Currently 30 active paid grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the UK, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. 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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The MATS Residency, announced in August 2026 as a new track alongside the seasonal MATS fellowship, funds 6 to 24 months of high-independence AI safety research for experienced researchers, whether already in AI safety or moving in from adjacent fields. COMPENSATION: USD 155,000 to 285,000 per year gross depending on location, seniority and experience, plus insurance, retirement plan, PTO (17 days US / 20 days UK), conference funding, catered meals, and up to USD 25,000 in relocation support. ELIGIBILITY: at least one substantial piece of research-caliber work; credentials are not required. Full-time (part-time case by case for academics on sabbatical), in person at MATS offices in Berkeley, London, or Washington DC, with visa support where required. TIMELINE: the Winter 2027 intake window runs 25 August to 31 October 2026 (AoE), with decisions by end of November and interviews plus a paid work test in the first week of December; three intake windows per year.
Whose Archive is it Anyway? is the first in a three-part series of events at The Photographers' Gallery exploring the future of archives and archiving. This one-day event on Friday 16 April 2027 kickstarts the conversation with commissioned talks addressing what it means to make an archive today, who decides what an archive consists of, who creates an archive, who an archive is for, and who has access. The gallery welcomes submissions of real-life experiences rather than academic papers that challenge or answer these or other points related to the future of archives. SUGGESTED TOPICS: artist and photographers' legacies; institutional archives; memory (forgotten or lost histories made visible again); truth within archives (who is telling the stories and how); ownership (who has the authority to tell stories, who owns the images and their stories); relationships between those who create archives and those who use them; radical, non-traditional archives that redesign how stories are gathered and held to safeguard living memories; family archives; reclaimed photographic archives; counter archives that question dominant historical narratives; grassroots archives; technologies that reduce barriers to archives while safeguarding material; digital preservation and digitisation; and dialogic archives. ELIGIBILITY: open to all, especially those with experience of working with archives and the stories within them; applicants must be 18 or older and available to attend The Photographers' Gallery in London on 16 April 2027 to speak at the event. Selected speakers receive a fee of GBP 200 and will be notified by 18 January 2027. Questions to archive@tpg.org.uk. Deadline 1 November 2026, 11:59pm GMT.
Shape Arts' Emergent Residency places an early-career disabled artist at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, in partnership with Tate St Ives. SUPPORT: GBP 3,000 bursary and a one-week residency (18 to 24 January 2027, plus travel days); a wider shortlisted cohort of disabled artists receives mentoring and support. ELIGIBILITY: self-identify as disabled; aged 18+; within the first five years of your artistic career (career pauses allowed); not in full-time education; not previously shortlisted for Emergent. The bursary and residency are only for artists who live or work in Cornwall, Devon or Somerset; disabled artists elsewhere in the UK can apply for the shortlisted cohort. APPLICATION: via Google Form, or a Word form by email; FAQs available in text, audio, BSL and Easy Read formats. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, 23:59.
Fully funded, full-time, in-person research fellowship in London for anyone 18 or over committed to ensuring AI develops safely. Fellows work on a project with an established mentor, with weekly 1-on-1s, dedicated research-management support and co-working at LISA. Past projects span AI governance, technical AI safety and technical AI governance. Among this round's projects, Risto Uuk and a co-mentor are supervising a fellow on EU AI governance, looking for someone curious and motivated with experience or interest in policy or law. Other mentors include Patrick Levermore, Alexandra Abbas, Caspar Kaiser, Cecilia Elena Tilli, Connor Dunlop, Daniel Tan and Dave Banerjee; the full list is on the fellowship page.
