| Sector | Grant Title | Grant Description | Maximum Award | Closing Date | More Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emerging Technology | 3i Private Equity | Once invested, 3i Group works closely with its portfolio companies to help them achieve their potential. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Henry Smith Charity – Holiday Grants for Children | The Charity aims to provide children aged 13 years or younger who are disadvantaged, disabled or from areas of high deprivation with a short recreational holiday or outing they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. | £2,800 | 19-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Jerwood Foundation | This fund aims to support organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and emerging talent in the arts throughout the UK. | Discretionary | 19-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Mobilise Accelerator | Mobilise is an 18-month early-stage accelerator programme aimed at supporting ambitious start-ups, SMEs, and university spinouts developing zero-emission technologies or Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) solutions. The programme is designed to help these businesses become investment and market-ready, providing tailored support to accelerate their commercialisation journey. Participants benefit from structured coaching sessions delivered by a network of industry and investment mentors, alongside grant funding and technical validation. This comprehensive approach equips businesses with the tools to refine their strategies, strengthen their business models, and position themselves for success in the mobility sector. By fostering innovation and enabling the growth of sustainable mobility solutions, Mobilise helps businesses contribute to a safer, smarter, and more sustainable future. Its unique combination of funding, mentorship, and networking opportunities empowers participants to navigate the complexities of the market and achieve long-term impact. | £180,000 | 19-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Newton International Fellowships Natural Sciences | These fellowships are for non UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. | £280,000.00 | 19-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize | The Prizes aim to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of good and accessible popular science books for adults and young people. The Prizes are awarded to the authors of popular non-fiction science and technology books that are judged to contribute most towards making science more accessible to public audiences. | £25,000 | 21-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Space For a Sustainable Textile Industry | This call invites proposals for feasibility studies for space-based solutions and services to enhance transparency, sustainability and resilience across the cotton value chain and wider textile industry. Solutions should address environmental costs of current agricultural practices, identify opportunities to improve livelihoods of farmers and support the creation or restoration of protected areas. While cotton crop itself is not overly water demanding, the combination of large production volumes and considerable use of pesticides/fertilisers have an enormous impact on ecosystems. With the sector expected to grow in the coming decade, it is important to mitigate the impact of cotton cultivation on ecosystems addressing global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity and biodiversity loss. Topics of relevance: Impact on water quality. Assessing environmental impacts of different cotton sustainability practices. Traceability issues. Monitoring ecosystem cumulative impact. Analysing Ecosystem Services. Identification of areas for ecosystem restoration or conservation. Sustainable textile supply chain. ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. Offers includes: Technical & commercial guidance Access to our network and partners Use of the ESA brand for your service Zero-equity funding ESA will co-fund 80% of the acceptable cost, up to ‚¬200,000, per awarded study. | None specified | 23-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | The Edinburgh Pitch | The Edinburgh Pitch is an international documentary pitching forum for independent filmmakers and productions companies developing and raising finance for urgent, challenging, engaging authored feature films. In a supportive lab-like environment, 12 selected projects will be invited to take part in a preparatory workshop before pitching to an industry panel and engaging in one-to-one meetings the next day. | £3,000 | 23-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Petplan Charitable Trust | The aim of this fund is to support animal welfare by funding advances in veterinary science as well as the work of charities committed to animal welfare. There are two categories of funding: Welfare grants for the direct benefit of species supported by the Trust (ie, dogs, cats, horses, and rabbits). Scientific grants consisting of: Initial Scientific grants for veterinary medicine research projects lasting up to three years. Pump Primer/Pilot grants lasting no more than one year for graduates embarking on a research career. | £25,000 | 24-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility and Global Health | The purpose of this call is to promote multi perspective research on how mobility and health are interlinked, influencing the general health, various health determinants and the well being of local and mobile populations, and how the effects of mobility could be addressed in a sustainable way. | 25-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Decarbonising the health and social care system | We are interested in building research capacity and generating high quality research evidence into developing and evaluating innovations focused on decarbonisation of the health and social care system. | 26-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Innovation panel competition | This supports those with research ideas that need certain data to carry out work, and researchers wanting to develop an experimental or methodological element. Successful applicants will work with the Innovation Panel survey team to develop and finalise the details of the implementation of the proposal and publish their findings based on the resultant data. | 26-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | The Big Bang Competition | The competition rewards young people’s achievements in all areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and provides them with the opportunity to build their skills and confidence in project-based work. | £1,000 | 26-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Early detection and diagnosis primer award | Supports researchers at all stages to develop early, novel and outside the box ideas and collaborations to build and make progress in the ED&D field. | £100,000.00 | 27-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Early detection and diagnosis programme awards | These support long term, integrated and renewable programmes of exceptional science to transform how and when early cancers and pre cancerous states are diagnosed. | £2,500,000.00 | 27-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | Research grants | This scheme provides “seed corn” funding to support independent researchers who are at an early stage in their career enabling them to build the foundations of their research activities. | £30,000.00 | 27-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Research training bursaries | These enable pharmacists to develop their skills in conducting research relating to everyday practice. Grants are worth up to £30,000 each. | £30,000.00 | 27-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Academic clinical fellowships in dentistry | These provide a clinical and academic training environment for a dentist in the early stages of specialty training to prepare an application for a training fellowship leading to a PhD or a postdoctoral fellowship, or general dental practitioners in pursuing an academic career. | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | Business Events Growth Programme | The Business Events Growth Programme (formerly the Event Support Programme) forms part of Government’s commitment to build the business events sector, supporting the attraction of international business events which align with the Government’s priority industry sectors. VisitBritain has been tasked by goverment to promote business event tourism through the establishment of a Business Events Growth Programme for winning international events to the UK, and developing and internationalising growth events already in the UK. The Business Events Growth Programme offers three forms of support; Bid Enhancement & Support to support the winning of new international business events to the UK (formerly Live Bids) International Delegate Growth to support the growth of existing Business Events in the UK (formerly Internationalising Growth Events) Government advocacy to support the UK’ss business events industry | £20,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE) | The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise (DBACE) help creative entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. Aspiring individuals who want to go into business in the creative industries and require practical and financial support are being targeted. Applicants will be able to explore, develop and establish their creative ideas into sustainable ventures – through business planning training, mentoring and capital funding for starting-up in business. The bank is working with MeWe360 to find the best talent wanting to drive positive social impact through their creative enterprise. The programme aims to enable and celebrate creative entrepreneurship for social good led by over 18s in the UK today. DBACE will support visionary creative entrepreneurs who are driven by a mission to create and sustain social value through their enterprise. DBACE aims to reach ambitious individuals from all backgrounds with ideas that will improve the lives of others and their communities. The Competition offers entrants the chance to win up to £20,000 to fund their creative enterprise and a year of business support. It is an awards programme designed to provide financial and business support to help launch and/or grow creative enterprises with a positive social impact. | £20,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Gatwick Airport Community Trust Fund | The Trust was set up to ensure that funds generated by the existence of the airport are directed back into the community that is affected by the airport. Funding will support many aspects of community life and diverse sections of the community. | None specified | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | North London ‘s Meaningful Activity Grants for Forensic Learning Disability and Autism Services | This fund aims to support projects that promote skill development or provide meaningful activities aimed at supporting preparation for discharge or reducing boredom for people while in hospital. It also aims to improve integration, build social connections, and promote sustained recovery for people in the community. Proposed projects should be targeted towards people with a learning disability and/or autistic people who are under the care of inpatient and community forensic mental health services. | £10,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | North London ‘s Small Grants for People Accessing Forensic Services | This fund aims to support projects that address inequalities and improve quality outcomes for people across North London who use inpatient and community mental health forensic services. | £5,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | North London’s Meaningful Activity Grants for Forensic Learning Disability and Autism Services | This fund aims to support projects that promote skill development or provide meaningful activities aimed at supporting preparation for discharge or reducing boredom for people while in hospital. It also aims to improve integration, build social connections, and promote sustained recovery for people in the community. Proposed projects should be targeted towards people with a learning disability and/or autistic people who are under the care of inpatient and community forensic mental health services. | £10,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | North London’s Small Grants for People Accessing Forensic Services | This fund aims to support projects that address inequalities and improve quality outcomes for people across North London who use inpatient and community mental health forensic services. | £5,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | OFFERR call for proposals | This aims to facilitate international cooperation in nuclear research between European Union (and EURATOM associate Members) research organizations, universities, companies and their partners through financing trans national access to key nuclear research infrastructures. | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose – Led | Stef & Philips Foundation | This fund aims to support community projects that benefit individuals or families that are in temporary or emergency accommodation across London. | £2,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Vinci UK Foundation Grants | Grants are available for innovative projects across the UK and Ireland which tackle one or more of the Foundation’s areas in the fight against social exclusion: access to employment, insertion through housing, inclusive mobility and building better communities. | £10,000 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Woodroffe Benton Foundation – Small Grants Programme | The Foundation aims to support charitable projects in the UK that provide care for the sick and elderly, conserve and improve the environment, promote education, and help those in need as a result of disaster or as a consequence of social and economic circumstances. | £2,500 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Workplace Charging Scheme for State-funded Education Institutions | This grant is for state-funded schools and education institutions to install electric vehicle chargepoint sockets at their site(s). The aim of the scheme is to accelerate the uptake of electric chargepoints for state-funded education institutions. | Discretionary | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation – Small Change Big Difference Fund | The aims of the Fund are to alleviate poverty and improve health/save lives, particularly for those living in areas of deprivation. | £2,500 | 31-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Opening up the Environment 2025 | This grant supports organisations aiming to increase diversity in NERC science by attracting a wider talent pool and generating partnerships that showcase a broad range of people and skillsets. | £62,500 | 01-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Peter Harrison Foundation – Positive Futures Grant Programme | The Peter Harrison Foundation supports projects working with children, young people and adults who are disadvantaged or with disabilities. It offer small and major grants to charities and community amateur sports clubs in the UK and south east of England under the following two grant programmes: Active Lives opportunities through sport and physical activity. (Covered in a separate scheme) Positive Futures opportunities for children and young people. | £30,000 | 01-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | Small research grants | These support regional research into maritime archaeology undertaken in the eastern Mediterranean, specifically Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, including the Red Sea. | £10,000.00 | 01-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Young investigator programme | This supports junior group leaders in the field of life sciences to set up their first independent laboratories. | 01-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Project grants | These grants support fundamental or translational research into the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. | £275,000.00 | 02-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Cancer Pain Clinical Fellowships | The Medical Research Foundation with the Medical Research Council (MRC) are inviting applications from clinicians who have the potential to be the research leaders of the future, to support research that will increase understanding of the disease mechanisms underlying Cancer Pain. | 03-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | Environmental sciences: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2025 | Funding to create new and sustainable global partnerships within NERC remit. | £100,000 | 03-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | Sainsbury Management Fellowship | The scheme enables engineers of high career potential to undertake a full time MBA, at major international business schools. | £50,000.00 | 10-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Canada-UK Collaborative R&D Competition | The aim of this competition is to stimulate the development and implementation of innovative technologies across a range of sectors and technology areas. The call for proposals is open to organisations from Canada and the UK who wish to form project consortia to perform collaborative projects focused on developing innovative products processes, or technology based services. IUK wants to fund a variety of projects across a range of sectors and technology areas. T | £300,000 | 16-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) Round 6 | The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC6) is designed to support clean maritime technologies including electric, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, wind power and more. This competition is split into three strands: Strand 1: Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 6 €“ Pre-deployment trials The aim of Strand 1 is to fund pre-deployment testing of clean maritime technologies, without a focus on Smart Shipping. Proposals must design, develop and test novel clean maritime technologies focused for on-vessel technologies, infrastructure technologies or both. Strand 2: Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 6 €“ Feasibility studies The aim of Strand 2 is to fund feasibility studies of clean maritime technologies and skills without a focus on Smart Shipping. Projects must undertake a technical and economic feasibility study associated with the development and real world demonstration of on-vessel technologies, infrastructure technologies, skills or a combination of each. Strand 3: Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 6 €“ Smart Shipping The aim of Strand 3 is to fund detailed feasibility studies and pre-deployment projects focused on using digital technologies to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality in the maritime transport sector. The sixth round of funding brings the total invested through the CMDC to £159 million, accelerating the economic benefits that green maritime funding has on local jobs, industries and economies. | £2,000,000 | 16-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Clean maritime demonstration competition round six: feasibility studies | UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for innovative clean maritime technologies and skills. | £75,000 – £1,000,000 | 16-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Clean maritime demonstration competition round six: smart shipping | UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million for innovative smart shipping technologies and skills for maritime decarbonisation. This funding is from the Department for Transport. | £75,000 – £2,000,000 | 16-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | The Royal Countryside Fund | This funding will support transformative, community-led initiatives across the UK, unlocking the huge potential for positive change in rural communities. The aim is to support innovative solutions that will “power up, not prop up” communities, inspiring change and encouraging economic vibrancy. | £25,000 | 19-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | EUROGIA Call 28 Submission Deadline | Eurogia2030 is on the front line in the Energy field to achieve carbon neutrality goals. Through Low Carbon Technologies R&D solutions Eurogia aims to contribute for a sustainable environment, for the reduction of climate change and for a sustainable growth. Some of the targeted challenges to achieve these goals are necessary, but not limited to: Carbon-free energy supply, Green mobility and Smart cities, Smarter housings and constructions, Bio resources and environment. The technologies necessary to tackle these challenges are rapidly developing within a giant market and an ever growing societal concern. In-depth knowledge and leadership in developing and applying them is an essential requirement, if industry is to maintain its leadership in multiple application areas, or take advantage of new opportunities. This Eurogia2030 programme is designed to stimulate activity in this important area, through the creation of trans-national collaborative projects in applications that will support economic growth and benefit society as a whole. | None specified | 24-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | CELTIC-NEXT Spring Call 2024 | CELTIC-NEXT has opened a Call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of ICT projects. By applying and participating, an organisation can access national public funding for its R&D project. The goal of this call for projects is to enable projects in the field of next-generation communications ICT for the digital society that contribute to a sustainable world. | None specified | 25-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Goodwill Fund for Hastings and St Leonards | This fund aims to support projects that address key challenges identified within the communities of Hastings and St Leonards: Tackling Poverty. Supporting families to thrive with early interventions and parenting support. Helping people facing homelessness or housing insecurity, including young people. Providing debt advice and digital inclusion support, including outreach. | £20,000 | 25-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space For Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture | The ‘Space for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture’ opportunity offers funding to European teams interested in developing services integrating technology solutions to the smart cities and urban agricultural sector. ESA will provide funding for six-month feasibility studies known as ‘Kick-Starts’, which can lead to larger-scale projects and pilots. Kick-Starts are funded at 75% by ESA, up to a maximum of ‚¬75,000 per contract. Proposed services must use satellite data or space-based technologies. | None specified | 25-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | AbbVie UK Grants | Grants are intended to support health and science projects as well as those that have a community or educational aspiration in the UK. | £10,000 | 30-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Integrated Digital Solutions for the Energy Sector | This Call for Proposals invites proposals for feasibility studies and demonstration projects for services that leverage space-based technologies to advance resilience and sustainability in the energy sector. With a focus on digital transformation, the call encourages innovative solutions that integrate digital tools such as IoT, AI, blockchain, AR/VR, and digital twins. These solutions aim to optimise electricity grid management, enable predictive maintenance, support energy storage, improve construction logistics, and streamline renewable energy management. To drive these advancements, the call emphasises the importance of robust communication infrastructures, notably 5G and satellite communications, to meet the data-intensive needs of IoT networks and real-time analytics. Proposed solutions may address areas such as smart grid management, demand response, energy storage optimisation, predictive maintenance, and the integration of renewable resources. ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. The offer includes: Zero-equity funding* Technical and commercial guidance Access to the ESA network and partners ESA brand credibility *(50-80% depending on SME Status and Member State Approval). | None specified | 30-Apr-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Green Hydrogen as a Sustainable Energy Source | This Call for Proposals invites proposals for feasibility studies for services that explore innovative uses of space technology to advance green hydrogen as a sustainable energy source. This study aims to leverage satellite communication (SatCom), satellite Earth observation (SatEO), and satellite navigation (SatNav) to support green hydrogen production, storage, and distribution. The focus is on evaluating practical applications of green hydrogen across multiple sectors, including: Energy, Transportation, Maritime, Smart cities | None specified | 01-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Dyers Company Seed Capital Investment Fund | The Dyers Company has launched a new Seed Capital Investment Fund designed to support innovation in, and the commercialisation of, business ideas with a link to colour or colouration. The initiative is relevant to a range of industries/activities with a connection to colour and colouration including colour chemistry and science, food technology, healthcare (eg medical dyes), engineering, sustainable dyeing, textiles production for fashion and interiors and more. Over time it is hoped that this fund will enhance the economic impact of colouration in the UK by the creation and ongoing support of new businesses, providing vital resources and mentoring for colour and colouration practitioners from across industries. Traditionally the Dyers Company has supported academics and students in their field with grants, bursaries, and prizes €“ this initiative is designed to extend that support to individuals who may be looking for ways to take the next step in their lives and careers. | £25,000 | 03-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition | Innovate UK is offering loans to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcome barriers to their innovations becoming a successful, commercial reality. The aim is to make a considerable economic impact which results in significant, sustainable business growth. Loans are for highly innovative late stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact. Projects must lead to new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available or propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services. It can also involve a new or innovative business model. The loans are aimed at innovative SMEs that will be able to manage a loan, but struggle to access finance or need to raise funds alongside offers from commercial lenders or schemes backed by the British Business Bank. | £2,000,000 | 03-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Commercial Applications of Space Weather Data | Space weather is defined as the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. Observation, monitoring, analysis and modelling of the state of the Sun and interplanetary and planetary environments (both via space- and ground-based observations) help us to understand its state and the possible impacts on Earth. The purpose of this Invitation to Tender is to support industry in assessing the technical and economic viability of commercial services that leverage space weather data across a number of stated domains (and/or alternatives adequately justified by industry). ESA is looking for promising business ideas addressing topics of relevance or related areas that propose: Attractive market opportunities, identified customer needs and customer engagement Commercially viable service concepts. Technically feasible solutions. Added value of space data or technology. Motivated teams with business, technical, and financial expertise. The offer is ‚¬200,000 (firm fixed price) covering 100% of the total cost. | None specified | 05-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Sussex Community Foundation – Gatwick Foundation Fund | The funding is intended to support local organisations with projects to benefit families, children and older people who are experiencing social isolation and disadvantage and to improve their health and wellbeing. | £10,000 | 09-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Lloyd’s Register Foundation – Small Grants | The foundation is offering small grants to: Initiate, build or consolidate partnerships with an array of organisations in relevant sectors, eg policy, practitioner, industrial, commercial and community. Test out ideas through pilot studies, proof of concept projects or activities targeting the heritage, maritime and public sectors. | £10,000 | 19-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Green Hydrogen as a Sustainable Energy Source (Second 2025 Call) | This Call for Proposals invites proposals for feasibility studies for services that explore innovative uses of space technology to advance green hydrogen as a sustainable energy source. This study aims to leverage satellite communication (SatCom), satellite Earth observation (SatEO), and satellite navigation (SatNav) to support green hydrogen production, storage, and distribution. The focus is on evaluating practical applications of green hydrogen across multiple sectors, including: Energy Transportation Maritime Smart cities By integrating space-based solutions, we seek to address technical challenges, enhance infrastructure, and foster a resilient hydrogen economy that contributes to net-zero carbon goals by 2050. Proposals are encouraged to assess the feasibility of satellite-based solutions in supporting hydrogen technology, emphasising environmental sustainability, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. The study should involve collaboration with user communities in relevant sectors, aiming to develop a proof of concept (PoC) and outline potential pathways for further application development. ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. The offer includes: Zero-equity funding* Technical and commercial guidance Access to the ESA network and partners ESA brand credibility *ESA will co-fund 80% of the acceptable cost, up to ‚¬200,000, per awarded study. | None specified | 30-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Aesthetica Short Film Festival Awards | Founded in 2011, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival is an international film festival which takes place annually in York. It a celebration of independent film from around the world, and an outlet for supporting and championing filmmaking. The festival is a BAFTA-Qualifying short film festival. This means that if a short film is screened or accepted into two or more of the BAFTA-Qualifying festivals, it may be eligible for a BAFTA. | £5,000 | 31-May-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | abrdn Financial Fairness Trust | The funding is intended for strategic work, including policy work, campaigning and research, which has the potential to improve financial wellbeing at a national scale. The Foundation is interested in funding projects that examine and promote measures to: Increase incomes for those on low-to-middle incomes. Ensure people have an adequate safety net, building savings and assets. Reduce the cost of living, making sure those on lower incomes are not paying more. Address issues related to spending and borrowing, particularly where it becomes problematic. Ensure that there is fair taxation. Improving the household finances of people on low-to-middle incomes in the UK during the transition to Net Zero and adjustment to climate change. | None specified | 02-Jun-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Clore Leadership Programme | The Fellowship Programme aims to shape emerging creative leaders through in-depth learning, tailored as far as possible to the needs, aspirations and circumstances of about 20 individuals a year. The structure of the programme includes residential courses, an extended placement, original research, individually-selected training, and a group project, as well as mentoring and coaching. Fellows have access to senior cultural leaders and to extensive networks, and will be given the opportunity to extend their knowledge and understanding of the wider cultural sector through dialogue, inquiry, study visits, conferences and meetings. | £14,000 | 02-Jun-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | The funding is for charitable work in the UK that addresses the objectives of the Trust, which are: The advancement of the arts. Health and medical welfare. Environmental protection or improvement. | £6,000 | 03-Jun-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space For Insurance Technology | The ‘Space for Insurance Technology’ opportunity offers funding to European teams interested in developing services integrating technology solutions to the insurance sector. The ESA will provide funding for six-month feasibility studies known as ‘Kick-Starts’, which can lead to larger-scale projects and pilots. | None specified | 06-Jun-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | The Span Trust | The Span Trust currently supports charities based in London and surrounding areas that advance or promote the Trust’s objectives, which are to: Advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment in areas of social and economic deprivation, in particular through the provision, maintenance or improvement of public amenities for the benefit of the local community. Relieve poverty, disability, age or ill health through the carrying out of or provision of support for building projects which alleviate the charitable needs of the individuals, those who care for them and their dependents. Provide public recreational space of facilities for the benefit of the local community and to provide assistance to schools, hospitals, care homes and other institutions furthering charitable purposes. Advance and support the fine arts. | £20,000 | 27-Jun-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | BridgeAI Innovation Exchange – Call for Challenge Holders | The programme provides an opportunity for UK businesses to: Identify and Address Key Productivity Issues: Highlight significant challenges affecting productivity within their sector. Collaborate with AI Innovators: Partner with leading solution providers to implement cutting-edge AI approaches aligned with their objectives. Drive Scalable and Lasting Impacts: Create solutions that not only benefit their organisation but also encourage broader AI adoption and improve productivity across the UK. | £50,000 | 02-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | ESA Business Applications and Space Solutions (BASS) Programme | ESA Space Solutions helps businesses from across Europe to harness space technology to improve life on Earth. ESA works alongside industry, developing space-enabled solutions that will grow businesses and bring socioeconomic benefits. All ESA activities have a focus on the green transition and the global shift towards a more digital, sustainable future. ESA Business Applications offers funding and support to businesses from any sector who intend to use space (satellite navigation, earth observation, satellite telecommunication, space weather, space technologies) to develop new commercial services. Business ideas that are commercially viable, technically possible and involve either space tech or data are being sought. Applicants will be able to access personalised support from a member of the ESA team. | Discretionary | 02-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | IUK Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) Programme | ICURe consists of four separate programmes providing different levels of funding and commercialisation training with industry experts: ICURe Engage, ICURe Discover, ICURe Explore and ICURe Exploit. | £300,000 | 02-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space for Intermodal Transport | Intermodal transport involves transferring passengers or goods using multiple transportation modes without handling goods during transfers. Urban areas face issues with congestion, parking, and pollution. Integrating intermodal transport with Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) can improve transport efficiency by coordinating various modes into accessible solutions. Cities are moving from car dependency to public transport and cycling, and well-designed intermodal systems can provide efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly options. Success in intermodal solutions requires well-designed nodes that facilitate smooth passenger transfers, ensuring comfort and safety. MaaS platforms offer real-time transport options and integrated billing, which can decrease car usage. Developing robust intermodal systems necessitates collaboration among industry stakeholders, new business models, and improved data processing. This opportunity offers funding to European teams interested in developing sustainable space-based services and applications for intermodal transport, covering both freight and passenger transportation. The Call will accept proposals for Feasibility Studies and Demonstration Projects. Proposed services must utilise satellite data or space-based technologies. | None specified | 02-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Amazon Sustainability Accelerator | The Amazon Sustainability Accelerator is an equity-free programme supporting UK start-ups that are driving sustainable innovation. The programme aims to help entrepreneurs grow their skills and scale their businesses so they can maximise their climate impact. Each year, the programme builds accelerators around different sustainability verticals, such as circular economy, recycling technology and sustainable consumer products. The benefits of participation include monetary grants, specialised mentorship, workshops, a climate assessment, and a chance to connect with innovators. | £30,000 | 03-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Wigtown Poetry Prize | The Wigtown Poetry Prize is designed to celebrate the richness of Scotland’s three national languages. | £1,500 | 05-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Pushing the frontiers of environmental research: July 2025 | Funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research. | £950,000 | 16-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Amazon Sustainability Accelerator: Climate Tech | The Amazon Sustainability Accelerator: Climate Tech is a program that supports startups developing cutting-edge climate technologies by providing funding, mentorship, and access to Amazon’s resources to help scale their solutions for a more sustainable future. | None specified | 25-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Ironmongers’ Company | The Company offers support to registered charities in the UK providing opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people under the age of 25 to fulfil their potential. Grants are available for projects that will deliver clearly defined, educational benefits and develop learning, motivation and skills. | £10,000 | 31-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Radcliffe Trust | The Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts. | £7,500 | 31-Jul-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Clarion Housing Group – William Sutton Prize 2025 | There are two prize categories in 2025: William Sutton Prize for Sustainability with the theme of ‘Regenerative Places – enriching nature, homes and communities’ seeks to support projects that contribute to the restoration and preservation of the natural world. William Sutton Prize for Connected Communities seeks to support impact-led ideas that enhance social housing residents’s physical, emotional and social wellbeing. | £50,000 | 04-Aug-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | US Embassy to the United Kingdom Annual Grants Programme | The funding is for projects that strengthen bilateral ties between the United States and the United Kingdom. Proposed programmes must include a public-facing element, targeting audiences across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, with special consideration for youth audiences aged 18-35 and regions outside of London. | $100,000 | 15-Aug-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Horizon Europe: Excellent Science – European Research Council (ERC) Grants | The European Research Council (ERC) aims to provide attractive, long-term funding to support excellent investigators and their research teams to pursue ground-breaking, high gain and high risk research. Research funded by the ERC is expected to lead to advances at the frontiers of knowledge and to set a clear and inspirational target for frontier research across Europe. | € 3,000,000 | 28-Aug-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Aesthetica Creative Writing Award | The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize for new talent in Poetry and Short Fiction. The Prize supports both emerging and established writers. By entering, writers can showcase their work to key industry figures and organisations. | £5,000 | 31-Aug-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards | The awards celebrate the exceptional international success of small businesses in the UK. They aim to encourage more businesses to export and increase the focus on exporting within businesses. | Discretionary | 03-Sep-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Industry Fellowships | The scheme aims are to: Support the mobility of excellent academic or industrial researchers between in two sectors in the UK, across the natural sciences. Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and establish collaborative links between the academic and industrial organisations, which may lead to longer term collaborations. Support the career development of the Industry Fellow, and their team, through the cross-sector collaborative research experience afforded by the fellowship. Enhance knowledge exchange in science and technology between industry and academia. | Discretionary | 04-Sep-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Grocers’ Charity Grant | The Charity provides one-off grants for UK registered charities to support the following areas: Relief of poverty. Children and young people. The elderly. Disability. Health. Military. Heritage. The arts. Environment and conservation. | £5,000 | 05-Sep-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Cruach Trust | Primarily, the Cruach Trust financially supports gardeners, retired gardeners and preserving gardens throughout the United Kingdom. The Trust also supports a wide range of charitable projects and activities, including medical research, the arts, culture, the natural environment, education, or those experiencing hardship. | £2,000 | 12-Sep-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space For Sustainable, Connected and Liveable Cities | This Call invites proposals for feasibility studies and demonstration projects for services that leverage space-based services and applications for the smart cities sector. Successful bidders may have the opportunity to work closely with Space for Smart and Green Cities Task Force members who are supporting this call in the development of the proposed service. Use cases: Sustainable Cities (Urban Sustainability) Requalification of abandoned industrial areas Local energy production Circular economy Connected Cities (Urban Infrastructure) City walkability Optimising traffic flow Improving street lighting management Affordable housing Liveable Cities (Urban Environment) Climate change and emissions Urban park management ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. The offer includes: Zero-equity funding (50-80% depending on SME Status and Member State Approval) Technical and commercial guidance Access to a network and partners ESA brand credibility | None specified | 30-Sep-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Continuo Foundation | This fund aims to support professional ensembles playing period music and instruments by mobilising projects of outstanding artistic merit and creating meaningful work for freelance period musicians, particularly in areas that lack access to high-quality live classical music. Round Seven will continue the previous round’s focus to support emerging ensembles seeking to establish themselves and gain the visibility and performing experience needed to build their careers. | £8,000 | 02-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Emerging Maker Grants | The Emerging Maker Grant is a funding opportunity for talented early-career craftspeople who have a strong foundation and commitment to their craft, but who are still in the process of developing their skills and expertise. | £10,000 | 02-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI Open Call | Google is looking to support organisations working to solve social impact problems using generative AI technology across the following topics: Knowledge, Skills and Learning – provide pathways for people to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to thrive. Scientific Advancement – accelerate breakthroughs and AI-enabled scientific innovation that enables technology to be used for good in the world. Collaborations between academic or research institutions and other organisations that together bridge research with practical application are encouraged. Resilient Communities – contribute to building stronger societies, a safer internet, and crisis resilience. Examples of previously supported projects span multiple sectors, from improving healthcare delivery or personalising education, to advancing climate action or combating misinformation. | $ 2,000,000 | 02-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | WCIT IT4Good Grant Programme | This fund aims to support IT projects and activities that relate to one or more of the following priority areas: Education. Inclusion. IT for charities. Public understanding of IT. | £15,000 | 02-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Charity | Funding of IT-related projects and provision