Work Wise: Funding Watch - The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Children & Young People Now
14 May 2008
What it is: The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a grant-making charity that provides funding for innovative projects in areas including the arts, education and social change. The foundation is Portuguese, but it has a UK branch that deals with grant applications from the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
How much is on offer: Grants only exceed £15,000 in exceptional circumstances. What it will fund: Arts projects can apply for a grant from the foundation's Arts in Public Spaces scheme, which supports projects that present art in unconventional spaces. Education projects have a choice of two schemes that are suitable...