Grants & funding competitions
| Name of scheme | Sector | Deadline (month 2020) | Organisation/Funder/Competition | Summary |
| UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19 | Life sciences/healthcare | June 2020 | UK Research and Innovatio |
Proposals are invited for short-term projects of up to 18 months duration addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. |
| Pre-call announcement: ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries Network Plus |
UKRI will be inviting proposals for an ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries Network Plus Grant. |
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| ISCF Healthy Ageing Social, Behavioural & Design Research Programme | Life sciences/healthcare | UK Research and Innovation |
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are inviting applications to the ISCF Healthy Ageing Social Behavioural and Design Research Programme. £9.5m (100% fEC) will be available to support worldleading research that makes a significant contribution to the lives of people as they age. |
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| Call for Participants in a three-day Sandpit focused on Digital Technologies for Health and Care | Postponed to 10-12 November 2020 | |||
| 2020 Merck Research Grants | Life sciences/healthcare | August 31 | Merck |
Grants of 100,000 EUR - 500,000 EUR per year for up to 3 years are availabe in the areas of Drug discovery, |
| 2020 Merck Research Challenges | Life sciences/healthcare | 31 August 2020 | Merck |
Merck is organizing a series of research competitions for technology pioneers in compound synthesis, |
| NATEP: helping SMEs innovate in aerospace, spring 2020 | Aerospace | 17 June 2020 | Innovate UK, Aerospace Technology Institute and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | UK micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for industry led civil aerospace research projects. |
| Eureka: healthy ageing | Life sciences/healthcare | 5 August 2020 | Innovate UK | UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop digital health technologies in partnership with organisations from EUREKA countries. |
| EUREKA collaborative R&D: UK Sweden aerospace 2020 | Aerospace | 1 July 2020 | ATI Programme | UK businesses can apply for up to £5.8 million to collaborate on a digital security by design demonstrator project in which an additional technology ‘ingredient’ is required. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. |
| EUREKA collaborative R&D: advanced materials, March 2020 | Advanced materials | 30 June 2020 | Innovate UK | UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million for advanced materials R&D projects partnering with EUREKA country organisations, including South Korea. |
| GCRF demonstrate impact in developing countries: round 2, phase 1 | Market-creating innovations in lower income countries and emerging economies | 10 June 2020 | Global Challenges Research Fund | Organisations can apply for a share of up to £9.3 million to demonstrate market-creating innovations in lower income countries and emerging economies. |
| Innovation Scholars secondments: biomedical sciences, strand 3 | Life sciences/healthcare | 1 July 2020 | UKRI | UKRI invites applications for individuals from any discipline wishing to spend up to 36 months (full or part time) on secondment in the biomedical sciences sector. |
| Innovation Scholars secondments: biomedical sciences, strand 2 | Life sciences/healthcare | 1 July 2020 | UKRI | UKRI has allocated up to £5 million to fund innovation projects across the 3 streams |
| UK-Canada: enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability | Agritech | 24 June 2020 | Innovate UK | UK businesses with Canadian business partners can apply for a share of up to £2 million, from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, for innovative projects that enhance productivity and sustainability of crop, livestock and aquaculture systems. |
| Innovate UK Smart Grants: January 2020 | All | May 27 | Innovate UK | Opportunity to apply for a share of up to £25 million to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations that can make a significant impact on the UK economy. |
| Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) | Provides financial support to businesses across the UK that are losing revenue, and seeing their cashflow disrupted, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and that can benefit from £50,000 or less in finance. | |||
| Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) | Provides finance to mid-sized and larger UK businesses with a group turnover of more than £45m (the upper limit for the existing smaller-business focused CBILS) that are suffering disruption to their cashflow due to lost or deferred revenues during the Covid-19 outbreak. | |||
| Start up loans | All sectors | NWES | Borrow up to £25,000 Fixed interest rate of 6% (Typical APR 6.2%) No loan arrangement fee |
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| The Business Energy Efficiency (BEE) programme provides free support to SMEs within the GCGP LEP area (Cambridgeshire plus surrounding districts) to help them become more energy efficient. Two types of support are available: energy reviews (energy experts conduct a free, impartial, independent onsite reviews to identify the best cost- and carbon-saving opportunities); grant funding (to support SMEs investing in energy efficiency measures). For further information, please visit the web page. | ||||
| Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
£2,500 to £300,000 for businesses that: take over £2500 a month in credit or debit card payments, |
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| Free support to help businesses compete for major public and private sector contracts | ||||
| Fair Business Loans | ||||
| Fredericks Foundation loans | ||||
| Funding and advice for space services - UK | ||||
| Funding Circle - UK | ||||
| Horizon 2020 funding | ||||
| Industrial Partnership Awards (IPA) - UK | ||||
| Industry fellowship | ||||
| Innovate UK - grant funding, innovation loans and expert support | ||||
| Innovate2succeed - UK | ||||
| Innovation Voucher | ||||
| Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2) - UK | ||||
| Low Carbon Innovation Fund - East of England | ||||
| Media sub-programme grants - UK | ||||
National Skills Academies - England |
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| National Tooling Loan Fund - England | ||||
| Regional Growth Loan Scheme - East of England | ||||
| Stand-alone LINK - UK | ||||
| Designing sustainable plastic solutions |
Environment Materials |
Innovate UK | 16 September 2020 | Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £800,000 to fund early-stage, human-centred design projects to reduce the harm that plastics have on our environment and to therefore increase productivity and growth of the UK economy. This funding is from the Plastic Research and Innovation Fund. |
| WRAP environmental business advice - UK |
Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards
Energy Entrepreneurs Fund
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS)
Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)
The National Lottery Community Fund
Transform Ageing
Patent Box Relief
British Council Grants
Biomedical & Energy Catalysts
R&D Tax Credits
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
New Enterprise Allowance
Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP)
EUREKA Eurostars
Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme
CRACK IT Challenges
CleanTech Innovate
Shell LiveWIRE Awards (Smarter Future Programme)
CleanTech Challenge
Digital Entrepreneur Awards
Shell Springboard Awards
Lloyds Bank National Business Awards
The British Business Awards
EDF Pulse Award
FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards
NACUE Varsity Pitch Competition
The Prince’s Responsible Business Awards
The Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition
Hatch Business Competition
Future 100 Awards
Verb U Dell Social Innovation Challenge
China UK Entrepreneurship Challenge
Nectar Business Small Business Awards
FedEx Small Business Grant UK
L’Oreal Brandstorm
Shake to Create