of pro-bono IT consultancy which help achieve the WCIT Charity’s priorities. | £15,000 | 02-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Philip Henman Trust | Funding is intended for projects operated by major UK charities concerned with long-term overseas development for projects that address education, skills development, and the development of basic infrastructure and technology. | £25,000 | 09-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | European Researchers’ Night and Researchers at Schools 2026-2027 | Proposals should cover both the organisation of the European Researchers’ Night and the implementation of the Researchers at Schools initiative. The European Researchers’ Night takes place every year, on the last Friday of September. It supports events that can last up to two days: they can start on Friday and continue the following day. Pre-events, prior to the main event, and related post-events, such as wrap-up meetings or small-scale follow-up events, can also be organised. It is the occasion for a Europe-wide public and media event for the promotion of research careers. The European Researchers’ Night targets the general public, addressing and attracting people regardless of the level of their scientific background, with a special focus on young people and their families, pupils and students, and notably those who do not have easy access to, and thus are less inclined to engage in STEAM fields (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) or research activities. The Researchers at Schools initiative brings researchers to schools and other pedagogical and educational centres to interact with pupils on societal challenges and on the key role of research to address them. Pupils will thus also learn directly about research projects and initiatives related to EU main priorities. Types of activities European Researchers’ Night activities can combine education with entertainment, especially when addressing young audiences. They can take various forms, such as exhibitions, hands-on experiments, science shows, simulations, debates, games, competitions, quizzes, etc. Where appropriate, engagement with educational institutions should be sought in order to encourage formal and informal science education with the aim of improving the scientific knowledge base. The European Researchers’ Night should be highlighted as a European (and Europe-wide) event, and each proposal should promote the European Union and its impact on citizens’ daily life in the most appropriate way, according to the set-up and the configuration of the event, its location and its activities. Researchers at Schools activities will allow researchers to showcase their work and interact with pupils. Researchers will engage with teachers, educators and pupils on challenges related to climate change, sustainable development, health and other issues related to the European Commission priorities and main orientations, such as the European Green Deal or the EU Missions. The Researchers at Schools activities should take place at any time during the project duration and should be subject to a dedicated promotion, particularly towards schools and other pedagogical and educational centres. Involvement of researchers funded by Horizon Europe or previous Framework Programmes, notably by the Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions, is highly encouraged. Both the European Researchers’ Night and Researchers at Schools initiative should promote gender balance, diversity and inclusiveness in science in terms of planned activities and researchers involved. The European Commission has defined priorities, notably through the EU Missions, which aim to tackle challenges faced by our societies. Applicants are encouraged to focus on, and include activities relating to these priorities identified by the Missions in their events. Partnerships and coordination at regional, national or cross-border levels will be strongly encouraged aiming at a good geographical spread and avoiding overlaps. Activities carried-out in non-associated third countries are not eligible for funding. High-quality applications not retained due to lack of funding may be granted the status of associated events. Eligible costs will take the form of lump sum contributions as stipulated in Decision of 11 March 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions and unit contributions for Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie actions under the Horizon Europe Programme. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals covering activities for both 2026 and 2027, including the organisation of two successive editions (2026 and 2027) of the European Researchers’ Night and implementation of Researchers at Schools activities during the project duration. Budget: ‚¬16.253 million Types: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions | None specified | 22-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Edgar E Lawley Foundation | The scheme is intended to support small charities that engage in community projects and run projects for the benefit of disadvantaged groups. In particular, the Foundation would like to fund projects relating to medicine, to necessitous elderly persons, and to educational purposes with reference to the arts, commerce and industry. | None specified | 31-Oct-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | EUREKA | EUREKA is an intergovernmental organisation for market-driven industrial research and development. It is a decentralised network facilitating the coordination of national funding on innovation, aiming to boost the productivity and competitiveness of European industries. The network integrates over 40 pan-European economies, and also includes Israel, South Korea, Singapore, Chile and Canada. Eureka follows a bottom-up approach with projects being in any technological area with a civilian purpose. | Discretionary | 04-Nov-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Globalstars – Uruguay Call | Globalstars Uruguay Call for Projects This call is prioritising R&D projects in these field(s): Clean hydrogen and derivatives, production and demand technologies and services. Derivative technologies. Renewable energy technologies and services for producing clean hydrogen and derivatives. Projects should: Address at least one of these fields. Ahow the potential to research or develop a product, process or service innovation that can be commercialises. | None specified | 04-Nov-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) | The Government has announced a new Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to support low-carbon technologies like heat pumps, solar and geothermal energy. The scheme is supporting the rollout of the next generation of heat networks, enabling more towns and cities to take up this established technology. Heat networks supply heat to buildings from a central source, avoiding the need for households and workplaces to have individual, energy-intensive heating solutions – such as gas boilers. These networks have the potential to be a cost-effective way of reducing carbon emissions from heating. | Discretionary | 04-Nov-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Clarion Futures Digital Grants | The funding is for organisations seeking to deliver innovative, well-designed projects that support Clarion residents and the wider community to address digital exclusion. The funding is for projects and activities that focus on: Supporting Clarion residents to discover the full scope of how the internet can assist them in their everyday lives, and provide them with the skills and confidence to do so. | £5,000 | 02-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Contracts for Innovation: Accessible Information on Coaches | The aim of this competition is to develop an affordable, user friendly hardware and software solution, which provides accessible audio visual information on coaches, particularly rail replacement coaches. Proposed solutions must meet the following requirements: Support operators to comply with AIR by either adapting or integrating with existing hardware and software solutions, or by providing new hardware and software solutions. Be straightforward to install and use, being quick to mount or dismount within a vehicle, to support the transfer of systems between vehicles. Be interoperable, scalable and affordable. Ensure compatibility and integration with other vehicle systems, both hardware and software, regardless of existing suppliers. Not lock operators into excessive licensing, maintenance or software fees, representing value for money across the complete solution lifespan. Work with the National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) dataset, where possible, and avoid creating a parallel system or duplicative dataset if existing data is available. Have a solution which is at Technology Readiness Level 5 at time of application. Have a clear scale up, manufacturing, and commercialisation plan to be ready for the market as soon as possible, at the latest 31 March 2026. This is a single phase competition. Projects must involve and work with a coach or bus company and disability stakeholders, throughout the project to trial and demonstrate the solution. | £170,000 | 02-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Innovate UK (IUK) Collaborative R&D and Feasibility Studies Funding Competitions Overview | Collaborative R&D is designed to assist the industrial and research communities to work together on R&D projects in strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology – from which successful new products, processes and services can emerge. Businesses are being urged to exploit emerging technologies, taking ideas out of the lab, into the market place and onto the balance sheet, to ensure UK competitiveness in the growing global economy. The objective is to assist the industry and research communities to work together on R&D projects in strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful new products, processes and services can emerge. It also primes the flow of the latest knowledge and thinking from the UK’s science, engineering and technology base to business. | Discretionary | 02-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | UK-India Collaborative R&D for Industrial Sustainability Competition | The aim of this competition is to fund collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects between the UK and India that accelerates the development towards achieving net zero. Proposals must include at least one business partner from the UK and one business partner from India. UK participants must be part of an application submitted to Innovate UK. Indian partners must submit a parallel application to the Technology Development Board (TDB) who is the delivery partner for DST. Whilst this list is not exhaustive, the competition particularly welcomes applications that focus on the following: Advance materials. Decarbonising manufacturing. Renewable energy sources. Storage and distribution. Decarbonising mobility. | £300,000 | 02-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | GSMA Innovation Fund for Impactful AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies have the potential to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate action by bringing innovative approaches to inclusive and sustainable development where it is most needed. While these technologies are already being deployed across many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is not enough evidence of solutions that address the socio-economic and climate challenges of these contexts. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Impactful AI will provide grants and venture building support to small and growing enterprises that leverage AI and other emerging technologies, in conjunction with mobile technology, to have a positive impact on the lives of people in LMICs. The fund is interested in solutions that demonstrate the transformative impact of innovative AI and supporting emerging technologies to tackle socio-economic and climate-related challenges. The Fund has four objectives: To de-risk innovation by testing innovative use cases, partnerships and business models that target low-income and vulnerable communities in selected geographies. To improve the sustainability and scalability of these digitally enabled solutions. To learn about the key enablers, risks and challenges of AI adoption for such solutions. To increase awareness of the role and potential of AI in LMICs and influence the development of enabling environments for AI-based socio-economic and climate impact driven innovations. The Fund is interested in solutions that demonstrate the transformative impact of innovative AI and supporting emerging technologies (eg computer vision, Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensing, drones, blockchain to tackle socio-economic and climate-related challenges. | £250,000 | 03-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | PRS Foundation – PPL Momentum Music Fund | The funding is intended to help artists break through to the next level of their careers. The fund covers a broad range of contemporary popular genres, including innovative and emerging genres. | £15,000 | 05-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Open Call for Proposals – Feasibility Studies and Demonstration Projects | ESA Business Applications’ Open Call for Proposals – Feasibility Studies and Demonstration Projects is always open. Businesses from any sector can apply throughout the year, and the amount of funding may vary according to the project. The goal of this activity is for the business to develop a new commercial service that utilises one or more space asset (such as Satellite Communications, Earth Observation, Satellite Navigation, Human Spaceflight technologies and other space assets). Feasibility Studies Feasibility Studies provide the preparatory framework to identify, analyse and define new potentially sustainable applications and services within the ESA Business Applications programme. They shall comply with the following requirements: they are user/customer driven, they benefit from the integrated use of one or more space assets and the tenderer intends to pursue a demonstration project after successful completion of the feasibility study. The Feasibility Study is likely to run at least 6 months but shall not run longer than 9 months. The duration depends on the complexity of the activity and the degree of upfront buy-in by user communities and other partners. Assuming the Feasibility Study is successful, it is expected that it evolves into a Demonstration Project, the final target being the implementation of a commercial service. Demonstration Projects Demonstration Projects are dedicated to the implementation of pre-operational demonstration services within the ESA Business Applications programme, which therefore comply with the following requirements: they are user driven (including user involvement and contribution), they benefit from the integrated use of one or more space assets, with clear potential to become sustainable in the post project phase. A demonstration project is expected to have a pilot activity, where the service/product is trialled with the customer in a pre-operational environment. The Demonstration Project duration depends on the complexity of the activity and is typically between 12 and 24 months. Assuming the Demonstration Project is successful, after the completion of the contract with ESA it is expected to evolve into an operational service. Funding ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. The offer includes: Zero-equity funding* Technical and commercial guidance Access to the ESA network and partners ESA brand credibility *(50-80% depending on SME Status and Member State Approval). | None specified | 31-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Open Call for Proposals – Kick-Starts | A Kick-Start is a feasibility study lasting six months. The aim of a Kick-Start is to determine whether a service is technically feasible, commercially viable and wanted by users. During a Kick-Start, teams will design the technical service architecture, engage with potential customers, improve the business plan, and establish next steps in developing the service. Kick-Starts must involve the use of at least one space asset, such as satellite communications, satellite Earth observation, and satellite navigation. Kick-Start activities will be funded at 75% (not more or less), with ESA providing up to 75,000 euros per contract. The maximum total cost of a Kick-Start activity is 100,000 euros. Bidders from the United Kingdom should refer to this guidance. | None specified | 31-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space for Olympic Games | The Thematic Call for proposals aims at supporting new space-based services for the digital transformation and sustainability of the sport sector, specifically in the organisation, management, and further exploitation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It primarily targets the next Games in Europe – Paris 2024 and Milano Cortina 2026, with the ambition of providing services for the future Games as well, ensuring continuity of the sustainability model. Given the extreme visibility and relevance of the Olympic Games, the proposed applications must demonstrate robustness and reliability. A fast and short-term implementation of the proposed application is subject to a proved maturity and integrity of the service. A longer development and validation process should be built on a sensible plan potentially involving more events and Games editions to support the final deployment of the service, where one edition of the Games or a major sport event could be used as a test-bed before operational deployment of the service. A continuous use of the proposed service throughout subsequent Games is encouraged, as well as the implementation of a continuous learning approach from one edition to the other. Some of the needs are shared across the whole sport industry, especially regarding competition events. Applicability of the proposed service to different major sports events is encouraged and should be taken into consideration. Each proposed service should assess its economic viability for the service provider and the cost-benefit analysis of the potential customers (eg the Olympic Committees). | None specified | 31-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space Systems for Safety and Security (4S) Applications | Tenderers are invited to propose Feasibility Studies and Demonstration Projects dedicated to assess, develop and demonstrate space-based solutions and business models for innovative, economically sustainable downstream services addressing global security and safety needs: Feasibility Studies provide the preparatory framework to assess and define new potentially sustainable applications and services. Demonstration Projects are dedicated to the implementation and pilot of pre-operational demonstration services with the involvement and contribution of users. | None specified | 31-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Space4Rail | Worldwide, transport demand is growing at unprecedented rates. In parallel, CO2 emissions, climate change, and security of energy supply are some of the major challenges to be addressed at European and global scale in the years to come. The railway sector can play a pivotal role in addressing the increased demand of transport, whilst concurrently tackling the above mentioned challenges. Indeed, rail travel has all of the characteristics and potential to become Europe’ss most sustainable, cost-efficient, high-performing and customer-centric form of transport. Digitalisation in railways is instrumental in achieving this. Because of its intrinsic nature, rail has a hugely expensive infrastructure; therefore it is necessary to get the most performance and capacity out of what is already available without incurring further large investments. In this respect, the use of space assets can support innovation in rail, introducing the adoption of new technologies that embed interoperability and continuity of service by default. ESA open call ‘Space4Rail Downstream Applications in ARTES 4.0’ aims to support the exploitation of space-based assets (satellite navigation, satellite communications and/or Earth observation) in innovative and sustainable applications/services: Related to future control, command and signalling applications of the European Rail system; Improving the performance and attractiveness of the railway, both for railway undertakings and end users. ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. The offer includes: Zero-equity funding* Technical and commercial guidance Access to the ESA network and partners ESA brand credibility *(50-80% depending on SME Status and Member State Approval). | None specified | 31-Dec-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | CASE: Commercial Applications Enabled By Space Environments | The Commercial Applications enabled by Space Environments (CASE) Open Call for Proposals supports the development of commercial services that benefit from microgravity and space environments. CASE Feasibility Studies and Demonstration Projects are designed to assess, mature and implement business concepts for new commercial services, products and applications that are enabled by existing space infrastructure related to human and robotic exploration. Eligible space infrastructure includes, for example, space-based facilities such as commercial services available aboard the International Space Station or, once available, future LEO and lunar infrastructure. ESA offers funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services. | None specified | 31-Dec-27 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Non-CO2 Programme | Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Andor Charitable Trust | The scheme aims to fund a wide range of charitable projects, including those focusing on medical and ancillary services, education, helping disabled, helping the aged providing sheltered accommodation, relieving poverty and developing the arts | £3,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Creative Industries | Arts Council England National Lottery Projects Grants | Grants are available for individual artists, community and cultural organisations to support arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with arts and culture. | £100,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Atempo Growth | This investment initiative assists European technology companies by providing growth lending solutions to support them during their growth phases. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Aviva Ventures | A venture capital programme investing in a range of digital and new technology companies operating in the UK, providing early stage investment for entrepreneurs with high growth firms. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Creative Industries | Awards for Young Musicians | The funding is intended to help musically talented young people from lower-income families overcome the barriers they face to progressing in their music-making and fulfilling their potential. | £2,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | BGF Business Growth Funding | BGF is an investor dedicated to supporting growth and value creation in entrepreneurial companies. It exists to inspire business leaders, innovators and value-creators to build strong, sustainable businesses. Earlier stage UK technology companies will be eligible to apply. