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Unlocking Space for Business Grant Call: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions

Unlocking Space for Business Grant is a £2,000,000 grant pot for UK businesses, including small and medium-sized firms, leading consortium projects that use space data for environmental monitoring or emissions. Open, closes 11 December 2026.

Run by Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Space Agency

Checked against the official page (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk) on 20 Oct 2026.

A UK Space Agency grant call for end-user businesses to lead consortium pilot projects using space-enabled data to address environmental intelligence or emissions monitoring challenges. Part of the Unlocking Space for Business programme.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open

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Deadline

Closes 11 December 2026 at 4pm

As stated: Opening date: 19 October 2026, 5:00pm ... Closing date: 11 December 2026, 4:00pm

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How much

£2,000,000 grant funding available (total funding envelope); no per-project amount stated in this part

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

You put in: Total project costs may be higher where match funding is provided by consortium partners. Collaborations involving an SME and/or a research and knowledge dissemination organisation may receive a 15% subsidy uplift.

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK registered end-user businesses including SMEs, leading a consortium with a UK space supplier and any integrator organisations. The project must be led by a UK organisation who will receive a grant from the UK Space Agency.

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Business size

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

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How to apply

Start a new application via the Start new application link on the Find a grant page.

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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

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