New Grants Added This Week – 28th September 2025 to 5th October 2025
There were 86 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £34,863,202.
The amounts available range from £202 to £26,250,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Overseas Markets Development, Property 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:
MRC Centre of Research Excellence: Round Four: Outline Application
This scheme is providing funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.
Network Plus: Antifungal Resistance in the Environment
This scheme is providing funding to research groups and individuals to develop a Network Plus with academic, business, and policy partners to investigate how antifungal resistance emerges and spreads in the environment through healthcare, agriculture, and household mould-preventative product use.
ERC Consolidator Grants (January 2026)
The scheme aims to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy): 2025 Antibacterial Therapeutics – Research and Development
This scheme is supporting projects to develop early-stage, novel, antibacterial therapeutics seeking to treat Gram-negative bacterial infections associated with the highest burden of AMR.
Green ERA-Hub: Biomass Production and Utilisation
This scheme is providing funding to support research into sustainable production and utilisation of biomass.
Artificial intelligence (AI) for Environmental Science Phase One
This scheme is providing funding to use artificial intelligence (AI) and data science in new ways to address complex environmental challenges.
BHF Healthcare Implementation Fund
The Fund aims to support measurable improvement in the delivery of services for people with cardiovascular disease. Applicants can apply for funding for novel ideas that support early-stage testing and early-stage scaling projects that have been scoped.
Farming Innovation Programme – Feasibility Projects – Round 4
The competition aims to fund feasibility studies investigating new solutions that will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities.
UK Global Screen Fund: International Co-Production – Fast Track (September 2025) – Overseas Markets Development
This scheme is providing funding for UK film and TV production companies to enable them to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects.
National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme – 2025/26
This programme aims to support organisations, individuals, and entrepreneurs to test and develop solutions to remove barriers to transport for disabled people in line with set challenges identified by robust evidence. The 2025/26 round comprises three challenges: Vehicle Stop Design, Travel Assistance Services and Access to Information.