We are delighted to announce that ICF has received key funding from City Bridge Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Hollick Family Foundation towards our 2025-6 programme and core operations.
Crucial funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation will support ICF’s day-to-day operations and enable us to introduce two new roles within our team in 2025. This exciting decision to grow our team will strengthen our capacity to be more responsive and ambitious in our future programmes. A hiring announcement with details of these new roles will be released in the summer of 2025.
City Bridge Foundation has awarded ICF a grant for our professional development work. Over the next two years, we will host networking events and peer-led studio sessions for our current network of creative and cultural practitioners, re-develop our mentorship programme, and shape a critical and responsive future public programme with ICF’s new Advisory Board for 2025-26 and 2026-27.
The Hollick Family Foundation has granted ICF £40,000, spread across two financial years, towards two major projects exploring the legacies and impact of Ten.8 magazine: a major multimedia exhibition and an anthology. The exhibition, opening in May 2026, will be curated by Pelumi Odubanjo, who was selected to undertake ICF’s Ten.8 Research & Curatorial Fellowship. The anthology will be editorially led by David A Bailey, in collaboration with Ten.8 editors.
In recent years ICF has received transformative funding from The Foyle Foundation, The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts: a donor advised fund held at The London Community Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Art Fund, Henry Moore Foundation, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Creative Scotland.
We also accept donations from individuals. Every donation we receive goes directly towards delivering our programme of professional development initiatives, exhibitions, events and workshops designed to respond to the needs of and contexts impacting creative and cultural practitioners underrepresented in our industry. You can support our work here.
ICF is a registered charity (1189228) and an Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).
