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This edition's opportunity list
🚀 Accelerators
Biomedical Catalyst Accelerator Provider Pool EoI: early stage
Support Type: Funding, Business growth, Contracts & procurement, Invest in innovation
UK registered organisations can apply to join an approved provider pool for the BMC Accelerator Programme, supporting experienced providers in delivering early stage accelerator programmes for innovative UK SMEs in health and life sciences.
Funding Available: Eligible project costs up to £500,000 (future funding will be 100% funded)
Application Deadline: 04/03/2026
Ignite Bermuda - Entrepreneurial Accelerator
Support Type: Entrepreneurial Accelerator
Ignite Bermuda is the island's entrepreneurial accelerator aimed at fostering a community of innovative business and community leaders.
Democracy x AI Cohort: Call for Proposals
Support Type: Grant, Incubator
Mozilla Foundation is inviting technologists with working AI systems that strengthen democracy to apply for a cohort program offering $50,000 funding per project for 12 months along with mentorship, workshops, and network support.
Funding Available: $50,000 per project; potential follow-on funding of $250,000 for Tier II projects
Application Deadline: 16/03/2026
📈 Business Support
BOOST - The Tourism Network
Support Type: Business Support
BOOST is a free programme offering practical marketing support through workshops, coaching sessions, and online resources to help tourism businesses in York and North Yorkshire thrive.
Ready to RISE
Support Type: Business Support
Ready to RISE (Readiness & Incubation for the Social Economy) is a programme that aims to help women across Scotland learn about social enterprise and discover their potential to use entrepreneurship to make a living, work flexibly and positively impact their communities.
Business Support - Fredericks Foundation
Support Type: Business Support
Fredericks Foundation provides ongoing business support to social entrepreneurs through exclusive membership of 'Team Fredericks', offering tailored mentorship, industry expertise, dedicated trustees, and pre-investment support via The Reach Fund.
Phase One Business Incubator Programme
Support Type: Business Support
An entrepreneurial start-up programme designed to support innovators in turning their ideas into sustainable businesses through expert advice, workshops, one-to-one mentoring, and access to a professional workspace.
Application Deadline: 03/04/2026
Franchise Angels
Support Type: Business Support
A franchising programme aimed at helping businesses grow through franchising with support from experienced industry figures.
Fully Funded Training for Tourism and Hospitality Businesses
Support Type: Training, Certification, Business Support
A fully funded initiative providing accredited online training and certification courses for tourism and hospitality businesses. The programme covers courses such as Food Hygiene, Food Allergen Awareness, Managing Customer Conflict, and Licensing Law Awareness Training.
Funding Available: Fully funded
Carbon Trust Advisory Services
Support Type: Business Support, Consultancy, Climate Advisory
Carbon Trust provides expert advisory services to help organizations achieve their climate goals through emissions reduction, net zero transitions, and sustainable strategies.
Inspire UK
Support Type: Membership, Community, Business Support
Inspire UK is a relationship-first community offering genuine peer support, networking, and mentorship for female founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through programs like The Inspire Network and Inspired Women Mastermind.
Steps into Digital Programme
Support Type: Business Support, Digital Transformation
The programme offers a supportive, guided approach to digital transformation with fully funded online and in-person workshops, one-on-one advisory sessions, and a voucher scheme worth up to £1000.
Funding Available: Voucher worth up to £1000
Company Programme
Support Type: Entrepreneurship, Business Support, Educational Programme
A real-life learning opportunity where young people aged 13-19 set up and run their own student company, gaining work experience, leadership, and teamwork skills.
Team Programme
Support Type: Business Support, Entrepreneurship
Team Programme is an enterprise journey for students with mild to moderate learning difficulties that enables them to run their own business and gain confidence, practical skills, and life experience.
Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP)
Support Type: Funding, Business Support
A long-term business transformation programme funded by the Offshore Wind Industry Council with a £100million budget over 10 years, designed to support supply chain companies in growing their competitiveness in the UK offshore wind sector.
