About Us

The UK Branch of the Portugal-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has a reputation for recognising and initiating innovative ideas. Its grant-giving activities are divided under the thematic headings of— Arts, Education and Social Change. Exceptionally, grants may be offered outside these programmes for projects we consider to be of particular interest. The Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations Programme assists projects that promote contemporary Portuguese culture in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The current programmes are set out on this website. The same information is given in our Advice to Applicants for Grants leaflet which can be downloaded here.

The Programme Directors also initiate projects and commission publications in connection with their grant programmes, which reflect and promote current priorities, concerns and areas of interest.

Download our Annual Report 2007

50th Anniversary Publication
Experience and Experiment: The UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 1956–2006
by Robert Hewison and John Holden

Download a Short History of the UK Branch and its Work

Please Note
The UK Branch of the Foundation deals only with grant applications from organisations in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and only with projects which benefit people in these countries. We cannot help with the following enquiries which should be addressed to the appropriate Department at the Foundation’s Headquarters in Lisbon:

Support for Armenian projects and scholarships for Armenian students
Armenian Communities Department

Scholarships for Portuguese nationals
Education Department

Photographs of works in the Foundation’s collections and permission to reproduce them
info@gulbenkian.pt