Digital Media Grants & Funding for film - Cornwall - The Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation

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Paul Hamlyn, entrepreneurial publisher and philanthropist, set up his original charitable Foundation in 1972 and enlarged it substantially in 1987 with a personal gift of £50 million. From the outset his overriding concern was to open up the arts and education to everyone, but particularly to young people.

Although Paul Hamlyn died in August 2001, his view of the Foundation's purpose remains at the heart of all our grant giving. His magnificent bequest of his residual estate to the Foundation is being used to build o­n that approach.

The Foundation's primary concern is to address issues of inequality and disadvantage, particularly in relation to young people. Support concentrates o­n projects in the UK which respond to these challenges through the arts and education.

Within the Arts and Learning  programme priority is given to:

• partnership projects which aim to develop the arts within formal education
• initiatives which offer children who are not well served opportunities to enjoy the arts, within and out of school
• schemes which give teachers access to best practice in the creative arts 

They have a small grants programme in which awards up to £5,000 are made to local schemes that fall within the Foundation's priority areas. Applications should be for specific projects rather than revenue funding. The grant requested should represent the major part of the funding required.

Grants will be made for o­ne year o­nly and applications in the following year from the same organisation will not be considered.

From time to time the Foundation takes its own initiatives which may lie outside the main priority areas. With the increased funds from Paul Hamlyn's bequest, the Foundation also has devised a number of special projects which will come o­n stream in 2003-4. These focus o­n areas where there is an urgent need for positive change in the interests of young people who are not benefiting from the arts or education.

For more information visit www.phf.org.uk