New Grants Added This Week – 6th May 2026 to 13th May 2026
There were 80 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £36,815,000.
The amounts available range from £1,000 to £11,300,000.
Money is available for the following funding purposes: Buildings and Renovation, Business Growth, Business Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Overseas Markets Development, Property Development, Purchasing Equipment, Recruit and Develop Staff and Starting a Business.
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:
Centre for Quantum Commercialisation Skills
Research organisations are invited to apply for funding to establish a UK centre for quantum commercialisation skills.
Sovereign AI Strategic Assets Grants Programme
This Fund aims to support the creation of strategic AI assets. with an initial focus on two asset classes: high-value AI datasets and autonomous or automated laboratory infrastructure. The commercial track is for projects where the applicant will derive commercial benefit and will fund up to 50% of eligible costs, with up to 70% considered where the project would not proceed at a lower rate.
Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies: Applications with Academic Partners – Industrial Research
This competition aims to accelerate the development, demonstration, and commercialisation of next generation communications technologies that strengthen the UK’s security, resilience, sustainability, and long term competitiveness.
Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies: Applications with Academic Partners – Experimental Development
This competition aims to accelerate the development, demonstration, and commercialisation of next generation communications technologies that strengthen the UK’s security, resilience, sustainability, and long term competitiveness.
BBSRC Standard Research Grant: Applicant-Led Mode
This scheme provides funding to support excellent investigator-led research across the breadth of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit.
BBSRC New Investigator Award: Applicant-Led Mode
This scheme is providing funding to support excellent new investigator-led research across the breadth of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit.
Battery Innovation Programme: Battery Skills Initiatives
Businesses can apply for funding to establish or scale regional skills initiatives for battery manufacturing and its supply chain.
The Content Fund 2026
The fund aims to support projects to develop commercial games-for-entertainment with potential to secure a commercial audience at scale. Eligible projects must have a prototype in place.
Environmental Sciences: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2026
Research organisations can apply for funding to create new and sustainable global partnerships within NERC remit.
‘Making Wood Work for Wales’ Capital Grant Scheme (June 2026)
Businesses can apply for funding to enhance their ability to do one or more of the following: increase capacity for seed supply, as a tree nursery and/or for ground preparation, realise forestry potential by bringing woodlands under management and/or increasing harvesting and enabling/improving primary processing, promote the economic and sustainable production of timber and timber products and support their transition towards net zero.