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The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade is a ministerial department that works to drive growth, jobs and opportunity across the UK. It supports businesses to invest, innovate, export and grow.
gov.ukIts parts: Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas), British Business Bank, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK Space Agency.
Innovate UK, Battery Innovation Programme
Funding for industrial research solutions to strengthen supply chain resilience and onshore critical dual use capabilities in battery innovation. Open to organisations of any size.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Funding for investment into building a manufacturing facility or developing a specific process at pilot-scale or demonstration-scale.
Innovate UK
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, UK Space Agency
The UK Space Agency, invites proposals for projects through the International Bilateral Fund (IBF) that will help strengthen the UK space sector’s international partnerships.
Enhanced Trade Partnership in Greater Manchester, GM Business Growth Hub, Enhanced Trade Partnership
A programme for fast-growing Greater Manchester businesses preparing to expand internationally, with workshops, a 1-2-1 International Trade Adviser and an export grant of up to £2,500. It is run by the Enhanced Trade Partnership and brings together GM Business Growth Hub, Department for Business and Trade, Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
Innovate UK
A grant for UK registered SMEs with materials innovation projects that have investment traction from an approved investor partner, alongside aligned private investment. Part of the National Materials Innovation Programme.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
From 2027, cuts electricity costs by up to £40 per megawatt hour for eligible manufacturers in Great Britain, by exempting their sites from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation, Feed-in Tariffs and Capacity Market.
Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.
Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to support innovation in battery grade material technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, UK Space Agency
The goal of the Space Florida – UK Space Agency Space Innovation Partnership is to promote joint R&D collaboration amongst companies in the State of Florida and the United Kingdom.
UK Space Agency, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
A UK-wide space education and engagement programme using space as a context to support young people aged 4–19 with STEM learning and space careers. The UK Space Agency is seeking a consortium to deliver it.
Innovate UK
A part-funded security review that helps early-stage UK technology businesses identify and manage key security risks, including those linked to state threats. Participating businesses also receive a £300 Cyber Essentials voucher after the report is submitted.
Innovate UK Business Growth
A security review of a business's protective security, carried out by an appointed Security Reviewer with an in-person site visit and written report. Run by Innovate UK Business Growth for eligible organisations.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
The UK Government has launched the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale Ups (VFRS4SU), a targeted grant scheme to help UK scale ups in Clean Energy, Life Sciences, and Digital and Technologies hire internationally by reimbursing eligible visa application fees for specialist hires and their de...
BPI, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
The scheme is targeted at artists that have achieved reasonable levels of commercial success in the UK and are now looking to break internationally.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Sovereign AI
Reimbursement of visa-related fees for international hires into UK-based R&D roles for AI companies supported by the Sovereign AI Fund.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Free, tailored support from industry experts to help goods and services exporters grow internationally through digital channels, including ecommerce. Offers one-to-one support for qualified companies, plus webinars, surgeries and regional events.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
A zero-emission automotive funding programme with grants across innovation, scale-up and transformation, delivered by the Department for Business, Science, Innovation and Trade with the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK and Innovate UK. Aimed at automotive businesses and projects, from start-up to large-scale transformation.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Match-funded grants for consortium partners to support design, development and delivery of strategic zero-emission vehicle technologies.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
R&D funding to build a product or process demonstrator in under 12 months.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
The UK government's Business Growth Service gives free, impartial advice, expert-led training through the Business Academy, and personalised guides to one-to-one support, opportunities and funding, through Business.gov.uk and a network of partner organisations.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Free support from the Department for Business & Trade (DBT) North East team to help businesses trade and grow overseas, including tailored market information, market visits and advice from International Trade Advisers.
Growth Platform, GOV.UK, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Free webinars on business growth and exporting to help businesses unlock opportunities in the UK and overseas.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Large-scale capital investment funding to develop a UK-based zero-emission vehicle value chain and support transition to battery electric vehicle future.
North East Mayoral Strategic Authority, North East Growth Hub
Capital grants to help businesses in the North East automotive and EV supply chain invest in productivity, innovation and the transition to electrification. Backed by the Department for Business and Trade and delivered by the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Free training programme for UK businesses of all sizes looking to grow their international sales through live and on-demand events.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace.
Trade Remedies Authority (TRA)
The Trade Remedies Authority investigates unfair international trade practices, such as dumping and foreign subsidies, that injure UK industries, and can impose measures such as tariffs at the border. A business with evidence of wrongdoing can launch an investigation through the Trade Remedies Service.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
An award recognising outstanding achievement by UK businesses in young founder, innovation, international trade, sustainability and promoting opportunity through social mobility. Award-winners are valid for 5 years.
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)
Acas gives employees and employers free, impartial advice on workplace rights, rules and best practice, and offers training and help to resolve disputes.
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)
Impartial advice, guidance, training and conciliation for employers and employees on workplace issues such as redundancy, pay, contracts and dismissals.
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)
Acas offers free, impartial advice on employment rights, rules and best practice, free letters, forms and policy templates, help to resolve disputes without an employment tribunal, and courses and tailored support on employment topics. It is for employees and employers.
