DDD Support Grant

This micro-grant is for UK based disabled creatives who are currently facing barriers in their career due to financial hardship.

It’s an emergency response to the results of our Disability Data Drive, which showed us that disabled creatives are disproportionately likely to leave the arts sector due to financial pressures.

While we cannot fix the sector overnight, we are hoping this grant might provide some breathing space for creatives by giving them some extra resources to focus on career development. The grant can be spent on anything you feel might help you maintain or progress your career in the arts.

You might use this grant for things like:

  • Paying yourself for a few days working on something creative

  • Making equipment purchases to facilitate creative ideas

  • Funding a research trip to a theatre, gallery, or performance

  • Covering access costs to engage in creative activity that you otherwise could not afford

The grant is flexible and isn’t restricted to one purpose, so you can use it for several different things if that would feel helpful to you.

We are offering 7 micro-grants. Each recipient will be awarded £500 to be used flexibly, in addition to a £200 equipment budget, and a £200 access budget. We are offering a dedicated equipment budget to help artists who struggle to access resources like recording or art studios, rehearsal spaces, or specialist equipment to create more suitable work environments in their homes. 

We don’t require a creative output from this grant (although if you make one, we’d love to see it). All we expect from recipients is a timely invoice for the full cost of the grant, and a short testimonial about its impact.

How to apply?

Please tell us how you would like to use the grant by sending an email titled ‘DDD Support Grant’ to info@radicalbody.co.uk with the answers to the questions below.

We’ve included word and video length limits to make sure our team has the capacity to properly review the applications we receive. Please don’t feel that you need to use the whole word count in every answer; it’s fine to send us shorter answers if you’d like to. Equally please don’t feel your application needs to be formal, we want this application to be as simple as possible.

Tell us how you would like to spend the money, with a brief breakdown of costs. You don’t have to tell us how you would use your access budget at this time, but you are welcome to if you would prefer.
(Around 500 words)

Why would this grant be helpful to you at this moment in your career?
(Around 250 words)

Give us an idea of your work - what do you make and why? We’d appreciate a link or attachment to some past work if you have one, but please make sure it isn’t password protected.
(Around 250 words)

You can also email a link to a video or audio recording (hosted online rather than a wetransfer), please aim for around 5 minutes but make sure the total amount is under 10 minutes in length.

Deadline - End of day 20th April 2026

All applicants will be notified of results by the following week.