Alpaca is a festival and conference on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts, run by the non-profit Pattern Club in Sheffield. It brings together live coders, weavers, braiders, origami makers, musicians and other practitioners who make patterns by procedure, and it welcomes contemporary algorithmic art that is human-authored. THEME (talks): making languages and notations for making patterns, with unexpected interpretations welcome. WHAT YOU CAN PROPOSE: live performances, hands-on workshops, and roughly 20-minute conference talks; accepted abstracts (max two pages) are published open access with a DOI and may be invited into an edited volume. WHAT YOU GET: performers receive an artist fee plus national travel; workshop leaders receive an artist fee, materials and national travel. The organisers state they cannot confirm fee amounts at this stage and may cover extra costs on request; international travel is not covered apart from a small European train budget. Talks are unpaid: in-person speakers get a free festival pass and lunch on the conference days. EXCLUSIONS: submissions focused on generative AI or unsupervised pattern generation by LLMs. APPLICATION: via the online form at calls.alpaca.cc; questions to contact@alpaca.cc. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026.
BRAID, the UKRI AHRC-funded Responsible AI programme at the University of Edinburgh, is commissioning around seven creative works that treat Responsible AI as a question of relationships, commitments and obligations rather than a technical checklist or a set of rules, under the title A Promise in Return. WHO: UK-based creative practitioners in any medium: artists, designers, musicians and performers, architects and urban designers, craftspeople and artisans, writers and poets. Full-time undergraduate and taught postgraduate students are not eligible; PhD students may apply if registered as self-employed freelancers. WHAT YOU GET: a commission budget of GBP 8,000 to 12,000, production support from Inspace and the Institute for Design Informatics, and presentation during the Edinburgh Art Festival in August 2027 with the Edinburgh Futures Institute. APPLICATION: online form (written or an eight-minute video application) plus a single PDF of portfolio, CV and budget emailed to braid@ed.ac.uk; late submissions are not accepted. DEADLINE: Monday 2 November 2026 at 17:00 GMT.
The Upe Foundation and Gasworks are recruiting a full-time Curatorial Fellow for 12 to 18 months, embedded in Gasworks' curatorial team in south London. The Fellow works closely with the artist selected for the 2027 Gasworks residency for artists based in the Baltics and co-develops their 2028 solo exhibition, alongside wider exhibition, registrar, interpretation and residency duties. WHO: early-career curators with a connection to the Baltic region (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia or their diasporas); Gasworks will consider visa sponsorship for this fixed-term role. WHAT YOU GET: a GBP 32,000 per year salary, a 5% employer pension contribution and up to GBP 250 towards relocation flights. APPLICATION: download the job description and application form from the call page and upload the completed form; questions to rosaharvest@gasworks.org.uk. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026, 13:00 UK time.
A year-long fellowship for journalists covering artificial intelligence. Fellows complete a three-month full-time remote programme on AI and journalism fundamentals, attend a weeklong summit, then work for nine months as reporters embedded in a partner newsroom (current partners are in Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC and Cambridge). ELIGIBILITY: journalism or AI expertise, aged 18+ by 7 June 2027, no degree required; primarily for applicants with the right to work in the US, UK or Hong Kong, as visa sponsorship is uncommon and needs partner-outlet approval.
Sadler's Wells Digital Stage commissions three new Dance on Screen films of up to four minutes on the theme The Future Remembers, asking artists to consider legacy, responsibility and the futures we are creating together. WHO: filmmakers and dance artists of any style working across dance and moving image, aged 18 or over, applying as individuals, groups or companies; international applicants are welcome and filming can happen anywhere. WHAT YOU GET: a flat GBP 6,000 per commission regardless of team size, which must cover equipment and any external filmmaker or producer; a Sadler's Wells producer helps shape the idea and source collaborators, and the in-house filmmaker may support editing. Finished films premiere at the Dance Digital Film Festival in November 2027. APPLICATION: online form describing your practice and the idea; shortlisted artists are interviewed in early December 2026. Contact digitalstage@sadlerswells.com. DEADLINE: midnight, 22 November 2026.
