Welcome to the Funding Hub

Here you’ll find a regularly updated selection of grants, commissions, competitions, research funding and industry opportunities relevant to the creative, cultural and technology sectors.

Future Vision X Prize
ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST SCI-FI FILM COMPETITIONS. Join the world’s largest film competition to inspire optimistic visions of humanity’s future. Deadline 15 August.

The Migration Museum Community Curators Programme
A UK-wide initiative bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of the UK’s Missing Museum. They will recruit 10 Community Curators, who will co-curate a series of displays and creative outputs exploring migration stories in their local areas. Deadline: 23 August

Stomping Ground
The Place is looking to commission a short solo or duet created for children and tourable to primary schools, festivals and other public spaces. The selected artist(s) will receive a £20,000 commission, development support, up to two weeks of studio space in kind. Deadline: 3 September

Sónar+D
Sónar+D has teamed up with KNOWCASE and Fundación Cotec to launch a new open call. They’re inviting artists, collectives, designers, technologists, creative agencies, producers, cultural institutions, and multidisciplinary teams to submit proposals for digital installations. The proposals should tackle themes related to art, science, culture and society. The selected proposal will receive a maximum budget of €100,000. Deadline 7 September

BFI CREATIVE CHALLENGE FUND
For designing and running development programmes for UK creatives. £12k to £150k. Apply by September 9th.

Learning Through Making, a new fund from Freelands Foundation
Provides grants of up to £25,000 for visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials. Deadline: 11 September, midday

The British Academy – SHAPE Involve and Engage
The British Academy is inviting proposals for innovative public engagement activity for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2027-2028. We are searching for ambitious projects led by the brightest and best researchers and delivered in partnership with a GLAM organisation (gallery, library, archive or museum). This year, the scheme will also welcome collaborations with performing arts organisations. Funds of up to £8000 will be awarded to projects which actively engage the public with humanities and social sciences research using creative and forward-thinking approaches. Callout opens: Monday 1 June 2026 Callout closes: Tuesday 15 September 2026

BFI FILM-MAKING FUND
Supporting original live action and animated feature filmmaking. £1m to £1.25m Apply by December 16

CoSTAR Spatial Audio in VP
CoSTAR Screen Lab invites companies, technologists, and creatives to explore innovative applications of spatial audio to enhance audience interaction with visual assets in virtual production.

CoSTAR Realtime Digital Production
CoSTAR Realtime Lab invites partners from the creative technologies, film, gaming animation or virtual production industries to collaborate on an ambitious research initiative aiming to deliver transformative end-to-end workflows for on-set filmmaking, in-engine game animation, and realtime streaming.

CoSTAR Emerge-A
Take the next step towards making your product a reality with this tailored programme, providing essential support as you develop your early stage concepts.

VIVERSE Creator Grants
Flexible funding for indie developers, small teams, studios and innovators interested in exploring immersive, web-based 3D experiences across gaming, interactive storytelling, marketing, or education (open).

AHRC responsive mode: catalyst awards – UKRI
Awards to support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project to accelerate their trajectory as independent researchers, to unlock their potential, build leadership and convenor experience (open – no end date).

AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award – UKRI
Flexible awards to fund fundamental research that leads to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation, which enables the development of further research opportunities and new research agendas (open – no end date).

VIVERSE CREATOR GRANTS
Grants for game development, immersive experiences, 3D artists. Rolling applications.

GAMEFAM CREATOR FUND
Providing innovative creators with financial, design and live ops resources.$10k – $100k / Rolling applications.

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND GRANTS
Design-led interventions to make positive contributions to the green transition. Up to £100k . Rolling applications.

BRITISH COUNCIL XR TRAVEL FUND
A new look fund for festivals, dev labs, XR showcases, Co-Pro Forums. Various awards. Rolling applications.