Funding
Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practice, round 23
Closes on 22 May 2025Supporting individual creative and cultural practitioners to focus on their development and take them to the next stage of their practice
Skills Bootcamp: Virtual Production with Unreal Engine
Closes on 26 May 2025Led by the University of Bristol, this course is completely free of charge to the learner. Eligible participants must already work or live in the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority region or be able to demonstrate that they will work there after completing the course.
DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4
Closes on 29 May 2025UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for a share of up to £8m for innovation projects.
The Space 2025 digital commissions
Closes on 29 May 2025Arts and cultural organisations based in England, including museums, libraries, community organisations and local councils with a cultural project, are invited to apply for a digital commission. Support and funding of up to £16,000, inc VAT, is available, with a maximum of £8,000 available for audio-only projects.
Creative Wales Games Development Fund
Closes on 5 June 2025This funding programme aims to assist Wales-based businesses to develop video and immersive games projects for commercial release. Between £10,000 to £50,000 of Welsh Government support is available.
UK Global Screen Fund: International Business Development June 2025
Closes on 19 June 2025Supporting UK screen content businesses across film, TV, animation and interactive narrative video games to enhance their international activities.
VR Health Champions Open Call 2025
Closes on 23 June 2025VR Health Champions is a 3-year project aiming at breaking down market, clinical and regulatory barriers in XR healthcare across less developed regions of Central Eastern and Southern Europe, while fast-tracking the advancement of VR/AR applications.
UK Games Fund: Prototype Fund June 2025
Closes on 30 June 2025Established companies with a game development project at an early stage can apply for grants up to £30,000, if invited following the EOI.
EIT Culture & Creativity Acceleration and Post-Acceleration programmes 2025
Closes on 11 July 2025Two tailored business support programmes designed to accelerate the growth of promising start-ups and scale-ups in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI), supporting audio-visual media, fashion, architecture, gaming or cultural heritage.
EIT Culture & Creativity Acceleration and Post-Acceleration programmes 2025
Closes on 11 July 2025Two tailored business support programmes designed to accelerate the growth of promising start-ups and scale-ups in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI).
Meta Horizon Creators: New $50M Fund
Closes on 24 December 2025META are committed to helping everyone building for Horizon find success on the platform and have just announced a new $50 million Creator Fund alongside the early access release of the Meta Horizon Worlds desktop editor.
The Content Fund – commercial games-for-entertainment, grants of £50k-£150k
Closes on 31 March 2026This new funding will offer £50,000 – £150,000 commercial games-for-entertainment content grants. Total project costs must be at least double the requested grant. Rolling deadline, apply any time.
Creative UK: Creative Growth Finance investment fund
Closes on 31 December 2026Loans between £100,000 and £1m to post-revenue UK businesses operating in the Creative Industries. Rolling deadline, apply anytime, 4-week turnaround.
Creative UK: Creative Enterprise Business Builder
Closes on 31 December 2026Gratns of up to £2,500 for companies who work in moving image for storytelling, spanning film television, games, animation and immersive industries, to support specific goals including business planning and strategy. Rolling deadline, apply anytime.
Gamefam Creator Fund
Closes on 31 December 2026Providing funding from $10,000 to $100,000+ for the next generation of super hit UGC games. Rolling deadline, apply anytime.
Arts & Culture Impact Fund
Closes on 31 December 2026An £18 million social impact investment fund for socially driven arts, culture and heritage organisations registered and operating in the UK. The Arts & Culture Impact Fund provides affordable repayable finance that can be used, among other things, to acquire new assets, improve built infrastructure, develop new ventures or scale up existing revenue streams. Rolling deadline, apply anytime.
BFI Doc Society Fund 2025
Closes on 31 December 2026The BFI Doc Society Fund provides support of up to a maximum of £150,000 per feature documentary film or immersive non-fiction project in the form of grants. Open year-round, 8-week turnaround for applications.
BFI Doc Society RAD Fund
Closes on 31 December 2026The BFI Doc Society RAD (Research and Development) Fund provides support of up to a maximum of £5,000 to first or second time feature length documentary directors or director/producer teams with a single feature documentary film in early development; or up to £10,000 to producers with more than one feature documentary film in early development with first or second time feature length documentary directors attached. Open year-round, 12-week turnaround for applications.
Funding resources
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