New Grants Added This Week – 6th July 2025 to 13th July 2025
There were 42 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £16,258,500.
The amounts available range from £500 to £10,000,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Overseas Markets Development, Property Development, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff and Working Capital.
Money is available for the following business types: Academic, Large Business, Medium Business, Micro Business, Research Organisation and Small Business.
Top 10 Funding Opportunities:
Experimental Medicine: Invited Stage Two Application
Researchers can apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease.
Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition – Round 22
The scheme is providing loans to support close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. Projects must lead to innovative new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others currently available, or propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services.
ERC Starting Grants (October 2025)
The grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Private businesses can host private investigators and their teams.
Foundation Industries and Supply Chains Innovation Exchange
Individuals based at eligible research organisations can apply for funding to lead engaging the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, technology or facilities.
Future Flight: Regional Demonstrator 2 – Industrial Research
This competition aims to support projects to demonstrate the commercial viability of regional drone, electric take off and landing (eVTOL) or zero emission conventional take off and landing (CTOL) aircraft operations or services in the UK.
Future Flight: Regional Demonstrator 2 – Experimental Development
This competition aims to support projects to demonstrate the commercial viability of regional drone, electric take off and landing (eVTOL) or zero emission conventional take off and landing (CTOL) aircraft operations or services in the UK.
UK Space Agency Climate Services Call 3
The scheme is providing seed funding to test technical ideas and/ or the commercial viability of a new climate service. Ideas should be novel and innovative but can be a technological enhancement to an existing climate service,
Open Horizons – Open Call for Funding of Women-Led Start-ups
Women-led startups operating in deep tech and digital innovation are invited to apply for equity-free funding, tailored mentoring and strategic matchmaking, and opportunities to co-design and test paid pilot projects with major European corporates. The focus of this call is on real-world business needs in sectors like AI, Green Tech, Blockchain, and Advanced Materials.
NGI TALER Open Call (October 2025) – Research and Development
The NGI TALER pilot aims to roll out a new, best-in-class electronic payment system that benefits everyone. This call is providing funding to support ideas in the area of digital commons and networked technology that will contribute towards achieving a more open information society and brings the next generation of the internet closer.
NGI Zero Commons Fund (October 2025)
The scheme is seeking projects that will help reshape the state of play and help create an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all. This scheme is a cascade funding mechanism.