New Grants Added This Week – 19th July 2026 to 26th July 2026
There were 30 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £743,500.
The amounts available range from £2,500 to £300,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff and Starting a Business.
Money is available for the following business types: Academic, Medium Business, Micro Business, Research Organisation, Small Business and Start-ups.
Top 10 Funding Opportunities:
UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Awards
Research organisations can apply or single-step support in developing a new or repurposed medicine, medical device, diagnostic, or other medical product.
Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative
Researchers can apply for an Academic and Industry Partnership award, which can be used to support feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.
Novel Autonomy and Robotics (Phase 1) – Research and Development
This competition aims to support the development of early-stage disruptive science and technology for future game-changing advances in Defence robotics and autonomous systems.
Visualising Smart Cities
HMGCC Co-Creation is seeking software that can take open-source smart city data and display it as an immersive, interactive 3D map — layering in the locations and types of sensors and connected devices across an urban environment.
Agricultural Water Resilience Grant (September 2026)
This scheme aims to help farmers and growers across Cambridgeshire to improve water efficiency, increase resilience to drought and protect the water environment through investment in sustainable water management solutions.
Surrey Farming Innovation Accelerator
This accelerator programme will support farmers and growers with digital projects designed to modernise operations, improve productivity, diversify and boost long-term resilience.
Connected Airport Living Lab: 2026/27 Programme
This six-month challenge-led opportunity will support UK SMEs to develop, test or demonstrate innovative technological solutions in a live airport environment.
Geovation Accelerator Programme 2026 – Autumn
This programme is offwering startups solving challenges across property, energy, infrastructure and the natural environment the opportunity to experiment with location in order to enhance their value proposition to solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.
Rewilding Innovation Fund (September 2026) – Research and Development
Private landowners and managers that are members of the Rewilding Network (RN) can apply for funding to support projects that take an innovative approach to land and marine rewilding, which will help develop learning and evidence for others within the RN.
Rewilding Innovation Fund (September 2026) – Feasibility Studies
Private landowners and managers that are members of the Rewilding Network (RN) can apply for funding to support projects that take an innovative approach to land and marine rewilding, which will help develop learning and evidence for others within the RN.