| Sector | Grant Title | Grant Description | Maximum Award | Closing Date | More Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Industries | New Generation Thinkers | This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio. | 28-Jan-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | 3D Nanoscale Metamaterials Hub for a Sustainable Future | Apply for funding to create a research hub focused on developing 3D Nanoscale Metamaterials that support Sustainable Futures. Hubs should aim to deliver a step change in our understanding of how to design and build these materials from end to end, addressing design through to manufacture. | £12,187,500.00 | 30-Jan-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Call for Proposals | The Institute invites proposals for research programmes in any branch of mathematics or the mathematical sciences. | 31-Jan-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | This Fellowship is open to qualified applicants in all fields and sub disciplines of Byzantine Studies, such as history (including its auxiliary disciplines), archaeology, art history, literature, theology, and liturgical studies, as well as the study of Byzantium’s interactions. | 01-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round two: outline application | We are looking for challenge led applications to create new MRC CoREs that will support bold and ambitious research focused on a specific and defined challenge with the potential to prove transformative to biomedical research, health research or both within 14 years. Proposals should address the following themes of enhancing healthspan, immune regulation or molecular mechanisms to inform cancer intervention. | £21,200,000.00 | 13-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Therapeutic catalyst | The Therapeutic Catalyst accelerates the translation of laboratory discoveries into novel cancer therapeutics. | £250,000.00 | 14-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Early career awards | This scheme provides funding for early career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. | £400,000.00 | 15-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research: round seven | This grant supports collaborative projects between arts and humanities researchers in the UK and humanities researchers in Germany. | £336,000.00 | 19-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Grants for Studies | The RAS awards grants in support of studies in astronomy and geophysics. | £5,000.00 | 20-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Early Career Fellowships | These enable early career researchers, with a research record but who have not yet held a full time permanent academic post, to undertake a significant piece of publishable work. | 20-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Sustainability | Rosalind Franklin award and lecture | The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture is awarded for a project to promote women in STEM by an individual with an established track record of very high standing in any area of STEM. | £41,000.00 | 23-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Enterprise fellowships | These support entrepreneurial engineers who have who have an impactful innovation ready to commercialize at the seed or pre seed stage. | £75,000.00 | 26-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | Bhattacharyya award | This recognises sustained collaboration between academia and industry from any discipline. | £25,000.00 | 27-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Access to high performance computing resources | This enables researchers to use the ARCHER2 high performance computing services. | 28-Feb-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | NEOF Pilot Multiomics Competition for Early Career Researchers | The NERC Environmental Omics Facility provides access to omics capabilities (Genomics, Metabolomics and Proteomics) to the UK environmental research community. | £15,000.00 | 01-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | Global Lecture Courses | EMBO Global Lecture Courses enable scientific exchange beyond European borders. The aim of a lecture course is to teach participants, primarily PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, about a particular topic in the life science. | 01-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Equipment grants | These support the purchase of equipment to conduct research into the different forms of dementia. | £20,000.00 | 03-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | ESA business incubation centre United Kingdom | This provides start ups with technical expertise and facilities, business support, networking, office space and funding needed to overcome innovation challenges and accelerate business growth. | £50,000.00 | 03-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Creative Industries | Lisa Jardine grant scheme | This enables early career scholars to exploit history of science collections, including the society’s own, in support of their research in the field of intellectual history. | £8,000.00 | 05-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Other | Prevention and population research programme awards | Provides long term support for broad, multidisciplinary research with transformative potential in prevention and population research. | 07-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Postdoctoral Research Bursary for Clinical Trainees | This award offers funding for clinical trainees to undertake a research project after completion of a PhD. Applications are considered from any area of our funding remit, with the exception of clinical trials and drug discovery. | £35,000.00 | 07-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | Pre doctoral research bursary | This provides short term funding to allow clinicians and other health professionals to get involved in research projects early in their career. | £25,000.00 | 07-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Synthesis grants | This grant aims to bring together diverse interdisciplinary groups of 8 15 individuals to focus on data analysis and synthesis while fostering collaboration and mentoring opportunities. | £30,000.00 | 08-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Small research grants | These grants support scientific ecological research where there are limited alternative sources of funding. The British Ecological Society (BES) supports projects where there is a clear ecological science focus to the work | £5,000.00 | 08-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Long term research grants | This grant will provide a small amount of funding each year for 10 years to enable existing short term projects with at least 1 2 years of data to be funded into the long term, where there is likely to be great benefit from growing and developing this dataset over the longer term. | £7,000.00 | 08-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Sustainability | Postdoctoral fellowship programme | This enables young postdoctoral researchers from the UK to conduct cooperative research with research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. Fellowships are tenable for one to two years. | 12-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Astronomy large awards | Large astronomy awards support themed, programmatic large projects tackling big research questions or technology development with the potential to produce world leading research. | 12-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | International Fellowships | The International Fellowships Programme provides support for outstanding early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders. Each award is expected to involve a specific and protected research focus. | 13-Mar-25 | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Creative Industries | Infection Transmission Sandpit | Companies and research groups with novel solutions to tackle infection transmission will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the UK’s infection response and bid for funding through a new initiative to stimulate innovation. | £150,000.00 | 14-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 | Research Grants | These support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Grants are worth between USD 150,00 and USD 500,000 depending on the number of team members, for a total period of three years. | 19-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) | ||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) | |
| 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 | 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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 | 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | 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) | |
| 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 | 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 | 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) | ||