Funding Available: £100million over 10 years
YNY Equity Hub
Support Type: Business Support, Investment Platform
The YNY Equity Hub is a user-friendly portal hosted by the York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub that helps SMEs and start-ups to showcase their investment opportunities and growth potential to attract investors nationwide.
Support Type: Business Support, Networking, Membership
SEYH represents, promotes and connects social enterprise across Yorkshire & Humber, offering membership benefits and access to resources to help social enterprises flourish.
Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR)
Support Type: Business Support, Programme
The programme supports UK supply chain companies in entering and growing in the offshore renewable energy sector by providing tools and knowledge to succeed and achieve 'granted' status.
Application Deadline: 06/03/2026
Skills Bootcamps in York and North Yorkshire
Support Type: Skills Bootcamp, Training, Business Support
More than 900 learners benefit from flexible, part-funded, up to 16-week courses in a range of sectors, with guaranteed job interviews for unemployed participants upon completion.
🎓 Fellowships
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: outline
Support Type: Fellowship
A funding opportunity under the BBSRC fellowship scheme designed to support early career researchers in establishing independent research careers in biotechnology and biological sciences.
Funding Available: £9,000,000 total fund; BBSRC funds 80% of the full economic cost with no upper limit on individual awards.
Application Deadline: 22/04/2026
UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Support Type: Fellowship
Fellowships designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities.
Funding Available: £250,000 over a 2-year period at 80% of full economic costs
Application Deadline: 28/04/2026
Digital Minds Fellowship
Support Type: Fellowship
An intensive residential programme with a follow-up strategy workshop, designed to build technical, philosophical, and strategic capacity in the emerging field of digital minds research.
Funding Available: Fully funded travel and accommodation, plus a £1,000 stipend
Application Deadline: 27/03/2026
Early Independence: NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2026
Support Type: Fellowship
A funding opportunity for early career researchers to establish independent research careers in environmental science. The fellowship supports investigator-led projects within NERC's remit and offers flexible working arrangements including part-time options.
Funding Available: £7,250,000 total fund; no individual award limit as NERC funds 80% of the full economic cost
Application Deadline: 16/06/2026
🤑 Grants
Centres of Excellence
Support Type: Accreditation, Grant
Centres of Excellence is a nationally recognised award that accredits education providers across the UK for excellence in delivering financial education. The programme provides a £1,500 bursary along with tailored support and expert advice to enhance financial education delivery.
Funding Available: £1,500
Business Innovation Fund
Support Type: Grant, Business Support
The Business Innovation Fund aims to achieve greater progress and faster delivery of economic opportunity in York and North Yorkshire by attracting new investment and supporting businesses to become more innovative, productive, and resilient.
Funding Available: Indicative £5 million divided across five programmes
Business Sustainability Programme
Support Type: Grant, Business Support
The Business Sustainability Programme is funded through the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority's UKSPF allocation and supports businesses and farms in the region by helping them implement energy audit recommendations to improve energy efficiency and decarbonisation.
Great Ideas
Support Type: Grant, Business Support
A fully-funded, bespoke programme connecting businesses with guidance, funding, and expertise across York & North Yorkshire, offering grants of up to £60,000 as part of the Business Innovation Fund.
Funding Available: Up to £60,000
CatalyseHer UK | Empowering Women-Led Impact Startups
Support Type: Business Support, Microgrant
CatalyseHer accelerates the growth of early-stage women-led businesses in the UK through expert guidance, online learning, live facilitated sessions, community building, and the opportunity to win cash microgrants.
Funding Available: Up to £5,000 per microgrant, with a total of $300k USD available in cash grants over the course of the program.
Application Deadline: 08/03/2026
iX Challenge - Enabling regional carbon dioxide utilisation in Southwest Wales through geospatial intelligence
Support Type: Collaboration, Commercial challenge, Grant
The challenge seeks innovative solutions to develop a geospatial planning tool that optimises CO₂ mapping, routing, and reuse across Southwest Wales.
