China | British Council Festival Travel Grants 2025

The British Council is calling for applications from representative from a UK festival to visit a festival or festivals in mainland China in 2025, to gain a better understanding of the cultural landscape and build their capability to engage with Chinese partners, make connections and lay the groundwork for future collaboration.

Through attending the festival, participants will gain a better understanding of the cultural landscape in mainland China, and make connections which will benefit their festival in the UK. The British Council has decided to create this opportunity around festivals to allow grantees to benefit from the support provided by festival organisers and the volume of sector contacts they are likely to meet during the host festival.

The grant is for travel for scoping trips. The grant cannot be used for overheads cost, general running costs, professional fees or production costs. 

Grant

Grants will be offered of up to 3,000 GBP. Each festival is only eligible to receive one grant per year and there will be around five grants in total.

British Council Festival Travel Grants 2025 application guidelines 

Deadline: 16 February 2025