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Grants in the United Kingdom

Explore grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This directory includes national and regional funding from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at the United Kingdom come first.

Showing 457-480 of 2,193 grants

Banco Santander logo
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Santander X UK Awards

🇬🇧Santander · Spain

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

£5K – £30K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Collaborative industrial research for quantum computing hardware and associated software.

QuantumHardware+1
£1M – £3.5M
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.

QuantumHardware+4
£4M – £6M
Department for Education logo
Closed

School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030

🇬🇧DfE · United Kingdom

Capital funding for local authorities to create or expand school-based nurseries.

Built Environment
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology logo
Closed

Second Manchester Prize

🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom

Awards up to £1 million to the best UK AI solution for clean energy and net zero.

AIEnergy Tech+1
£100K – £1M
UK Research and Innovation logo
Closed

Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Fellowships for academics to embed with policy hosts and address policy priorities.

£180K – £280K
Alzheimer's Research UK logo
Closed

Senior Research Fellowship

🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom

Funds senior dementia researchers transitioning to independent group leadership to strengthen real-world implementation.

BiotechMedtech+1
£420K
Scottish Enterprise logo
Closed

SMART: SCOTLAND

🇬🇧Scottish Enterprise · United Kingdom

Funds Scottish SMEs conducting high-risk feasibility studies to prove out novel technologies through Scottish Enterprise R&D grants.

BiotechClimate Tech+6
£100K
European Space Agency logo
Closed

Space For Municipalities

🇳🇴ESA · Global / Multinational

Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled municipal services.

Built EnvironmentSpace
€60K
European Space Agency logo
Closed

Space Helping UK on COVID-19 and Other Pandemics

🇬🇧ESA · Global / Multinational

Funds satellite-enabled COVID-19 solutions piloted within the UK health system.

MedtechSpace
Academy of Medical Sciences logo
Closed

Starter grants for clinical lecturers

🇬🇧AMS · United Kingdom

Funds UK clinical lecturers with up to £40,000 to launch independent research.

£40K
Science and Technology Facilities Council logo
Closed

STFC Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP)

🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom

Supports invited large-scale United Kingdom particle, astronomy, and nuclear projects through STFC Projects Peer Review Panel, a route for complex funding.

QuantumAerospace+1
Strathclyde Inspire — University of Strathclyde logo
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Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom

Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.

AIBiotech+5
£10K
Advanced Research and Invention Agency logo
Closed

Sustained Viral Resilience

🇬🇧ARIA · United Kingdom

Funds R&D teams up to £8M to build durable, broad-spectrum antiviral medicines.

BiotechMedtech
£1M – £8M
TBAT Innovation logo
Closed

TBAT 2026 Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧TBAT · United Kingdom

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

£1K – £50K
Tees Valley Combined Authority logo
Closed

Tees Valley Export Fund

🇬🇧TVCA · United Kingdom

Supports Tees Valley firms entering export markets through the Tees Valley Export Fund.

Advanced ManufacturingEnergy Tech+3
£3K – £10K
LifeArc logo
Closed

Translational Innovation Hub Network for Lung Health and Infection in Cystic Fibrosis

🇬🇧LifeArc · United Kingdom

Funds UK research institutions to build up to three Innovation Hubs that translate new lung health and infection treatments for people with cystic fibrosis.

BiotechMedtech
Innovate UK Catapult Network logo
Closed

TRIG — Cohort 19

🇬🇧Catapult Network · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom transport innovators through feasibility work and practical proof of concept development resources.

Mobility
£45K
UK Games Fund logo
Closed

UK Games Fund — Prototype Fund

🇬🇧UK Games Fund · United Kingdom

Funds UK games studios building playable prototypes of original IP.

£100K
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme 2026

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Research funding for UK-Japan nuclear decommissioning projects.

Energy TechRobotics+2
£250K – £594K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.

AIBiotech+10
£450K
UK Research and Innovation logo
Closed

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Round 11 — Academic Stream

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Supports early-career United Kingdom researchers at universities and institutes through UKRI Future Leaders Academic fellowships for independent research leadership.

AIBiotech+5
£300K – £2M
UK Research and Innovation logo
Closed

UKRI policy internships 2026

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Three-month policy internships for eligible UKRI-funded doctoral students.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

UKRI Translation: BBSRC Proof of Concept 2026

🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom

Funding to translate bioscience research into products, services or solutions.

Biotech
£100K – £800K

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