Creative Industries Business Grants
The UK's creative industries are supported by a range of grant programmes from Arts Council England, Screen industries, and regional creative economy initiatives. These support everything from individual artists to major production companies.
Screen Industries
Film, TV, and games production benefit from dedicated funding including BFI support, Screen Scotland, and Creative Wales. Tax reliefs complement grant funding for production projects.
Arts Council Support
Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, and Arts Council of Wales provide funding for arts organisations, cultural projects, and creative businesses across the UK.
Creative Enterprise
Regional creative industry programmes support design agencies, music businesses, publishing, and advertising companies with growth and innovation funding.
UK Creative & Heritage Grants
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Pre-announcement: Expanding access to creative sector R&D infrastructure
Join the convergent screen technologies and performance in realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national R&D infrastructure for the creative sector. Funding aims to reduce barriers to creative businesses' technology adoption, improve commercialisation support for creative technology businesses, and drive scale up and investment.
Large Grants
Funding to support Christian places of worship with major urgent repairs costing over £80,000 or the installation/upgrade of kitchen and accessible toilet facilities costing over £30,000.
Teacher Development Fund
Supports schools and arts organisations working in equal partnership to deliver professional learning for teachers, enabling arts-based approaches that create equitable classrooms for primary-age children.
Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science
Apply for funding to strengthen conservation and heritage science infrastructure by building sustainable national capability, improving access to nationally significant facilities and addressing unmet user demand. Projects should expand collaboration with industry to accelerate technology development, commercialisation and knowledge exchange.
Discover Creative Careers Funding
Grants of up to £4,000 to deliver local activities that break down barriers to the creative industries and create opportunities for underserved young people in the community.
Attendance and engagement at UK sporting, cultural and heritage sites
Apply for funding to research the development of novel data-intensive approaches for capturing engagement data from unticketed cultural, heritage, and sporting events, activities and locations, demonstrated through a deployable tool in at least one Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sector.
Funding opportunity: Long-term cultural and sporting events legacy
Apply for funding to research the long-term impact and legacy of major sporting and cultural events in the UK, focusing on running a live experimental evaluation of a major event that fills gaps in existing methodologies.
NOVA Fellow Program
Philanthropic game grant program providing funding, industry mentorship, and creator visibility to support the next generation of game directors and creators.
Funding opportunity: AHRC UKRI NSF-SBE lead agency: applicant-led mode
Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the United States and submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and US National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Directorate (NSF-SBE). Note that the opportunity is currently paused and will not consider expressions of interest or applications until further notice.
2026-27 POCA Form
Grants for community projects and organisations wanting to raise awareness about the dangers of loan sharks in their local communities, funded by money seized from convicted loan sharks under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The Content Fund
Commercial games-for-entertainment content grants funded by DCMS and managed by UKGTF/UK Games Fund as part of the UK Government's Growth for Games strategy to drive growth, build talent, and develop skills across the games sector.
Greenlight West (West of England Screen Production Fund)
A £4.5 million production fund designed to increase the quantity, range, and scale of film and TV productions made in the West of England. Non-recoupable grant funding available to support local spend, employment, skills development, and regional screen productions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about UK creative & heritage grants