Funding Available: £25,000
Application Deadline: 07/04/2026
Advancing innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare
Support Type: Grant, Collaboration, Funding
Industry led consortia can apply with total eligible costs up to an expected £10m. Grant funding is available with awards of up to £3 million per business per project, covering 70% of eligible costs depending on business size.
Funding Available: Up to £3 million per business per project
Application Deadline: 06/05/2026
UK-Germany Collaborative Innovation for Quantum Technologies 2026
Support Type: Grant, Collaboration
UK registered organisations can apply for funding between £750k and £1m per project for innovative quantum technology projects in collaboration with a German partner. The total funding available is up to £3 million.
Funding Available: £750,000 - £1,000,000 per UK organisation; up to £3 million in total funding available.
Application Deadline: 15/04/2026
European Institute of Innovation and Technology: open calls in Urban Mobility
Support Type: Grant, Investment, Collaboration
EIT Urban Mobility offers two open calls with regular deadlines: one Financial Support to Startups Open Call offering up to €2.5m investment for startups, and a Strategic Innovation Open Call providing up to €2m grant (covering up to 65% of eligible project costs) for collaborative consortia addressing urban mobility challenges.
Funding Available: Up to €2.5m investment for startups; up to €2m grant for consortia.
iX Challenge: CCTV / AI Waste Monitoring for High Accuracy Recycling
Support Type: Grant, Commercial Challenge, Commercial Opportunity
Sinclair Group invites innovators, SMEs, and solution providers to propose digital and AI driven technologies to improve recycling accuracy, reduce contamination, and enhance operational efficiency through a 3‐month pilot project with Innovate UK grant funding of up to £25,000.
Funding Available: £25,000
Application Deadline: 07/04/2026
The Which? Fund
Support Type: Grant
The Which? Fund offers grants to support research projects aimed at improving understanding of consumer harms experienced by diverse and disadvantaged communities and developing evidence-based solutions.
Funding Available: £75,000 total available in 2026; projects can request funds based on their needs.
Application Deadline: 30/03/2026
The Connect Fund
Support Type: Grant
The Connect Fund awards provide up to £1 million to support groups working in sectors that directly affect Northern Ireland communities, addressing mutual challenges and opportunities with Great Britain.
Funding Available: Up to £1 million overall; individual awards between £300 and £50,000
Grants — The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
Support Type: Grant
Grants provided by the Foundation to support group music-making projects and the performance or recording of Michael Tippett's works.
Application Deadline: 30/09/2026
SWEF Enterprise Fund - CFM
Support Type: Grant
The SWEF Enterprise Fund provides non-repayable grants to young entrepreneurs in Merseyside to support essential business costs and help take their start-up to the next level.
Funding Available: £500 to £2,000
Robotics Adoption Programme skills development
Support Type: Grant
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million in grant funding for projects that develop vocational robotics skills courses under the Robotics Adoption Programme.
Funding Available: £100,000 to £500,000 per project; overall allocation of £2.5 million
Application Deadline: 25/03/2026
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 1
Support Type: Grant
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £10 million to fund innovation projects with UK registered businesses.
Funding Available: £10 million total allocated by Innovate UK
Application Deadline: 01/04/2026
BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund
Support Type: Grant
The fund provides National Lottery backed grants for creative development programmes, supporting project development and talent growth in feature film and immersive media projects with a focus on diversity and public benefit.
Funding Available: £12,000 to £150,000 per edition, with the possibility of awards over £200,000 for exceptional projects.
Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund
Support Type: Grant
The Museums Association, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, is providing a programme of grant-making, networking, and learning dissemination to support health and wellbeing programmes in UK museums during a time of financial crisis and increased service demand.