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Blagrave Trust – Regional Grants Programme | Grants are available for local and regional youth organisations that are making lasting impact in the lives of young people aged 16 and over, in the poorest parts of South East England with priority given to Berkshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Sussex, and Wiltshire | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds | Equity investment is available for growth companies in the United Kingdom that are helping to create a more inclusive and sustainable future. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Brighton and Hove Legacy Fund | Grants of up to £5,000 are available to community groups and charities that support children and young people (up to age 25) to improve their educational attainment, maximise their employability, participate in activities that support physical and emotional health, social, learning or personal development. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | CITB Industry Impact Fund | The Industry Impact Fund is provided by CITB. The fund is aimed at construction employers looking to make a positive difference to the construction industry by developing solutions to key challenges faced by the workforce across the UK. | £500,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Climate Action Fund – Energy and Climate | This funding aims to inspire and support communities across the UK to address the energy and climate crisis. We’re looking for projects that show how communities can address climate change while tackling the energy challenges through community-led climate action. | £1,500,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Cobb Charity | The funding is for educational projects that encourage the awareness and application of environmental care and sustainability. | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Collaborate with the functional genomics screening laboratory | Apply to collaborate with the functional genomics screening laboratory (FGSL) on projects using complex human in vitro models for CRISPR screening to better understand model biology and enable target identification. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Connectivity in Low-Earth Orbit (C-LEO) Programme | Funding for UK companies and researchers to develop innovative satellite communications technology. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Constance Travis Charitable Trust | Grants are available for local, national and international charities for activities in medical care and research, environment protection, international aid, animal welfare, community projects, social mobility enhancement, educational projects and outreach in the arts. | £50,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Creative Industries | Create South East | The programme of support offers resources, mentoring and funding all designed to enable creative companies to access investment and grow their business. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Creative Industries | Creative Enterprise Business Builder | Through the Business Builder Fund, Creative UK is able to offer grants to registered SMEs working in ‘moving image’ for storytelling. The fund aims to support businesses to maximise their ability and create opportunities for business growth. | £2,500.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Cuthbert Horn Trust | The scheme is intended to support charitable organisations undertaking general charitable purposes. Previous grants have been for a range of activities such as conservation, education, environmental protection, help for disadvantaged children, music, research and transport. | £4,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Emerging Technology | Defence technology exploitation programme | This supports small and medium sized enterprises across the UK to develop innovative materials, technologies and processes, and to enhance defence supply chains. | £500,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | DMT Academy Ignition Fund | UK members of the DMT Academy are able to apply for up to £5k for a clearly defined activity or series of activities which are linked to the aims of the DMT Academy and/or one or more of our key priorities for research, as set out in our strategic framework. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Downing Property Finance | Downing has been investing in property development since it formed in 1986. The programme focuses on making secured loans to property developers delivering residential-led schemes across the country. It also offer loans to trading businesses looking to build new or alter existing premises. | £25,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | DWF Foundation | The Foundation has been set up to help with initiatives that develop and improve local communities by: Tackling a specific community issue. Helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient. Encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded. Enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Enterprise Capital Fund – Episode 1 | The Episode 1 Fund has been set up to invest in the most promising early-stage software companies and technology entrepreneurs in the UK. Firms that have a fully-functioning minimum viable product and some evidence of commercial traction will be targeted. | £2,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | EPSRC network grant: responsive mode | These support the creation of new interdisciplinary research communities and topics by developing interaction between the research community and appropriate science, technology and industrial groups. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Creative Industries | EPSRC new investigator award: responsive mode | The aim of the new investigator awards is to support researchers to develop their own research vision and establish a new research group to explore that vision. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Other | EPSRC programme grants | Programme grants provide flexible funding to world leading research groups seeking to address significant research challenges across the EPSRC remit. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Other | EPSRC standard research grant: responsive mode | Through EPSRC standard research grants we fund a wide range of projects, from small, short term grants to multi million pound research projects including: high risk or high return research embracing new concepts or techniques feasibility studies instrument development project specific equipment collaborative projects that cross different disciplines | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Other | EPSRC working with overseas scientists: responsive mode | Working with overseas scientists grants continue to be for researchers at eligible research organisations. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Eranda Rothschild Foundation | The Eranda Rothschild Foundation is a UK registered charitable trust that provides grants to a wide range of charities working in the fields of medical research, education and the arts within the UK. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | ESRC responsive mode: new investigator grants round two | This opportunity supports researchers at the start of their careers to enable their transition to become independent researchers through gaining experience of managing and leading research projects and teams. | £350,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | ESRC responsive mode: research grants round two | This opportunity funds researcher driven basic, applied, and strategic research from any disciplines and on any topics in ESRC’s remit. This flexible opportunity funds basic, applied and strategic research from any disciplines and on any topics within ESRC’s remit. Ambitious and novel proposals… | £1,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | ESRC responsive mode: secondary data analysis | This funding opportunity supports research that exploits existing data resources for social and economic research. | £300,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | ESRC responsive mode: UKRI SBE lead agency opportunity round two | This funding opportunity allows UK and US based researchers to submit a collaborative proposal in any area of the social sciences within the remits of ESRC and NSF SBE. | £800,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | ESRC responsive mode: working with Luxembourg researchers round one | This opportunity funds collaborative social science research work with researchers in Luxembourg. | £800,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | FareShare Surplus with Purpose Fund | FareShare is the UK’s longest running food redistribution charity. It works to save good food from going to waste and redistribute it to frontline charities that turn it into meals. | £50,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Fearless Adventures | Investment funding and support services are available to UK entrepreneur-led ecommerce businesses to boost their growth and development. Fearless Adventures offers a programme of investment and development support to entrepreneur-led ecommerce companies who are pushing innovation and have the ability to build and create something unique. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Felicity Wilde Charitable Trust | The Trust’s funding aims to assist organisations undertaking projects to benefit children and charities which undertake medical research, particularly research into the cause and cure of asthma. | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Founders Factory Accelerator | Capital investment and a programme of startup business support are available to UK enterprises operating in a range of emerging technology sectors | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Founders Factory Venture Studio | Capital investment and a programme of business support are available to UK entrepreneurs seeking to launch a new business in an emerging technology sector. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Frognal Trust | Grants are available for registered charities who are working with people with disabilities, old people, youth, medical research and environmental heritage | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| Sustainability | Funding for farming in protected landscapes | The Farming in Protected Landscapes programme is a part of Defra’s Agricultural Transition Plan. It will offer funding to farmers and land managers in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), National Parks and the Broads. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Future Fund: Breakthrough | The Future Fund: Breakthrough scheme has been created to drive investment in high growth, innovative, and research and development (R&D) intensive UK firms bringing game-changing technologies to market. The aim is to create new jobs and boost the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | G F Eyre Charitable Trust | Funding is available for general charitable purposes. Previously the Trust has supported a wide range of different local, national and international causes, including charities working for human medical research, the relief of suffering and respite, and religious and heritage charities | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| Purpose Led | G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited | Grants are available to charities registered in the UK that are established for charitable purposes. | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| Purpose Led | Gerald Palmer Eling Trust Company | Grants are available for charities whose work advances medical research and medicine, relieves sickness and/or poverty, or advances the Christian religon, specifically the teaching and usage of the Orthodox Churches of the East. | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| General | Gigabit Voucher Scheme | The Government is providing up to £210m worth of voucher funding as immediate help for people experiencing slow broadband speeds in rural areas. Vouchers worth up to £4,500 for homes and businesses help to cover the costs of installing gigabit broadband to people’s doorsteps. | £4,500.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust | The funding is intended to support projects relating to young people, people with disabilities, the environment and the arts. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Growth Impact Fund | Funding is available to early stage growing social enterprises and charitable organisations in the UK to address the structural barriers that diverse organisations face. | £1,500,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award | The aim of the award is to encourage a project of creative writing by enabling the recipient to partake in relevant, project-related travel and study. | £18,600.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Help Musicians – Develop Your Skills | The programme is designed to help professional musicians build their careers by providing grants opportunities, allowing them to focus on developing their artistic practice and furthering their professional development at a crucial point in their career. | £1,500.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Help Musicians – Music-led Creative Collaboration | Grants are available for professional musicians in the UK to undertake a UK-based collaboration with other non-music artists | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Help Musicians – Record and Release Support | HMUK believes that musicians benefit from support which enables them to focus on three key areas of their career at the same time: their creative portfolio, their business development, and their health and wellbeing. This funding programme is intended to support them in each of these areas through the provision of grants and one-to-one advice sessions. | £3,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Hodge Foundation (Jane Hodge Foundation) | Grants are available to UK registered or exempt charities for projects that address the objectives of the Foundation which are welfare, education, medical treatment and research, and religion. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Homes England – Brownfield, Infrastructure and Land Fund | Homes England want to support a diverse range of partners, both public and private sector, to unlock strategic housing sites including housing-led, mixed-use opportunities where brownfield, infrastructure or land projects face delivery and/or viability challenges. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Horizon Europe: Innovative Europe – European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator | The EIC Accelerator is open to innovations in any field of technology or application, excluding military applications and those that harm the environment. It supports the later stages of technology development as well as scale-up. The technology component of the innovation must therefore have been tested and validated in a laboratory or other relevant environment (it at least Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5/6 or higher). | £12,775,200.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Housing Accelerator Fund | The Government’s housing delivery agency, Homes England, together with United Trust Bank, an established specialist lender, have announced a £250 million fund to support small and medium-sized builders. | £10,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | John Coates Charitable Trust | Grants are available for UK registered charities and general charitable projects that address the categories supported by the Trust and take place in London, Cambridge or surrounding area, Hampshire, North West Norfolk, North Devon, Surrey and West Sussex. | £10,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Jordan Sinnott Foundation Trust | Grants are available to clubs, community groups or teams in the UK to encourage vulnerable and underprivileged children and young adults to get active and enjoy taking part in sport. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Lawson Trust | Grants are available for local charities active in the areas of arts and heritage, education, environment, health, social and economic disadvantage and community engagement in Sussex and Kent. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| General | Lines of Credit | A UK Export Finance supported line of credit can provide UK exporters of capital goods with a quick way to access finance made available by a UK bank to assist an overseas buyer to purchase UK exports. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Lord Barnby’s Charitable Foundation | Lord Barnby’s Foundation offers grants to charitable organisations for general charitable purposes. | £12,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Purpose Led | Material Focus – Electricals Recycling Fund | Grants are available to support recycling, reuse or repair organisations that test creative and practical methods for collecting unwanted electricals within the UK. | £100,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Mercuri (formerly GMG Ventures) | Seed stage funding for UK companies at the intersection of the media and entertainment technology sectors | £1,500,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund | Equity investment is available to enterprises based in the UK and worldwide to support business development and the scaling up of emerging climate technology solutions. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Motability Foundation – Active Travel Grants | Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for projects which expand access to quality and affordable travel equipment and journeys, and ensure disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel in the UK. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Mouro Capital | The aim of the fund is to provide venture capital to fund financial technology start-up businesses. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | National Composites Centre – SME Boost Programme | Funding is available to small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK to help them develop composites products. | £25,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | National Lottery Awards for All England | Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why we support amazing community-led projects. | £20,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator | NatWest is supporting entrepreneurs through a comprehensive programme of free mentoring, insight and bespoke coaching, developed for entrepreneurs who want to grow and scale their business. The NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator is the UK’s largest free business accelerator network, capable of supporting entrepreneurs simultaneously in its hubs based throughout the country. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme | Financial assistance is available to conduct research in the UK that assess the effectiveness of different healthcare treatments and tests for those who plan, provide or receive care from NHS and social care services. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme | The NIHR Invention 4 Innovation (i4i) Programme supports research and development of digital health technologies, medical devices, active implantable devices and in vitro diagnostic devices to a point where they are de-risked for follow-on investment | £150,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Noel Buxton Trust | Grants are available to registered charities in Great Britain which are concerned with the welfare of both families and prisoners. Funding is also available to community-led organisations working to build sustainable livelihoods for local people in Africa. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Notion | Investment funding for high-growth potential SMEs in the UK, targeting emerging cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, helping them to grow and create jobs; thereby boosting the country’s economy. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Oak Trust | Funding is available for registered UK charities that are supporting people who are disadvantaged. Additionally, medical and environmental charities are funded. | £4,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | P F Charitable Trust | Founded in 1951 by banker Philip Fleming, the PF Charitable Trust supports a whole range of charities from across Great Britain. | £30,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Creative Industries | Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts-based Learning Fund | Grants to support work which enables pupils in formal education settings, particularly those experiencing systemic inequality or disadvantage, to thrive through engagement with high quality, arts-based learning. | £400,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Youth Fund | Grants are available for organisations whose main purpose is working with and for young people (aged 14-25) who face complex transitions to adulthood. | £150,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Peter Harrison Foundation – Opportunities through Sport Programme | Grants are available to UK charities running sports projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and develop personal and life skills. | £30,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | QuantIC industrial partnership fund new venture | This supports developing new business propositions that can fast track the commercialisation and exploitation of novel products and systems in the field of quantum imaging. | £100,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Research and Development Enabling Fund | Assistance provided to organisations and individual civil engineers in the UK, to encourage them tomake greater use of research and development inthe advancementof their work. All branches of the profession, including young members and those not traditionally involved in R&D are eligible to apply. | £25,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Robert McAlpine Foundation | Grants for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects for the benefit of children, youth, the elderly, social and medical research | £10,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Rowan Bentall Charitable Trust | Grants for charities in Southern England to assist with medical causes; churches; children; older people; special needs; education; the environment; and animal welfare. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Sustainability | Seven Friends Foundation | The funding is for charitable organisations and causes that are unpopular or do not receive widespread public attention. This could be due to negative focus within the media; due to difficulty in accessing statutory, voluntary and institutional funding; due to the cause being seen as politically controversial; or because the issue is not typically seen as a charitable cause. | £3,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Simone Prendergast Charitable Trust | A small number of grants are available for charitable organisations in the UK that are working in the areas of education, medical care and welfare and religious and communal activities related to the Jewish faith. