UK business grants calendar

Navigating the UK grants ecosystem can be difficult; use our simple business grants calendar to find open or upcoming grants based on your sector and/or location.

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1962: Accelerated knowledge transfer three (AKT3) 2024

Projects must be in circular fashion thematic area. The...

Open

20/06/2024

Closes

31/07/2024

Funding amount

£35,000

Industry

Agnostic

Eureka collaborative R&D: UK-Israel round three

The aim of this competition is to support business...

Open

10/06/2024

Closes

30/10/2024

Funding amount

£300,000

Industry

Agnostic

Funding opportunity:UK future internet NetworkPlus: outline

Individuals based in non-UK countries can be involved in...

Open

25/06/2024

Closes

10/09/2024

Funding amount

£5,200,000

Industry

Agnostic

Health inequalities in the food system

The National Food Strategy was an independent and comprehensive review of...

Open

19/06/2024

Closes

19/09/2024

Funding amount

Between £1,250,000 and £1,875,000

Industry

Food and drink

Health

Innovate UK Investor Partnerships: SME round eight

The future economy investor partnership programme brings together: Innovate UK’s expertise...

Open

20/06/2024

Closes

14/08/2024

Funding amount

Between £50,000 and £2,000,000

Industry

Agnostic

Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2024 to 2025 round three

The KTP partnership brings new skills and the latest...

Open

01/07/2024

Closes

25/09/2024

Funding amount

£8,500

Industry

Agnostic

Vacant to Vibrant Capital Grant Scheme

The Belfast City Council have opened a pilot capital...

Open

03/01/2024

Closes

31/07/2024

Funding amount

25000

Industry

Education

Fashion and accessories

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1962: Accelerated knowledge transfer three (AKT3) 2024

Open

20/06/2024

Closes

31/07/2024

Funding amount

£35,000

Industry

Agnostic

Projects must be in circular fashion thematic area. The Knowledge Base partner must be eligible to register to participate in the KTP programme but does not have to be registered with KTP. Each Innovate UK AKT project will establish a new partnership or consolidate an existing collaboration between the Knowledge Base and the Business Partner through knowledge exchange activity. The application must be submitted by the Knowledge Base partner but will be developed in partnership with the Business Partner. The Knowledge Base will be the sole grant recipient. If you are a business and do not yet have a relationship with a knowledge base partner, contact your local knowledge base to discuss this opportunity in more detail. Projects must run for two, three or four months only. The maximum grant will be £35,000 per project. The Business Partner must contribute 10% (minimum) of the total project costs in cash. There is no upper limit to the cash contribution of the business.

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Eureka collaborative R&D: UK-Israel round three

Open

10/06/2024

Closes

30/10/2024

Funding amount

£300,000

Industry

Agnostic

The aim of this competition is to support business led collaborative, research and development (CR&D) projects resulting in new products, industrial processes or services. Projects must be innovative, involve a technological risk and target large global markets. Innovate UK will fund projects in any technological area. The national funding agencies will fund their respective participants in the projects. UK applicants can apply for total grant of up to £300,000 for each project. Your project can last up to two years and is expected to start May 2025. The start date depends on the national funding procedures of the Eureka members involved in the selected projects. Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source. Organisations from other Eureka member states may also participate provided they arrange their own funding. The project must meet the eligibility participation criteria of UK and Israeli organisations.

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Funding opportunity:UK future internet NetworkPlus: outline

Open

25/06/2024

Closes

10/09/2024

Funding amount

£5,200,000

Industry

Agnostic

Individuals based in non-UK countries can be involved in the grant as visiting researchers, project partners, or members of advisory boards. However, they are not eligible to be project leads or co-leads, with the exception of individuals based at Norwegian institutions, who are eligible to be co-leads. A maximum of one project lead and seven project co-leads is permitted for each application. All project co-leads must make a significant contribution to the conduct of the project. This opportunity falls under UKRI’s Creating Opportunities, Improving Outcomes strategic theme, which seeks to improve outcomes for people and places across the UK by identifying solutions that promote economic and social prosperity. The theme particularly targets economic growth and innovation, health inequalities and community connectedness. The opportunity is part of the Future of the Internet initiative, whose vision is to support a future internet that works for all across the UK and globally, is pro-prosperity, secure and resilient, globally governed, scalable and robust, and supports democratic, open societies and the public.

