Secure the funding you need to innovate and grow your business with our round-up of the best grant opportunities coming up this month. Our curated selection of the latest funding schemes includes grant opportunities for Health Sciences, Agri-tech Projects, Creatives, Charities, and Startups.

 

Wellcome Discovery Awards

Fostering bold, creative research in health sciences.

What is it? This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.

Who is it for? You can apply for a Wellcome Discovery Award if you are a researcher and research team who wants to pursue bold and creative research ideas. You must aim to make a major contribution to your research field by: generating significant shifts in understanding and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research.

Deadline: 3rd December 2024

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Developing Your Creative Practice (Arts Council England)

Enabling creatives to explore and develop new ideas.

What is it? Developing your Creative Practice is a development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners to ensure excellence is thriving in England’s arts and culture sector. The fund will create more pathways for individuals, from a range of creative practices and backgrounds. It will allow creative practitioners the time and space to undertake ambitious research and development, helping to make a step-change in their practice.

Who’s it for? Independent artists and creatives based in England.

Deadline: 12th December 2024

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Global Incubator Programme: Canada – Agri-Tech

A gateway for Agri-Tech innovators to scale globally.

What is it? A funded programme providing mentorship, resources, and access to the Agri-Tech ecosystem in Canada, with two week-long visits planned in April and July 2025.

Who’s it for? UK-based innovative companies focused on Agri-Tech sectors such as precision agriculture, robotics and smart manufacturing, or supply chain sustainability.

Deadline: 3rd Jan 2025

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Mid-Range Equipment for Biosciences Research (UKRI)

Funding state-of-the-art equipment to advance biosciences.

What is it? The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) invites applications for its mid-range equipment grants for ALERT 2024 biosciences research call. This supports advanced research equipment and development within biosciences research.

Who’s it for? Academic institutions and bioscience research teams in the UK.

Deadline: 9th Jan 2025

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Molecular and Cellular Medicine Programme (UKRI)

Advancing research into human diseases.

What is it? Funding biomedical projects focused on understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms of human health and disease. These provide large and long-term renewable funding for a coordinated and coherent group of related projects that may be developed to address an interrelated set of questions across a broad scientific area.

Who’s it for? Biomedical researchers based in the UK.

Deadline: 9th Jan 2025

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Foyle Foundation Main Grants Scheme

Funding for transformative projects in the arts and learning sectors.

What is it? The Foyle Foundation Main Grants Scheme provides funding to UK-based charities for projects in the Arts and Learning. Its focus is on sustainability and long-term impact in these areas, with particular emphasis on access and diversity.

Who’s it for? This scheme is open to UK-registered charities involved in arts or learning projects. It also occasionally supports schools, libraries, and universities when the projects have significant public benefit. Applicants must demonstrate financial viability for at least 12 months and show evidence of additional funding sources if required.

Deadline: 31st Jan 2025

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Bhattacharyya Award (Royal Academy of Engineering)

Recognizing UK engineering initiatives that foster collaboration.

What is it? The Bhattacharyya Award celebrates impactful collaborations between academia and industry. Each year, a prize of £25,000 is awarded to a team whose sustained partnership demonstrates how universities and industry can work together to address complex challenges and create real-world benefits. This award welcomes submissions from all fields, celebrating collaborations beyond engineering.

Who’s it for? Engineering institutions and wider partnerships in the UK.

Deadline: 25th Feb 2025

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Gilde Healthcare Venture Fund

Fueling innovation in healthcare and life sciences.

What is it? Gilde Healthcare is a specialized venture capital fund supporting innovative healthcare and life sciences companies. It is a specialized healthcare investor managing with two fund strategies: Venture&Growth and Private Equity. The fund focuses on businesses developing transformative medical devices, biotechnology solutions, and digital health platforms, as well as companies creating sustainable care solutions.

Who’s it for? Start-ups and scale-ups across Europe and North America that demonstrate a clear vision and potential for disruptive innovation in the healthcare sector.

Deadline: Open

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Rockstart Energy Accelerator

Accelerating energy startups driving global change.

What is it? Support for start-up companies from Europe that are innovating in energy, IT & sustainability. The Rockstart Energy Programme aims to help boost start-up companies that are innovating in energy, IT & sustainability, in order to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable energy supply.

Who’s it for? Innovative startups focusing on digital, decentralized, and decarbonized energy solutions.

Deadline: Open

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