Fenton Arts Trust

Who they support

Awards grants to individuals and organisations for projects which advance the creative arts in the United Kingdom, particularly those which support artists at the start of their professional careers

  • The average annual spending of grantees has been £2 million
  • The average age of charities supported has been 17 years.

Grant criteria

The Fenton Arts Trust is a charity which focuses its efforts specifically on the support of artists at the beginning of their careers. Each year there are approximately twenty five to thirty beneficiaries.

www.fentonartstrust.org.uk

07415 525956

PO BOX 68825
LONDON
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Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 294629
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Analysis of Grants Made
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In this period 64 donations have been made totalling £244,118 to 62 organisations

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Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)
Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?
By ValueBy Number
The Foyle Foundation 46% 42%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 36% 34%
Garfield Weston Foundation 33% 31%
The National Lottery Community Fund 15% 13%
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport 13% 13%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation 12% 11%
The National Lottery Heritage Fund 10% 11%
Wolfson Foundation 10% 11%
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation 9% 8%
John Ellerman Foundation 7% 6%
Sole supporter: 34% by number, 30% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount Annual
Spending
Grantee To be used for
01/07/2021 £3,500 £768,717 BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY To support emerging artist Ross Ramgobin with an extensive programme of training to perform in our landmark production of Wagner's 'Rheingold'.
01/07/2021 £3,000 £93,967 BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL (BREMF) BREMF will support emerging musicians and provide vital training and performance opportunities to strenghten career paths within the sector.
01/07/2021 £5,000 £3,636,938 CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE Talent Lab, a professional and creative development programme for 24 UK emerging filmmakers working towards their first feature films.
01/07/2021 £4,000 £6,258,000 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (CBSO) An early career development programme for conductors, tailored to their individual skills and experiences.
01/07/2021 £3,600 £744,364 DRAKE MUSIC An accessible, tailored programme of commissioning, mentoring and training for three early career Disabled musicians from across England.
01/07/2021 £3,000 £572,442 GATE THEATRE A new online professional development programme for 12 early-career designers from backgrounds under-represented in the theatre profession.
01/07/2021 £5,000 £2,619,931 HAMPSTEAD THEATRE An opportunity for young playwrights to develop their craft under the mentorship of an award-winning playwright.
01/07/2021 £5,000 £555,389 HIGHTIDE THEATRE Support two writers on HighTide Playwrights Cohort programme; providing financial support, mentorship, professional & artistic development.
01/07/2021 £3,000 HULL URBAN OPERA To allow 3 early-career opera singers to learn new techniques interacting with film in Louis Mander's "Whistle & I'll Come to You" (2015).
01/07/2021 £5,450 £39,013 MAGMA POETRY Publication of the 82nd issue of Magma Poetry, which will highlight and showcase Black poets in partnership with the Obsidian Foundation.
01/07/2021 £5,000 £1,387,560 NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES Laboratori supports choreographers to develop new choreographic ideas under the mentorship of innovators in the field of contemporary dance.
01/07/2021 £5,000 £285,707 PSAPPHA Psappha seeks to support the creative development of 24 emerging composers over a 10-month period as part of its 30th Anniversary year.
01/07/2021 £4,000 £421,805 RED NOTE ENSEMBLE The Engaged Composer programme will train 10 early career composers to run inspiring projects with community groups.
01/07/2021 £3,000 £7,679,716 ROUNDHOUSE TRUST, THE The Resident Artist Programme facilitates the development of outstanding emerging artists as they progress into the creative industries.
01/07/2021 £2,500 £8,292,176 ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA (RSNO) COMPOSERS' HUB: A rare but vital opportunity for 5 emerging UK-based composers to develop their careers by composing music for an orchestra.
01/07/2021 £5,000 £759,739 WYSING ARTS CENTRE Funding is requested to support two residencies specifically targeting talented early career artists at Wysing Arts Centre.
01/07/2021 £1,800 ALICE BUCKNELL Support to complete an emerging artist's major new film and presentation in her first solo exhibition in a significant art space in London.
01/07/2021 £2,380 £85,924 CAMPLE LINE Commission to support emerging artist Saoirse Anis to develop new film and performance work exploring her Scottish-Moroccan heritage.