British Business Bank
Find Government-backed support, loans, and guidance available to businesses operating in the UK. Information is available on the British Business Bank website.
British Business Bank
Enterprise Capital Funds (ECFs) bring together private and public money to make investments in high growth, early stage, businesses.
Mercia Debt, Mercia
Debt finance from £100,000 to £2 million for businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber that can demonstrate growth potential, for example to hire staff, launch products, fund marketing or buy equipment.
GC Business Finance
Loans of £25,000 to £100,000 for SMEs across the North of England to invest in equipment, expansion, recruitment or cash flow improvements.
Business Enterprise Fund
Loans from £25,000 to £100,000 for new or growing businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber.
NEL Fund Managers, British Business Bank
Loans of £25,000 to £100,000 from NEL Fund Managers for new or growing businesses in the North East and Tees Valley, for growth such as expansion, new staff, equipment, working capital or premises.
NEL Fund Managers, British Business Bank
A debt finance fund to help smaller business owners deliver their business ambitions and grow. Aimed at smaller companies that can demonstrate growth potential.
GC Business Finance
NPIF II Smaller Loans from £25,000 to £100,000 for businesses looking to expand, take on staff or diversify.
GC Business Finance, British Business Bank, Business Enterprise Fund
Government-backed personal loan of £500 to £25,000 at 7.5% fixed interest for individuals starting or growing a business in the UK.
FW Capital, British Business Bank
Loans from £100,000 to £2 million for small and medium-sized businesses to grow in the North of England.
Maven Capital Partners
Equity finance of up to £5 million for ambitious, growth-focused start-ups and established SMEs in the North East of England. Run by Maven as fund manager for the British Business Bank's Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II.
Praetura Ventures
Equity investment of up to £5m for growth-stage businesses headquartered in or moving to the North, across sustainability, consumer, tech, hardware, health and services sectors.
British Business Bank
Government-backed guarantee scheme supporting access to finance for UK smaller businesses to invest and grow, with up to £2m per business group available through accredited lenders.
River Capital
Debt finance from £25,000 to £100,000 for new or growing businesses in the North West.
Start-up Loans, British Business Bank
Free courses from Start-up Loans and The Open University covering business essentials, digital skills, bookkeeping, climate and sustainability, mental health and wellbeing for entrepreneurs and would-be business owners.
Mercia Ventures, British Business Bank
Equity investment for established businesses with ambitious plans, or large start-ups with high growth potential.
British Business Bank
A British Business Bank finance finder listed on the West Yorkshire Business Growth Hub page as a resource; the text gives no further details.
British Business Bank
A commercial finance fund offering debt finance from £25,000 to £2 million and equity finance up to £5 million to help smaller businesses start, scale and grow.
Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8.5 million to develop and scale Engineering Biology platforms, products and services.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Share of up to £110 million from UKRI for UK registered organisations to deliver research and develop future leaders, for business and non-academic applicants.
Innovate UK
Phase 1 expression of interest for late-stage climate tech businesses developing First of a Kind (FOAK) projects, offering technical assistance (in-kind support) and possible Phase 2 grant funding. Companies must be UK registered micro, small or medium enterprises working alone, or as a lead.
Beyond Blood Diagnostics, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
Beyond Blood Diagnostics seeks solutions to reduce particle loss and positional variability in its microfluidic blood analysis cartridges. The winning applicant can apply for up to £60,000 for a 3 month project.
iX programme, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
A competition to find innovators who can build a configurable industrial software solution for MBSE simulation within openSPDM. Winners get a chance to pitch and then apply for a grant of up to £60,000 for a 3 month project.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
A challenge seeking an Android-based, scalable capability to detect, geolocate and map radio-frequency interference affecting PNT services such as GPS jamming, in near real time. Open to established businesses, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
iX programme, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
A competition for solution providers to capture and verify social value delivery across defence supply chains, with up to £60,000 grant for a 3 month project. Open to businesses including SMEs and start-ups.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
An Innovate UK Innovation Exchange challenge set by Advanced Integrated Technologies Ltd (AiT) seeking resilient communications, navigation and mission-connectivity technologies for a persistent high-altitude autonomous aircraft. Selected solution providers may be invited to apply for a grant of up to £60,000.
iX programme, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
Tekh is seeking a hardware development partner to design and prototype a series of low SWaP-C computing boards for Edge AI inference. Open to established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, VSS
VSS is seeking open-innovation solutions to extend blast mitigation protection for personnel in armoured vehicles under drone attack. The winning applicant, selected by VSS, can apply for grant funding for a 3-month project.
Innovation Exchange programme, Innovate UK, Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect
A challenge to develop a modern replacement electronics platform for the GeoSwath bathymetric sonar system, with a grant of up to £60K for a 3-month project. Open to established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
iX programme, Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovation Exchange
A challenge set by Ethicronics Ltd seeking solution providers to develop a reusable test capability for physical tamper protection of electronic assets in transit and storage. Open to established businesses, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs that are UK based or intend to set up a UK base.
