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.
If you’re an artist based in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England, you can apply to the Immersive Arts Funding Programme to expand the limits of your practice through funding, training, research and events.
The deadline for applications is Monday 29th September 2025.
The programme aims to support over 200 UK-based artists through the following 3 strands:
1. Explore: grants of up to £5,000 over 6 months.
2. Experiment: grants of up to £20,000 over 9 months, and
3. Expand: grants of up to £50,000 over 12 months.
Each strand is designed to support artists at different stages in their creative development with immersive technologies.
Grants can be used for (please note that this is not an exclusive list):
o Planning, researching and developing, or delivering, a new immersive arts project.
o Attending residencies, relevant events and workshops.
o Accessing training and other forms of support.
o Buying materials, software licences and other technical tools.
o Paying artists, technologists and other collaborators.
o Hiring studio, rehearsal, exhibition or event spaces.
o Researching and integrating accessibility options for audiences’ access needs.
o Making audience testing or exhibitions more accessible, diverse and inclusive (by, for eg, paying for BSL interpreters, accessible formats, captioning, etc), and
o Marketing your project and developing your audience (Expand and Experiment only)
Applicants should meet the following eligibility criteria:
o Be an individual artist, creative practitioner or creative technologist.
o 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).
o Are based in the UK.
o Are aged 18 or over.
o 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.
For further information, including details about how to apply, please visit the Immersive Arts website.