The 17th Open City Documentary Festival takes place at venues across London in April 2027, presenting international contemporary and retrospective non-fiction film, audio and cross-media work alongside filmmaker Q&As, panels, talks and workshops. The festival nurtures experimentation within the expanded field of non-fiction cinema, from artists' moving image to documentary, the essay film, audio and cross-media works; recent artists screened include Sky Hopinka, Onyeka Igwe, Luke Fowler, Ana Vaz, Jessica Sarah Rinland and Morgan Quaintance. ELIGIBILITY: non-fiction film and video, cross-platform projects and audio works completed after 1 January 2026; no strict premiere requirement, but works not yet publicly screened in London are prioritized. All selected filmmakers receive screening fees: GBP 275 for works over 60 minutes, GBP 140 for works over 40 minutes, GBP 70 for works under 40 minutes, GBP 100 for cross-platform projects (all incl. VAT). Submissions via FilmFreeway with tiered entry fees (lower before the early deadline). EARLY DEADLINE: 25 September 2026. FINAL DEADLINE: 27 November 2026; all entrants notified by 22 February 2027.
BFI Flare, the UK's longest-running LGBTQIA+ film festival, is open for submissions to its 40th edition at BFI Southbank in March 2027. CATEGORIES (new length bands this year): short films of 35 minutes or less, mid-length films of 36 to 60 minutes and feature-length films over 61 minutes, each open to UK and international work. Check eligibility against the 2027 guidelines and regulations PDF on the BFI page, then submit through the online form. DEADLINE: online forms and screeners by 4 December 2026, 17:00 GMT.
Welcome to the Fringe Palestine is an 8-day festival of Palestinian performance inside the 2027 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, run with Independent Arts Projects and the Workers Theatre Co-operative. WHO: Palestinian performance artists in any discipline, based anywhere in the world. Work must be live (visual art or film needs a live element), small-scale (a team of no more than two, simple tech, everything in reasonable hand luggage), in 60-minute slots (shows of 30 minutes or less may share a slot), and finished or a presentable work in progress; no development or residency support is offered. Non-English shows need a finished translation and surtitles. Past participants may apply, but artists not previously programmed get priority. WHAT YOU GET: a GBP 2,000 fee per artist or company, plus travel and visa costs, accommodation, per diem and bus passes, Fringe registration, marketing and PR, a dedicated venue with simple tech, documentation, and networking events. APPLICATION: Google Form linked from the call page, in English or Arabic; contact sara@i-a-p.net. Results by February 2027. DEADLINE: Wednesday 9 December 2026, 23:59.
Arts Council England has opened applications for its next National Portfolio, the core structural funding programme for England's cultural sector. For the first time the programme offers five-year funding from the outset, covering April 2028 to March 2033, after the current portfolio was extended to March 2028. WHO: properly constituted arts organisations, non-national museums and libraries across England, with an independent board or oversight group in place; festivals, venues, companies, studios and digital and media-arts organisations are all within scope. Museums working towards Accreditation must achieve it by 1 April 2028. Applications must be viable without additional investment, and ACE warns that demand will exceed the available funding. WHAT YOU GET: regular annual funding for five years, minimum GBP 50,000 a year with no upper limit. APPLICATION: via the National Portfolio Applicant Hub, which holds the eligibility guidance, the full applicant guidance (published September 2026) and the online application. The window opened 20 October 2026. DEADLINE: 15 December 2026.
Gasworks and the Upe Foundation offer a fully funded eleven-week London residency for one contemporary visual artist at a pivotal stage in their career who is based in Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia, as part of a multi-year partnership for artists and curators connected to the Baltic region. The resident develops their practice in London from 7 July to 21 September 2027 and returns for a solo exhibition at Gasworks in July to September 2028, developed with the Upe Foundation Curatorial Fellow. WHAT YOU GET: a private studio at Gasworks, accommodation in the Gasworks residency house, economy return flights and taxi transfers, all visa costs and application support, a weekly living stipend of GBP 175, a materials budget of up to GBP 800, studio visits and curatorial support. APPLICATION: read the Application Guidelines and Residency FAQ, then submit via the online form on the call page. DEADLINE: 2 February 2027, 13:00 UK time.
