Noh Reimagined © Mu: Arts. Supported by a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant, September 2015

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants

Grants of £2,000-£9,000 are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.

In order to fund as many applications as we possibly can, given our limited budget, we typically award in the region of £3,000 to £4,000 to successful Small Grant applications. Our funding rarely covers an application’s budget in full, but is meant to be a “contribution” to the proposed project.

What kind of project is eligible?

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged.

Here is a link to a press release introducing the results of our most recent funding round (March 2023).

What kind of project and what kind of costs are not eligible?

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants cannot be used for:

  • general appeals
  • capital expenditure (eg, building refurbishment, equipment acquisition, etc)
  • consumables (eg, stationery, scientific supplies, etc)
  • school, college or university fees
  • research or study by an individual school/college/university student
  • salary costs or professional fees
  • commissions for works of art
  • retrospective grants
  • replacement of statutory funding
  • commercial activities

How to apply

UK-based applicants can apply online. Applications from Japan should be posted to the Tokyo Office.

There are two application deadlines each year, 31 March (for a decision by 31 May) and 30 September (for a decision by 30 November). However, the Foundation encourages applicants to submit their application as early as possible. The Foundation is also happy to provide advice about possible applications – please contact grants@dajf.org.uk.

The online application for the March 2024 round is available below. You can click on the “application notes” to read these, and on the “application” to begin the process of applying.

Please read the section below (Important) before beginning the application.

Application Notes

Online Application Form

Important

The application form cannot handle special characters/symbols. If you are having problems with the application, it may be due to extraneous symbols. Sometimes characters can be hidden (when copying and pasting into the application form). In this case, please copy the text into “notepad”, clean any strange encoding and copy back from notepad into the application text box.

The application form cannot handle Japanese characters, macrons and symbols such as  ~ .
Hyphens and questions marks are fine, but try and avoid bullet points. Please feel free to indicate new paragraphs using //. 
“Completed” (submitted)   applications are imported into our system as word documents and reformatted in-house so please do not worry unduly about the appearance of the text you are importing. 

Please click here to see what questions will be asked on the form – this is for reference only

Decision

All applicants are notified by letter from the Foundation. The decision of the Trustees is final and the Foundation is unable to discuss unsuccessful applications.

 

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