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

Experiment

Are you ready to get your ideas off the ground and test your work out with an audience? Apply for £20,000 and access tailored workshops and support to experiment with an idea or develop a project.

Find out more about Experiment
Experiment

Experiment

Expand

Do you have an immersive arts project in development? Apply for £50,000 plus tailored mentoring and expert support to expand your work and present it to an audience.

Find out more about Expand
Expand

Expand

Explore

What would you do with £5,000 to explore immersive arts? If you have a creative practice but little or no experience of immersive arts/ technologies, you could get funding, support and advice to be curious and spark new thinking. 

Find out more about Explore
Explore

Explore

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
for a full breakdown of eligible costs.

Visit our Youtube account  to watch our Funding Webinar and Inspiration Day.

Start your application

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 over
  • have a UK bank account in your own name.

See the Funding 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 is open from now until midday on Monday 2  December 2024.

Explore and Experiment applicants will be notified 
in February 2025.

Anyone applying to Expand will be contacted in January 2025, when shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview.

Rounds two and three will open in 2025 and 2026.

Apply now to Explore, Experiment or Expand.

Access support

You can apply by audio, video or text, and 
in English or Welsh, or British Sign Language. If you need to apply in a different format or require additional support (like sign language interpreters), then please just let us know. We may be able to provide financial assistance.

Requesting
access support
for applications

If you need this information in any other format, access support to apply, or have any other access questions, 
send us an email or call or text on 07123 456 789.

Note our phone is only staffed during daytime working hours – if you call outside those hours just leave a message and someone will get back to you.

The deadline for access support is 4 November 2024, four weeks before the application deadline, which gives us a bit 
of time to ensure you get the support you need.

Access support
for funded projects

We can provide additional funding to successful applicants to support a range of access requirements (eg, paying a support worker, scribe or sign language interpreter).

Mentoring and training support offered along with the funding can be adapted for those with access requirements and/ or caring roles.

For example the Development Labs run by Crossover 
Labs as part of the Experiment awards will have three alternative, flexible options:

  • Residential – one week (five days).
  • Online – five days spread over five weeks.
  • Relaxed track – ten half days over a longer 
duration in response to each cohort, with 
online and in person options.

Get in touch to find out more.

Have any questions?
Visit our FAQs page