Currently 4 active cross-disciplinary and social impact grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the UK. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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Four grants of up to GBP 70,000 from Future Observatory (the Design Museum's national design research programme) and the AHRC, awarded to UK architecture and design practices for prototype development and second-stage design research in more sustainable supply chains. Open to small-to-medium sized practices across all architecture and design disciplines, including fashion, product design, material research, systems thinking and interdisciplinary practices. Proposals should focus on sustainable supply chains, with particular interest in bioregional, biomaterial and regenerative approaches; relevant themes include retrofit, regenerative materials and systems, circular design, waste reduction and reuse, low-carbon housing, agricultural byproducts, and data-led tools and approaches. ELIGIBILITY: UK-based small-to-medium architecture and design practices. Opens 6 May 2026, 10:00am; closes 12 June 2026, 4:00pm.
Restless Egg is a London-based incubator for "artist-founders", an emerging genre of creative people whose work sits between art, technology and building commercial products. It invests in creative founders and runs a six-month, high-touch accelerator program to help them build commercially successful and scalable companies at the bleeding edge of culture and technology. BATCH 2 (LUXURY TECHNOLOGY) is open for applications, seeking founders building luxury technologies: commercial products that use AI and other emerging technologies to unlock richer, stranger, more meaningful forms of human experience, not just more efficiency. For this batch Restless Egg has doubled its initial investment to USD 100,000 for 5% equity, and increased its follow-on investment to up to USD 175,000, aiming to give founders more runway, more support and more room to build the most ambitious companies. The program supports rapid learning, sharper product and narrative development, and real investability through close engagement with Restless Egg and its network of subject-matter experts, collaborators, operators and investors; the follow-on is released when predefined performance metrics are met. NOTE: this is a dilutive equity investment (it takes a 5% stake), not a non-dilutive grant or fellowship. Applications are open (no fixed deadline stated). Apply at https://apply.restlessegg.com.
Creative Debuts' Black Artists Grant (BAG) is a small, fast, recurring and unconditional cash grant for UK-based Black artists, deliberately barrier-free with no outcomes or reporting required. ELIGIBILITY: UK-based artists of Black heritage who self-identify as Black, across all creative disciplines (visual art, music, film, jewellery, sculpture, choreography and more); no age limit. One recipient is selected each month; apply once and the application is retained for future months. Apply via the Creative Debuts BAG page.
Monthly £500 grant for a different working-class creative practitioner based in the UK. Open to anyone making stuff: art, writing, performance, sound, music, craft, comedy, games. Money can be used for time, materials, equipment, research, subscriptions, development, travel, or rent and bills. Apply by emailing funding@thewhitepube.com with a brief intro, contact and a work sample. Rolling, no deadlines, no reporting expected. Non-recipients stay in consideration for future months without re-applying.