Deadline Date: July 30, 2026
The Creative Fund provides flexible grant support to strengthen Nigeria’s creative industries by enabling high-quality local production in film, fashion, and music.
The programme focuses on supporting specialist technical talent costs such as VFX artists, sound engineers, post-production editors, digital fashion designers, colourists, and other essential production roles; providing tools, equipment, and software including licences, production materials, digital asset management systems, DRM solutions, audience analytics, and AI-driven content intelligence tools; enabling knowledge-sharing events and workshops that connect creative projects with technical expertise; and supporting give-back and knowledge transfer activities that strengthen the wider creative ecosystem.
The Creative Fund is a flexible, project-first funding initiative designed to address technical production gaps in Nigeria’s creative sector. It is funded by the FCDO and administered through the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub, with the aim of supporting high-potential creative projects and ensuring that advanced creative work can be completed locally rather than outsourced abroad.
The fund operates across three tiers of support. Core Project Grants are intended for early-stage or smaller productions with specific technical needs, Growth Project Grants support more developed projects with established capacity and larger-scale outputs, and Collaborative Grants are designed for partnerships involving multiple creative organisations working together to achieve broader sector impact. These tiers allow the fund to support a range of project sizes and development stages.
The programme covers three key creative sectors, which are film, fashion, and music. It is structured to ensure that funding is directed toward projects with clear technical production needs that can benefit from targeted support.
Eligible applicants must have projects based in Nigeria within one of the three creative sectors and must demonstrate a specific technical production gap that is currently outsourced or cannot be completed in-house. Applicants must be registered creative entities with a verifiable business presence in Nigeria and must be able to involve mid-career creatives in structured project roles. Projects must include a commitment to knowledge-sharing activities and be ready to commence within the programme period from April 2026 to January 2027. Applicants must also comply with reporting requirements and programme standards, including submission of monthly progress and financial documentation.
For more information, visit UK-Nigeria Tech Hub.