Innovation Exchange, Innovate UK Business Connect, Innovate UK
A challenge seeking a secure, cost-effective way to use cloud-based AI, engineering and manufacturing tools with sensitive customer and defence data. Open to established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and individual entrepreneurs.
Innovate UK
Feasibility study funding for UK registered SMEs developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies with a clear route to defensible scale-up. Part of a three-phase pipeline.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Innovate UK
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.
Innovate UK
Funding for UK SMEs to experimentally validate prototype novel reusable AI mechanisms for efficient, structured and controllable AI systems. Projects must start at TRL 1, 2 or 3.
Innovate UK
UK registered research and technology organisations or academic institutions can apply for up to £4 million to establish a hub improving the targeting and commercial impact of grant-funded manufacturing digitalisation activity.
Innovate UK
UK SMEs can apply for grants to develop innovative proposals in collaboration with German SMEs, with a total fund of £2.4 million available.
Innovate UK
Cadent and Innovate UK seek smart control solutions that help domestic hybrid heating systems choose the most efficient and cost-effective heating source. Successful applicants are invited to pitch to Cadent.
Innovate UK
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £8 million to develop engineering biology products and services with selected investor partners.
Innovate UK
A Innovate UK competition to join a cohort of ambitious businesses that will develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector specific support for innovation and growth plans.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Innovate UK
Grant for on-farm trial and demonstration projects to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector. Open to farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England that lead collaborative projects.
Innovate UK
Innovate UK grant, with the Department of Health and Social Care, to support development and adoption of sustainable technologies for manufacturing medicines. Open to collaborations; the consortium must include at least one UK micro, small or medium enterprise claiming grant funding.
Innovate UK, Innovation Exchange
A Department for Education challenge seeking scalable, cost-effective digital tools and methods to capture structural condition data from school buildings immediately before demolition and analyse it for defect trends. The successful applicant(s) may be invited to pilot the methodology in up to 3 schools scheduled for demolition.
Innovate UK
Funds consortia to develop innovative AI deployment use cases in the Decision Critical Systems strand, progressing towards full deployment and replication. A UK deployer organisation in an eligible sector must be part of the consortium.
Innovate UK
Funds consortia to develop innovative AI deployment use cases for assurance and compliance systems, progressing towards full deployment and replication. Lead organisations must be businesses or other eligible UK organisations, with a deployer in a listed sector.
Innovate UK
Funds consortia to develop innovative AI deployment use cases in the Operational Systems strand, progressing towards full deployment and replication. The deployer must operate in one of the listed sectors.
Innovate UK
Innovate UK's iX challenge set by Photocentric seeks innovators who can develop cost-effective polyols from UK waste-carbon sources for resins used in its JENI 3D printing system. Successful applicants work directly with Photocentric to evaluate, test and develop solutions.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Funding to establish and lead an independent What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK, generating and synthesising evidence on the effectiveness of climate adaptation interventions. The project lead must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding, with at least one project co-lead from business, the third sector or government bodies.
Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Singapore. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore business applying under the equivalent Enterprise Singapore programme.
Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
A collaborative research and development programme to accelerate the development and validation of technologies for the safe, reliable and cost effective use of underground hydrogen storage. Run by UKRI for consortia led by UK registered organisations.
Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Grant-funded project development studies to help credible underground hydrogen storage demonstrator projects move from early stage (FEL-1 or -2) towards investment readiness and final investment decision. Open to enterprises under the Research, Development and Innovation Streamlined Subsidy Scheme.
Innovate UK
Grants for UK businesses in business-led collaborative industrial research projects with partners from Japan and other participating Eureka countries, in areas such as semiconductors, quantum, AI and space.
Innovate UK
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in which a business partner works with a knowledge base on a specific strategic innovation project, supported by an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Adviser. Grant contributions cover part of eligible project costs.
Innovate UK
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.
Innovate UK Business Connect
Innovate UK KTN connects innovators with partners and opportunities to accelerate ideas into real-world solutions.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Search current funding opportunities from across UKRI, research councils and Innovate UK across academic disciplines and industrial areas.
Tees Valley Combined Authority, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
An online directory of all live UK Research and Innovation funding opportunities. It is for businesses in the listed Tees Valley locations and sectors.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Space Agency
The National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) provides co-funded grant support to derisk high-reward R&D projects with a clear target market.
European Space Agency (ESA), ESA Business Applications
A non-competitive BASS call for operational solutions using space-enabled technologies to improve the resilience of electricity grids.
UK Space Agency
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.
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Space Agency
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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Innovate UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.
Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), Innovate UK, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Offers funding for civil aerospace research and technology development in the UK.
Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million for Engineering Biology pilot scale and validation projects. This funding is part of UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme and funded by BIST.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Early-stage R&D funding and mentoring for SMEs, start-ups, spinouts and mature organisations to develop investment and market-ready technology.
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Funding to validate the business and investment case for manufacturing projects at pilot, demonstration or full industrial scale.
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