New Grants Added This Week – 30th March 2025 to 6th April 2025
There were 80 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £5,379,650.
The amounts available range from £150 to £2,000,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff, Starting a Business and Working Capital.
Money is available for the following business types: Large Business, Medium Business, Micro Business, Small Business and Start-ups.
Top 10 Funding Opportunities:
National Space Innovation Programme – Major Projects Call 2
This call is providing funding for higher Technology Readiness Level projects (5-9) with an emphasis on catalysing investment and commercialisation. The call is seeking proposals in areas including innovative technology development, satellite applications and services.
National Space Innovation Programme – Kick Starter – Open Call 2 – Project Feasibility and Evaluation
This scheme is providing funding to develop emerging innovative technologies. The scheme aims to spend a target of 30% programme budget on the following technology themes: In orbit servicing capability, in orbit assembly capability, in orbit manufacturing capability and In orbit deployment of large structures.
National Space Innovation Programme – Kick Starter – Open Call 2 – Experimental Development
This scheme is providing funding to develop emerging innovative technologies. The scheme aims to spend a target of 30% programme budget on the following technology themes: In orbit servicing capability, in orbit assembly capability, in orbit manufacturing capability and In orbit deployment of large structures.
National Space Innovation Programme – Kick Starter – Open Call 2 – Research and Development
This scheme is providing funding to develop emerging innovative technologies. The scheme aims to spend a target of 30% programme budget on the following technology themes: In orbit servicing capability, in orbit assembly capability, in orbit manufacturing capability and In orbit deployment of large structures.
ERA Fellowships
Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, an increased set of research and transferable skills and competences, leading to improved employability and career prospects of fellows within academia and beyond and increased alignment of working conditions for researchers in accordance with the principles set out in the European Charter for Researchers. Fellowships should be provided to excellent researchers, undertaking cross-border mobility.
DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4: Large Projects
This competition aims to provide a package of targeted support to high growth creative businesses to scale, build investor networks and reach their potential. The funding will help creative businesses explore new innovation projects as a stimulus for growth. A maximum grant of up to £140,000 is available for micro and small businesses and a maximum grant of up to £120,00 for medium businesses.
Project Definition
Project Definition assistance can help businesses to scope out a collaborative R&D project or assist them in applying for external R&D funding, such as Innovate UK.
DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4: Small Projects
Creative sector businesses can apply for funding to support innovation projects to grow their business.
NGI Mobifree Open Call (June 2025)
This scheme is seeking solutions that give European citizens and organisations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software. This scheme is a cascade funding mechanism.
NGI Fediversity Open Call (June 2025)
The Fediversity project aims to further develop free and open source mobile platforms, applications and framework. This call is seeking solutions that will bring the next generation of mobile solutions closer.