Theatres Trust's Small Grants Programme, supported by The Linbury Trust, funds small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences. This scheme provides grants of up to £7,500 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future.
Key Criteria
This scheme will prioritise improvements to theatre buildings to protect theatre use and remove barriers to participation and attendance. Priority will also be given to projects where the total project costs are less than £250k or where the grant is the sole external funder and/or achievable within the total fund awarded. The fund is intended to support:
- improvements and repairs to building fabric
- purchase of key plant and machinery
- purchase of capital items that improve physical access and the audience/participant experience
- purchase of equipment to improve digital access.
Previous awards have been issued to venues to improve access and mobility, and building energy efficiency.
