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Healthy Soils and Water for a Sustainable Environment

Healthy Soils and Water for a Sustainable Environment is a grant competition for collaborative projects on soil, water and environmental management, open to businesses of any size across the United Kingdom. Opening soon.

Run by Innovate UK · funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Farming Futures R&D Fund, Defra (Farming Innovation Programme), Farming Futures Research and Development Fund

Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 28 Oct 2026.

A competition offering a share of up to £28 million for soil, water and environmental management projects. It is run by Innovate UK and co-funded by Defra, and is open to collaborations only.

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Status and deadline

Status

Opening soon

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closes 28 January 2027 at 11am

As stated: Competition closes: Thursday 28 January 2027 11:00am

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Share of up to £28 million (total fund)

Whole fund: £28,000,000, shared between applicants

You put in: The organisation receiving the grant must fund the balance between total eligible project costs and the grant awarded.

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK registered businesses of any size can lead a collaborative project, working with at least one other UK-registered organisation. Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

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

Not confirmed on the official page

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How to apply

Full opportunity details are on the Innovation Funding Service.

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Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Not confirmed on the official page

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.

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Things we could not confirm

  • Funded by the Farming Futures Research and Development Fund; its own rules may apply.
  • Business size limits not stated.
  • Sectors beyond soil, water and environmental management not stated.

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Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 28 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 28 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Innovate UK before you apply.

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