01/07/2021 £2,000 £1,713,845 MODERN ART OXFORD Platform Graduate Award - Professional development for emerging artists, with exhibition and accompanying public events at Modern Art Oxford.
01/07/2021 £2,000 £121,839 TRAC CYMRU Avanc - a unique and transformational early career development programme for Wales's most talented young professional folk musicians.
11/03/2021 £4,500 £223,744 INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FOUNDATION (IGF) Young Artist Platform 2021 for 7 young professional guitarists (24 live & online concert showcases) & training/mentoring for 50+guitarists.
11/03/2021 £2,950 ALEX HITCHCOCK Funding recording of new original music for a contemporary jazz album on prestigious label Fresh Sound New Talent, involving 14 musicians.
11/03/2021 £6,000 £42,919 BOOK MUSIC & LYRICS Funding for the facilitation of 30 Advanced level Composer and Lyricist professional development workshops for Musical Theatre.
11/03/2021 £2,500 £472,170 BRITISH YOUTH OPERA Supporting two weekend masterclasses with BYO; aiming to make opera for everyone, not just those who can afford it.
11/03/2021 £4,000 CORINNE MYNATT Collaboration to create the soundscape for a documentary film, telling untold stories of an underrepresented architect's live and work.
11/03/2021 £3,433 JAMES WILSON Funds to produce a short silent film on gratitude inspired by and starring five creatives, with a soundtrack by an early career flautist.
11/03/2021 £5,000 £885,929 LITTLE ANGEL THEATRE Supporting two Puppetry Internships for a 6 month extension, to diversify this niche art form and upskill two emerging Puppetry Makers.
11/03/2021 £5,000 £230,792 MULTI-STORY MUSIC Funding to train 21 musicians at the beginning of their careers to devise their own Living Programme Note performance of Eastman's 'Stay On It'.
11/03/2021 £5,740 £118,193 NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ COLLECTIVE NYJC’s Ambassadors Scheme for emerging jazz graduates keen to expand their portfolio & join NYJC’s national faculty of stellar music leaders.
11/03/2021 £5,000 £195,886 NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE Full-time fixed-term professional development opportunity for an emerging dancer in the early stages of their career.
11/03/2021 £5,293 £30,771 OPERA MAKERS, THE Hopes & Fears
11/03/2021 £3,000 £667,381 OXFORD LIEDER Oxford Lieder Mastercourse - a week-long residential for 9 talented singer/pianist duos with professional coaching & performance experience.
11/03/2021 £6,000 £94,971 SCHERZO ENSEMBLE Scherzo Ensemble are seeking funding for the principal role fees in our new production of 'Il turco in Italia' at Longhope Opera this July.
11/03/2021 £3,000 SHEFFIELD CREATIVE GUILD LTD A mentoring programme for 10 emerging creatives in a post Covid-19 world.
11/03/2021 £3,400 £61,179 TRANSFORM Next Wave' - commissioning fees and professional development for early career Northern artists, adapting to new models of performance.
11/03/2021 £4,520 £445,625 ZOONATION (THE KATE PRINCE COMPANY) ZooNation Creative Dance Assistant scheme to support 4 young artists (18-24 yrs) by providing paid experience, employment and mentoring.
11/03/2021 £2,000 £63,578 COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL CMF Young Artists' Recital 2021: promoting two Welsh artists at the start of their chareers, pianist Luke Jones and composer Sarah L Lewis.
11/03/2021 £625 MARIE BASHIRU Assistance with purchase of audio interface for recording of studio album.
11/03/2021 £2,190 MARIENELLA PHILLIPS Recording sessions at the Fishergate Point Centre for the Arts, Nottingham for experimental electronic opera 'Lucrezia: History Rewritten'.
11/03/2021 £500 PROJECT ONE Our company's first venture into filmmaking, the 15-minute short film 'Reasons', continuing our creative output despite the Covid-19 crisis.
11/03/2021 £2,000 £936,961 SOUTHBANK SINFONIA Spitalfields Music's ‘Trainee Music Leader Programme’ trains and mentors a musician from Southbank Sinfonia to lead creative music workshops.
05/11/2020 £2,600 JAMES ROGERS To provide assistance into material innovation and the capacity for their use on a self-built and hacked 1.5m3 3D printing machine.
05/11/2020 £6,000 ANIMIKII THEATRE The Kaspar Hauser Experiment will collaborate with access/sensory theatre creatives to make a new touring play for Autumn 2021 Spring 2022.
05/11/2020 £3,000 £73,785 BOX OF TRICKS THEATRE COMPANY Funding to support three early-career North West playwrights to write a new play with support from Box of Tricks.
05/11/2020 £3,000 £268,931 EAST NEUK FESTIVAL BAND IN A VAN (BIAV) - sending world-class classical, jazz and folk out of the halls into the community, raising morale as we face Covid.
05/11/2020 £7,000 £1,491,334 SPAB The SPAB Scholarship gives early career building professionals the skills to make a positive contribution to the historic environment.
11/06/2020 £5,900 £150,792 ART IN PERPETUITY TRUST (APT) Mentoring & studio award for two painting graduates to be mentored by APT artists, with exhibiting opportunities to realise their potential.