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Purpose Led | Sir Halley Stewart Trust | Grants are available to UK based charitable organisations for UK and/or international research projects that address the themes of medical, social, or religious with the aim of assisting and promoting innovative activities or developments. | £60,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Sport England – Small Grants Programme | Grants are available for a wide range of not-for-profit organisations in England with projects that bring communities together and provide sport and physical activities for people who may be less physically active, with particular interest in projects focusing on environmental sustainability. | £15,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Sport England: Active Together (with Crowdfunding) | The funding is intended to help sport and physical activity organisations to move forward with priority projects and running costs that they might be struggling with due to the pandemic or the cost of living crisis or other local crisis situations such as adverse weather. | £10,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Stella Symons Charitable Trust | Grants are available to smaller registered charities in the UK for a wide range of activities that benefit local communities and those living in poverty, with particular interest in Warwickshire and West Sussex | £10,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Strategic infrastructure outlines | The funding seeks to improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting edge research of high priority to Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This funding is for either: purchase and set up of infrastructure resources to support existing infrastructure. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) | Sure Valley Ventures is a seed stage fund that helps founders of early stage software companies to achieve rapid scale up. It focuses on areas of large growth and works with companies to provide them with funding, focus and insight to help them achieve their ambitions | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Sussex Community Foundation | Grants are available for local charities and community groups in East and West Sussex and Brighton and Hove to support activities which tackle deprivation and disadvantage. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Sussex Place Ventures | Equity investments available to IT and digital sector SMEs in the UK that demonstrate high growth potential. | £1,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Sustainability Seed Programme | The Sustainability Seed Programme is investing in startups solving the world’s most significant climate challenges. This is a remote first pre/seed investment programme for green-tech startups with global solutions to sustainability. The funder has identified five areas that will play a key role in driving change in towns and cities, people’s everyday lives and in what they consume. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | The Firstminute Capital Fund | The Firstminute Capital Fund has been established invest in early stage technology companies. It will make seed stage investments in businesses across Europe. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | The Thompson Family Charitable Trust | The Thompson Family Charitable Trust provides grants to registered charities for general charitable purposes. | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | ||
| Purpose Led | The UK Fund | We want to fund projects that: strengthen relationships between people whose experiences of life have not been the same. For example, relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds, generations, occupations or geographies. | £5,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Transforming Newhaven Investment Fund | Loans and grants are available to local businesses and public sector agencies for economic growth and regeneration projects in Newhaven, East Sussex. | £200,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | UK Community Foundations | Grants for projects in all sectors of the local community. Each foundation has its own character appropriate to the location and grants may be made to a wide range of activities including: health; children and young people; arts and culture; the environment; services. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Gaming | UK Games Fund (UKGF) – Content Fund | Creative developers and start-up games studios in the UK can bid for grants to turn their new video game ideas into market leaders. | £150,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF) | The UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF) will support content made by independent UK film and screen industries to export to markets around the world. While the fund will focus on independent film, it will also support a range of other screen content, including animation, documentary, television and interactive narrative games -promoting the best stories and content from every corner of the UK. | £60,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | UK Japan Arctic Research Bursary Scheme | The new scheme will be focused on innovative partnering projects in technology testing or technology development for use in the marine and Arctic environments. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | UK South Africa International Science Partnership Fund | This supports research partnerships between the UK and South Africa, to explore sustainable solutions to the food, water and energy challenges. The activity aims to increase the number of academic staff who hold PhD degrees within public universities, while driving innovation and entrepreneurship… | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Creative Industries | Unlimited Arts Commissioning Programme | The Unlimited Arts Programme supports disabled artists to develop their practice and form new relationships and collaborations with producers, venues and promoters. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | W F Southall Trust | The scheme is intended to support registered charities in the UK that are undertaking charitable projects in at least one of the following fields: Quaker Work and Witness. Environmental Action and Sustainability. Peace and Reconciliation. Social Action. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | Woodbourne Ventures | Woodbourne Ventures is an early-capital and pre-seed accelerator fund enabling entrepreneurs to build breakthrough businesses. The programme aims to giver founders a platform to grow through the first stage of business development and then raise the necessary later-stage capital. | £100,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG) | Grants to support the preparation of plans to design multi-purpose woodlands in England with a significant productive component. | £30,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Working with Brazilian researchers | This supports collaborative research in any area of the social sciences within the remit of both the ESRC and FAPESP. Grants from the ESRC are worth up to £1 million. | £1,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose Led | Worshipful Company of Cooks Cooks Charity | Funding for general charitable activities in the City of London, and for education and welfare of persons associated with the catering trade in England and Wales | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Access to Work | Access to Work provides grants to employers towards extra employment costs which result from an employee having a disability. The programme aims to provide practical advice and support to disabled people and their employers, in order to overcome work related obstacles which result from disability. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Acton Capital | Acton Capital is a growth-stage venture capital investor in Europe and beyond. It invests with a clear focus on tech-enabled business models throughout Europe and North America, and is committed to sustainable growth. | € 10,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Actors’ Benevolent Fund | Financial support is intended to assist actors and stage managers who have a low income and are struggling to pay for everyday essentials such as household bills, food, clothes, energy costs etc. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative Recycled Fund | Formerly known as the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI), this recycled funding is available to SMEs within the manufacturing supply chain, including suppliers and innovators, who are seeking investment to increase their growth potential and support job creation. | £2,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Albert Hunt Trust | Core funding is available to support local charities throughout the UK that: Provide hospice care – this is a priority area. Provide support for the homeless. Promote health and wellbeing for areas such as family support eg Home Start, children and young people counselling services, suicide prevention, specific carers support, cancer support, prisoner support and rehabilitation, community centres, food banks and debt advice. | £30,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Amazon Climate Pledge Fund | The Amazon Climate Pledge Fund has been established to invest in companies building sustainable products, services and technologies to decarbonise the economy and protect the planet. This dedicated venture investment Fund aims to help enable Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge’s commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040. It will back visionary companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | American Express – Community Giving Programme | The Foundation provides support to not-for-profit organisations whose work aligns with its priorities. Grants are available for projects in the following areas: Backing equal futures: programmes helping empower more diverse, equitable and inclusive workforces and communities. Backing small: programmes building inclusive economic growth and empowerment through financial literacy, mentoring and training for diverse small business owners and individuals. Backing low-carbon communities: programmes advancing climate innovation and action to address climate challenges and promote resilient communities globally. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | ANS Ambition Fund | Funding is intended to help SMEs in the UK deliver on technical transformation projects and drive their businesses forward. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Athena FundX | Athena FundX is providing women entrepreneurs with the support, resources, and visibility they need to turn their ideas into successful businesses. The initiative aims to change the status quo and pave the way for greater gender equity in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Athena FundX sets out to increase the number of women building innovative technology businesses, and help boost the global GDP by an estimated $5 trillion. The initiative also recognises the importance of visibility and representation in the industry. Therefore, it hosts events and awards that give women tech entrepreneurs a platform to showcase their work and gain recognition in the industry. Another aim of the initiative is to bridge the gap towards financial inclusion by promoting full economic participation by women entrepreneurs. Athena FundX wants to empower women to take control of their financial future and reach their full potential. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Aviva Community Fund (with Crowdfunding) | The Aviva Community Fund has been running for the last five years. It has joined with Crowdfunder to support projects that are looking to raise up to £50,000. One of Aviva’ss objectives is to build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK. To that end, it is providing this match funding opportunity to help small charities and communities causes to test innovative ideas and explore new sustainable strategies without fear of risk in the areas of Climate Action and Financial Wellbeing. | £50,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation | The aim of the Foundation is to help small, non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world. In recent years, the Foundation has provided grants to organisations working on youth projects in the following categories: Education. Health and wellbeing. Holidays. Sport, play and leisure. Support, care and respite. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Barrow Cadbury Trust – Migration Programme | The aim of the migration programme is to promote an immigration system that is fair to both migrants and established residents, and to facilitate a policy and public debate on migration based on shared values as well as evidence. The programme maintains a strong focus on policy, campaigning and communications. This involves supporting campaigners, policy researchers and other civil society groups working mainly at national level, both individually and in coalitions. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme | BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances. This Fund is administered by Family Fund Business Services. This programme provides items for the most basic needs of vulnerable children and young people who may be: Living in severe poverty and suffering deprivation as a result. Affected by additional social issues such as domestic abuse, substance misuse, estrangement, disability or serious illness, mental health or behavioural difficulties, abuse or neglect. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Bernard Sunley Foundation | The aim of the foundation is to help raise the quality of life in England and Wales, particularly for the young, disadvantaged and older people. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Better Society Capital | Better Society Capital offers investments in social investment intermediaries (fund managers and social banks) that provide appropriate and affordable finance and support to social-sector organisations that are working to tackle social problems in the UK. Better Society Capital does not provide funding or finance directly to frontline social-sector organisations but works through intermediaries. Better Society Capital’s 2025 Strategy (announced in 2021) states that it will continue its wide range of social investment funds and support, but will focus on four areas where it sees the best opportunity for social investment to make a difference. These areas are: Social property – creating safe, secure and affordable homes. Impact venture – technology startups tackling social issues. Social lending – lending to support growth and resilience. Social outcomes – improving public service delivery. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | BFI Doc Society RAD (Research and Development) Fund | The BFI Doc Society RAD (Research and Development) Fund supports and nurtures independent non-fiction films and immersive projects by UK filmmakers. It prioritises expansive, director-led storytelling. The funding is intended to be transformative and representative of all UK society. The programme backs ambitious, independent feature documentary films and immersive projects intended for theatrical release, from both emerging talent and more established directors. This programme acknowledges the need for early stage creative risk, research and development where commercial or private resources are not available, to stimulate new ideas and stories for longform nonfiction projects or immersive formats from first or second time feature length documentary directors and emerging to mid-career producers. | £10,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Big Issue Invest – Impact Loans England | The Impact Loans England programme offers a range of loan products that support charities and social enterprises that are registered and delivering social impact in England. The funders work with a broad range of impact organisations that are tackling poverty from a variety of angles, including homelessness and housing, education and employment, health and wellbeing, and access to arts and culture. | £400,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Big Issue Invest – Social Impact Debt Fund IV | The Social Impact Debt Fund IV was created to offer up to £4 million to established socially impactful organisations in the UK with a history of revenue generation, profitability, and assets to support the secured debt, to improve their financial sustainability and scale-up their existing impact. | £4,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) | The Government is providing grants to encourage property owners to install low carbon heating systems such as heat pumps, through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS). These grants are intended to help property owners overcome the upfront cost of low carbon heating technologies. The scheme will be open to domestic and small non-domestic properties in England and Wales. It will run from 2022 to 2028. | £7,500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) | Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is an investor-led global investment fund made up of members of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, guided by scientific and technological expertise and committed to investing patiently in developing new ways to live, eat, travel, and build. BEV will offer flexible capital to make risk-tolerant investments in next generation technologies to provide reliable, affordable, zero-carbon energy, food, and products to the world. BEV is looking to invest in technologies that could help reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions by at least half a gigaton. To do so, BEV is looking for companies with an existing scientific proof-of-concept, and able to attract investment from sources outside the fund. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | British Design Fund | The British Design Fund supports, mentors and invests in exclusively well-designed purpose-led product businesses. Supporting enterprise and innovation in the UK, the Fund works with entrepreneurs to scale their products, accelerate growth and build long term value, both for investors and business owners. | £200,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | British Patient Capital (BPC) Fund | With more than £3 billion of assets under management, the mission of British Patient Capital is to enable long-term investment in innovative UK companies led by ambitious entrepreneurs who want to build successful, world-class businesses. By focusing on the late-stage funding gap, BPC is helping to ensure high-growth UK companies have access to the right type of funding at the right time in their life-cycle, supporting them as they expand, create jobs, develop products and enter new markets. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | BT Group Apprenticeship Fund | The BT Group Apprenticeship Fund aims to support SMEs, charities, and public sector organisations across England by providing access to £4 million in apprenticeship funding over four years. The programme utilises the apprenticeship levy, a government initiative introduced in 2017, which requires companies with a wage bill exceeding £3 million to contribute 0.5% of their payroll to fund apprenticeships. Businesses can also transfer up to 50% of their unused levy to other organisations under new rules from April 2024. The Fund, designed to support up to 550 apprentices, focuses particularly on developing digital skills, aligning with BT’s emphasis on technology. As more than a third of mid-sized businesses report difficulty in recruiting apprentices, the funding is expected to have a positive economic impact, estimated at £21 million. The programme also seeks to promote local economic growth, reduce the digital divide, and enhance social mobility by providing fast access to apprenticeship funding for smaller organisations. Through levy transfers, it aims to help develop local skills and create opportunities for businesses and individuals alike. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Bus Operator Accessible Information Regulations Support Grant | The Accessible Information Grant is providing funding to improve accessibility across public transport by supporting upgrades to buses to provide real-time travel information to disabled passengers. Small bus and coach operators in Great Britain can bid for grants to install state-of-the-art technology that will both display and announce information clearly for all passengers, including those with sight and hearing impairments. The funding will enable bus operators to fit screens, speakers and induction loops guaranteeing passengers are informed about which route they are on and what stop they are at throughout their journey. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Buttle UK – Chances for Children | The funding aims to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people and their capacity to engage in education and learning. | £2,400 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Cambridge Angels | Together with the provision of funding, Cambridge Angels offer start-ups the benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully. | £1,500,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Cancer Research UK | Cancer Research UK supports all aspects of cancer research. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Casey Trust | The funding aims to assist the setting up of new and innovative projects to support children and their welfare. The focus is exclusively on children (with a cut-off age of 18) and wherever possible where the direct benefit to children can be easily observed. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Cash For Kids – Children’s Mental Health Grants | The Children’s Mental Health programme aims to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people (up to 18 years old) in the UK. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Chamber Business Awards | The awards aim to recognise and celebrate business excellence around the UK. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | CITB ConstructionSkills Grants | CITB ConstructionSkills is committed to delivering industry-led skills and training solutions through the Sector Skills Agreement for construction. It works to negotiate the best partnership and funding for the construction industry to help raise standards and develop the skills products and services employers need. