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# UK Opens Training Bursaries to Cinema, Distribution and Games Workers
- URL: https://scrolletta.com/2026/10/07/screenskills-bursaries-exhibition-distribution-games/
- Published: 2026-10-07T07:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T12:40:07.000Z
- Description: Britain's screen training body gets three more years of lottery money for bursaries and widens them beyond production for the first time.
- Author: Scrolletta
- Tags: Jobs, ScreenSkills, BFI, Ukie, #pool-2026-10-07, #ai-generated

ScreenSkills, the UK's national training body for the screen industries, receives £1.6 million (roughly $2.2 million) of BFI National Lottery money for its bursary programme from April 2026 to March 2029, up from £1.5 million for 2023 to 2026, and writes film exhibition, distribution and games into the guidelines, Screen International reports. The bursaries cover training, equipment and software, travel, accommodation and access costs; ScreenSkills drew up the wider remit with the Independent Cinema Office, the Film Distributors' Association, the UK Cinema Association and games trade body Ukie. In 2025-26 it paid out 619 bursaries worth £497,000 (\~$670,000), and distribution had no applicants at all in the last cycle.

**Source**: [Screen International, 7 October 2026](https://www.screendaily.com/news/screenskills-bursaries-receive-16m-bfi-funding-expands-remit-to-support-exhibition-and-distribution/5221052.article?ref=scrolletta.com)