The Daiwa Foundation Small Grants support projects that promote interaction between the UK and Japan in any field, including arts exchanges, exhibitions, conferences, grassroots and educational exchanges and research travel, with travel between the two countries as the main focus. New initiatives are encouraged, and gender equality and SDG themes are welcome; continuing or regular events (such as an annual festival edition) are unlikely to be funded without a strong reason or special occasion. NOT ELIGIBLE: commissions of artworks, capital costs, consumables, salaries or professional fees, tuition and commercial activity. WHAT YOU GET: GBP 2,000 to 9,000 (most awards GBP 3,000-4,000), with flights funded up to GBP 1,200 each and subsistence up to GBP 100 per person per day, plus GBP 50 extra per flight for environmental projects in Japan. APPLICATION: read the Application Notes, then apply via the Foundation's online portal (separate forms for UK- and Japan-based applicants); advice from grants@dajf.org.uk. Decisions by late May or early June 2027. DEADLINE: 31 March 2027 (the following round closes 30 September).
The Bradford Textile Society, which has run its design competition since 1893, awards a collective GBP 17,000 across textile categories in the 2027 cycle. CATEGORIES: weave, knit, print, embroidery, combined textile processes, mixed media and new technologies, the last being a natural home for e-textile and smart-textile work; a new Coldharbour Mill Award for Tartan is added for 2027. ELIGIBILITY: all UK-based students and independent designers are welcome to enter. KEY DATES: entries open 22 March 2027 and close at midnight on 7 May 2027; the entry portal is currently closed between cycles, but the deadline and categories are published now. No entry fee is stated on the competition page.
The British Council's standing Travel Grant Fund helps early to mid-career UK filmmakers and XR creatives represent their work abroad, build networks, reach new audiences and raise the international profile of new and emerging UK film and immersive talent. Supported by BFI National Lottery funding in partnership with BFI NETWORK and the BFI International Fund. WHAT IT FUNDS: travel to attend international film festivals, showcases, training and development labs, and co-production forums, across five strands: short film festival grants, feature film festival grants, interactive/XR grants (including VR, immersive storytelling experiences and installations), lab grants and co-production forum grants. AMOUNTS: short and feature festival grants GBP 150 to 1,500 (typically up to GBP 750); XR travel-only grants GBP 150 to 1,500; large XR grants GBP 1,500 to 5,000; lab grants up to GBP 6,000; co-production forum grants up to GBP 2,000. WHO CAN APPLY: UK residents or citizens aged 18+; applicants can be directors, producers or writers attached to the selected project. KEY CONDITIONS: the festival, lab or forum must appear on the British Council's Key Lists of eligible events, and the project must be registered on the British Council's UK Project Database. DEADLINE: rolling, no fixed deadlines; submit at least two weeks before the event starts (retrospective applications for past events are not accepted). Free to apply.
