Built Environment grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.

Between cycles

Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

Between cycles

Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.

Between cycles

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

Closed

Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.

Closed

Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

Closed

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

Closed

Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

Pays up to $800,000 in cash prizes to water-innovation solvers worldwide.

Awards up to €50,000 in equity-free funding and mentoring to energy, smart-city and eHealth startups.

Awards €100,000 total to architects and designers for unbuilt building concepts.

Awards a €100,000 prize fund for the best unbuilt architecture, interior and landscape designs.

Awards €10,000 per category to energy-transition startups founded within the last 10 years.

Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.

Pays up to €30,000 to architects and creatives designing a compact 25 sqm micro-home.

Awards $15,000 CAD to designers reimagining tall buildings for downtown Vancouver.

Awards $2,500 for the best Tiny House design in an open international competition.

Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.

Pays $10,000 to $15,000 for promising non-patented clean-tech startup ideas in energy transition and the circular economy, with a chance to join A2A's venture-building program.