THE NOEL COWARD FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1178029 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£361k

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£40k

Accounts grants total

£191k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: For the upcoming meeting, the window will run from: 10am, Monday 31st August 2026 to 5pm, Friday 9th October 2026. Only applications received during this window of time will be considered.
What they don’t fund: Following a significant increase in applications from outside the NCF’s core theatre interests, the Trustees have taken the decision to restrict new applications from groups working solely in music, dance or opera to those who are engaged somehow with the work of Noël Coward

Summarised from www.noelcoward.org · www.noelcoward.org/ncf-apply on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL, COVENT GARDEN “Support by the Noel Coward Foundation, as part of the Theatre in the Garden Season, Alfresco Actors' presents workshop f”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)
Religious Activities (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Bedford (1 grantee)
Buckinghamshire (1 grantee)
Central Bedfordshire (1 grantee)
Ireland (1 grantee)
Northamptonshire (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat	FY2024	£9k	New musical theatre writing
Mountview	FY2024	£5k	Emergency Fund to help acting students
New Adventures Charity	FY2024	£5k	Cygnet School for emerging dancers
Headlong	FY2024	£5k	Emerging Writers Programme
Storyhouse	FY2024	£4k	Young Company
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester	FY2024	£3k	Youth Theatre Summer School
The Lowry	FY2024	£3k	Youth outreach work
The BRIT School	FY2024	£2k	Support students audition skills for drama school and beyond
The Old Fire Station	FY2024	£2k	OFFBEAT Festival of new work
National Dance Company of Wales	FY2024	£2k	Work with young male dancers
Red Bull Theater	FY2023	£7k	Student Matinee program
Separate Doors	FY2023	£6k	Directing Tomorrow’s Theatre project with learning disabled actors
Lincoln Center Theater	FY2023	£5k	Open Stages project with High School students
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation	FY2023	£4k	Coward Fellow working as Assistant Director on Arizona Theatre Company’s production of PRIVATE LIVES
British Youth Music Theatre	FY2023	£4k	New Music Theatre Award
Signature Theatre	FY2023	£3k	subsidised tickets for LETTER FROM MAX by Sarah Ruhl
Royal Shakespeare Company	FY2023	£3k	Next Generation Direct’s work with underrepresented young theatre makers
Southwark Playhouse	FY2023	£3k	Young Ensemble
Fuel Theatre	FY2023	£3k	subsidised tickets to Rachel Ofori’s play FLIP!
RADA	FY2023	£2k	Youth Company work with 16-20 years olds
Hope Mill Theatre	FY2023	£2k	Bridges to Creative Futures
Complicité	FY2023	£2k	Mudlarks young deviser’s project
The Roundhouse	FY2023	£1k	Resident Artists program

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 40119 vs reference 191130 (79.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.