Severn Arts

Registered charity 1180335 · since 2018severnarts.org.uk·Worcestershire·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

Severn Arts mainly runs its own music and arts work, and neither the annual report nor its website gives a grant range or publishes an application process, so do not assume it makes grants to outside groups.
The register records no grants to institutions for the year it reports, so plan around a conversation rather than an open grant round.
If your work sits in music education, arts participation or creative talent development, get in touch through the contact given in the annual report or its website, and ask whether it takes partner or commissioned work before you write a proposal.
Keep any approach short and specific, since no formal route is published.
Its register entry lists Worcestershire as its area of operation, so a group based there is the natural fit to raise it with.

Overview

Severn Arts is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1180335).

Severn Arts is a registered charity that brings high-quality music and arts to a wide range of people across Worcestershire. It leads Herefordshire and Worcestershire's Music Education Hub and provides music tuition, performance opportunities and instrument hire to young people. It also runs an arts development service for the wider public, and its Music Awards Scheme gives financial support to families who cannot afford the full cost of music lessons.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Severn Arts brings high-quality music and arts opportunities to people across Worcestershire, with particular emphasis on children and young people and local communities. It leads Herefordshire and Worcestershire’s Music Education Hub and provides music education to young people through schools and music groups. Its work with partners seeks to widen access where financial barriers prevent young people from taking part. It supports communities to participate in creative projects, including work with people who do not regularly take part in the arts, and develops creative talent through workspace, apprenticeships and placements. The organisation also delivers arts programmes and commissioned projects with councils and community partners. Its Music Awards Scheme provides financial support to families unable to afford the full cost of music lessons.

Themes

Music education
Arts participation
Creative talent development

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

Worcestershire

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Severn Arts.

The Elmley FoundationRollingGave £300k The Elmley Foundation (The Rt Hon Else Countess Beauchamp Deceased Charitable Trust)Mixed deadlinesGave £300k Active Herefordshire & WorcestershireRollingGave £2,800 Worcestershire Community FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £257k The Perry Family Charitable TrustNo public processGave £33,600 Worcestershire Masonic Charity OrganisationInvitation onlyGave £284k Community First in Herefordshire and WorcestershireFixed deadlinesGave £14,595 The Keith and Celia Coombs TrustNo public processGave £50,948 The Hopmarket CharityFixed deadlinesGave £60,000 The Eveson TrustRollingGave £5.2M

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£1,817,600	£1,942,214	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£2,579,097	£2,590,638	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£2,583,682	£2,508,975	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 August 2024	£3,457,927	£3,125,584	—	Accounts for year to 31 August 2024
year to 31 August 2025	£2,826,940	£2,536,804	—	Accounts for year to 31 August 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.