Applications are open for Learning Through Making, a new fund from Freelands Foundation that provides grants of up to £25,000 for visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials. The Learning Through Making fund exists to enable access to making and support opportunities for open-ended material exploration. Freelands Foundation welcomes projects that enable learning through exploration and testing - they do not need to have fully defined outcomes. This could include: Providing materials, transport or access to expertise and facilities; Action research projects to trial something new or find something out, e.g., a new series of workshops or events; Adding a making-focused element to existing activity. Proposed projects can be of any length, from a few days to activity that takes place over a number of months, and must take place between 1 January and 31 December 2027. Applications are open to arts organisations that are registered charities and CICs of all sizes from across the UK. Applications close 12pm, 11 September 2026.