243 live UK funding schemes, tracked weekly

Innovate UK

Rolling portfolio of themed R&D grant competitions for UK businesses, typically funding 25-70% of project costs across feasibility, industrial research and experimental development.

Innovate UK / UKRI

Funds a high-calibre graduate (Associate) plus academic team embedded in your business for 12-36 months to deliver a strategic innovation project. SMEs typically pay ~33% of project costs.

HMRC

Corporation tax relief on qualifying R&D expenditure. Merged scheme gives a 20% above-the-line credit (~15-16% net); loss-making R&D-intensive SMEs can claim enhanced support (ERIS) worth up to ~27p per £1 of qualifying spend.

HMRC

Reduces corporation tax to an effective 10% on profits attributable to patented inventions and certain other IP rights.

Made Smarter (North West)

Match-funded grants (typically up to £20k, 50% intervention) plus fully funded digital transformation advice for manufacturing SMEs adopting industrial digital technologies (robotics, IIoT, data & AI, additive).

Made Smarter (regional programmes)

Regional Made Smarter programmes (West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber, North East, East Midlands and others) offering funded digital advice and match-funded technology grants for manufacturing SMEs; amounts vary by region.

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Grants for energy-intensive industrial sites to study and deploy energy-efficiency and deep-decarbonisation technologies, from feasibility studies to multi-million-pound deployment projects.

UK Export Finance

Government guarantee (typically 80%) on working-capital facilities from participating banks to support exporters' trade cycles — frees cash to fulfil international orders.

British Business Bank

Successor to the Recovery Loan Scheme: government-backed guarantee enabling term loans, overdrafts and asset finance up to £2m for smaller UK businesses through accredited lenders.

British Business Bank

Personal loans of £500-£25,000 per director (up to £100,000 per business) at fixed 6% interest for businesses trading under 3 years, with free mentoring.

European Commission / UKRI

Collaborative R&D grants under EU Horizon Europe calls, open to UK organisations as associated-country participants — typically 60-100% funded consortium projects.

Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

Voucher covering up to 75% of the purchase and installation of workplace EV chargepoints, capped at £350 per socket for up to 40 sockets.

Department for Transport / OZEV

Point-of-sale discount on eligible new electric vans (up to £2,500 small / £5,000 large vans) and significantly more for trucks; applied by the dealer.

Building Digital UK (DSIT)

Vouchers worth up to £4,500 for SMEs (and homes) in eligible rural areas to cover the cost of installing gigabit-capable broadband.

Small Business Charter / DBT

90%-subsidised 12-week mini-MBA for senior leaders of SMEs, delivered by accredited business schools with 1:1 mentoring — participant pays only £750.

Department for Education

Flexible 16-week technical training (digital, engineering, construction, green skills) where employers contribute only 10% (SMEs) or 30% (large) of the cost to upskill existing staff.

Defra / Rural Payments Agency

Grants of roughly £1,000-£25,000 per theme towards listed productivity, slurry and animal-health equipment for farmers, growers and some contractors in England.

Defra (Farming Transformation Fund)

Large capital grants (typically £25,000-£500,000) towards robotics, automation, slurry acidification and rooftop solar for farm businesses in England.

Scottish Enterprise

Supports feasibility studies (up to 70% of costs) and R&D projects (up to 35%) with high commercial potential for Scottish SMEs.

Scottish Enterprise

Discretionary capital/job-creation grants for projects in Scottish assisted areas that create or safeguard jobs — award scales with capex and employment impact.

Invest Northern Ireland

Supports Northern Ireland businesses at every R&D stage, from feasibility to development — typical intervention 40-50% for SMEs.

Welsh Government (Business Wales)

Welsh Government support for businesses to develop, implement and commercialise new products and processes, co-funding R&D stages from feasibility through to exploitation.

Development Bank of Wales

Flexible loans (and equity) from £1,000 to £10m for Welsh businesses — micro loans, growth capital, property and succession finance with patient terms.

Innovate UK Loans Ltd

Below-market loans of £100,000-£2m for SMEs commercialising late-stage R&D — interest partly deferred during the R&D phase.