Funding
Are you an artist based in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England? Apply and expand the limits of your practice through funding, training, research and events.
Our three application tiers
Why Apply?
Are you an artist with a curious mind who’d like to push the limits of your practice? We hope that’s why you’re reading this, and why you will apply.
You could use the funding for:
- planning, researching and developing, or delivering, a new immersive arts project
- attending residencies, relevant events and workshops
- accessing training and other forms of support
- buying materials, software licences and other technical tools
- paying artists, technologists and other collaborators
- hiring studio, rehearsal, exhibition or event spaces
- researching and integrating accessibility options for audiences’ access needs
- making audience testing or exhibitions more accessible, diverse and inclusive (by, for eg, paying for BSL interpreters, accessible formats, captioning, etc).
- marketing your project and developing your audience (Expand and Experiment only)
See the Immersive Arts guidelines below for a full breakdown of eligible costs.
Eligibility
You are eligible to apply for an Immersive Arts grant if you:
- are an individual artist, creative practitioner or creative technologist
- are an arts-based organisation, small group or collective (10 people or fewer for Experiment and Explore, up to 50 people for Expand)are based in the UK
- are aged 18 or overhave a UK bank account in your own name.
See the Immersive Arts guidelines for more information.
How to apply
To apply for a grant, you’ll need to create an account in our application portal. We recommend reading this step-by-step guide before you start your application.
Please apply for the full amount stated for each strand.
When to apply
The first round of funding was open in autumn 2024.
Rounds two and three will open in 2025 and 2026.
Round 01 – 2024
Round 02 – TBC – 2025
Round 03 – TBC – 2026
