Grants for Public Sector Organisations

Local authorities, NHS trusts, schools, and other public bodies can access government grants for infrastructure, digital transformation, and community services. DLUHC, DfE, and DHSC are the main funding departments. Many programmes require partnership with the voluntary sector.

There are currently 67 live grants available for public sector in the UK, with deadlines ranging from 3 July 2026 to 1 April 2028.

RISE Universal Grant

The Department for Education

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£8,000 – £100,000Public Administration & Defence

The RISE Universal Grant provides £8,000 to £100,000 for projects that improve pupil outcomes in schools across England. Multi Academy Trusts, Research Schools and Local Authorities can apply. Your pr

Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body summer 2026

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

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£500,000 – £2,000,000Charities & Non-Profit

UK registered organisations can apply for funding to create a central body that coordinates robotics adoption hubs. You can get between £500,000 and £2 million. The total pot is £2 million, so likely

Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

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£4,000,000 – £6,000,000Public Administration & Defence, Charities & Non-Profit

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of £32.8 million to develop supply chains for quantum sensing technology. Individual projects can receive between £4 million and £6 million. This is c

Early Education Partnerships Grant

Department for Education

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£12,500 – £50,000Education, Charities & Non-Profit

The Early Education Partnerships Grant funds schools and early years providers to work together. You can get £12,500 to £50,000 to improve how children move from nursery to primary school. The money h

Domestic Abuse and Stalking Perpetrator Intervention Fund and Children Who Use Harm Intervention Fund

Home Office

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The Home Office is funding interventions for domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators. It also funds interventions for children who use harmful behaviours. Money goes to Police and Crime Commissioners

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Contracts for Innovation: Earlier identification of UK children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Innovate UK Business Connect

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This grant offers a share of £2.5 million to develop new tools or approaches for identifying special educational needs (SEN) in children earlier and more fairly. It is aimed at areas where current sol

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) Autumn

Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) and funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Innovate UK is administering this competition on behalf of GOTT.

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£50,000 – £250,000

UK registered government research organisations can apply for grants between £50,000 and £250,000. The money helps move public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness. This means turning

Aviation’s non-CO2 impacts on the climate 2026 (Grant)

UK Research and Innovation, Natural Environment Research Council

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Up to £385,425Transport & Storage, Charities & Non-Profit

This grant funds research into how aviation affects the climate beyond carbon dioxide emissions. It covers the science of non-CO2 impacts, such as contrails and nitrogen oxides, and how these interact

Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Alternative Fuels

Department for Transport

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£1,000 – £30,000,000Energy & Utilities, Transport & Storage, Public Administration & Defence, Charities & Non-Profit

The Department for Transport is offering up to £150 million for clean maritime solutions. UK registered organisations can apply for between £1,000 and £30 million. The money is for developing, deployi

DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate 3

Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

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£2,500,000 – £20,000,000Energy & Utilities, Public Administration & Defence, Charities & Non-Profit

DRIVE35 Collaborate 3 offers up to £20 million for late-stage collaborative research and development projects. Your project must support the UK's shift to zero emission vehicles or help the automotive

Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

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£1,000,000 – £3,500,000Manufacturing, Information & Communication, Professional & Scientific Services

Innovate UK is offering up to £33 million for quantum computing hardware research. You can apply for between £1 million and £3.5 million per project. The funding is for developing device-level hardwar

School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030

Department for Education

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Public Administration & Defence, Education

The School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030 helps local authorities create or expand nursery places in schools. This is phase 3 of the programme and focuses on helping disadvantaged families a

Remediation Enforcement Support Fund

Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

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£5,000 – £100,000Public Administration & Defence

The Remediation Enforcement Support Fund provides £5,000 to £100,000 for local authorities and fire and rescue authorities in England. The money helps you get legal advice to pursue people responsible

Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) School Improvement Grant

Department for Education

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£40,000 – £240,000Education

The RISE grant provides funding for schools in England that Ofsted has identified as needing improvement. The Department for Education runs this programme to raise standards across all schools. Grants

