# Imagination Practice Fund closes for applications this week

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/05/07/imagination-practice-fund-closes-for-applications-this-week/
- Published: 2026-05-07T14:55:31+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The fourth year of funding from the Imagination Practice Fund is open for applications
until Sunday 10th May.**

The fund supports “work with people and communities that use the power of imagination
to change the world by disrupting extractive or divisive narratives and/or nurturing
equitable and regenerative imaginaries”.

Grants of up to £3,000 are available. Around 16 recipients are likely to be selected
from the two-stage application process.

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[Tim Frenneaux ](https://medium.com/imagination-practice/imagination-practice-fund-year-4-e2de01f54da5)
of the Collective Imagination Practice Community said:

“We recognise that we only have a small fund, so we see this as sowing seeds, nurturing
seedlings of practice, and building on established practice — you don’t have to 
have the answer for everything.”

The funding is for projects that support one or more of the following objects:

 * Push the boundaries of Collective Imagination practice
 * Realise material benefit from Collective Imagination practice
 * Create change inside the system
 * Create change outside of the system

The two-stage process takes place within a very prompt timescale. After [initial applications close on 10th May](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXZxO2F_F6VpbjWp_kh0bY7RHo9aNL56Tf6Gnj99lrinXDqg/viewform),
community shortlisting takes place on 12th and 14th May, and then the shortlisted
projects are announced on Monday 18th May.

 * **[Cardfactory Foundation relaunches Community Fund with larger grants](https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/06/11/cardfactory-foundation-relaunches-community-fund-with-larger-grants/)**(
   11 June 2026)
 * **[Dementia Trust launches new impact accelerator programme and awards first £45,000](https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/07/03/dementia-trust-launches-new-impact-accelerator-programme-and-awards-first-45000/)**(
   3 July 2026)
 * **[Read Funding Digest online](https://fundraising.co.uk/1995/11/05/read-funding-digest-online/)**(
   5 November 1995)