Exhibition and Education Funding
RIFE Lottery Fund
Creative England now distributes Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE) lottery awards on behalf of the British Film Institute (BfI).
Visit Creative England or email lottery@creativeengland.co.uk or telephone 0844 824 6042
Other sources of funding for film and media education projects
First Light - www.firstlightonline.co.uk
Arts Council funding - www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/index.php
The Princes Trust - www.princes-trust.org.uk
Big Lottery - www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Heritage Lottery - www.hlf.org.uk
For further sources of funding click here.
Yorkshire Film Archivenow online!
The fully interactive website features rare footage of Queen Victoria visiting Sheffield in 1897, the pioneering filmmakers of Bamforth and Company, our region's industrial powers of steel, textiles, farming and fishing, a royal visit from Charles and Diana to Leeds in 1982, home movies to the Yorkshire coast, wartime footage, the opening of the North York Moors Railway in 1973 (pictured) and more recent films including the Castleford Tigers Wembley dream from 1999.
YFA online is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, with the continued support of Yorkshire Forward and Screen Yorkshire, who have been central in developing and highlighting innovative ways of using archive footage for audiences across the region.