Trees, woodlands and forestry - Woodland Creation Planning Grant

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs / Forestry Commission - Nature for Climate Fund

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£1,500 – £30,500Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing, Public Administration & Defence, Charities & Non-Profit

The Woodland Creation Planning Grant pays for creating woodland design plans. You can get between £1,500 and £30,500 to produce a plan that meets UK Forestry Standards. Landowners, land managers and p

Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES)

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

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£5,000 – £9,999,900Public Administration & Defence, Charities & Non-Profit

The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme helps improve poorly performing district heating and communal heating systems in England and Wales. You can get revenue grants to pay for studies that find problems

Armed Forces Day Events Grant

Action Together

Ongoing

This grant supports Armed Forces Day events across the UK. It helps show support for servicemen and women, both past and present. Local councils can apply. Voluntary and community groups can apply. Sc

EPSRC Materials Innovation Partnerships

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Ongoing
Up to £7,500,000

This grant funds ambitious research partnerships between businesses and universities working on advanced materials. You need an established partnership of at least one year with your academic or busin

Solution Development for Advanced Connectivity Technologies

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £25,000,000

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies. This funding supports the UK's Advanced Connectivity Techn

Living Streets grant

Plymouth City Council

Ongoing
Transport & Storage

This grant helps Plymouth City Councillors fund highway improvements in their local areas. Councillors can direct money to fix roads, pavements, and other transport infrastructure problems. The fundin

National Lottery Heritage Grants: £10,000 to £250,000

National Lottery Heritage Fund

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£10,000 – £250,000Arts, Entertainment & Recreation, Charities & Non-Profit

The National Lottery Heritage Fund offers grants from £10,000 to £250,000 for heritage projects across the UK. You can apply for money to restore buildings, conserve nature, record oral histories, or

The Movement Fund

Sport England

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£300 – £15,000Health & Social Work

The Movement Fund gives grants of £300 to £15,000 for projects that get people moving. It focuses on people who face barriers to being active. This includes people from lower income backgrounds, disab

The Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara) Fellowships Programme

The Wolfson Foundation

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Education

This funding supports Cara Fellowships at UK universities. The fellowships give early and mid-career researchers a safe place to work when they are fleeing persecution or danger. UK universities apply

Wolfson Professional Development Grants for Palliative Care Staff

The Wolfson Foundation

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Health & Social Work

This grant pays for professional training and development for medical staff working in palliative care. It covers both adult and children's hospice staff based in England. You apply through Hospice UK

Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowships

The Wolfson Foundation / Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Professional & Scientific Services, Education

This fellowship helps UK universities and research institutions bring outstanding scientists from overseas to the UK. It covers all areas of life and physical sciences, including engineering, but not

Battery Innovation Programme: battery skills initiatives

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £3,700,000Manufacturing

UK registered organisations can apply for up to £1.2 million per project through the Battery Innovation Programme. The money is for establishing or scaling regional skills initiatives for battery manu

Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £2,000,000

This grant supports projects related to robotics adoption across the UK. You can apply as a single organisation or work with partners. UK registered businesses of any size can lead projects. Research

2409 : Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £2,000,000

This grant offers up to £2 million to create a central body that coordinates robotics adoption hubs across the UK. UK registered businesses, research organisations, public sector bodies, and universit

Contracts for Innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £20,000,000Health & Social Work

This grant offers up to £20 million for developing new treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. You can create pharmaceutical drugs, digital health tools, or medical technology. The funding helps im

Electric vehicle pavement channels grant

Energy Saving Trust

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Energy & Utilities, Transport & Storage

This grant provides up to £25 million for local authorities in England to install pavement channels. These channels help residents without driveways charge electric vehicles from their homes. The fund

Business chargepoint funding

Energy Saving Trust

Ongoing
Energy & Utilities, Transport & Storage

Energy Saving Trust offers grant funding to help Scottish businesses and organisations install electric vehicle charging points. The funding supports the uptake of electric vehicles across Scotland by

