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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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£100K-£5M
Arcadia is a foundation funder offering few, multi-year grants, typically in the £100K-£5M range, with support for core costs, existing projects, and new partnerships. Its funding focuses on conserving and restoring nature, recording threatened cultural heritage digitally, and promoting open access to knowledge. The opportunity is relevant to individuals and organizations in Pan-Africa only through programmes that Arcadia already supports, as it does not accept direct funding applications.
Multi-year grants
Arcadia makes few, multi-year grants.
Core cost funding
Arcadia funds core costs.
Project and partnership support
Arcadia funds existing projects and develops partnerships to create new programmes.
Long-term relationships and repeat grants
Arcadia builds long-term relationships with grant recipients, replicates and expands successful projects, and awards repeat grants to continue outstanding work.
Conserving and restoring nature
Grants support solutions to the global biodiversity and climate crises.
Recording cultural heritage
Grants support digital documentation of cultural heritage which is poorly recorded and under threat.
Promoting open access
Grants help make knowledge available for free online, and help people find and use it.
Organizations preserving endangered cultures, languages, and environments in Africa
Reporting support, capacity building, peer learning network
Confirm current funding cycle is open. Review reporting burden. Check geographic restrictions.
Do not prepare a direct application to Arcadia, as it does not accept unsolicited funding requests. Instead, identify and apply through programmes already backed by Arcadia, and emphasize fit with its focus areas and potential for long-term, scalable work.
2001
Active Since
Yes
Deploying
Multiple grantees across Africa