New Grants Added This Week – 10th August 2025 to 17th August 2025
There were 145 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £4,780,900.
The amounts available range from £2,000 to £2,000,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Overseas Markets Development, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff, Starting a Business and Working Capital.
Money is available for the following business types: Academic, Large Business, Medium Business, Micro Business, Research Organisation, Small Business and Start-ups.
Top 10 Funding Opportunities:
Growth Guarantee Scheme – Asset Finance
This green asset finance variant of the Growth Guarantee Scheme aims to support smaller businesses to invest in green assets that facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Depot Charging Scheme – Energy Efficient Equipment
This scheme is providing funding to fleet operators towards the costs of installing charging infrastructure for electric HGVs, vans and coaches at fleet depots.
Midlands Engine Investment Fund II – Debt Finance – Business Growth
This scheme is providing loans and debt finance for SMEs to help them undertake projects that will drive forward their expansion plans. Eligible expenditure can include, but is not limited to, hiring a new team, launching a new product or service, funding marketing costs, or purchasing new machinery or equipment.
Midlands Engine Investment Fund II – Debt Finance – Job Creation
This scheme is providing loans and debt finance for SMEs to help them undertake projects that will drive forward their expansion plans. Eligible expenditure can include, but is not limited to, hiring a new team, launching a new product or service, funding marketing costs, or purchasing new machinery or equipment.
Midlands Engine Investment Fund II – Debt Finance – Purchasing Capital Equipment
This scheme is providing loans and debt finance for SMEs to help them undertake projects that will drive forward their expansion plans. Eligible expenditure can include, but is not limited to, hiring a new team, launching a new product or service, funding marketing costs, or purchasing new machinery or equipment.
COSMIC 1st Open Call: AI and Data Solutions to Boost the Green Transition
This call aims to support proposals to develop, facilitate, test, and validate AI-based technologies/assets, using diverse datasets, to address large scale energy resource optimisation and the transition to a net-zero society. This is a cascade funding mechanism.
UK Horizons: Frontier Research Contractors
This scheme aims to bring together elite engineers and researchers to build Frontier Research Contractors that accelerate breakthroughs and translation in ARIA’s opportunity spaces.
SoilTribes | Open Call to Support Initiatives Led by Multi-Actor Teams – Experimental Development
This call is inviting submissions of ideas for lump sum grants aimed at supporting innovative, multi-actor initiatives that foster soil literacy, raise public awareness, and engage diverse communities in the protection and restoration of soil. The call is divided into two LOTS: Development of New Ideas and Improvement and Scale-Up.
Midlands Engine Investment Fund II – Smaller Loans
The scheme is providing loan funding to support entrepreneurs wishing to start their own business, as well as early stage or more established businesses looking to grow.
2025 STFC Cross Cluster Proof of Concept: SparQ Quantum Computing Call
This call aims to support business-led projects focusing on practical applications and use cases relevant to the public, private, and charitable sectors. It aims to identify and develop early practical applications and use cases for quantum computing and analyse these applications to understand the software and hardware requirements.