If your arts and cultural organisation projects benefit Westminster communities, you may be eligible for neighbourhood funding from your local ward councillors’ budgets.
You will need to discuss your project with your ward councillors or you can email the ward budgets team on wardbudgets@westminster.gov.uk for more details.
You can also find information about all the council’s funding opportunities on our grant funding opportunities page. Below is information about culture-specific grants but please note the dates when these are open and we are receiving applications.
Inside Out grant programme
Inside Out is a free and inclusive summer festival that brings our city’s world-renowned arts, entertainment and culture into the streets and open spaces of Westminster.
We want to establish Inside Out as a free annual festival that will take place in August each year from 2023.
To encourage participation, a dedicated grants programme has been launched to support partner activities. This aims to ensure fairer and wider access to funding for cultural organisations, artists and venues. While retaining a spotlight on the West End we wish to extend the festival across all parts of the borough this year and beyond.
Apply for the Inside Out grant programme
Culture and Community grants programme
The Culture and Community grants programme welcomes projects that engage both local residents and visitors to Westminster. This new annual fund invites arts organisations, community groups and schools to apply for support towards cultural activities that contribute to our Fairer Westminster Strategy.
It will enable local creatives and cultural organisations to draw on their expertise to deliver wellbeing and participatory activities in partnership with residents. Target beneficiaries include:
- those facing financial access barriers
- schoolchildren
- 16 to 25 year olds
- over 65s
- global majority ethnic groups
- those experiencing disabilities and social isolation
