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Elmley Community Arts Fund
This programme is for community groups in Herefordshire and Worcestershire planning arts events or purchases. There are two funds:
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1. Events and Activities: grant up to £2,000
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2. Arts Equipment: grant up to £1,000
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You can apply to either fund using the online form –
https://www.elmley.org.uk/the-elmley-community-arts-fund-application/
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Please ensure that you do not complete the application form until you have read the guidelines thoroughly.
Guidelines – Elmley Community Arts Programme
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The programme is administered on behalf of The Elmley Foundation by the charity Community First in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
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If you have any questions about your eligibility or whether your ideas fit, please contact Community First on 01684 312730, or by email info@comfirst.org.uk. If a matter is urgent please email ceo@comfirst.org.uk
Application Deadlines and decision dates for 2025/26 are as follows:
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Friday 25th April for decision by Friday 9th May
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Friday 25th July for decision by Friday 8th August
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Friday 24th October for decision by Friday 7th November
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Friday 30th January for decision by Friday 13th February 2026
Please ensure that your completed application form is submitted by 5pm on the deadline date.
Latest Elmley Grants News!
May 2025
Leominster Museum Grant from the Elmley Foundation
For their 2024 season Leominster Museum wanted to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of folklorist Ella Mary Leather, author of definitive book ‘The Folk Lore of Herefordshire’ in 1912, which remains a highly significant book to this day. We also wished to celebrate her collaboration with Ralph Vaughan Williams in recording the folksongs of Herefordshire.
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As work progressed on the display in the museum conversations with community partners suggested we could expand this to theme into other events outside the museum.
Clearly we would need support to allow this to grow, and in this the initial grant from the Elmley Foundation was critical in encouraging us to develop an ambitious programme.
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In the end we were able to run workshops by professional musicians in eight local schools before staging a schools Concert featuring music and dances collected by Leather and Williams. Provide a Talk by Nicholas Williams of Stainer & Bell Ltd on the ‘Exceptional Legacy’ of this partnership, and two events at Leominster Priory: ‘Creative Collaborations’ featuring the internationally acclaimed violinist Julia Bishop and others and ‘Herefordshire Folk NOW’ with Leominster Morris, Fetch Theatre, About Face Theatre & the Mummer’s Boys celebrating Ella Mary Leather in song, dance and story. About 750 people attended one or more of the events.