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.
Immersive Arts is a funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. Artists at all levels of experience are invited to apply, to explore, experiment or expand how they work with this exciting field of practice.
You don’t have to be tech-savvy (though you can be) to apply. All you need is a curious mind and a creative practice. Essentially, it’s about breaking down barriers, making what can be an exclusive field of practice, much more accessible to all.
With over £3.6million funding available between 2024 and 2027, we will support over 200 UK-based artists through three strands:
Each strand is designed to support artists at different stages in their creative development with immersive technologies.
You can read more about each funding strand and how to apply below.
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 our funding 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
(or) - are applying on behalf of 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.
Eligible artists can submit one application in this round of funding, to either Explore, Experiment or Expand. You can apply for this round of funding regardless of whether you applied in a previous round.
How to apply
You can apply to Immersive Arts by audio, video or text, and in English, Welsh, or British Sign Language using our application portal.
Our funding guidelines are available to download below in English, Welsh, large print, Easy Read, British Sign Language and audio.
When to apply
The deadline for applications is Monday 29 September 2025 at 14.00.
Access support for your application
In some cases, we can help you with your application by supporting access costs, (ie support workers or interpreters).
The deadline to request access support is Monday 1 September 2025 at 17:00.
You can find more information about access support and how to contact us on our access support page.
Unsure which funding strand to apply for?
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