Immersive Arts Funding Explore

Are you an artist with a curious mind who’d like to explore immersive arts/ technologies?

You could use the Explore funding for:

• exploring how different immersive technologies could engage audience engage with your work
• researching or developing ideas for an 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 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).

See our funding guidelines below for a full breakdown of eligibility costs.

Alongside the funding we offer bespoke training and support:

• 3 x meetings with an Immersive Arts Producer
• Facilitated peer-to-peer network
• Nation-specific events and opportunities

You are eligible to apply for Explore funding if:

• you are an individual artist, creative practitioner or creative technologist
  (or)
• you are applying on behalf of an arts-based organisation, small group or collective (10 people or fewer)
• are based in the UK
• are aged 18 or over
• have a UK bank account in your own name
• you have little or no experience in immersive arts
• your proposal is artist-led and/or arts-focussed and explores the use of immersive technology in your creative practice
• you are applying for the full amount
• your budget includes payment for your time and others involved in the activity, and does not include any ineligible costs

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.

You can apply 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.

The deadline for applications is Monday 29 September 2025 at 14:00.

In some cases, we can help you with your application by supporting access costs, like support workers or interpreters.

The deadline to request access support is Monday 1 September 2025 at 17:00.