Funding Available: £50,000 to £75,000 per grant; approximately 10 grants available
Application Deadline: 20/05/2026
B&Q Foundation Grants
Support Type: Grant
The B&Q Foundation funds projects that improve home environments by providing grants for essential home improvements and home-starter kits for UK charities supporting individuals in need.
Funding Available: Up to £10,000
START-UP GRANT
Support Type: Grant
Grant for launching a business to cover essential equipment, training, or website costs.
Funding Available: Up to £500 initially, with opportunity to reapply for up to £2,000 after 6 months
Endangered Crafts Fund - Heritage Crafts
Support Type: Grant
Small grants to help the most at-risk crafts by funding projects that ensure the longer-term viability or survival of endangered or critically endangered crafts.
Application Deadline: 08/05/2026
BFI Filmmaking Fund - Discovery and Impact feature funding
Support Type: Grant
Awarding National Lottery funding to support original live action and animated feature filmmaking.
Funding Available: Discovery: up to £1,000,000; Impact: up to £1,250,000
Application Deadline: 05/03/2026
Zero Emission Flight Demonstrator round one – UKRI
Support Type: Grant
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of a minimum of £8 million for developing zero emission capable flight in the UK.
Funding Available: £8,000,000
Application Deadline: 01/04/2026
The Durham University Grant
Support Type: Grant
Sterling Road’s Durham University Grant provides £2,000 to 25 teams per year, offering early-stage seed funding for startup projects. It is designed to help exceptional founders get started on their projects.
Funding Available: £2,000
Beyond Literature Borders
Support Type: Grant
A grants programme supporting UK-based arts organisations working with underrepresented voices to develop new international projects in collaboration with overseas partners.
Funding Available: £7,000 per grant
Application Deadline: 27/03/2026
Apply for an unrestricted £500 grant | Impact Fund | easyfundraising
Support Type: Grant
An Impact Fund grant offering 20 awards of £500 each to UK not-for-profit organisations to support practical needs and projects.
Funding Available: £500 per grant; Total available: £10,000 for the pilot
Application Deadline: 05/04/2026
🙌 Other Support
Positive Pathways
Support Type: Research Study
Research study evaluating the impact of an adventure/outdoor learning and mentoring programme on young people’s behaviour, prosocial skills and wellbeing. Recruitment was for 15-17-year-olds in the East Midlands and West Midlands.
The Catalyst Fund
Support Type: Revenue-based Loan, Social Investment
A revenue-based social investment product that helps ambitious social businesses in Scotland scale their operations and impact through flexible repayments and expert support.
Funding Available: Over £50,000
Seedcorn Fund
Support Type: Investment, Business Funding
Invests up to £1.5m in early-stage, innovative technology companies to capitalize on future market opportunities with hands-on support.
Funding Available: Up to £1.5m
Business Loans
Support Type: Business Loan
Flexible business loans for UK SMEs offering amounts from £5,000 to £500,000 with fast decisions and flexible repayment options.
Funding Available: £5,000 to £500,000
Step Up - Firstport
Support Type: Loan
Step Up offers 0% interest loans ranging from £5K to £30K to support proven trading activities and growth strategies for social enterprises.
Funding Available: £5K to £30K
Community Builders Fund
Support Type: Loan
The Community Builders Fund provides loans between £100k and £1.5m (with loans starting at £50k for organisations in Wales and Scotland) to UK charities and social enterprises that improve people’s lives or the environments in which they operate. It is supported by the Government’s Growth Guarantee Scheme.
Funding Available: £100k - £1.5m
Business Loans
Support Type: Loan
The Business Loans fund provides investments to SMEs between £25,000 and £250,000 on a variable interest rate over a period of up to five years, with potential requirements for debentures and limited unsupported personal guarantees based on risk assessment.
Funding Available: £25k - £250k
Business Loans
Support Type: Loan
Business loans offer an alternative source of finance for established businesses unable to secure funding from banks, supporting expansion and development.
Funding Available: £25,001 to £150,000
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