AIXI Labs is a small London-based non-profit doing AI safety research grounded in algorithmic information theory. Its stated position is that most AI research today is either mathematically clean but narrow, or practical but too opaque for rigorous safety analysis; the lab targets a third category, methods general enough to describe powerful agents and provable enough to support real safety claims, using AIXI (the theoretical model of unbounded artificial superintelligence) and then porting the strongest of those ideas to modern LLM-based agents. The fellowship is a quarterly, rolling programme for researchers who want to work on this agenda under close mentorship from the core team: Cole Wyeth (Founder and Executive Director), Marcus Hutter (Research Director) and Aram Ebtekar (Founding Research Scientist). Fellows pursue a focused research project over roughly a quarter and receive a monthly stipend plus a compute budget for machine-learning work. The fellowship is fully remote, so fellows may work from anywhere in the world or from the London base. RESPONSIBILITIES: pursue a self-directed research project aligned with the lab's algorithmic-information-theoretic approach to AI safety, spanning anything from foundational theory to empirical tests with LLM-based agents; shape the project direction around your own strengths and interests, as the lab supports a range of work within this framework; and contribute papers, blog posts or other written output communicating results to the broader AI safety and ML research communities. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: a research background at the level of a current PhD student (for primarily empirical projects, a master's-level command of the relevant mathematics paired with substantial industry or applied research experience can also qualify); solid grounding in probability, statistics, information theory and reinforcement learning, sufficient to engage seriously with AIXI-style theoretical models (prior expertise in algorithmic information theory or AIXI is NOT required); strong verbal and written communication skills; genuine motivation to reduce existential risk from advanced AI and enthusiasm for the lab's kind of work. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: publications at top ML, AI or theory venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ALT or COLT, though the lab values the strength of your best work over volume; background in algorithmic information theory, computability theory, learning theory or related theoretical computer science; experience fine-tuning, evaluating or red-teaming LLM-based and/or RL agents; prior engagement with the UAI/AIXI community or related fields, including members of the lab's online reading groups. APPLICATIONS are reviewed on a rolling basis and previous applicants remain eligible for later rounds.
Impact is the higher-budget production strand of the BFI Filmmaking Fund and carries the largest award available in the current BFI portfolio at up to GBP 1.25 million. It sits above the Discovery strand in scale, serving experienced directors with production budgets from GBP 1 million to GBP 15 million, and debut directors whose budgets exceed GBP 3.5 million. UNLIKE DISCOVERY, Impact accepts applications on a continuous rolling basis with no round structure and no published closing date, though applicants must submit at least 20 weeks before principal photography begins. SELECTION is explicitly criteria-driven: projects must address at least three of the BFI's stated aims, covering equity and inclusion, audience or cultural impact, talent development, creative risk, production activity across the UK nations and regions, and environmental sustainability. ELIGIBILITY: applications must come from a limited company registered and centrally managed in the UK, so individuals cannot apply. A dedicated producer is always required, though unlike Discovery the writer and director may be the same person. Directing credits must be evidenced. No explicit nationality or residency test for the director or writer is published. NOTE: the BFI cautions that maximum-level awards are rare, so realistic requests will typically fall well below the GBP 1.25 million ceiling.
Development Funding is the earliest-stage strand of the BFI Filmmaking Fund, supporting original live action and animated feature films through script and package development to the point where they are viable candidates for production finance. It is aimed at distinctive fiction projects from what the BFI calls 'adventurous storytellers', across a wide range of genres rather than a single house style. UNLIKE DISCOVERY, it does not operate in rounds: applications are accepted year-round, with the only fixed interruption being an annual closure through the month of April, plus occasional short pauses during periods of high demand or holidays. ELIGIBILITY: the application must be made by a producer through a limited company registered at Companies House, so unincorporated individuals are ineligible. Nationality and residency requirements are not published on the fund page. NOTE: award amounts are not published, so the ceiling should be treated as unknown rather than assumed. Successful applicants are required to publicly acknowledge National Lottery support in project credits and materials.
The Audience Projects Fund distributes GBP 19.7 million of National Lottery money over three years to widen UK audiences for film and immersive work, covering exhibition, distribution, festivals, touring programmes and sector-support initiatives. It reopened in November 2025 and runs continuously with no closing date, which makes it one of the more accessible large BFI pots for organisations working on the audience-facing rather than production side. AWARDS are tiered: small pilot projects receive GBP 10,000 to GBP 20,000, while full projects can receive GBP 20,000 to GBP 500,000 per year, with immersive projects permitted to include up to GBP 150,000 of production cost inside that envelope. ELIGIBILITY is strictly institutional. Applicants must be legally constituted organisations centrally managed in the UK and not more than 50% foreign-owned. Eligible types include limited companies (not classed as 'large' under the Companies Act 2006), community interest companies, LLPs, UK local or statutory authorities, and registered UK charities or trusts. Individual practitioners cannot apply. Applicants must evidence experience in marketing, festivals, distribution, immersive installations, cultural programming, touring or sector support. TIMING: there are no deadlines but lead times are enforced. Single-film distribution projects must apply at least 10 weeks before release; all other projects at least 16 weeks before the project starts.