Scottish zero emission bus challenge fund

Energy Saving Trust

Ongoing
Energy & Utilities, Transport & Storage

The Scottish Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund helps organisations in Scotland switch their bus fleets to zero emission vehicles. Partners and collaborators can apply for grants to transition to cleane

Community Right to Challenge

Liverpool City Council

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Public Administration & Defence, Charities & Non-Profit

The Community Right to Challenge lets community groups take over council services in Liverpool. Voluntary agencies, charities, community groups, and groups of council employees can apply. You express

Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) Training Funding

Skills for Care

Ongoing
Health & Social Work

Skills for Care offers free access to training funding through the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) service. It is open to adult social care providers in England. As well as funding for

Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets

Innovate UK

Ongoing

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4.5 million from Innovate UK. This programme funds the creation, curation, annotation and exploitation of FAIR-data and benchmarks for AI in

Youth Guarantee Trailblazer

Liverpool City Council

Ongoing
Education

The Youth Guarantee Trailblazer programme helps organisations support young people aged 17-21 who are not in education, employment or training. The programme provides pathways to help these young peop

Robotics adoption hubs

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £38,000,000

This grant helps UK businesses create 'one-stop shops' for robotics adoption. These hubs will guide other businesses in using robots and automated systems. You can apply for a share of £38 million in

UKRI Translation: STFC Proof of Concept

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)Innovate UK

Ongoing

This grant helps researchers turn science and technology into commercial products. It is for people working within the STFC PPAN community. You must be based at a UK research organisation that is elig

AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)Innovate UKMedical Research Council (MRC)Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Ongoing
Information & Communication

This grant provides free access to the Isambard-AI supercomputer for AI research projects. You can get between 50,000 and 1.4 million GPU hours for your artificial intelligence work. The grant is open

NHS fit for the future dementia challenge

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Ongoing
Health & Social Work

The NHS fit for the future dementia challenge funds clinical interventions and technological innovations for dementia care. Healthcare professionals, businesses and researchers can apply. The funding

Blackford Community Fund

Foundation Scotland

Ongoing
Public Administration & Defence

The Blackford Community Fund provides funding to benefit residents in the Blackford Community Council area. This area is in Perth & Kinross, Scotland. The fund is charitable and aims to help the local

Zero emission vessels and infrastructure round two: electric power

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £150,000,000Energy & Utilities, Transport & Storage

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million from Innovate UK. The funding supports developing, deploying and operating innovative clean maritime solutions. Projects must ru

Minnygap Community Fund

Foundation Scotland

Ongoing

The Minnygap Community Fund supports community projects in three specific areas of Scotland. You can apply if your project benefits people living in Johnstone, Templand, or Kirkpatrick Juxta community

EDF power solutions Burnfoot Hill Wind Farm Community Fund (Clackmannanshire)

Foundation Scotland

Ongoing
Energy & Utilities

This community fund supports projects in five specific areas of Clackmannanshire. The fund covers Alva, Dollar, Menstrie, Muckhart and Tillicoultry, Coalsnaughton and Devonside. It comes from the EDF

Big Bike Revival Grants Programme

Active Travel England and UK Government (administered by Cycling UK)

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Up to £3,500Transport & Storage, Health & Social Work

The Big Bike Revival Grants Programme helps get more adults cycling, especially women, people on low incomes, and ethnic minorities. You can get up to £3,500 to run bike events that fix, teach, and en

Dual-use aviation systems and autonomy

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £10,000,000Transport & Storage

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £10 million to develop aviation technologies. The funding supports systems that work for both civil and military use. This is from Innovate U

North Rhins Wind Farm Community Fund

Foundation Scotland

Ongoing
Energy & Utilities

The North Rhins Wind Farm Community Fund provides money to Community Councils in Scotland. The wind farm has been running since 2010 and will pay community benefit for 25 years. Community Councils can

