Reimagine grants

These grants are designed to inspire creativity and increase resilience in the sector.

Funding range: 10,000 to £50,000

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Professional Get funding Reimagine grants

The Reimagine programme is designed to inspire creativity and increase resilience in the sector.

Through Reimagine, we can provide grants of up to £50,000 for projects that are:

Innovative
Context-specific
Impactful
Engaging

This year, there is one key aim for the Reimagine programme. We want to fund projects that will help organisations reimagine their work with collections.

As part of this aim, applications should fall under one or more of these categories:

Relevance
Research and rationalisation
Resilience

Our priority areas are:

Growing and engaging audiences
Increasing capacity and expertise in collections work/workforce
Encouraging partnerships, shared learning and sustainability in the sector

This year, our funding is available to formally constituted, not-for-profit organisations that hold permanent collections.

Applicants must not have received a Respond and Reimagine/Reimagine grant in previous years. If you are a past or current grantee, you can support an application as a partner, but please do not apply as the lead organisation.

What we can fund

Reimagine grants are comprehensive and pragmatic; they should cover most costs associated with delivering creative projects. The funding provides space to experiment with new ideas and approaches, or to revisit important work that has been put on hold.

We can support a range of projects under Relevance, Research and rationalisation, and Resilience. Please see our guidance document for examples of possible activities. In all cases, we expect your work to be accessible and impactful.

We cannot fund:

Retrospective activity – your project must not have started before you are due to receive a decision from us.
Large-scale capital work and/or considerable repairs projects.
Long-term running costs.
Overheads, unless these are specific to your project.
Individuals to undertake research or training (if this is relevant to you, you might like to read more about our Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grants).
Projects whose principal aims fall outside the priorities for this scheme.

Who can apply

Formally constituted, not-for-profit organisations that hold permanent collections. These collections may include fine art, applied art and design, social and natural history, archaeology, and scientific objects. Eligible organisations are museums, galleries, historic houses and university museums.

You can apply as a single institution, in a partnership, or with a collective.

Organisations without collections, such as contemporary art spaces or professional networks, can be involved in Reimagine projects as partners. However, they will not be eligible to lead on applications in 2025. Similarly, previous recipients of Respond and Reimagine/Reimagine grants are not eligible to lead on applications this year.

Key dates and documents

Applications close at 5pm on Tuesday 12 August 2025.

How to apply

Your application

Read the guidance

Download the Guidance for applicants which gives full details of the programme, including eligibility and how to apply.

Download PDF

Get in touch

If you haven’t found what you need in the Guidance for applicants or at our webinars, get in touch with the team at programmes@artfund.org. We may set up a 121 meeting to discuss your query further.

Get in touch

Submit your application

Please complete the application form and budget template and send them to programmes@artfund.org (with klloyd@artfund.org in the cc line). Please also attach your supporting documents to the email.

We will acknowledge your application, so please reach out if you haven't heard from us.

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

After you've applied

Complete paperwork

If your application is successful, we will send our offer paperwork to you by email.

Receive feedback

If your application is unsuccessful, we will explain the decision and offer brief feedback.