The rare BFI stream that individuals can apply to directly. Individual Skills funding supports training and professional development for people working, or intending to work, in the UK screen heritage sector, the field concerned with preserving, digitising and widening public access to screen archive collections. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be 18 or over, working or intending to work in the UK screen heritage sector, hold a UK bank account, and be eligible to work in the UK. TIMING: applications are rolling with no deadline, but must be submitted at least eight weeks before the training starts. All funded activity must be completed by 31 March 2029, the end of the current National Lottery funding plan period. CONTEXT: the wider Screen Heritage Fund has three strands. Project funding, open to legally constituted not-for-profit organisations operating a screen archive or collection network, runs year-round with a 16-week lead time and prioritises collections that better reflect the diversity of the UK. Resilience funding for the 2026-29 cycle closed on 31 March 2026 and is not currently accepting applications. NOTE: award ranges are not published on the fund overview page.
The BFI Doc Society Features Production Fund (delivered via BFI with Doc Society as delegate partner) supports UK filmmakers producing non-fiction feature films intended for theatrical release. Two strands: Directions (first- or second-time directors) and Momentum (established talent). AMOUNT: up to £150,000 non-recoupable grant (the total Doc Society contribution per project cannot exceed £150,000). ELIGIBILITY: UK-based filmmakers, both emerging and established directors; experienced and debut producers eligible; projects must meet at least three of six stated priorities: equity/diversity, audience impact, talent development, creative risk, UK-wide access, and environmental sustainability. PROCESS: two-stage — submit an Expression of Interest, then a Full Application if invited. Rolling intake year-round. Opened May 2026. APPLY via BFI Doc Society website. Contact: hellobfi@docsociety.org.
The ILIAD Intensive is a four-week, full-time, in-person program for mathematically strong researchers interested in foundational AI alignment, running in London (at LISA) and in Berkeley. It runs five days a week, 10am to 6pm, in cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. CURRICULUM, across five clusters: Alignment (decomposing the alignment problem, pretraining, post-training and deployment, reward learning); Learning (deep learning theory, singular learning theory, training dynamics); Abstractions, Representations and Interpretability (mechanistic interpretability, natural latents); Agency (reinforcement learning, decision theory, agent foundations); and Safety Guarantees (debate, steganography, the limits of interpretability). MONEY: no tuition is charged. Each participant receives a USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance, office space at the venue, and lunch and dinner five days a week. Participants book and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance. ELIGIBILITY: a strong mathematical background, typically graduate-level study or a completed degree in mathematics, physics or theoretical computer science, though mathematical maturity is weighted more heavily than specific credentials. Research experience, general competence and motivation are also assessed. Prior machine learning or alignment experience is not required. DEADLINE: no fixed closing date is published. A single application covers several upcoming programs and applicants indicate their preferred dates and locations; applications are being accepted for the October 2026 and November 2026 cohorts. HOW TO APPLY: through the application portal at iliad.ac/apply. Questions to contact@iliad.ac.
The Anthropic Fellows Program is a four-month, fully funded research fellowship with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers. Fellows work on empirical projects aligned with Anthropic's research priorities using external infrastructure, aiming to produce public outputs such as papers. Five workstreams: AI Safety, AI Security, ML Systems and Performance, Reinforcement Learning, and Economics and Policy; safety topics include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, and model organisms. FUNDING: a weekly stipend of USD 3,850 (GBP 2,310 / CAD 4,300), around USD 15,000 per month in compute funding, and other research expenses. ELIGIBILITY: fluent Python; available full-time for four months; strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, or physics; work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Locations: San Francisco, London, Ontario, or remote within those countries. APPLICATION: rolling, via the Constellation portal; the process includes an initial application, reference checks, technical assessments, interviews, and a research discussion. The next cohort is expected to start in January 2027, so apply well before the end of 2026.
