The Arts Grants Scheme is now closed for 2025. The scheme awards grants of up to £3,000 annually to individuals and organisations looking to produce innovative and engaging art projects across the borough. We'll publish information on next year's scheme in March 2026.
Grants awarded in autumn 2025
These projects were awarded grants this year.
- ACAVA: Creative Roots: Pilot artist residency
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A pilot residency for a socially engaged artist to collaborate with the community as part of ACAVA’s Cultivate Create programme, where families in North Kensington grow food, explore nature, and enjoy free play together.
ACAVA is an award-winning charity providing affordable studios, professional development for artists, and free programmes that promote wellbeing, resilience, and environmental awareness.Grant award: £3,000
For more information: view ACAV's website or email hello@acava.org
- Chelsea Theatre: Beatboxing and acting term-time workshops
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A programme of free, term-time evening performance workshops for young people aged 12 to 25 in Chelsea Riverside. The programmes will include beatbox, vocals and songwriting with Conrad Murray and Nadine Rose Johnson.
At the heart of the World’s End Estate, Chelsea Theatre champions local creative talent, community partnerships, and the centre as a space for imaginative, inclusive work to flourish.Grant award: £3,000
For more information: view Chelsea Theatre's website or email admin@chelseatheatre.org.uk
- Grace Chua: A journey through east meets west
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A series of 16 workshops at Kensington Central Library designed to connect eastern and western artistic traditions. Participants explore Chinese and western calligraphy and ink painting. They experience the contrasts and connections between these two traditions while developing creative skills.
Grace is a Hammersmith and Fulham-based artist whose practice bridges western and eastern traditions.Grant award: £3,000
For more information: view RBKC Libraries on Eventbrite
- Healthworks DT: Healthworks Enables arts and crafts autumn programme
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A series of free creative workshops for adults aged 18+ from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Through singing, art, and craft sessions, participants are supported to make healthier lifestyle choices, improve wellbeing, and reduce isolation.
Dalgarno Trust is a community centre in North Kensington that offers a wide range of activities, projects and services that promote health, wellbeing, and inclusion for all ages.Grant award: £3,000
For more information: view Healthworks Enables on The Dalgarno Trust website or email healthworks@dalgarnotrust.org.uk
- JK Arts CIC: Art future
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A collaborative and free series of six art workshops where young people aged 11 to 18 become designers of their tomorrow by creating a vibrant mixed-media mural that reimagines the future of their community and will culminate in a public unveiling of the artwork.
JK Arts CIC is a non-profit organisation dedicated to uplifting young people and families through the power of creativity, providing free, accessible art programmes.Grant award: £2,500
For more information: view JC Arts CIC's website or email jkartscic@gmail.com
- Mosaic Rooms: Yalla let’s play
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A child-led, sensory art and play project for refugee families living in local hotels in the Mosaic Rooms' new PlayRoom at the V&A Museum. The PlayRoom is a dedicated learning space opening in 2026.
The Mosaic Rooms is a leading contemporary arts space and dedicated to supporting work from global perspectives and has a focus on contemporary culture from the Arab world and beyond.Grant award: £3,000
For more information: view Mosaic Rooms' website
- Renegade Theatre: Spring
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A free, accessible and participant-led project with the theatre’s Kids Drama Club of local children aged 5 to 11 years old. The children will create and perform a short play about spring as ‘Hope’, using colours, textures, feelings and creatures that come to life as spring emerges.
Renegade Theatre was founded by local playwright Natasha Langridge to create theatre and heritage projects for, with and about the North Kensington community.Grant award: £2,995
For more information: view Renegade Theatre's website
- Venture Community Association (VCA): This is our playground – revisited
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The production of a film in collaboration with local artist Constantine Gras on the spirit of play and adventure. This has been at the heart of The Venture since it opened in the 1960s. The film will revisit the original film made about the centre at that time.
VCA provides and facilitates a wide range of accessible educational, recreational activities and information for individuals, groups, and the community.Grant award: £3,000
For more information: view VCA's website or email info@venturecentre.org.uk