THE FENTON ARTS TRUST — grant history

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listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2026 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 51 of 60 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (85%), and 19 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 198.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

• How to apply: Please complete as much of this form as possible. Parts marked with an asterisk * are mandatory. The Trustees will primarily consider the essential project information given below. You may send supplementary documentation (which must include your CV if applying as an individual) by using the upload button at the bottom of the form.
• Deadlines: There is a deadline for the receipt of applications approximately three weeks before each meeting, although this is never advertised, to encourage applicants to forward plan.
• What they don’t fund: The Trust will also NOT CONSIDER applications from any source requesting support for: any level of academic study, tuition fees for individuals or associated costs , including living expenses, travel or accommodation; education or participation projects for those who have not yet left formal education; community participation or informal education projects or their costs; medical, mental health or wellbeing projects; bursary or scholarship funds run by other charities or education institutions; work being done outside the UK or by artists not based permanently in the UK; individuals seeking funds to cover travel, living or accommodation costs associated with overseas work, research or education opportunities; general rehearsal, touring, production or staging costs for performances or exhibitions; costs for support staff or support activities; continuing support for longstanding programmes or projects.

Summarised from www.fentonartstrust.org.uk · www.fentonartstrust.org.uk/what-we-do/ · www.fentonartstrust.org.uk/application-for-funding/ 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).

• NONCLASSICAL “nonclassical gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England, Cockayne Foundation, Margaret Engering Music T”
• DRAKE MUSIC “The Fenton Arts Trust”
• NORTHERN BALLET LIMITED “The Fenton Arts Trust”
• LLENYDDIAETH CYMRU - LITERATURE WALES “The Fenton Arts Trust”

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).

What changed: FY2025 → FY2026

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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76 listed grants have no usable amount in the accounts (shown as “amount not stated”); they are left out of the grant counts and totals.

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 247206 vs reference 165958 (49.0% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].