New Grants Added This Week – 5th April 2026 to 12th April 2026
There were 23 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £16,908,500.
The amounts available range from £1,000 to £5,000,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff and Starting a Business.
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:
Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies – Industrial Research
This competition aims to accelerate the development, demonstration, and commercialisation of next generation communications technologies that strengthen the UK’s security, resilience, sustainability, and long term competitiveness.
Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies – Experimental Development
This competition aims to accelerate the development, demonstration, and commercialisation of next generation communications technologies that strengthen the UK’s security, resilience, sustainability, and long term competitiveness.
Contracts for Innovation: Enabling Commercial Quantum Networking
This competition aims to accelerate the development of enabling components and sub-systems for quantum networks.
CfI: Advanced Connectivity Technologies (ACT) – Call 1
UK organisations can apply for funding to develop near term, testable solutions that advance the UK’s Secure and Resilient and Sustainable Network Grand Challenges through deployable prototypes on UK testbeds.
Future Offshore Wind Technologies: Industrial Research
This competition aims to support mid-stage innovation projects within offshore wind, aligned with the Offshore Wind Industrial Growth Plan.
Multiple Model Assessment of Biological Influence on Ocean Carbon
This scheme is providing funding for a UK-US project to incorporate new representations of key processes regulating ocean carbon storage in contrasting global models.
Future Offshore Wind Technologies: Feasibility Studies
This competition aims to support early stage innovation projects within offshore wind, aligned with the Offshore Wind Industrial Growth Plan.
PRIMARY
This project will provide financial support to consortiums to validate and adapt innovative approaches to transforming underutilised agricultural feedstocks into valuable products.
iX Challenge: Whole Estate Renewable Energy Master Planning and Decision Support
This challenge is seeking a robust, practical and impartial master plan for transitioning to a resilient, low carbon, long term energy system.
Warm Homes Local Grant
This scheme is providing funding for households with a D, E, F, G EPC rating to make energy-saving upgrades, such as insulation and efficient heating systems.