Culture Grants Large

Large grants support up to £10,000. They are open to applications from individuals, charities, CICs, and other organisations to support large-scale creative, cultural and heritage activities. Constituted community groups are not eligible to apply.

Applications must respond to one of the three Culture Grants 2026 themes – Creative Wellbeing, Creativity and Nature, and New Creative Work. These themes are outlined fully in the application guidance.

These grants can support as match funding towards a larger grant application to a local, regional, or national funder.

Large grant application deadlines are:

• Round 1 – Monday 13 April 2026
• Round 2 - Monday 13 July 2026

Decisions will be announced 8 weeks after each deadline, followed by a 2-week period for contracting and finance arrangements. Please note that this could mean up to 10 weeks between application and a project beginning.

How to apply

Please review our application guidance before applying.

Applications will only be accepted via the application form for the relevant grant strand (word document or e-form). We do not accept supplementary documents or files alongside your application form.

If you need to apply via video or audio file due to access needs, please contact us at culturegrants@wakefield.gov.uk to discuss how this can be sent to us.

To apply to Culture Grants Large, please complete the:

• application form (Word) (E-Form)
• equalities monitoring form (Word) (E-Form)

Project reporting

All supported Culture Grants Large projects will need to complete an interim report 30% of the way through. They will also submit an evaluation form at the end of the project.

The following forms are examples of the reporting required:

• interim report (Word) (E-Form)
• evaluation form (Word) (E-Form)