269 live UK business funding opportunities

Business North Tyneside

Free start-up and ongoing support for businesses in North Tyneside

Welsh Government

The Welsh Government's fully-funded business support service: one-to-one advisers, finance and grants guidance, skills, tendering, innovation and sustainability support, plus online courses.

Carbon Trust

Specialist support and resources to help businesses cut carbon emissions, save energy and work on new technologies.

Clackmannanshire Council

Clackmannanshire Works is Clackmannanshire Council’s employability service, designed to help Clackmannanshire residents who want to get into work, as well as to assist businesses to develop and support local employees with jobs and training. Clackmannanshire Works offers a free vacancy matching and job brokerage service, to help your business source, pre-screen and arrange interviews with potential candidates for jobs, work placements and apprenticeships. The service can also provide advice and…

Colchester Business Enterprise Agency (COLBEA)

1:1 advice, signposting, start-up services, training and premises.

Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust

Loans for companies in Coventry and Warwickshire that can’t get finance from mainstream lenders

Creative Scotland

The National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations is a funding programme for artistic, creative and cultural organisations based in Scotland. You can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 to support creative activity that runs for up to 18 months. The types of activity eligible for funding are: a specific one-off project or production a period of creative research and development a longer-term programme of work The funding can also support business and organisational development that…

Development Bank of Wales

Discounted fixed-rate loans (£1,000–£1.5m programme range) plus fully/part-funded decarbonisation consultancy and repayment holidays, for energy efficiency, low-carbon heat, renewables and waste reduction.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Grant contribution to pay towards upgrading business broadband to a high-speed capable connection.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

This grant will support veterinary surgeon led review and advice to improve biosecurity on eligible poultry farms. The aim of the scheme is to use improved biosecurity measures to reduce the incidence of disease on poultry farms, including avian influenza, improving animal health and welfare and productivity.The deadline to apply is 30 September 2028.Reviews must be completed by 31 December 2028.Claims must be submitted by 31 March 2029.

Delivered by NBSL and funded by North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.

Grants are available to support projects costing between £3,000 and £6,000 (excluding VAT). The Business Support Fund can cover up to 40% of eligible business spend.

Delivered by Wenta on behalf of Central Bedfordshire Council.

A programme offering grants, free 1-2-1 business advice and skills training to anyone thinking of starting a business in Central Bedfordshire

Department for Business and Trade

Offers funding for civil aerospace research and technology development in the UK.

Department for Business and Trade

DescriptionDRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is a Department for Business and Trade led programme aimed at transforming the UK's automotive industry. This is achieved by supporting R&D and the commercial scale up of innovative zero emission vehicle technologies, and unlocking capital investment in zero emission vehicles, batteries and their wider supply chain.The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovat

Department for Business and Trade

MEGS provides match-funding grant support to representatives of UK-based music acts (normally music management companies or record labels who meet SME criteria) to help deliver high-quality marketing and promotion campaigns linked to international tours to enable these acts to grow their international business. The scheme is targeted at artists that have achieved reasonable levels of commercial impact in the UK and are now looking to break internationally. Successful recipients can claim no more

Department for Business and Trade

The visa fees reimbursement scheme for scale ups provides financial support to UK-based scale-ups operating in the Clean Energy, Life Sciences, and Digital and Technologies sectors. The scheme aims to reduce cost barriers to hire internationally, improving recruitment speed and certainty in sectors central to the UK’s growth and innovation ambitions by reimbursing visa fees for eligible hires and their dependants. Qualifying businesses can apply for funding up to £25,000.00/year, with a maximum

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) provides funding to public, private and third sector applicants, to support improvements to existing district heating or communal heating projects in England and Wales that are operating sub-optimally and resulting in poor outcomes for customers and operators.Projects can apply to HNES for either revenue or capital grant funding: Revenue grants – grants to fund procurement or mobilisation of external third-party support to carry out Optimisation…

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs / Forestry Commission – Nature for Climate Fund You can apply to get money to help create new woodland through the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO). You can get up to £10,200 per hectare to create the woodland. You could also get up to £12,700 in additional payments if your woodland contributes to the local community, nature recovery or the environment. For more information, read the guidance on how EWCO works on GOV.UK.You can access all

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Forest Creation Grant supports landowners and tenants within the National Forest or close to its boundary to take part in our shared vision of transformation through forests. By planting trees and creating thriving wooded landscapes, applicants help shape a greener, more resilient future for nature, communities and local enterprise.Whether your aim is to create new woodland, enhance and connect habitats, protect livestock, soils or crops, or develop innovative woodland-based products, this g

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

There are 2 parts to the service:animal health and welfare reviewendemic disease follow-upYou can choose the vet you want to do these. The review and follow-up are not an inspection or audit. If you are a farmer who is a vet, you cannot carry out your own visit, you must use another vet. As part of your IAHW agreement, you can have up to: 3 reviews on any number of herds or flocks of one or more species from the list of eligible livestock – beef cattle, dairy cattle, pigs or sheep 3 follow-ups o

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Successful projects will be awarded up to £100,000 resource funding and up to £1,250,000 capital funding. The proposed work must deliver new or upgraded linear access which should be multi-user (accommodating walking, wheeling, cycling or/and horse riding where possible.The route must run alongside a river, either a main river or ordinary watercourse. The route should run through or close to disadvantaged areas. Rivers which run ‘close to’ a disadvantaged area are defined as rivers which run wit

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

BackgroundDefra are investing in Paludiculture and Wetter Farming because the systematic drainage of lowland peatlands to create drier soils for conventional agriculture has resulted in soil erosion, land subsidence, biodiversity loss, and the carbon once stored in the peat being lost to the atmosphere, primarily as carbon dioxide. The independent Lowland Agricultural Peat Task Force report (2023) concluded that the best option to return drained lowland peat soils to a healthy condition is by re

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

You can apply for £1,500 to complete Stage 1 of the WCPG application. This is for a desk-based exercise to identify the constraints and opportunities affecting the proposed planting. If there’s potential for woodland creation to take place on the site, then you will be offered a stage 2 payment. At stage 2, you can get £150 per hectare, minus the £1,500 offered at stage 1, to complete stage 2 of the Woodland Creation Design Plan Template. You may get supplementary payments for specialist survey

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

The Life Sciences Transformational R&D Investment Fund Pilot is a newly established £50 million capital grant opportunity. It aims to boost research and development (R&D) within the UK's Life Sciences sector by supporting large-scale investments focused on innovation and strengthening health resilience. The fund prioritises projects with the potential to generate economic benefits. This is a new fund that works alongside the separate Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF). Projects…