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | City of London Corporation Central Grants Programme – Stronger Communities | The aim of the fund is to support projects or services that are delivered for the benefit of communities within the City of London as well as for the residents of the 12 housing estates managed by the Corporation in the City and across London. Grants are available under the following themes: Developing stronger neighbourhoods and communities. Promoting community health and wellbeing. | £10,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | CLA Charitable Trust | The funding is intended to support projects that focus on the Trust’s main objectives: Advancing people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing through financial support of charities, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises, which are delivering access, recreational and educational opportunities within and about the countryside. To promote and encourage education in sustainable farming, food production and rural land management. | £5,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Clean Growth Fund | The Government wishes to cement the UK’s position as a global hub for investment in clean growth. It believes the transition to a clean, low carbon and resilient economy is a multi-billion pound investment opportunity which UK businesses can take advantage of. Through innovation, nurturing better products, processes and systems, the cost of clean technologies is expected to fall. To help achieve this, the Government will be investing up to £20 million alongside at least £20 million from private investors in a venture capital fund. The Clean Growth Fund will aim to catalyse the market and leverage private sector funding to ensure innovative clean technologies can achieve impact at scale. This Fund will seek to accelerate the deployment of innovative clean growth technologies and solutions . The Fund will make direct investments in companies seeking to commercialise promising innovative Clean Growth solutions and the Fund will also seek to catalyse the Clean Growth equity financing market. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Clothworkers’ Foundation | The Foundation aims to use its funding to improve the quality of life for people and communities that face disadvantage and marginalisation. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Communities and Housing Investment in People (CHIP) Community Chest Fund | The funding is for local groups and organisations that are known to Social Housing providers that are a member of CHIC for projects that benefit their local community, by improving community wellbeing and creating social value. | £10,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Community Investment Fund | The fund offers social investment opportunities, in the form of loans and equity investments, to community based, locally led charities and social enterprises that are providing essential support and services to improve the wellbeing of local residents, developing the local economy and creating positive social change for all individuals in the community. The aim is to improve the quality of life of local individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged, and to enhance community engagement and cohesion. | £2,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Corporate Asset Solutions – Business Finance and Leasing | Assistance is provided to help businesses grow, be competitive and preserve capital in order that it can be used more profitably. This might be through leasing, factoring, sale & leaseback, refinancing or venture capital. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Countryside Stewardship: Woodland Tree Health Grant | The Woodland Tree Health Grant is part of Countryside Stewardship. It is a capital grant under which applicants can apply for support for one or both of the following: Woodland Tree Health Restoration provides support for restocking woodland after felling due to a tree health issue. Support is available if the trees to be felled have been infected with a particular disease or pest. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Crawley Shop Front and High Street Improvement Grant Scheme | The funding is intended to support activity to: Enhance the quality and visual appearance of shop fronts and retail business units to deliver further footfall, business activity and economic vibrancy in Crawley town centre and the neighbourhood parades. Strengthen the competitiveness of independent retailers and small businesses and to facilitate job creation to benefit local residents. Contribute to the regeneration and renewal of Crawley town centre and the neighbourhood parades, aligning with the Town Centre Regeneration Programme and the Crawley One Town Economic Recovery Plan priorities of town centre renewal and a diverse and resilient economy. | £5,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Creative Growth Finance II | Creative Growth Finance has been established to provide scale-up finance to the UK’ss most promising creative businesses. It will target post-revenue SMEs that have reached a point of scale that requires supporting finance for continued growth. Businesses that harness creativity in technologies, are talent-led and bring change, disruption and new IP to the creative industries are being targeted. | £500,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Department of Health and Social Care ‘s Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund | The fund will support distribution of 2,000 AEDs across England. These will be selected from applications in areas that most need a defibrillator. Applications will receive a contribution from DHSC and London Hearts alongside their own match funding. | £750 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Dow Schofield Watts (DSW) Ventures | The aim of the scheme is to support promising early-stage technology companies with equity finance to overcome the challenges of growing their business. | £1,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Drax Foundation | The funding is for projects and programmes that deliver lasting socio-economic change in the regions where Drax operates. Drax prioritises organisations that can demonstrate an in-depth understanding of local conditions, and who represent the diversity of their local communities. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Earthshot Prize | The Earthshot Prize is an initiative for individuals and organisations from across the world to respond to challenges that aim to restore the environment and ignite a ‘decade of action to repair the Earth’. The Prize will be awarded to five winners every year, until 2030, which is the deadline for the UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Funds are expected to be allocated by philanthropists, NGOs, businesses and the Royal Family. Applicants will need to demonstrate the ability of their project, concept or innovation to provide a scalable way of tackling the planets biggest environmental challenges. The five Earthshots are: Protect and restore nature Clean our air Revive our oceans Build a waste-free world Fix our climate The Prize will be awarded to ‘the most outstanding efforts’ to meet each challenge. | £1,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | East Sussex Stalled Sites Fund | The Stalled Sites Fund (SSF) is an East Sussex County Council one-off capital fund designed to: Help finance feasibility studies and business case development to support schemes that are not viable without public support, to enable them to apply for public funding (e.g. Local Growth Fund). Unlock stalled employment and housing sites that have site-specific reasons for remaining undeveloped with loan or equity share finance. | £25,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Electric Vehicle Chargepoint and Infrastructure Grant for Landlords | The EV Chargepoint Grant for Landlords is for commercial landlords that rent, lease or manage commercial properties Funding is available to install electric vehicle chargepoints. Grants can be used across several properties and installations or for one property. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Energy Resilience Fund | The Energy Resilience Fund provides eligible charities and social enterprises in England with a blended funding package of loan (60%) and grant (40%) to improve their energy resilience. They may need this support for many different reasons, for example reduced carbon emissions, energy cost savings, upgrading energy efficiency ratings to meet future regulations, increased use or comfort of buildings, replacing older vehicles and equipment with modern energy efficient versions. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Episode 1 Fund | The Episode 1 Fund has been set up to invest in the most promising early-stage software companies and technology entrepreneurs in the UK. Firms that have a fully-functioning minimum viable product and some evidence of commercial traction will be targeted. Companies supported through the Fund must demonstrate a potential to be disruptive in the internet and mobile sectors and have satisfied existing customers to validate the proposition. | £2,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust | The Trust aims to support UK registered charities by offering small, medium and large grants for projects that fall within one of the following priority areas: Care of the elderly (Sussex). Disability (Sussex). General welfare (Sussex). Hospices (Sussex). Reproductive health (international). Wildlife and environmental conservation (UK and international). Youth (Sussex). Reproductive health family planning projects (Africa and Asia). | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | ESA Commercialisation Support | Commercialisation support is designed to provide access to programmes like ScaleUp and ESA Space Solutions, alongside resources such as the ESA BIC and ESA Investor Network. ESA also facilitates matchmaking through a dedicated marketplace and offers funding opportunities to drive innovation and business growth. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | ESA Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP) | The European Space Agency’s Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP) for novel research co-sponsorship ideas aims to harness the innovation potential of universities for exploratory, potentially radically new research ideas which typically provide the seeds for disruptive innovation. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Family Fund Trust | The Family Fund is working towards an inclusive society where families with severely disabled or seriously ill children have choices and the opportunity to enjoy ordinary life. The Trust believes services to families with severely disabled children are most effective when they can be adapted to families’ individual needs and personal ways of coping. The Trust, therefore, encourages families to demonstrate the kind of support that would best meet their needs in easing the stress of caring for severely disabled children. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme | The Farming in Protected Landscapes programme is a part of Defra’s Agricultural Transition Plan. It will offer funding to farmers and land managers in National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads. It is not an agri-environment scheme. T | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Film Travel Grants Fund | Grants are intended to help filmmakers and XR creatives to represent their work abroad, develop new contacts and networks, and reach new audiences, especially new and emerging UK films, XR projects and talent. | £7,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Flexible Plastic Fund | The fund seeks to improve the rate of recycling of ‘flexible’ plastic items including bags, wrappers, films, pouches, packets and sachets. It is intended that recyclers will turn the collected plastic into non-food grade plastic and film and some food-grade film. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Focus Foundation – Rapid Response Grants | The funding is for charities and community groups whose projects address one of the Focus Foundation’s three core pillars: Socially or economically underprivileged children or young people (24 or under). Mental health charities and initiatives. Charitable or community projects, local to one of Focus Group’s regional offices. There is a focus on grass roots charities where even small grants can make a huge difference to people’s lives. | £8,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Foux Foundation | This fund aims to support projects and activities that are focused on the areas of health, education, youth opportunity, and poverty. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Fuel Ventures Fund | The Fuel Ventures Fund is an incubation studio and investment fund targeting the e-commerce sector. The programme will invest in companies that have growth potential, with the overall aim being to create the UK’ss next billion pound enterprise. The primary focus is on building proven business models in the online and mobile space that have the ability to scale quickly and have international growth potential. Fuel Ventures invests in those entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation. The funder takes a hands-on approach, partnering with talented entrepreneurs to transform their vision into reality. | £3,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Funded Access to Catapults and RTOs | Innovative, ambitious businesses can benefit from the facilities and expertise provided by Catapults and Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) through Innovate UK Business Growth. RTOs are specialised not-for-profit knowledge organisations dedicated to the development and transfer of science and technology to the benefit of the economy and society. They include hubs, laboratories, testbeds, factories and offices for cutting edge R&D. The Catapult network of technology and innovation centres established by Innovate UK supports businesses to transform great ideas into valuable products and services. | £15,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Future Fund: Breakthrough (FF:B) | The Future Fund: Breakthrough scheme has been created to drive investment in high growth, innovative, and research and development (R&D) intensive UK firms bringing game-changing technologies to market. The aim is to create new jobs and boost the countrys post-pandemic economic recovery. Through the programme, the Government will co-invest with private investors to help scale-up innovations across high-growth firms. It is estimated that 1% growth in these firms could grow the UK economy by £38 billion. Due to high R&D costs, breakthrough technology companies typically require more capital than other technology companies to fuel the later stages of their growth. Through the commercialisation of R&D, these companies can accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies that can transform major industries, develop new medicines, and support the transition to a net zero economy. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Game Changers Innovation Programme | The programme is open to anyone from any sector who can offer a viable solution including SMEs, universities, research organisations and large companies. Game Changers applicants are supported by a team of commercialisation experts who provide innovation guidance, helping to fulfil the commercial potential of technologies and increase the chance of full implementation on nuclear sites. | £60,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Garfield Weston Foundation | The Foundation awards grants for capital, project and revenue costs to UK registered charities working within the UK in the areas of Welfare, Youth, Community, Arts, Faith, Environment, Education, Health and Museums & Heritage. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Gerald Micklem Charitable Trust | The Trust provides funding to UK charities working either on a national basis or specifically in Hampshire or West Sussex and in the fields set out by the Trust. | £15,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) | The Government believes full fibre networks are the future and that getting ready for a gigabit speed is a key step for most businesses. Optical fibre-based networks are faster, more reliable, easier to upgrade and set the standard for connectivity. Demand for greater and greater digital connectivity in terms of speed and reliability is expected to grow exponentially in future years. | £4,500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) | The Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) helps innovative SMEs to collaborate and explore global markets, accelerating business growth. Each GBIP, focused on a specific market and technology or sector area, involves a cohort of up to 15 ambitious innovative UK businesses looking to grow and scale globally. The programme aims to help businesses explore future opportunities and to better understand what is needed to be successful on the global stage. The GBIP provides detailed market knowledge, cultural insight, and introductions and connections, providing opportunities that SMEs might find difficult to come by themselves. Each business is supported by an IUK Business Growth innovation and growth specialist to help maximise the potential of being part of the programme and beyond. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Gosling Foundation | The funding is for projects that address the following broad categories: Royal Navy and Royal Marines Education Youth | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Happy Days Children’s Charity | The Charity supports families with children aged 3-17 by funding trips, experiences, respite breaks and group activity holidays for those who need them most. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Heat Training Grant (England) | The funding is intended to support heating engineers and trainees in England with the costs of heat pump training courses offered by training providers participating in this scheme. The training courses will cover all the skills needed for businesses to install heat pumps as a part of a competent person scheme. | £500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Historic England – Heritage Protection Commissions and Capacity Building Programme | The programme offers funding for strategic research that will help HE to know what the historic environment comprises, which aspects of it are the most significant, and what innovations in science and approach will help HE to look after it for the future. The funding is for projects which develop sector capacity, capability and resilience, and/or help more diverse people engage with heritage and the historic environment. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | HS2 Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF) | The Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF) has been created to add benefit over and above committed mitigation and statutory compensation to support local economies that are demonstrably disrupted by the construction of HS2. Groundwork wishes to assure potential applicants that rigorous management of the funding available will ensure that money is available throughout the construction of Phase One, and there will be no advantages of submitting early or disadvantages of submitting them later during the construction period. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | HS2 Community and Environment Fund | The Community and Environment Fund (CEF) is administered by Groundwork in order to add benefit over and above committed mitigation and statutory compensation to communities along the route that is demonstrably disrupted by the construction of phase one of HS2 from London to the West Midlands. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Hypha Private Equity | The fund is intended to support profitable and growing businesses in the technology, healthcare and advanced manufacturing sectors in the UK and Ireland. | £15,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | IET Travel Awards | The Travel Awards aim to assist members of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) to undertake overseas travel to broaden their professional experience through undertaking a study tour, working in industry or attending a conference. | £1,500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC) | The Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC) has been created to reward those developing innovative solutions to the UK water sector’s biggest environmental challenges, benefiting society and the environment. The scheme is focused on solutions for the water sector, including the net-zero transition, the need to protect ecosystems from pollution and leaks and the need to deliver value for money for customers in England and Wales. Ofwat is not looking for water companies to develop technologies, systems or schemes on their own. Rather, entrants must prove that collaboration is at the heart of their entry. Collaborations can be between water companies or with organisations in the energy, manufacturing, health or financial services sector. There are five key areas that Ofwat have identified that are big challenges for the sector, which would benefit from additional innovation, expressed in the five strategic innovation themes. Through the competitions, the Innovation Fund will support initiatives that can deliver significant value for customers, society and the environment aligned with one or more of these themes: Responding and adapting to climate change, including how to meet the sector’ss ambition of net-zero emissions. Restoring and improving the ecological status of water environments, protecting current and future customers from the impacts of extreme weather and pollution. Understanding long-term operational resilience and infrastructure risks to customers and the environment, finding solutions to mitigate these in sustainable and efficient ways. Testing new ways of conducting core activities to deliver wider public value. Exploring the opportunities associated with open data, stimulating innovation and collaboration, for example, encouraging new business models and service offerings that benefit customers, including those in vulnerable circumstances. The primary objective of the first IWC is to encourage new ways of working that go beyond business-as-usual innovation practices in the water sector, in particular, increasing and improving collaboration and building partnerships from within and outside the water sector. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | James Ahern Foundation | The funding aims to help young people who might be suffering a disadvantage through disability, social or economic background, mental health or addiction issues or just struggling to find their way in life but have a passion that they want to pursue. