305 live UK business funding opportunities

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 Studies.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The Competition will award non-repayable grant funding for eligible capital costs (‘Grant Funds’) associated with the construction of a new heat pump (or related components) factory or the extension, expansion, retooling, refurbishing, or reworking of an existing facility. It must involve the manufacture of heat pumps and/or heat pump components, such as heat exchangers, compressors, evaporators, control systems or thermal storage that can be paired with a heat pump. As an accelerator scheme, pr

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 / Forestry Commission – Defra Trees Programme

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 / Forestry Commission – Defra Trees Programme

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 Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - Forestry Commission - Nature for Climate Fund

Department for Environment, Food & 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 EW

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

DescriptionThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £5 million for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.This funding is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.The aim of this competition is to support innovative, on-farm trials or experiments to test ideas or solutions and demonstrate that they will address major on-fa

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

About the fund TPIF is a competitive grant that supports projects that enhance or facilitate domestic tree production methods. Improving tree production will help meet the government’s target of increasing tree and woodland cover in England to 16.5% by 2050. TPIF encourages the development and adoption of new technologies and ways of working that will: improve the productivity and resilience of tree production practices improve the quality of seeds and trees produced ensure genetically diverse m

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 wi

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF) is a capital grants fund which aims to build resilience for future health emergencies and capitalise on the UK’s world-leading research and development capabilities. The fund will enhance and accelerate affordable access to mature, new and emerging Life Sciences products for both pandemic and non-pandemic scenarios.LSIMF will provide up to £520 million in capital grants for investment in the manufacture of human medicines and medical techno

Department for the 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 Transport

Band 1 carsThe maximum discount available for cars assessed as Band 1 is £3,750.The eligible vehicles are:Citroën ë-C5 Aircross Long RangeFord E-Tourneo CourierFord Puma Gen-EMINI Countryman ElectricNissan LEAFNissan Micra (52kWh)Renault 4Renault 5 (52 kWh)Renault Alpine A290Band 2 carsThe maximum discount available for cars assessed as Band 2 is £1,500.The eligible vehicles are:Citroën ë-C3, Citroën ë-C3 Aircross and Citroën ë-C3 Urban RangeCitroën ë-C4 and Citroën ë-C4 XCitroën ë-C5 AircrossCi

Department for Transport

Base vehicles used for grant eligible wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) must have a recommended retail price (RRP) below £50,000 (see full price definition), subject to grant limits. This excludes the cost of conversion.A base vehicle is a standard vehicle that can be modified by a converter to create a WAV.We regularly review grant levels. Both the level of grant and the criteria for each category is liable to change at the discretion of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV).How the

Department for Transport

DescriptionInnovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Transport (DfT) to invest up to £150 million in innovation projects. These projects will develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment.The Zero Emission Vessel and Infrastructure Round 2 (ZEVI 2) competition is part of a suite of interventions launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme.UK SHORE aims

Department for Transport

DescriptionInnovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Transport (DfT) to invest up to £150 million in innovation projects. These projects will develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment.The Zero Emission Vessel and Infrastructure Round 2 (ZEVI 2) competition is part of a suite of interventions launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme.UK SHORE aims

Department for Transport

DescriptionInnovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Transport (DfT) to invest up to £150 million in innovation projects. These projects will develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment.The Zero Emission Vessel and Infrastructure Round 2 (ZEVI 2) competition is part of a suite of interventions launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme.UK SHORE aims

Department for Work and Pensions

The Youth Jobs Grant Scheme launched on 30 June 2026 across Great Britain (GB). The scheme is designed to support employers recruit and train young people, addressing the high levels of youth unemployment and inactivity we see in the current labour market. The scheme aims to support up to 60,000 job opportunities over three years, approximately 20,000 per year, and is expected to be open to employers of all sizes and sectors and eligible claimants. The Youth Jobs Grant will operate for three yea

Digital Dairy Chain

The Milk Round Technology Accelerator programme offers hands-on technical, engineering and business support to help individuals or small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with technology ideas for the dairy sector that could: improve its efficiency reduce its environmental impact help it to meet net zero targets The programme will help you develop your concept and fast-track it to demonstration and testing. This is a competitive programme that runs from January to July, but interested businesse

DRIVE35 (Driving Research & Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is led and delivered by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in partnership with: the Advanced Propulsion Centre Innovate UK

Capital and R&D funding for the UK automotive industry in the design, development and manufacturing of zero-emission vehicles and their supply chain.