About
Paul Hamlyn Foundation is a UK-based charitable foundation working towards a just future in which everyone, especially young people, can realise their full potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives. The foundation works collaboratively with organisations and individuals who are building a just society, with funding programmes focused on the arts, education and learning, migration and young people. They support local organisations to advance social justice both in the UK and through their India Fund.
Funding Opportunities
Ideas and Pioneers Fund
The Ideas and Pioneers Fund supports individuals and groups who want to explore ideas for social change. The fund believes that the best ideas for how society needs to change often come from people who have been let down or harmed by current systems themselves. It provides grants of up to £20,000 and a flexible support package to help people explore bold and brave ideas that have the potential to transform the way things are currently done. The fund focuses on supporting people whose ideas are still taking shape, recognizing it can be difficult to find funding at this early stage. Success is defined as exploration, discovery and learning, whether or not the idea turns out as expected. In addition to financial support, grantees receive access to optional wraparound support including training, mentoring, and opportunities to meet and learn from other grant holders. The fund prioritizes individuals or groups aged 18-30 who have a personal connection to the issue they want to work on, are ready to take action, and face barriers in accessing grant funding.
Teacher Development Fund
The Teacher Development Fund supports teachers to develop arts-based approaches which create equitable classrooms where all children learn and thrive. The fund envisions a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is a core part of all children's education. Projects focus on pupils who experience systemic inequity, enabling them to access and make progress in their learning. The fund supports arts organisations and schools working in equal partnerships to exchange and enrich their expertise, recognising that teachers are critical to pupils' outcomes. It creates high-quality inspiring professional learning for teachers and enables teachers and artist practitioners to learn and work together in the classroom. The program builds a body of evidence and practice, understanding how the work improves equity for pupils while generating sustainable changes in teaching and learning in schools for the long-term. All projects must include a two-year professional learning programme for teachers, co-constructed with partners and focusing on arts-based approaches to teach the curriculum across all subject areas.
India Fund
The India Fund centres around funding small NGOs working with the most vulnerable communities in priority geographical areas of India. The fund believes that communities must be central to the work partners undertake and should place people facing disadvantage in India at the heart of leading change and designing solutions to overcome inequality. The strategic aims include encouraging NGOs to take on community-centric development programmes, enabling communities to take charge of their own development and improve their lives, encouraging development funding to address systemic change, and enhancing the capacity of organisations and people who facilitate these aims. The fund operates at two levels: micro-level funding for small to medium NGOs with direct implementation roles with communities (70-80% of funding), and meso/macro-level funding for larger organisations that can consolidate learning and advocate for policy change (10-15% of funding). Organizations must be local Indian NGOs with FCRA registration working in specified priority states and regions.
Arts Fund
The Arts Fund supports cultural organisations working at the intersection of art and social change. The fund aims to support long-term structural and cultural change in the arts sector, enabling organizations to build capacity within historically underfunded communities, explore the role of artists in addressing social justice issues, and create infrastructure for a more equitable cultural sector. The fund offers support for core costs and programmes central to an organization's mission, with grants ranging from £90,000 to £300,000 over three years. The fund prioritizes organisations that centre the lived experience of those affected by injustice, embed values of care, equity and justice in their organizational culture, and use creative practice to challenge traditional cultural hierarchies. Applicants must have a minimum turnover of £60,000 per year and can receive funding up to 50% of their annual turnover over three years. The fund prioritizes applications that are actively anti-racist and intersectional in their approach.
Arts-based Learning Fund
The Arts-based Learning Fund supports arts and cultural organisations to work in partnership with schools and make arts-based learning a core part of education. The fund envisions a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is central to all children's education. It focuses on supporting arts organisations working in partnership with formal education settings to enable mutual exchange and enrichment of expertise, particularly focusing on pupils who experience systemic inequity. The fund aims to explore the role of arts-based learning in addressing issues of inclusion, especially racism, in education, while creating more opportunities for high-quality arts-based teaching and learning in education settings. The work must take place during school hours, be embedded in the curriculum, centre equity and care, and take an in-depth approach with intensity and extended duration. The fund supports core funding, delivery costs, professional development, and evidence-gathering activities.
Youth Fund
The Youth Fund from Paul Hamlyn Foundation supports organisations working with young people aged 14-25 to drive systemic change so that future generations can thrive. The fund focuses on young people who experience systemic inequity and aims to tackle root causes of injustice that create barriers during their transitions to adulthood. The fund emphasizes asset-based working that centers young people's power, voice, and agency, recognizing their strengths and potential rather than just their challenges. Grants are designed as strategic investments over three years to support organisations that go beyond direct delivery to influence policy, shape systems, improve practice, and change attitudes. The fund particularly welcomes applications from organisations led by people most impacted by racism, ableism, classism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia, and requires commitment to anti-racist approaches.
Migration Fund
The Migration Fund supports not-for-profit organisations working towards migrant justice across the UK. The fund envisions a world where respect, care and interdependence underpin relationships, and where everyone is free to move and no one is forced to move. The fund supports organisations working to dismantle the hostile environment, tackle root causes of injustice faced by migrants, build collective power within migrant communities, foster solidarity between communities, strengthen infrastructure for the migrant justice field, and explore alternative futures built on self-determination and justice. The fund focuses on both how organizations work (embedding anti-racist practice, centering care and wellbeing, shifting power to migrants and diaspora communities) and what they seek to achieve (addressing harmful laws, policies and practices affecting migrants). Priority is given to organisations led by migrants and diaspora communities, those working with historically underfunded groups and regions, those with annual turnover under £500,000, or those with less access to funding from other sources.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 7
- Active Now
- 7
- Source Domain
- phf.org.uk
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