Funding to Enable UK Museums and Galleries to Offer Paid Opportunities for Students

Deadline: 25/09/24
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The aim of this funding is to help museums, galleries and visual arts organisations provide paid opportunities for full-time university students to gain meaningful, developmental work experience that enables them to explore their interest in the arts, and related future career options, before they graduate.

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The programme enables students to explore an interest in the arts alongside future career options, while providing organisations with extra capacity which is skilled and accountable.

We encourage applications that focus on facilitating public engagement with art – whether that be online or in real life.

We will fund the costs associated with paying students for the time they spend supporting your organisation in delivering projects. This is based on the current national and London living wage rates.

Please note, the grants cannot be used to cover:

  • Core staff costs
  • Costs relating to ongoing overheads
  • Retrospective activity – your project must not have started before you are due to receive a decision from us

Who can apply

We will consider applications from UK public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries, archives, agencies and other visual arts organisations that:

  • have a public presence (e.g. a building open to the public) or a public outcome (e.g. a festival or public art programme)
  • can demonstrate that they operate to standards of best practice within the sector (e.g. through Arts Council England Accreditation)

Please note that all participating students will be contracted to work for you, the partner organisation, via your HR team.

All grant recipients will be asked to sign our conditions for paid opportunities.

Who cannot apply
  • Organisations that exist to make profit, including Private Limited Companies, Public Limited Companies, Companies Limited by Shares, Unlimited Companies, or Sole Traders
  • General Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, or Limited Liability Partnerships
  • Organisations with a focus on music, drama, dance, and art forms outside the visual arts
  • Commercial organisations
  • Artists’ groups
  • Hospitals/healthcare settings
  • Places of worship

Key deadlines

The next Student Opportunities grant deadlines are:

  • Wednesday 25 September 2024
  • Friday 10 January 2025
  • Friday 9 May 2025
  • Friday 26 September 2025
Deadline: 25/09/24
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