New Grants Added This Week – 17th April 2025 to 24th April 2025
There were 95 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £13,581,000.
The amounts available range from £500 to £3,000,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Overseas Markets Development, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff, Starting a Business and Working Capital.
Money is available for the following business types: Academic, Large Business, Medium Business, Micro Business, Research Organisation, Small Business and Start-ups.
Top 10 Funding Opportunities:
Generative AI for Anxiety, Depression and Psychosis
This scheme aims to support fundamental research on using generative AI to improve the measurement or treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis.
Applied Global Health Research: Stage Two
This scheme is providing funding to support applied research that will address global health challenges and inequities.
Early Detection and Targeted Treatments 2025 – Round 2 – Research and Development
This call seeks to support research that will bring about more accurate and faster diagnosis and more timely, effective and targeted treatments, tailored to individuals, taking into consideration not just their genes but also the environment they live in. The call focuses on two of the research priority areas from Versus Arthritis’ Better Lives Today, Better Lives Tomorrow Research Strategy 2022-2026: Early detection and prevention and targeted treatments.
Early Detection and Targeted Treatments 2025 – Round 2 – Purchasing Capital Equipment
This call seeks to support research that will bring about more accurate and faster diagnosis and more timely, effective and targeted treatments, tailored to individuals, taking into consideration not just their genes but also the environment they live in. The call focuses on two of the research priority areas from Versus Arthritis’ Better Lives Today, Better Lives Tomorrow Research Strategy 2022-2026: Early detection and prevention and targeted treatments.
Defence Innovation Loans 2025/25 (May 2025)
This scheme is providing loans with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum for SMEs to help them convert their mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.
Funding for Places – Building Acquisition and Renovation
This scheme is providing capital grants to organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability, heritage and humanities and the arts. Universities and research institutions can apply for funding towards the cost of new buildings, refurbishment work or major equipment to improve research infrastructure.
Funding for Places – Purchasing Capital Equipment
This scheme is providing capital grants to organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability, heritage and humanities and the arts. Universities and research institutions can apply for funding towards the cost of new buildings, refurbishment work or major equipment to improve research infrastructure.
Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT Digital Cognitive Dementia Assessments
This competition aims to accelerate innovation in dementia based digital cognitive assessments (DCA). High maturity DCA innovations will be deployed and assessed as part of the READ-OUT (REAl-world Dementia OUTcomes) blood based biomarker study and feed into the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative System Preparedness project.
Y Combinator – Summer 2025 Cohort
The accelerator program aims to help start-ups from across the world to take off. The program is particularly interested in start-ups that are working in fields including, but not limited to, AI, biology, brick and mortar 2.0, carbon removal technologies and cellular agriculture and clean meat.
Developing Semiconductor Hardware For Critical Technologies
This competition aims to encourage exploration of feasibility for innovative ideas with the potential to advance semiconductor hardware that can contribute to the global competitiveness of the UK in the critical technologies.