Funding
Grants, mentoring, and support to help you build and grow.
Type
Arts Council England - National Lottery Project Grants
Grant
Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants are open to games and interactive projects with strong artistic merit. Games exploring narrative, culture, or experimental concepts have been funded through this programme.
Creative England
Accelerator / Incubator
Creative England supports creative businesses across the country including games studios, offering funding programmes, business support, networking, and access to investment. They run various schemes aimed at helping studios grow and scale.
Epic MegaGrants
Grant
Epic Games' MegaGrants programme provides financial awards ranging from $5,000 to $500,000 to support game developers, enterprise professionals, educators, and tool builders working with Unreal Engine. No equity taken.
Indie Fund
Investment
Indie Fund is a funding source for independent game projects, run by a collective of experienced game makers looking to encourage the next wave of game developers.
Innovate UK Smart Grants
Grant
Innovate UK Smart Grants fund game-changing and disruptive R&D innovations with the potential for significant impact. Games studios working on technically innovative projects — new engines, tools, AI systems, or novel gameplay technology — are eligible to apply.
New Anglia Growth Hub
Business Support
New Anglia Growth Hub provides free, impartial business support and funding guidance for businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk. They can signpost games studios and freelancers to relevant grants, loans, and growth programmes, including regional and national schemes you might not find on your own.
Tranzfuser
Accelerator / Incubator
Tranzfuser is a graduate games talent programme run by the UK Games Fund. It supports recent graduates in forming their own games studios and developing original game concepts, providing funding, mentorship, and industry connections.
UK Games Fund - Content Fund
Grant
This funding offers £100,000 – £250,000 commercial games-for-entertainment content grants.
UK Games Fund - Prototype Fund
Grant
We’ve run regular rounds of prototype funding since 2015. Projects have varied in size, platform and targeted markets. Some have gone on to be self-published, others have secured further investment for continued development from publishers and investors.
UK Games Fund - Starter Fund
Grant
Is your studio new to professional games development or are you a university graduate company with commitment towards growing your business? Do you have a great idea for a game with a proven market, the beginnings of a studio that can grow and have bags of entrepreneurial drive?
Unity for Humanity
Grant
Unity for Humanity is a grant programme by Unity Technologies that supports creators using Unity to build interactive projects with a positive social, environmental, or humanitarian impact. Awards include funding, mentorship, and access to Unity resources.