New Grants Added This Week – 9th August 2026 to 16th August 2026
There were 129 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £38,747,632.
The amounts available range from £500 to £20,000,000.
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:
DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund Drawdown 5
This Fund aims to support manufacturing facility and process development at pilot scale or demonstration scale.
Critical Minerals Accelerator (September 2026)
This programme will support innovation, scale up new projects and processes and ultimately support commercialisation of domestic critical minerals capabilities.
Resilient Economy and Security through Ecosystem Transitions Grants
Funding is available for research projects under the NERC-Defra co-funded Resilient Economy and Security through Ecosystem Transitions (RESET) programme. Projects will improve understanding on how, when and why ecosystems transition, reorganise or collapse, to sustain functions, strengthen economic prosperity, societal resilience and national security.
Start-up and Growth Loan – Starting a Business
This loan offers flexible funding to help people looking to start a new venture or grow their business.
Start-up and Growth Loan – Business Growth
This loan offers flexible funding to help people looking to start a new venture or grow their business.
Water Efficiency Lab (October 2026)
This competition aims to attract the most innovative solutions to specific water efficiency challenges and unlock progress on water efficient technology, processes and approaches.
Advancing Atmospheric and Aerial Autonomy
UK research organisations can apply for proof-of-concept funding to develop, integrate, deploy, and demonstrate innovative autonomous solutions for atmospheric science or autonomous aerial systems for environmental applications.
Earthshot Prize 2027 – Resource Efficiency
Innovate UK is accepting expressions of interest from individuals, communities, businesses and organisations that offer innovative and impactful solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges: Protecting and Restoring Nature, Cleaning Our Air, Reviving Our Oceans, Building a Waste-Free World, and Fixing Our Climate.
Earthshot Prize 2027 – Research and Development
Innovate UK is accepting expressions of interest from individuals, communities, businesses and organisations that offer innovative and impactful solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges: Protecting and Restoring Nature, Cleaning Our Air, Reviving Our Oceans, Building a Waste-Free World, and Fixing Our Climate.
Multiplex Platforms to Assess Indicators of Micronutrient Status, Inflammation and Infectious Disease
The objectives of this challenge include, but are not limited to, improving the current multiplex test for immunological determination of nutritional-status analytes, extending the panel to bioindicators of vitamins B9 and B12 and measuring the nutritional status of vitamins B1 and B2.