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ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 12

ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant offers up to £2,500 to farming, growing or forestry businesses in England to help pay for an external facilitator to develop a full ADOPT grant application. Open, closes 11 November 2026.

Run by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Innovate UK

Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 7 Oct 2026.

A grant of £2,500 for farming, growing or forestry businesses in England to engage an external Project facilitator to support development of a full ADOPT grant application. Single applicants only.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open

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Deadline

Closes 11 November 2026 at 11am (10 days)

As stated: Competition opens: Thursday 1 October 2026 ... Competition closes: Wednesday 11 November 2026 11:00am

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How much

Up to £2,500

Whole fund: £100,000, shared between applicants

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Who can apply

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England that are active commercial businesses (including sole traders and partnerships) with a UK bank account, and that engage with an external Project Facilitator registered in the Innovate UK Business Connect database to develop a Full ADOPT Grant application.

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Business size

Any size

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How to apply

Apply through the full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service.

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Where it is open: England-wide

England

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HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across England, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

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