The Get Business Grants database contains over 3,000 grants for business. A grant is a sum of money normally given by the government or other funding providers to achieve a specific economic objective or business development purpose. Grants help fund business growth and job creation projects that would otherwise not have started due to insufficient funding.
Structure of a grant
We organise the grants into 10 different funding purposes and each grant can be applied for across 1 or more of these funding purposes.
The 10 funding purposes are:
- Buildings and Renovation
- Business Growth
- Business Innovation
- Energy Efficiency
- Overseas Market Development
- Property Development
- Purchasing Equipment
- Recruit and Develop Staff
- Starting a Business
- Working Capital
Grant Fields
A Grant and its Funding Purposes are broken down into the below fields:
| Grant Fields | |
| id | The Get Business Grant unique grant identifier |
| url | Link to the provider of the grant |
| title | The title of the grant |
| openOrClosed | Whether the grant is currently open or closed for applications |
| currency | The currency used for the available funding amounts |
| totalFundSize | The total amount of money available |
| totalFundSizeFormatted | User readable formatted version of the totalFundSize |
| provider1 | The main provider of the money |
| provider2 | Quite often a grant can have multiple providers, provider2, provider3 and provider4 contain these providers if applicable. |
| provider3 | |
| provider4 | |
| schemeManagerType | The type of scheme manager e.g. Government Department, Trade Association, Bank etc. |
| fundingTypes | The type of funding available. Can be one of: Business Support Equity Finance Export Guarantee Export and Import Finance Support Funding for Project Costs Interest Free Loan Loan Support Funding Vouchers |
| hasFundingRounds | Does this grant have multiple funding rounds? |
| dateAdded | The date it was added into our database |
| lastChecked | The date it was last checked by our content team |
| Funding Purpose Fields | |
| id | The Get Business Grant unique funding purpose identifier |
| grantId | The matching Get Business Grants unique grant identifier |
| fundingPurposes | The funding purpose(s) the money is available for: Buildings and Renovation Business Growth Business Innovation Energy Efficiency Overseas Markets Development Property Development Purchasing Equipment Recruit and Develop Staff Starting a Business Working Capital |
| fundingPurposeDefinition | Descriptive definition of the funding purpose |
| subFundingPurposes | Each funding purpose above is split into separate sub funding purposes allowing you to query at a more detailed level. For example, Business Innovation has the following sub funding purposes: Experimental Development Feasibility Studies Industrial Research Research and Development |
| subFundingPurposeDefinition | Descriptive definition of the sub funding purpose |
| purposeTitle | The title of the grant for this funding purpose |
| purposeUrl | |
| purposeApplicationUrl | |
| purposeSizeMin | |
| purposeSizeMinFormatted | |
| purposeSizeMax | |
| purposeSizeMaxFormatted | |
| purposeDescription | |
| purposeDates | |
| purposeRegionIsUK | Does the grant cover the whole of the UK? 0 = Does not cover the whole of the UK 1 = Does cover the whole of the UK. |
| deadlineDate | |
| dateAdded | |
| regions | The list of regions this funding purpose applies to |
| sectors | The list of sectors this funding purpose applies to |
| businessTypes | The list of business types this funding purpose applies to |