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Jim Jackson Enabling and Educational Foundation | The Jim Jackson Enabling and Educational Foundation helps young people take their first step into a business career. For those young people who have experienced difficulty breaking through, because they have had obstacles to overcome, the Foundation aims to help them take their first step into a business career. This kinds of obstacles young people might experience include anything that prevented educational advancement and qualification, including interrupted learning, health or pastoral problems, or social disadvantages. The Foundation aims to: Enable young people to ignite their future Help find solutions to specific issues arising from disadvantages Source appropriate training and development opportunities Provide a network of support through other organisations Assist in finding opportunities in the world of business | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | JLL Spark Proptech Global Venture Fund | The JLL Spark Global Venture Fund plans to invest up to in companies focused on leveraging technology to transform the real estate industry. The fund will direct its efforts to technology start-ups with products that can help JLL investor and occupier clients, or that can be used by JLL businesses to better deliver their services. The fund will focus on seed and Series A investments, as well as select later stage rounds and will also support entrepreneurs and their companies by connecting them with JLL’ss business lines and clients for insightful feedback and distribution of their products. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | John Ellerman Foundation | The Foundation supports people, society and the natural world by focusing on the arts, environment and social action as these areas can make an important contribution to wellbeing. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | John Lyon’s Charity | The aim of the Charity is to promote the life-chances of children and young people through education. To that end, the Charity provides funding for a wide range of services for young people, including youth clubs, arts projects, counselling, childcare and parental support schemes, sports, and academic bursaries and scholarships. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Knowledge Transfer Partnerships | Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) enable UK businesses to benefit from the wide range of expertise available in the UK’s ‘Knowledge Base’ – higher education institutions (HEI), further education (FE) colleges, applied industrial research trading organisation, and public sector research institutes. The Knowledge Base Organisation applies its expertise to a project that is central to the Company Partner. Recent graduates, known at KTP Associates, are recruited to companies to manage the project. Projects can last between 12-36 months. The objectives of the KTPs are to Facilitate the transfer of knowledge through projects undertaken by high calibre, recently qualified people under joint supervision from a company and an academic institution. Provide company-based training for recently qualified people to enhance their business and specialist skills. Stimulate and enhance business-relevant training and research undertaken by the academic institutions. Increase the interaction between business and academic institutions, and awareness of the contribution academia can make to business development and growth. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Kusuma Trust | The Trust currently has two open calls for funding: London Greening capital grants are available for organisations looking to create or improve greenspace in central London. Last Mile Grants for Hospitals are available for NHS hospital charities supporting hospitals with in-patient facilities that need a last portion of funding towards medical equipment, upgrading or expanding a facility, or capital projects. | £500,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Laudes Foundation Partnership Programme | The funding is intended to support the Foundation’ss €˜focus on driving a just transition in four key industries with outsized impact on climate change, nature loss and inequality: built environment, finance and capital markets, fashion and food’s. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Masonic Charitable Foundation €“ Children and Young People Grants Programme (Domestic Abuse) | The funding is for registered charities working with children who have experienced domestic violence and thus are more likely to struggle with mental health problems, low self-worth, develop unhealthy coping mechanisms and may begin to repeat behaviours seen in their domestic setting. There is particular interest in funding projects that work with vulnerable and disadvantaged children and families. | £60,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Masonic Charitable Foundation €“ Grants for Older People with Dementia and Their Carers | The current funding supports research which suggests that having close ties to friends and family, participating in meaningful social activities may help people maintain their thinking skills in later life, and slow down cognitive decline. There is particular interest in targeted interventions such as carers support and social groups, Maintenance Cognitive Simulation Therapy, or other interventions working to achieve outcomes such as the following: Improved ability of carers to meet the needs of people with dementia (ie, resources, knowledge, skills). Reducing loneliness, isolation and creating social connection. Improvements to physical health and cognitive function. Better access to support services. Increased independence and influence over their own lives and treatment. | £60,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Masonic Charitable Foundation €“ Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) | The funding is for registered charities whose support for children and young people with SEND (aged 0 to 25 years) will: Increase their social inclusion. Increase their independence and connections to their local community. Improve their access to early intervention services and therapies, for diagnosed, suspected conditions and pre diagnosis. Ensure their parents/carers are better able to cope in their caring role and meet their child’ss needs. Enable their parents/carers to be better informed of their child’ss options and rights, and the services available to them. | £60,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Masonic Charitable Foundation ‘s Grants for Older People with Dementia and Their Carers | The current funding supports research which suggests that having close ties to friends and family, participating in meaningful social activities may help people maintain their thinking skills in later life, and slow down cognitive decline. There is particular interest in targeted interventions such as carers support and social groups, Maintenance Cognitive Simulation Therapy, or other interventions working to achieve outcomes such as the following: Improved ability of carers to meet the needs of people with dementia (ie, resources, knowledge, skills). Reducing loneliness, isolation and creating social connection. Improvements to physical health and cognitive function. Better access to support services. Increased independence and influence over their own lives and treatment. | £60,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | MCS Foundation | The aim of the Foundation is to increase public confidence, awareness and access to renewable energy and low carbon solutions across the UK. The Foundation supports education and engagement programmes, funds research and facilitates innovative solutions to drive widespread adoption. | £50,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Mercers’ Company and Philanthropy – Church and Communities | The purpose of Mercers Philanthropy is to nurture aspirations and invest in opportunities to create positive change so that everyone has the potential to lead a fulfilling life. Grants are intended to support charitable organisations with community-led projects that ‘will make a real difference in people’s lives’ and which address the Foundation’s priorities. | £120,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Mercers’ Company and Philanthropy – Older People and Housing | The purpose of Mercers Philanthropy is to nurture aspirations and invest in opportunities to create positive change so that everyone has the potential to lead a fulfilling life. Grants are intended to support charitable organisations with community-led projects that ‘will make a real difference in people’s lives’ and which address the Foundation’s priorities within its three funding programmes: Young people & education programme (covered in separate entry). Early years special initiative – supporting families and children in their early years. Transitions special initiative – helping young people through challenging transitions and to grow up as ‘active citizens’. Literacy special initiatve – improve literacy. Older people & housing programme (covered in this entry). Combating loneliness in older people and their carers. Combating poverty faced by older people. Church & communities programme (covered in separate entry) Stonger communities. Better outcomes for families. | £120,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Mercia EV Growth II | This programme will make investments of up to £10 million in established and ambitious SMEs, looking to grow, with a focus on management buyouts and replacement capital. | £10,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | MMC Venture Capital | Although MMC Ventures can provide investments to companies in any sector, they tend to focus support on the following: Business software. Financial services. Digital media. E-commerce. Business services | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Molten Ventures – Venture Capital | Molten Ventures seeks to identify promising high growth technology companies in Europe with global potential and finds a way to invest and bring their skills to the company to help execute on its potential. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Morrisons Foundation | Projects should address the following criteria: Tackle poverty and social deprivation. Enhance community spaces, facilities and services. Improve health and wellbeing.The funding is for specific projects that make a difference to peoples lives, with special consideration for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. | £10,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation (with Crowdfunding) | The funding is intended to support new sustainable projects that will benefit local communities across England, Scotland and Wales. | £5,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | MVM International Life Sciences | The purpose of the fund is to make equity finance available to the emerging biotechnology companies to which large life science companies are increasingly turning to for their ability to take the discoveries of fundamental biomedical research and translate them into products. These young companies fill a gap between basic research and large fully integrated companies, and it is MVM Ltd’s aim to help fund their commercial success. | $100,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | National Wealth Fund (NWF) | The government-owned NWF is focused on increasing infrastructure investment across the United Kingdom. It will partner with the private sector and local government to finance a green industrial revolution and drive growth across the country. The core objectives are to: Help tackle climate change, particularly meeting the net zero emissions target by 2050. Support regional and local economic growth through better connectivity, opportunities for new jobs and higher levels of productivity. The NWF will help to finance important projects in every region and nation of the UK in sectors including clean energy, transport, digital, water and waste. Working in partnership with local government and the private sector, the NWF will harness investment tailored to the needs of specific infrastructure projects, offering a range of financing tools including debt, equity, and guarantees. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Nesta Impact Investments | Nesta Impact Investments is a fund investing in life-changing innovations that help tackle the major challenges faced by older people, children and communities in the UK. Nesta is seeing a rise in the number of social ventures with a mission to solve major social challenges and improve the lives of millions of people, as well as growing sustainable and scalable businesses. These ventures need access to the right capital and support to enable them to grow and bring the benefit of innovation to everyone in society. Nesta’ss mission is to invest in high impact innovations run by outstanding entrepreneurs. It invests primarily to create real and lasting social impact in the UK, as well as generating a financial return for its investors. | £1,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Newhaven Low Carbon Investment Fund | The fund is for any company with a base in Newhaven that wishes to pursue business growth by developing low carbon products and/or incorporating low carbon processes or services. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme | The programme aims to support a range of types of research including evidence synthesis and primary research. This includes large scale studies of national importance. This means primary research projects which: Address an issue of major strategic importance to the NHS, with the cost in line with the significance of the problem to be investigated. Are likely to lead to changes in practice that will have a significant impact on a large number of patients across the UK. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | NIHR Public Health Research Programme (PHR) | The main focus of the Public Health Research programme is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions. The scope of the programme is multi-disciplinary and broad, covering a range of interventions that improve public health. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Octopus Ventures Start-up Growth Fund | Octopus Ventures is administering this growth fund for UK start-up companies. The programme will focus on start-ups with ‘the potential to disrupt their industries and change the world’. The support provided by Octopus covers more than simply financial investment. The provider has a team of experts which connects it to experience, introductions and guidance on business matters. The investment focus is: health; fintech; Deeptech; Consumer; B2B Software. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Open Technology Fund (OTF) – Internet Freedom Fund | The funding is intended to support projects that develop, research or implement tools enabling users – such as journalists, human rights defenders, activists and the general public – to bypass internet censorship, communicate securely, or access blocked information. It also aims to back applied research efforts that investigate the causes and locations of censorship, improve internet freedom tools, analyse targeted content, or assess threats to internet freedom in specific regions. | £710,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Open Technology Fund (OTF) – Rapid Response Fund | The Fund provides emergency support and funding for individuals, groups and organisations who are being targeted by digital threats, such as hacking, censorship, or surveillance. It can provide direct financial support or technical services through trust partners to urgently address these issues and protect them from further harm. | £50,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Migration Fund | The funding is for not-for-profit organisations of any size working anywhere in the UK who are working towards: Embedding anti-racist practice across their organisation and work. Adopting an organisational culture that centres care and wellbeing. Shifting power to migrants and diaspora communities so their interests, perspectives and contributions are centred across the organisation’s work. Building solidarity and collaboration across communities, while working towards transformational change that benefits us all. Unlearning and challenging the harm, inequity, and oppression within their organisational structures and work. Learning, reflecting and being responsive to change. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Pentech Ventures | Pentech Ventures helps founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. | £10,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Plug-in Vehicle Grant (PIVG) Scheme | The Plug-in Vehicle Grant scheme (‘the PIVG scheme’) is a technology-neutral consumer incentive scheme designed to support the uptake of zero and ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) by providing grants for eligible plug-in vehicles (‘grants’). It was launched in 2011 to support ultra-low emission cars as part of a package of government measures to achieve the UK’s carbon reduction target, by reducing upfront costs. The grants have since been extended to support eligible vans, trucks, motorcycles and taxis. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Praetura Ventures | Together with equity, Praetura supports the founders of the companies it invests in, using its experience, network and resources to help them grow and succeed. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | PRISM | The primary aims of the programme are to: Increase the competitiveness of the UK steel and metals sector. Support government aims to achieve net zero by 2050, improve business productivity and competitiveness and level up across the nations and regions of the UK. Develop and enhance facilities and capabilities at the Materials Processing Institute, providing underpinning funding for development of sustainable long term revenue. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | PRS Foundation – Early Career Promoter Fund | The programme is intended to recognise the vital role independent promoters play in supporting the talent pipeline across England and within the nighttime economy, and offers grant funding and capacity building support, with the aim of bolstering the grassroots music ecosystems. | £3,500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Rayne Foundation | The Foundation’s objective is to contribute to lasting social change by funding creative and collaborative approaches that build and test solutions to some of society’ss most difficult challenges. The aim is to support organisations that think differently and enable innovation. This could be through introducing new methods, ideas, or products to improve services and systems. The funding is for charitable and not-for-profit organisations across the UK for projects that fall within the foundation’s chosen areas of special interest: Quality of life for older people and their carers. Mental health of children and young people. Opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers. | £30,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Recruitment Entrepreneur | The Recruitment Entrepreneur scheme offers funding and mentoring from business expert and investor James Caan. The scheme is intended to help entrepreneurs start or grow their own recruitment business. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Red Hill Trust | This fund aims to support educational projects and activities that benefit children and young people (CYP) under the age of 25 who have social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) difficulties, including high functional CYP that have a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and other special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Regulatory Partnership for Growth Fund | The Regulatory Partnership for Growth Fund will help to unlock export opportunities by aiding the resolution of trade barriers. Sectors such as clean energy and life sciences are set to benefit. Through the programme, the UKs pharmaceutical industry is expected to find it easier to sell innovative medicines in large markets like Brazil and around the world. The new fund builds on the Prime Ministers call for UK regulators to support the Governments growth mission, keep pace with emerging industries and upgrade the regulatory regime to make it fit for the modern age. The fund will also: Enable the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to partner with Brazil as it develops a comprehensive offshore wind regulatory framework, which could generate an additional £55 million of exports over five years for the UK supply chain. Support UK regulators who will aim to improve the process for accreditation of UK education programmes, such as university degrees, in countries all over the world, including Malaysia. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Rhododendron Trust | The funding is intended for smaller UK registered charities with humanitarian welfare projects in the developing world and the UK or cultural and wildlife projects in the UK. | £2,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | RNIB Technology Grants | The funding is intended for UK residents who are registered blind or partially sighted people and who have been refused funding from their local authority for the items they need. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment. | £500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Rufford Foundation Small Grants | The Foundation’s focus is on supporting grassroots nature conservation projects in developing countries and enabling conservationists to make a lasting impact in the natural world. Funding is available for: Projects with direct conservation benefits to threatened habitats or species. The fieldwork element of PhD or MSc studies, where there is a clear conservation output. | £18,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts – JJ Charitable Trust Literacy Small Grants Scheme | The Trust supports charities and community groups that help children and young people develop literacy skills, with a focus on supporting those with learning difficulties. The Trust’s work has a particular focus on areas of social need and those who are at risk of non-inclusion in society and the world of work. | £20,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Sainsburys Innovation Investments | Sainsbury’s intends to reach Net Zero in its operations by 2035. As part of this pledge the supermarket chain has announced the launch of its Innovation Investments programme which will invest in early-stage companies commercialising innovative, sustainable technologies that look to reduce operational carbon emissions and water usage. Eligible technology types: Electricity: Energy efficiency, on-site renewable technology, energy storage, energy management, transition to EV. Logistics: Operational efficiency, alternative fuels, delivery solutions, transition to EV. Heating and cooling: HVAC, clean transport refrigeration, low GWP refrigerants, small AC systems, zero emission fridges. Water and food waste: Waste reduction, recycling, water harvesting, sensors, demand prediction. | £500,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) | Scottish Equity Partners is a leading venture capital group based in Glasgow and London. Investments are made in information technology, healthcare and energy technology businesses at all stages of development throughout the UK. Venture capital is long-term, unsecured, risk-sharing equity capital for unquoted companies. A venture capital funder invests in a company by purchasing shares in the company. Venture capital financing is suited to situations where a business has high growth potential and the owner is willing to sell some of the company’s shares to an investor. Returns are entirely dependent upon the growth and profitability of a business, so venture capital investors are looking to invest in companies with strong growth prospects and talented, commercial management. Unlike a bank or other debt funder, which will have a legal right to interest on a loan and its repayment, a venture capital investor will get an income yield on its investment only if the company is profitable and will only get a capital gain on a sale of its shares in the company, normally on a sale of the company to a trade buyer or on flotation. Unlike other venture capital organisations, SEP does not take a seat on the Board but introduces companies to experienced non-executives who can complement existing management teams. SEP raises funds from blue-chip investors, global finance institutions, alternative asset management companies, pension funds, family offices and corporates. SEP aims to be a key general partner for investors with a long-term commitment to the venture capital asset class. | £50,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) | The aim of the SEIS is to stimulate entrepreneurship and kick start the economy. SEIS will operate as a specialist tool for a small group of investors and entrepreneurs that will aid them in supporting businesses that might otherwise struggle to gain funding. It will provide an exemption from capital gains tax on the proceeds of the sale of other capital assets. The scheme offers a combination of income tax relief with the potential to exempt capital gains reinvested in SEIS companies, thus saving more tax. SEIS operates in a similar manner to the existing EIS, providing income tax and CGT reliefs for individual investors who subscribe in cash for qualifying shares in qualifying companies. Qualifying shares includes ordinary shares, but also shares that may have certain non-cumulative preferential dividend rights. