Grants & fellowships
Henry Moore Grants support the growth and development of sculpture across historical, modern and contemporary registers, and funds research that expands the appreciation of sculpture.
Types of project we support
We welcome applications from UK and international non-profit organisations for exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, commissions, conferences, research, non-commercial publications and the development of collections through acquisitions, conservation, cataloguing and display. We do not support residency programmes, central or building costs, traditional memorials/figurative statues, commercial publishing projects or play park equipment.
We also welcome applications from individual sculpture historians, academics and conservators to our Research and Travel category. We cannot accept applications which are to inform or develop an artist’s own work, and/or professional practice.
Henry Moore Grants are available to non-profit organisations in the following categories:
New Projects and Commissions
For exhibitions, exhibition catalogues and sculpture commissions.
If your exhibition or commission project aims to encourage new thinking about sculpture or sculpture history, or contributes to public awareness and appreciation of sculpture, you are eligible to apply.
The maximum grant available in this category is £20,000.
Acquisitions and Collections
To acquire new sculptural works for collections, or to conserve sculpture in existing collections. We also consider grants for cataloguing and display costs.
The maximum grant available in this category is £20,000.
Conferences, Lectures and Publications
To publish a new book or journal, or to stage a conference or other event related to sculpture.
Please note, exhibition catalogues are only eligible under the New Projects and Commissions category.
The maximum grant awarded in this category is £5,000.
Long-Term Research grants
To support extended research projects requiring funding for more than one year, e.g. a permanent collection catalogue.
The maximum grant available in this category is £20,000
Henry Moore Grants are available to individuals in the following category only:
Research and Travel grants
Available to sculpture historians, academics and conservators who are researching and publishing on sculpture conservation, production, history and/or interpretation, to support research costs, travel, photography and archival access.
We cannot accept applications which are to inform or develop an artist’s own work, and/or professional practice.
The maximum grant available in this category is £2,500.
Apply for a grant
We use Flexi-Grant to administer grant applications. Please register to create an account, from where you can submit, manage and review all your grant applications.
For help on the application process and answers to common questions, please see our FAQ guidance page.
Applications are considered four times per year, and may be submitted between the following dates (all times GMT):
Summer
Applications open 1 August, 9:00
Submissions close 1 September, 23:00
For projects starting, or opening to the public, no sooner than 1 January 2026
Autumn
Applications open 1 November, 9:00
Submissions close 1 December, 23:00
For projects starting, or opening to the public, no sooner than 1 April 2026
Winter
Applications open 1 February 2026, 9:00
Submissions close 1 March 2026, 23:00
For projects starting, or opening to the public, no sooner than 1 July 2026
Spring
Applications open 1 May 2026, 9:00
Submissions close 1 June 2026, 23:00
For projects starting, or opening to the public, no sooner than 1 October 2026
Organisations must be registered to apply.
Please see our FAQ guidance page for details on how to register.
Registration requests must be received one week before the deadline. Requests received after this time will be registered for the following round.
How to apply for a grant
We’ve made this video introduction to help walk you through the process of applying for a Henry Moore Grant.
FAQs and further information
Find answers to frequently asked questions about project eligibility, the application process, and our Artist Award scheme.
You can also find downloadable documents on this page, including our grant terms & conditions and versions of our logo for use in marketing materials.
Research fellowships
We support researchers through our sculpture research programme at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
Fellowships allow researchers to spend a month using our facilities in Leeds, and include accommodation, travel and subsistence expenses.
Find out more about research fellowships
Projects we’ve help fund
Learn more about projects and commissions that we have recently helped to fund through our grant giving.
Conservation of Alexander Liberman’s The Way
Sculpture conservation
Laumeier Sculpture Park
£5,000 awarded
A complex, multi-phased project to restore the structural condition and exterior lustre of Laumeier’s most iconic and recognisable sculpture.
Primordial: Life from the Loch
Commission/Exhibition
An Talla Solaris, Ullapool
£2,000 awarded
Celebrating Danish ceramicist Lottie Glob, an influential environmental artist based in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
COMMUNION
Visual Arts Programme
Bold Tendencies, London
£10,000 awarded
Showcasing acclaimed international practices alongside leading voices in contemporary art, with new sculptural commissions by Saelia Aparicio, Adam Farah-Saad, Olu Ogunnaike, Yoko Ono and Martin Parr.
Contact us
The category and criteria information above should help answer most application and eligibility queries.
There is additional support in the grants application portal, where you can also quickly assess eligibility without submitting an application.
If you need further grants support or help with the application portal, please complete the form below. For all other queries, please see our Contact us page.
We cannot advise whether your project will be funded, only if it is eligible, so please refer back to the guidelines for this information.