Our grants are open to projects which use the arts to create transformational change in developing countries.

Basic Requirements

The following requirements must be met to be considered for a Freedom to Create grant:

• Projects must be run by a registered non-profit organisation
• Projects must fall into one of our six sectors: Education, Health, Social Harmony, Urban Regeneration, Freedom to Create or Designs for Life
• Projects must use an art form to educate, build, heal or inspire people
• Projects must indicate how their results will be measured both quantitatively and qualitatively
• The project itself must be located in a developing country, and is ideally a country most in need. To further assess whether your country may be eligible for funding, please see the list of Emerging and Developing Countries in the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook Report or the United Nation's Human Development Index.

Projects We Prefer

Our grant application process is highly competitive. As a guide, projects that demonstrate one or more of the following will be of particular interest to us:

• Based in the world's harshest places and least developed countries
• A new approach to issues and challenges
• Sustainable change
• Ambitious ideas
• Strong ways of measuring of the project's impact on society

Excluded Projects

Our grants are unable to support:

• Individual artists
• Educational scholarships
• Organisations that discriminate on the basis of race, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability or sexual orientation in policy or in practice
• Programmes that promote sectarian religious activities
• Programmes that promote impermissible lobbying
• Programmes which contravene the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Projects located in the developed world, such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. However, please note that organisations based in these countries are welcome to apply for funding if their programmes are located in the developing world.
• Costs not directly associated with the project's implementation. While we appreciate that organisational overheads are necessary for coordination, these will not be considered.