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Unlocking Space for Business Grant Call: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions

Unlocking Space for Business is a grant of up to £400,000 for UK-registered businesses, including small and medium-sized firms, that lead projects using space-enabled technology to monitor and report emissions and environmental impacts. Open, closes 11 December 2026.

Run by UK Space Agency

Checked against the official page (gov.uk) on 28 Oct 2026.

A UK Space Agency grant call to fund innovative, near-to-market commercial solutions that use space-enabled technologies to improve the identification, monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions and environmental impacts for non-space UK businesses. Projects should involve an end-user business piloting a space-derived solution.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closes 11 December 2026 at 4pm

As stated: Applications must be submitted through the Flexigrant portal by 16:00 GMT on 11 December 2026.

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £400,000

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.

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK-registered end-user businesses, including SMEs, leading a consortium with at least one UK space supplier and any additional integrator or delivery partner organisations required to support project delivery.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

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

Confirmed on the official page

Sectors

energy, utilities, waste management, infrastructure, agriculture, industrial operations

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How to apply

Register for the Flexigrant portal and submit the application form, with Annex A (Proposed Milestone Table), Annex B (Project Cost Breakdown) and Annex C (National Security Questionnaire, where required) via Flexigrant.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

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

  • Deadline is inconsistent in the text: the Dates section says the call closes at 4pm GMT on Friday 11 December 2027, while the How to apply section says applications must be submitted by 16:00 GMT on Friday 11 December 2026. Check with the funder before relying on either date.
  • Awarded projects are expected to commence from January 2027 and last a maximum of 9 months.
  • Applicants must register on the Flexigrant portal before submitting an application.
  • Webinar on Tuesday 3 November 2026 at 11:00 GMT to provide information and answer questions (see events).

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Source and last checked

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