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Health inequalities in the food system

Open

19/06/2024

Closes

19/09/2024

Funding amount

Between £1,250,000 and £1,875,000

Industry

Food and drink

Health

The National Food Strategy was an independent and comprehensive review of the UK food system. It highlighted that one of the biggest challenges in the food system is health inequality, which is stark and getting worse. Statistics show:

a man in one of the 10% most affluent postcodes will live, on average, 9.5 years longer than his peer living in one of the least affluent postcodes
women in the most deprived areas have a shorter life expectancy of 7.7 years than women in more affluent areas
there is a gap of 19 years for healthy life expectancy between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups

For the purpose of this opportunity, food insecurity is described as when a household’s ability to acquire adequate quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways at all times cannot be guaranteed. Analysis of the annual National Diet and Nutrition Survey shows that adults on low incomes are more likely to have diets which are high in sugar and low in fibre, fruits, vegetables, and fish. Children in the most deprived 20% of the population consume around 29% less fruits and vegetables, 75% less oily fish, and 17% less fibre per day than children from the least deprived 20%.Their families would need to spend 47% of their disposable income on food to meet dietary recommendations, compared to those living in the least deprived 20%, who only need to spend 11% of their disposable income.

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Innovate UK Investor Partnerships: SME round eight

Open

20/06/2024

Closes

14/08/2024

Funding amount

Between £50,000 and £2,000,000

Industry

Agnostic

The future economy investor partnership programme brings together:

Innovate UK’s expertise in identifying innovation and using grant funding to change the risk profile of businesses
investor partners’ aligned funding and expertise in identifying opportunities and teams that can best use extra investment finance

This approach aims to provide you with support for research and development and access to the capital investment you need to develop and commercialise your innovations. Innovate UK provides support for your investment readiness and for engaging with suitable investors through Innovate UK Business Growth and Innovate UK Business Connect. In the first instance you should contact Innovate UK Business Growth for support in understanding your readiness for investment and also to look at your wider strategy for growth. You will need to establish a relationship and a level of investment traction with one of Innovate UKs approved investor partners before you apply for funding. A full list of selected investor partners is provided at Innovate UK Investor Partners – UKRI and Innovate UK Business Connect investor partnerships websites. The investor partner must have confirmed with you that you are in a position to apply for grant funding as you will be asked to identify them in the application. To be successful, your project must be independently assessed by Innovate UK as fundable and receive aligned investment directly, led or catalysed by the investor partner identified in your application.

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Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2024 to 2025 round three

Open

01/07/2024

Closes

25/09/2024

Funding amount

£8,500

Industry

Agnostic

The KTP partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project. The knowledge base partner recruits the ‘associate’ to work on the project. The associate has the opportunity to lead a strategic development within the business, developing new skills and gaining valuable experience. Each application must be led by a knowledge base, working with a business partner and supported by a knowledge transfer adviser. If you are a business and do not yet have a relationship with a knowledge base partner, the knowledge transfer adviser.Each Knowledge Transfer partnership (KTP) is a partnership between the following:

A UK knowledge base, acting as lead organisation and submitting the application
A UK registered business, not for profit organisation or eligible public sector organisation can help you to identify one.

Typically, a project’s total costs are £8,500 per month. Projects must be between 12 and 36 months. A proportion of the knowledge base partners’ costs will be funded by Innovate UK. The remainder of the project costs are paid by the business partner.

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Vacant to Vibrant Capital Grant Scheme

Open

03/01/2024

Closes

31/07/2024

Funding amount

25000

Industry

Education

Fashion and accessories

The Belfast City Council have opened a pilot capital grant scheme to incentivise both property owners and potential occupiers to bring vacant Belfast city centre spaces back into use and support the city centre’s revitalisation.

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