11/06/2020 £6,000 £1,222,995 LONDON SINFONIETTA A Digital Commissioning Scheme engaging early-career composers with expert technicians to create new works for digital platforms and devices.
11/06/2020 £3,000 £13,379,000 PERFORMANCES BIRMINGHAM LTD (THSH) "Jazzlines Commission" will partner 2 young Birmingham musicians with composers from elsewhere in UK to compose and perform new repertoire.
11/06/2020 £3,000 £450,964 RIFCO ARTS To support 3 British Asian playwrights, early in their careers, to research and develop a new play and bring it to an online audience.
11/06/2020 £3,500 £760,987 MOZARTISTS, THE Support for the development of early career singers in Classical Opera’s performance of Mozart’s 'La Betulia liberata'.
04/02/2020 £4,460 £722,609 CASTLEFIELD GALLERY Support for Bluecoat Castlefield Gallery Fellows – an intensive & bespoke development programme for North-based early career visual artists
04/02/2020 £4,000 £178,490 PSAPPHA Psappha’s 2020-21 composer development programme: providing expert support for some of the UK’s best emerging professional composers.
04/02/2020 £2,500 SAMUEL LITTLE The visual documentation and dissemination of an overlooked reuse culture disappearing from agricultural building practice.
04/02/2020 £6,860 GOTHIC OPERA Orchestral ensemble fees for Gothic Opera's UK premiere production of La Nonne Sanglante by Gounod, performed in London this Halloween.
05/11/2019 £2,000 £1,922,297 FUEL PRODUCTIONS LTD 3 seed commissions and a 3-year programme of support for diverse, early stage theatre makers Tom Stuart, Racheal Ofori and Rosemary Kingsley.
05/11/2019 £5,417 £6,176,931 SOHO THEATRE Support one emerging playwright on Soho Theatre's year-long development programme for early-career artists, Soho Six 2020.
05/11/2019 £5,000 £2,309,842 ASIA HOUSE Funds to support UK-based and young up-coming artists in the production of twelve events on the history of human voice.
05/11/2019 £3,000 EDWARD NESBIT A CD of Edward Nesbit choral music recorded by the Choir of King's College London and released by Delphian Records.
05/11/2019 £5,000 £3,716,291 PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY Folio Fridays: The Photographers’ Gallery’s monthly portfolio reviews that support emerging photographers to develop their practice.
06/06/2019 £2,500 £268,982 SOUND FESTIVAL Supporting 5 emerging Scottish composers through a residential weekend developing works for oboe & cello to be performed at soundfestival19.
06/06/2019 £4,000 ANNA ALVAREZ Chi’isi ; a group dance project rooted in native Mapuche culture, it is selected for CASA festival and programmed for The Roundhouse.
06/06/2019 £2,500 ADAM RUSSELL Artistic Spending to support early stage choreographer and other professional performer. Mentoring from established industry professionals.
06/06/2019 £4,000 £535,565 HIGHTIDE Support the development of Sonia Jalaly a female playwright of colour, to write a full draft of her play for production from 2020 onwards.
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Cumulative Grants
Amount Grantee
£9,000 PSAPPHA
£9,000 HIGHTIDE THEATRE
£7,000 SPAB
£6,860 GOTHIC OPERA
£6,000 SCHERZO ENSEMBLE
£6,000 LONDON SINFONIETTA
£6,000 BOOK MUSIC & LYRICS
£6,000 ANIMIKII THEATRE
£5,900 ART IN PERPETUITY TRUST (APT)
£5,740 NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ COLLECTIVE
£5,450 MAGMA POETRY
£5,417 SOHO THEATRE
£5,293 OPERA MAKERS, THE
£5,000 WYSING ARTS CENTRE
£5,000 PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY
£5,000 NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE
£5,000 NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES
£5,000 MULTI-STORY MUSIC
£5,000 LITTLE ANGEL THEATRE
£5,000 HAMPSTEAD THEATRE
£5,000 CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE
£5,000 ASIA HOUSE
£4,520 ZOONATION (THE KATE PRINCE COMPANY)
£4,500 INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FOUNDATION (IGF)
£4,460 CASTLEFIELD GALLERY
£4,000 RED NOTE ENSEMBLE
£4,000 CORINNE MYNATT
£4,000 CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (CBSO)
£4,000 ANNA ALVAREZ
£3,600 DRAKE MUSIC
£3,500 MOZARTISTS, THE
£3,500 BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY
£3,433 JAMES WILSON
£3,400 TRANSFORM
£3,000 SHEFFIELD CREATIVE GUILD LTD
£3,000 ROUNDHOUSE TRUST, THE
£3,000 RIFCO ARTS
£3,000 PERFORMANCES BIRMINGHAM LTD (THSH)
£3,000 OXFORD LIEDER
£3,000 HULL URBAN OPERA
£3,000 GATE THEATRE
£3,000 EDWARD NESBIT
£3,000 EAST NEUK FESTIVAL
£3,000 BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL (BREMF)
£3,000 BOX OF TRICKS THEATRE COMPANY
£2,950 ALEX HITCHCOCK
£2,600 JAMES ROGERS
£2,500 SOUND FESTIVAL
£2,500 SAMUEL LITTLE
£2,500 ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA (RSNO)
£2,500 BRITISH YOUTH OPERA
£2,500 ADAM RUSSELL
£2,380 CAMPLE LINE
£2,190 MARIENELLA PHILLIPS
£2,000 TRAC CYMRU
£2,000 SOUTHBANK SINFONIA
£2,000 MODERN ART OXFORD
£2,000 FUEL PRODUCTIONS LTD
£2,000 COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
£1,800 ALICE BUCKNELL
£625 MARIE BASHIRU
£500 PROJECT ONE
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