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Small Business Sunday Investment Competition (#SBS Invest) | Small Business Sunday (#SBS) is a weekly competition which runs on serial entrepreneur Theo Paphitis Twitter and Instagram accounts every Sunday between 5pm and 7:30pm. Each week, Theo Paphitis welcomes six small businesses who tweet, comment, or post an image to @TheoPaphitis describing their businesses to the #SBS community. Every Monday night at 8pm, Theo Paphitis announces his favourite six who are then re-tweeted or re-posted, providing them with publicity of their business to Theo’ss followers. Each winner is given a profile on Theo Paphitis’s website and joins the #SBS network. Currently, the community is home to around 4,000 small business owners. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Smart Export Guarantee | The Smart Export Guarantee is the support mechanism designed to ensure small-scale generators are paid for the renewable electricity they export to the National Grid. Under the scheme, all licenced energy companies with 150,000 or more customers must provide at least one SEG tariff. Smaller suppliers can offer an export tariff if they want to. All suppliers can also choose to offer other means of making payments for exported electricity, separate to the SEG arrangements. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Social and Sustainable Housing (SASH II) | The fund is intended to the Fund’s two aims: To improve the lives of vulnerable individuals by increasing their access to safe, stable and appropriate housing, and To make small-medium sized charitable organisations financially stronger, by allowing them to buy housing in a low risk way. | £10,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Sport England’s Movement Fund (with crowdfunding) | The funding aims to support projects that get more people active and enhance sport and physical activity participation across England. There is particular interest in projects providing opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity, such as: People living on low incomes. Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions. Older people. People from culturally diverse communities. Pregnant women and parents with very young children. Girls aged 5-16. | £15,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Sterling Road University Grants | The funding is intended to assist passionate founders in starting their projects. It aims to support individuals with exceptional ideas who are ready to begin building. | £1,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Tabhair Charitable Trust | This fund aims to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged people through education, training, and personal advancement. | £5,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Tech Zero Hackathon | Tech Zero is one of the UK’s largest tech movements committed to climate action. Its aim is to support tech companies on their sustainability strategy. As part of the programme, interested parties are invited to register interest in the first Tech Zero Hackathon. This two-day event will bring together developers, designers, and experts to work on real-life sustainability problems in tech. Participants will be provided with the tools, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), guidance and freedom to work on software or hardware solutions that could improve both the business and its climate impact. The Hackathon takes place 1 and 2 July 2024 (10am to 3pm, with awards) at Vinyl Factory, 18 Marshall St, London W1F 7BE, with reception at the Octopus Energy Offices, UK House. | £20,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | Tesco Stronger Start Grants | The focus of Tesco Stronger Starts is getting schools who lack funds and resources to apply for extra financial help they might need to provide healthy food and activities that boost young peoples mental and physical wellbeing. Priority is given to projects working in schools and organisations nominated by Tesco staff. | £1,500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | The Caron Keating Foundation | The objectives of the Foundations are to: Relieve those persons with cancer (in particular but not exclusively those suffering from breast cancer), their families and carers. Support the dependents of cancer patients or those that have lost their life to cancer (in particular breast cancer). Protect and preserve the health of cancer patients by offering financial support to other cancer charities, complimentary health practitioners, support groups working with cancer patients and to such other groups or persons supporting those suffering from cancer (in particular breast cancer). Promote research into the causes and treatment of cancer (in particular breast cancer). | £25,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | The Drinks Trust | The charity’s aim is to make a real different to the daily lives of those who have worked in the drinks industry and now need help. It helps people from across the industry, providing one-off or regular financial grants, sheltered accommodation, care home facilities, advice, support and friendship. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | The February Foundation | The Foundation makes grants to a range of charities and will consider supporting any charitable activities but has previously funded charities working in the following areas: Education. End-of-life care. Heritage and culture. Healthcare and patient support. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grants Programme | The Foundation’s aim is to develop good relations between the United Kingdom and Japan by advancing the education of the people of both nations in each other’s culture, society and achievements. It seeks to promote mutual understanding and cooperation through financial support for activities in the following fields: Arts and culture Science, technology and the environment Humanities and social issues Japanese language Medicine and health Youth and education Sport. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | The Pixel Fund | The fund aims to support improvement in mental health by providing grants to UK registered charities involved in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults. The fund prefers to target its grant-giving to specific projects that will provide a measurable difference to the charities’ users. | £5,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | The Portal Trust – Grants to Charitable Organisations and Educational Establishments | The aim of the Trust is to enable young people, particularly those from disadvantaged or low income backgrounds, to experience life-enhancing educational opportunities. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | The Seafarers’ Charity Grants – Main Grant Programme | Grants are available to charities and not-for-profit organisations that deliver safety initiatives and welfare services to seafarers and fishers. The funding is targeted on improving five outcomes experienced by seafarers throughout their working lives and during retirement: Enhanced financial resilience. Better working lives at sea. Improved health and wellbeing. Safer working lives at sea. Increased social justice. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | The Start-Up Series | The Start-Up Series is a seed funding competition, offering equity investment opportunities to UK businesses. The competition aims to identify the country’s brightest entrepreneurs with the smartest ideas to each qualify for one of 12 planned seed investments from a total of £1.8 million in equity funding. The investment is planned to come from a dedicated Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) fund, which has been launched specifically to back the qualified winners of the series of competitions. | £250,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Tree Health Pilot Scheme | The Tree Health Pilot Scheme has been launched to support action against pests and diseases affecting trees in the North West, West Midlands, London and the South East of England. The Tree Health Pilot (THP) scheme 2024 is testing different ways of slowing the spread of pests and diseases affecting trees in England. It expands on support available through the Countryside Stewardship Woodland Tree Health grant. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Turning Point – Community Innovation Fund | The funding is intended to help local people and community groups in Turning Point locations to launch activities that will reduce social isolation and improve the ˜five ways to wellbeing”. There is particular interest in initiatives that try to do things a bit differently, use existing resources in new ways and offer opportunities to the people and families supported by Turning Point. | £2,500 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Ufi Ventures Challenge Fund | The funding is intended to support early-stage companies developing EdTech solutions in five key areas:cGreen economy skills development. Digital transformation & Industry 4.0. Reskilling and upskilling in traditional industries. Inclusive skills development. Future of work and lifelong learning. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) | The UK Business Angels Association is a national trade association of business angel networks and associate organisations. Its role is to promote the recognition of business angel networks and the contribution business angels make to the entrepreneurial culture. The Association also supports early-stage investment in the UK and encourages the exchange of best practice, experiences and ideas between business angel networks. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Unity Trust Bank | Unity Trust Bank works to achieve social benefit, social change and community involvement through its banking services and through working with partners in the social economy. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Unlocking Space for Business | The programme aims to support UK businesses to: Better understand and prioritise how innovations in satellite data and services combined with complementary data sources can drive businesses benefits. Connect with leading data suppliers, aggregators, technology integrators and insight providers. Apply for Government funding to support the delivery of benefits from satellite data and services, through pilot projects, data procurement or partnerships. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Variety Club – Equipment Grants | The funding is intended to support organisations which work with sick, disabled or disadvantaged children up to and including the age of 18 years. There is particular interest in providing funding for specialist equipment for direct use by children. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Victoria Convalescent Trust | The funding is intended to support individuals who are in need of a short break due to disability, poor health or their role as a carer. The grants are for those who: Are in need of a short break for the purpose of convalescence, recuperative care or respite care. Do not have adequate resources to fund themselves. Have been unable to obtain sufficient assistance from the statutory services. | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health & Med / Wellbeing | VIVID Plus Investment Vault (with Crowdfunding) | The fund is focused on empowering communities in and around VIVID’s homes to make a positive community impact in Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Surrey, West Sussex, Portsmouth and Southampton. | £2,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Volvo Cars Tech Fund | The Volvo Cars Tech Fund provides strategic investments and global market access for innovative auto and tech start-ups from across the world. The fund is particularly interested in mobility apps and services, distributed ML/AI and storage, safety and security, networking and connectivity platforms, fusion and HD mapping, sensors and drive computing. Companies will benefit in several ways from participation in the programme, including associating with one of the worlds leading car makers, validating their technologies and accelerating the pace of achieving product market fit. In addition, start-ups may have the opportunity to benefit from Volvo Cars access to the Chinese car market, as well as potential access to Volvo Cars global network of automotive and technology partners. The Tech Fund plays a key role in Volvo Cars’ transformation towards becoming a fully electric car company in 2030 and climate neutral by 2040. | € 5,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | WestBridge SME Fund | The fund can make capital investments in profitable SMEs operating in niche sectors with high potential for value generation. | £40,000,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) | The Workplace Charging Scheme provides support for organisations towards the cost of installing up to 40 electric vehicle chargepoint sockets at their sites. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Scientific Research Grants | WADA promotes and funds scientific research projects on development or optimisation of analytical tools for the detection of doping substances or methods, growth of the Athlete Biological Passport, the pharmacology of prohibited substances and of drug combinations, evaluation of doping potential and anti-doping testing programmes. With this objective, WADA gives high priority to projects with direct and imminent applicability (including human studies if applicable) in the fight against doping in sport; and therefore, rarely funds basic research projects. More specifically, applicants are encouraged to propose translational research beyond the discovery stage, and the proposed projects should aim to attain concrete deliverables by the end of the funding period. | Discretionary | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | YAPP Charitable Trust | The Yapp Charitable Trust makes grants to small charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work. Work must fit into the Trust’s priority areas: Elderly people. Children and young people. People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges. Social welfare people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending. Education and learning, with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children. | £3,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Youth Endowment Fund – Open Call | The aim of this open call is to fund and evaluate projects that will help YEF build strong evidence for practices and approaches in areas where clear gaps exist. The funding is available to organisations across England and Wales that are working to reduce children’ss involvement in violence and have the potential for rigorous impact evaluation. Projects need to primarily support children and young people (aged 10 to 18 years) who are either: At risk of crime or violence (€˜secondary prevention’s), or Already affected by violence, offending or exploitation (tertiary prevention’s). | None specified | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose – Led | Masonic Charitable Foundation €“ Early Years with a Focus on Poverty and Neglect | There is particular interest in funding targeted interventions that support children (ages 0 to 5 years) who are living in most disadvantaged circumstances due to poverty and may be a risk of or are experiencing neglect. Interventions, for example, that: Increase the likelihood of children achieving developmental milestones. Support children to make successful transitions to primary school. Improve children’ss physical health through access to healthcare, nutrition, check-ups, immunisations etc. Give families a better understanding of their child’ss needs and improves confidence in parenting / caring so they are better able to meet the child’ss needs. Increase families’s positive engagement in services enabling targeted support to address specific issues, such as domestic violence, mental health, substance abuse, neglect. Help to meet a child’ss basic needs as part of a wider programme of intervention or support. | £60,000 | None specified | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Dawin Initiative | The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps conserve biodiversity and support the communities that live alongside it through locally led projects worldwide. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Energy Redress Scheme | The Energy Redress Scheme allows organizations to apply for grants to develop and test innovative products or services related to energy consumption. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | HSBC Go Greener SME Reward | Designed to make investing in sustainable solutions more accessible and rewarding for businesses | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | The Henry Smith Charity | The Henry Smith Charity aims to use its resources to help people and communities at a time of need and to bring about positive change.They achieve this by funding organisations that work with people to reduce social and economic disadvantage. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | The Human Rights Framework | The A B Charitable Trust supports organisations which work to protect the human rights framework in the UK. Activities could include campaigning, advocacy and influencing, legal, and narrative change work, but this must cover the framework as a whole. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust | The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)makes grants to organisations and individuals working to produce positive social change through their charitable work. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | The Tudor Trust | Tudor is a grant-making charitable trust rooted in family origins. They fund a wide range of organisations supporting positive social change. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | UK mammals Grant | Financial support for work that relates to the conservation of mammals in the United Kingdom. Acceptable fields of work for funding include scientific research, practical habitat management work, reintroduction and monitoring programmes and educational projects. | £10,000 and £20,000 | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | Veolia Environmental Trust | Community Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations, local authorities and Environmental Bodies (EBs). Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available to create or improve buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community. | £10,000- £75,000 | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | WCIT Charity Grants | The WCIT Charity is a national charity that aims to use the power of tech for impact through digital inclusion, education, charitable, and public engagement initiatives across the entire UK. Tt supports charities through its grant-making programme and by providing pro bono support to a multitude of organisations. | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Purpose-Led | The Builders Fund | The Builders Fund partners with growing companies whose business models address environmental and social challenges and where purpose can be harnessed for competitive advantage | None specified | Open | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) Investment Support Scheme | The Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) Investment Support Scheme aims to strengthen the UK’s energy security by providing backup renewable power. It seeks to boost investor confidence and unlock funding for projects that will create jobs and support the country’s progress towards net zero. Following a consultation, the scheme proposes a ‘cap and floor’ model, offering developers a guaranteed minimum income while capping revenues. This is intended to address long-standing barriers to building new storage capacity, such as high upfront costs. LDES technologies, like pumped storage hydro, act as large-scale batteries, storing renewable energy for later use. Deploying 20GW of LDES could save the electricity system £24 billion by 2050 and reduce household energy bills by providing cheaper renewable power during peak demand, lowering reliance on costly natural gas. Several LDES projects are in development, with some expected to be operational by 2030. The new support scheme aims to help bring these projects to fruition. | Discretionary | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance – Alliance Ventures | Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance has created this corporate venture capital fund to provide investment for €œnew mobility€, including innovative electrification, autonomous and connectivity projects and artificial intelligence. The venture fund is offering start-ups the chance to combine new technologies with the global scale and research and development departments of the alliance members. | Discretionary | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Research and Development (R&D) Tax Relief for SMEs | R&D tax relief supports companies that work on innovative projects in science and technology. | Discretionary | Find Out More (Webpage) |
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