in the development of their etching and intaglio skills to enable them to pursue high-level careers in printmaking. A folio of their work will be exhibited and produced for both Jerwood and Edinburgh Printmakers Permanent Collections.

As part of this award, selected works from the Jerwood Collection will also be exhibited at Edinburgh Printmakers in 2025. Birmingham Royal Ballet: BRB2 Over the next two years Jerwood Foundation will provide support for BRB2, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Junior Company. BRB2 is a company comprised of some of the very best young ballet graduates from around the world.

This funding will support 15 dancers (BRB2 cohort 2, 3 & 4) and deliver 2 regional tours of a new ballet programme to 8-10 venues, reaching over 12,000 audience members to enable the next generation of ballet dancer to thrive and launch the careers of these future ballet artists.

Britten Pears Arts: Britten Pears Young Artist Programme This partnership and support of Britten Pears Young Artist Programme (BPYAP) over the next two years will offer career enhancing training and performance opportunities to early career singers, instrumentalists, composers and conductors.

Its residential courses based at sites in coastal Suffolk see the next generation of classical musicians being tutored at the highest level of musical training by industry leading artists.

Film and Video Umbrella: FVU New Takes This support of Film and Video Umbrellas’ New Takes programme will offer the commissioning opportunity for three early career visual artists to test ideas and realise new moving image works with the specialist support of Film and Video Umbrella. For three decades FVU has led the way in championing new creative talent and promoting innovative ideas.

Arcangelo: Arcangelo’s New Ensemblists Programme This funding of Arcangelo’s New Ensemblists Programme will provide innovative tailored training and professional support over two years, for five exceptional musicians, selected to join the third cohort of its successful programme. Arcangelo is an award winning, internationally acclaimed period performance ensemble.

London Philharmonic Orchestra: Young Composers Programme This partnership with London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Composers Programme over the next three years, will support 15 early career composers as they seek to build successful careers in the industry, offering a platform for new and diverse compositional voices to be heard, which will enrich and expand the contemporary repertoire to inspire and excite new audiences.

Art Fund: Jerwood Art Fund Commissions Through this new partnership with Art Fund, Jerwood Art Fund Commissions will provide support for museums and galleries to collaborate with artists to make work of exceptional innovation and quality, across all visual art forms and disciplines on new commissions. Two successful organisations will receive grants of £70,000 – £100,000 per year over the course of three years.

Pentabus: Jerwood Writer in Residence This support and partnership will allow the continuation of the Writer in Residence Programme for emerging playwrights. In recognition of Jerwood’s support, the award will be renamed the Jerwood Writer in Residence. Oxford Song: Young Artist Programme Jerwood Foundation's support helps enable the Oxford International Song Festival's Young Artist Programme from Spring 2024.

The Young Artist Programme offers a range of high-quality training and performance opportunities for duos in the early stages of their careers. Studio Wayne McGregor: Resident 6 Jerwood's support helps enable a creative residency at Studio Wayne McGregor for emerging artists pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence.

RESIDENT 6 gives six artists access to the studio’s full range of spaces for making, experimenting, and collaborating. London Symphony Orchestra: Jerwood Composer + 2024-2027 Funding from Jerwood enables the Jerwood Composer+ programme to support two composers a year in 2023 and 2024. LSO Jerwood Composer+ nurtures extraordinary early-career composers to realise their artistic ambitions through a 15-month placement.

Glyndebourne: Jerwood Pit Perfect Funding from Jerwood Foundation has enabled Glyndebourne to expand its talent development scheme for orchestral instrumentalists. The renamed Jerwood Pit Perfect offers recent graduates the opportunity to join The Glyndebourne Sinfonia during the autumn season.

Dundee Contemporary Arts: DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies Jerwood's support helps fund four, month-long residencies based in Dundee Contemporary Art's Print Studio. Artists will gain access to DCA’s equipment and support from expert printmakers in a collaborative studio environment.

The Newbridge Project: Co-Act Jerwood's support helps enable Co-Act, a new Artist Development Programme for socially engaged artists hosted by The NewBridge Project. Co-Act brings together four early-career artists to develop collaborative and socially engaged ways of working. If you have been granted Jerwood Foundation funding, you may use our logo in communications about work we are directly supporting.

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