The Content Fund is the UK Games Fund's larger grant strand, awarding GBP 100,000 to 250,000 in non-repayable grants to develop commercial games-for-entertainment content with mass-market potential. ELIGIBILITY: applicant companies must be UK-registered SMEs with PAYE employees working in games development, owned by UK-based founder-directors as significant shareholders, not facing acute working capital problems, and founded with a rationale beyond securing this grant. The project must already have a prototype, and the IP must be owned by the applicant or appropriately licensed. Eligible costs cover staff and contractor expenses for hands-on development only; gambling content is excluded. FINANCES: grants are paid on a 70/30 split, with 30 percent withheld until the studio secures additional third-party (leverage) funding within the same financial year, so applicants should have a co-financing route in mind. HOW TO APPLY: expressions of interest are submitted via the Content Fund site and are open on a rolling basis, nominally until 31 March 2029, with early closure possible if demand is high. The UK Games Fund also runs the Prototype Fund (up to GBP 100,000, periodic rounds) and Starter Fund (up to GBP 20,000 for solo developers) for earlier-stage work.
England's main always-open public funding route for project work: individual artists, freelancers, collectives and cultural organisations can apply at any time for GBP 1,000 to 100,000. Supported disciplines span visual arts, combined arts (including festivals), dance, theatre, music, literature, museums and libraries, and the fund regularly backs digital and interdisciplinary work within those. WHAT YOU GET: project funding covering artist fees, production, R&D within a project, touring or presentation, with decisions in roughly 8 weeks under GBP 30,000 and 12 weeks above. ELIGIBILITY: applicants based in England (others can apply if the activity substantially takes place in England and benefits English audiences); individuals must be 18+. DEADLINE: none, rolling applications via Grantium on artscouncil.org.uk.
Scotland's main always-open fund for individual artists and freelance creative practitioners across all artforms, including visual art, moving image, sound, digital and cross-disciplinary practice. It supports the development of creative practice and new work: research, experimentation, creation, collaboration, professional development and small-scale presentation. WHAT YOU GET: GBP 500 to 50,000 covering artist time at fair pay rates, materials, access costs and project costs; decisions in 10 weeks for requests up to GBP 20,000 and 14 weeks up to GBP 50,000. ELIGIBILITY: individuals based in Scotland (not organisations; a separate Open Fund serves them). DEADLINE: none, rolling applications via the Creative Scotland portal, subject to available budget.
Mentored, individual research in applied mathematics for AI alignment, including foundational questions that get less attention elsewhere, drawing on mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science. ELIGIBILITY: designed for PhD students, postdocs and researchers with equivalent experience in mathematics, theoretical physics, computer science or related fields; selection weighs academic credentials, technical ability, intentions and fit with the cohort's research coverage. APPLICATION: rolling, with fellowships starting at the beginning of most months.
Wales Arts International's International Opportunities Fund supports Wales-based creative professionals and arts organisations to build relationships, collaborations and networks abroad, share skills internationally and raise Wales's profile. WHO: arts organisations, individual creative professionals and formal or informal collectives based in Wales (unconstituted groups need one lead applicant). WHAT IS FUNDED: in-person, arts-focused activity outside Wales and the UK with at least one international partner, such as presenting work at an international partner's invitation (where the partner pays at least an appropriate fee), attending international networks and events, collaboration and partnership development, and residencies organised by an international partner. WHAT YOU GET: up to GBP 7,500 for collaboration, presentation, and networks and events, or up to GBP 5,000 for residencies (GBP 7,500 outside Europe with prior approval), covering up to 90 percent of eligible costs. Artists, bands, songwriters or producers invited to international showcase festivals should use the PRS Foundation International Showcase Fund instead. APPLICATION: rolling via the Arts Council of Wales portal; projects must start at least 10 working weeks after submission. DEADLINE: rolling.