How to Apply

If you feel that your project conforms to the criteria for grants, you need to complete our standard grant application form, which is available to download here:

1. Are there going to be at least SIX London professional performances?
2. If applying for the April funding round is your project happening between May and October.  For the October round is it happening between November and April?
3. Have you emailed the completed application form as a Word doc to arrive before the deadline?
4. Have you included your company name, contact details and bank account name number and sort code?
5. Have you included your budget? Are the accounts for the past year attached?
6. Have you attached CVs for the main creatives involved in the project?

All the above must be included for the proper consideration of your project. If any part is not submitted we will automatically return your application.

Please feel free to send in any supporting documentation such as reviews of previous projects or publicity flyers.

Please do not apply for projects planned beyond six months from the application deadline as we need to make our grants within the correct accounting period. This means that all projects applied for in April must be delivered by the following October, and all projects applied for in October must be delivered by the following April.

The application from should be saved as a Word document and sent with supporting information to the Clerk to the Trustees, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation by email (with attachments, not links to file download sites) to contact@rvhf.org to arrive by 5.30pm on the last working Friday in February for consideration at the April meeting, and by 5.30pm on the last working Friday of August for consideration at the October meeting. Applications for April must be for projects happening between May and October and applications for October must be for projects happening between November and April.

PLEASE ENSURE THAT EMAIL COPIES ARRIVE BY THE DEADLINE. WE CLOSE THE LIST OF APPLICATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION IMMEDIATELY THE DEADLINE HAS PASSED.

What happens after you apply?

You will receive acknowledgement of the application.

The Clerk will forward your application to one of the Trustees, who may contact you for further discussion of your proposal. The Trustee will make a formal report at one of the Foundation’s twice-yearly meetings.

Please note that the Trustee chosen to assess a project is not in any way a sponsor or supporter of that project but a neutral representative of the Foundation. All the Trustees will consider all the applications collectively and there are always more applications of high quality than the Foundation is able to support.

If you are selected for a grant, you will be notified and a bank transfer will be issued, usually within four weeks of the meeting or upon confirmation that the project is definitely going ahead.

If, after a grant is received, substantial changes are made in content/date/venue to the original application, then the money will have to be refunded to the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.