ACE Project Grants
Under £30k route for smaller public-facing creative projects.
Draft Arts Council of Wales Welsh-language Impact Help with funder-aware structure.
Arts Council of Wales Welsh-language Impact Help for preparing a clearer Welsh-language impact case with route, eligibility, timing, public benefit and budget guidance.
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13 funders/programmes · 26 tailored routes
ACE Project Grants · 2 routes
ACE Supporting Grassroots Music
DYCP
Awards for All · 4 nations
Postcode Lottery
Creative Scotland · 5 routes
Arts Council of Wales · 5 routes
Heritage Fund
PRS Foundation · 2 routes
Elephant Trust
D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Fidelio Charitable Trust
Theatres Trust Small Grants
ACE Project Grants · 2 routes
ACE Supporting Grassroots Music
DYCP
Awards for All · 4 nations
Postcode Lottery
Creative Scotland · 5 routes
Arts Council of Wales · 5 routes
Heritage Fund
PRS Foundation · 2 routes
Elephant Trust
D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Fidelio Charitable Trust
Theatres Trust Small Grants
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26
Application routes available
Across 13 funder/programme families, each with tailored guidance
£1.04m
Combined maximum route values
£1,042,500 across 26 separate routes. Not one funding pot or a guarantee
10 min
From notes to a complete first draft
Every application question written from your project details
Less form-filling. More time making
You make the work.
ArtsFunded writes the first draft.
Four clear steps from rough project notes to an application you can check, improve and submit.
Not sure which funder fits?
1
Find the fund and add notes
Use the free matcher or pick a route, then answer guided questions in bullets or rough notes.
2
Preview, then generate the full draft
Check a free Project Summary first. Then get every funder answer written from scratch in about 10 minutes.
3
Research and review the case
Build a cited UK evidence report, then use the application reviewer to flag gaps and practical fixes.
4
Polish, export and submit
Meet every word limit, make final edits, export the draft and paste it into the official portal.
What you can do
Find, write, check and finish the bid.
Each job has its own tool, so you can use what you need without crowding the writing screen.
Find the right route
Describe the project once and compare the most relevant UK funds before you start writing.
- Checks amount, location and legal fit
- Explains why each route matches
Generate the full draft
Turn rough notes into complete answers that follow the funder's questions and keep your project detail.
- Every application question answered
- Funder tone, structure and limits built in
Review before submission
See what is convincing, what is missing and what needs a more specific answer.
- Structured review across the whole bid
- Clear changes you can make before submitting
Build the evidence
Add useful UK research without disappearing into tabs, reports and vague statistics.
- Cited evidence tied to your project
- Sources kept visible for checking
Hit every word limit
Condense long answers without losing the detail, tone or meaning that makes them useful.
- Word and character limits supported
- Edit and export when it reads right
Reuse the strong work
Improve a rejected bid or adapt one project for another suitable fund without starting again.
- Rejection feedback turned into actions
- New questionnaires pre-filled where useful
300x
Apply for £300 per £1 spent
More project budget within reach for the price of one draft
Up to 30 hrs
Of writing from scratch avoided
Compared with writing a full application manually from scratch
80% less
Than our human bid-writing service
£49 self-service draft compared with human writing from £250
Illustrative comparison based on a £49 draft, a £15k application and up to 30 hours of manual drafting. Awards and time saved vary.
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Flat-fee pricing
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One complete, editable draft written for your chosen funder.
Draft
£49one-off
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Full draft plus a structured review before you submit.
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Draft, cited research, review and word-count trims.
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Matt Simmonds
Founder & Artistic Director
Meet the creator
Hi, I'm Matt.
I'm an artistic director and fundraiser who's spent years on both sides of grant applications. I've seen how much energy artists and organisations pour into forms, and how heavy the process can feel.
That's why I built ArtsFunded: to take the stress out of grant writing and give people their time back. Every feature has been shaped by real applications, real feedback, and real creative practice.
Read my full story →Your work is protected
Your ideas are not being scraped or fed into public AI models.
ArtsFunded uses funder guidance, public evidence sources, and a small set of consented example applications. We do not scrape artists' websites or public archives of bids, and your own project writing stays tied to your account.
Plain-English promise
You retain ownership of your inputs and generated outputs.
Your content is processed only to do the action you requested.
No artist's application is used as training data without explicit consent.
Got questions?
Frequently asked questions.
Do I really get a free preview?
Yes. Everyone gets one free Project Summary preview inside the questionnaire. Read it first, then pay only if you want the full draft.
Is my data private?
Yes. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. Nothing you write is reused to train public models, and your drafts stay in your account until you delete them.
How do credits work?
Credits live in your wallet. You see the cost before you click anything, and nothing deducts until the output is saved or exported. You also get one free Project Summary preview to check quality before spending a credit.
Where does the model's writing style come from?
ArtsFunded is built only on first-party, permissioned data: Arts Council/funder guidance and a small set of example applications shared with explicit consent (including the founder's own work). We never scrape, ingest, or train on public archives or third-party collections. No artist's application is used without their knowledge or consent.
Which funders are covered?
Live now: ACE Project Grants under £30k, ACE Project Grants £30k-£100k, ACE Supporting Grassroots Music, Arts Council of Wales Create & Engage across all five routes, DYCP, National Lottery Awards for All across all four UK nations, People's Postcode Lottery community funds, Creative Scotland, National Lottery Heritage Fund, PRS Foundation Open Fund for Music Creators, PRS Foundation Composers' Fund, Elephant Trust, D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Fidelio Charitable Trust, and Theatres Trust Small Grants. Each live route has its own tailored questionnaire and prompt stack.
Do you support teams or org plans?
Yes. Custom plans let teams share credits and scale drafts and research each month. Book a call to set this up.