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Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) SME Programme

The ATI SME Programme is a grant of up to £1,500,000 for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK developing technology for the civil aerospace sector. This scheme has closed.

Run by Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), Innovate UK, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

Checked against the official page (ati.org.uk) on 5 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 16 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

Offers funding for civil aerospace research and technology development in the UK.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

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Deadline

Closed 16 October 2026

As stated: Outline stage opens on 5 October 2026 (9am) and closes on 16 October 2026 (11am); it opens three times a year.

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How much

Up to £1,500,000

Whole fund: £2,300,000,000, shared between applicants

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Who can apply

UK registered organisations (SMEs or businesses of any size with at least one SME in the consortium) looking to develop technology for the civil aerospace sector, carrying out aerospace research project work in the UK and intending to exploit results from or in the UK.

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Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

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Sectors

manufacturing

How to apply

Apply for the outline stage through the link on the ATI's SME Programme page while a round is open; successful outlines are invited to a full stage application.

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Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

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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 United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (ati.org.uk) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 16 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 9 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) before you apply.

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