| 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 | 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: 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: 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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 | 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| Purpose Led | Fearless Adventures | Providing support from a combination of marketers, talent, and finance teams, Fearless Adventures seeks to drive business growth across its network of partners with the goal of a successful eventual exit. | 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 | 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) | |
| 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 | Community Investment Fund | Loans and equity investments are available to community based, locally led charities and social enterprises in England that are providing essential health, social care, education and training services to improve the quality of life of local individuals, especially those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged. | £2,000,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) | 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, offering flexible capital to make risk-tolerant investments in next generation technologies to provide reliable, affordable, zero-carbon energy, food, and products to the world. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| Purpose Led | 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. | £200,000.00 | 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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 | CITB ConstructionSkills Grants | Grant aid is available to registered employers in Great Britain for the training of employees in construction and craft industries. | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) | ||
| 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 | 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 | Creative Growth Finance II | Creative Growth Finance has been established to provide scale-up finance to the UK’s most promising creative businesses. It will target post-revenue SMEs that have reached a point of scale that requires supporting finance for continued growth. | £500,000.00 | 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| Creative Industries | Help Musicians – Music-led Creative Collaboration | This programme is provided by Help Musicians UK (HMUK). HMUK is an independent charity providing help, support and opportunities to empower musicians at all stages of their lives. | £5,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| Emerging Technology | Founders Factory Accelerator | By providing capital, expert operational support and access to a global network of corporates, investors and entrepreneurs, Founders Factory aims to help startups in the healthcare, finance and emerging Web3 technology sectors to build and scale faster. | 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) | ||
| Emerging Technology | MVM International Life Sciences | Financial assistance, in the form of venture capital, is available to emerging biotechnology companies to transform fundamental biomedical research into products. | £77,907,064.00 | 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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. | £1,000,000.00 | 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) | ||
| 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. | £20,000,000.00 | 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 | 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. | No deadline | 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. | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | 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 | 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) | |
| Gaming | Game Changers Innovation Programme | Game Changers is the UK’s leading nuclear innovation programme, finding solutions and developing technologies to overcome some of the most complex challenges facing the nuclear industry. The programme is open to anyone from any sector who can offer a viable solution including SMEs, universities, research organisations and large companies | £60,000.00 | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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. We want to fund projects that: encourage communities to use energy in an environmentally friendly way bring communities together so that they can explore ways to promote energy efficiency enable communities to understand and engage with opportunities for clean energy generation, which do not use fossil fuels. We want to fund projects that aim for long-term change. And projects that have the potential to have a positive impact beyond the communities they’re directly working with. | £1,500,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| 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 create connections between online and offline worlds help make sure people from all backgrounds can shape the future of their communities. | £5,000,000.00 | 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. We offer funding from £300 to £20,000. And can support your project for up to two years. | £20,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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. | 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| Creative Industries | Unlimited Arts Commissioning Programme | An arts commissioning programme that enables new work by emerging disabled artists to reach UK and international audiences. | 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) | |
| 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. | £1,000,000.00 | 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) | ||
| 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. | 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 | 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. | No deadline | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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 | 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 | 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) | |
| 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 | 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| Emerging Technology | Game Changers Innovation Programme | Feasibility grants are available for industry and academia to help them find solutions and develop technologies that will overcome some of the most complex challenges facing the nuclear industry. | £60,000.00 | 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) | ||
| 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 | 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 | 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) | ||
| Health and Med / Wellbeing | 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) | |
| Emerging Technology | Connectivity in Low-Earth Orbit (C-LEO) Programme | The Connectivity in Low-Earth Orbit (C-LEO) programme will provide funding to UK companies and researchers to develop innovative satellite communications technology. | 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 | 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 | 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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 | 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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 | 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| Creative Industries | BFI Doc Society RAD (Research and Development) Fund | Grants are available for UK filmmakers, supporting independent non-fiction films and immersive projects, prioritising expansive, director-led storytelling and aiming to be transformative and representative of all UK society. | £10,000.00 | 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) | |
| Creative Industries | Creative Growth Finance II | Business loans for established small and medium-sized creative industryfirms from across the UK that are showing potential for growth and scaling, in addition torevenue and intellectual property. | £500,000.00 | 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 | Create South East | Create South East is a programme of support for creative businesses who want to become investment ready. This programme is funded by Create South East through the Create Growth Programme. | No deadline | Find Out More (Webpage) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| Emerging Technology | Mouro Capital | A fund for financial technology (FinTech) small start-up companies in the UK. | 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | |
| Purpose Led | Lord Barnby’s Charitable Foundation | Grant for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable purposes in the UK. | £12,000.00 | No deadline | Find Out More (Email) | |
| Emerging Technology | Game Changers Innovation Programme | Feasibility grants are available for industry and academia to help them find solutions and develop technologies that will overcome some of the most complex challenges facing the nuclear industry. | £60,000.00 | 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) | |
| 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 | 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) | |
| 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) |
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