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) autumn

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £1,400,000

UK registered government research organisations can apply for grants between £50,000 and £250,000. The money helps move public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness. This is the autumn

UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)Medical Research Council (MRC)Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Ongoing

This grant gives universities and research institutions flexible, early-stage funding. It helps them turn research into real-world benefits. The funding comes from four research councils: AHRC, EPSRC,

Consumer Led Flexibility for the Clean Energy Superpower Mission

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Energy & Utilities

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for pre-commercialisation projects. This funding comes from the UKRI R&D Missions Accelerator Programme through the Clean Energy

Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Medical Research Council (MRC)Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Ongoing

This fellowship helps researchers move between academic and policy work. It aims to transfer knowledge and skills across these sectors. The funding amount is not specified. The deadline is not confirm

Changing Futures

National Lottery Community Fund

Ongoing

Changing Futures helps adults facing multiple disadvantages like homelessness, addiction, or mental health issues. The programme supports public sector organisations and local communities to work toge

Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants

Action Together

Ongoing
Public Administration & Defence, Education, Charities & Non-Profit

The Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants fund practical projects that help both people and planet health. You can apply if you are a registered charity, not-for-profit organisation, non-fee paying s

Jobs Guarantee

Action Together

Ongoing

The Jobs Guarantee is a UK Government programme for young people aged 18 to 24. It provides a fully funded six-month paid job plus employability support. It targets young people who have been claiming

Green Heat Network Fund

Action Together

Ongoing
Charities & Non-Profit

The UK Government has opened Round 12 of the Green Heat Network Fund. This is a £288 million capital grant programme. It supports the transition to low-carbon heat networks. Public, private and third

Increasing EV charging capacity on the strategic road network

Innovate UK

Ongoing

This grant provides up to £10 million for developing electric vehicle charging solutions on England's main roads. You can get between £500,000 and £3 million to create charging stations that can charg

Cash For Kids - Impact Grant

Action Together

Ongoing
Charities & Non-Profit

The Cash for Kids Impact Grant supports community groups, schools and charities working with disadvantaged children and young people. You can apply if you are a registered charity with annual turnover

Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe - European Jewish Heritage Programme

Action Together

Ongoing
Education, Arts, Entertainment & Recreation, Charities & Non-Profit

This programme funds work to make Jewish heritage and culture more accessible. It supports digitising collections held in archives, libraries, museums, and professional institutions. The goal is to op

Robotics Adoption Programme skills development

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £2,500,000

This grant helps UK organisations create vocational robotics skills courses. You can get up to £2.5 million to develop training programmes that teach people robotics skills. The money comes from the D

Material Focus - Electricals Recycling Fund

Action Together

Ongoing
Charities & Non-Profit

The Electricals Recycling Fund helps organisations improve electrical waste recycling and reuse. Material Focus provides this annual funding to stop electrical items being hoarded or thrown away. Sinc

Pilgrim Trust - Young Women in Mind Programme

Action Together

Ongoing
Public Administration & Defence, Arts, Entertainment & Recreation, Charities & Non-Profit

The Pilgrim Trust Young Women in Mind Programme supports charities and public bodies working on heritage preservation or social change. The programme focuses on projects that benefit young women's men

Expression of interest: NHS fit for the future dementia challenge

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Ongoing
Health & Social Work

This grant supports clinical interventions or technological innovations for dementia care in the NHS. Healthcare professionals, businesses and researchers can apply. The funding amount is not specifie

Digital Capital Grant

Nottingham City Council

Ongoing
£10,000 – £15,000

Nottingham City Council offers grants of £10,000 to £15,000 for digital equipment. The money helps community organisations buy computers, tablets, and other digital tools. You can use the funding to h

Kellogg's Breakfast Club Grants Programme

Kellogg's

Ongoing
£1,000 – £1,000Education, Health & Social Work

Kellogg's offers £1,000 grants to school breakfast clubs in England. The money helps provide breakfast to children who need it most. Each grant is exactly £1,000. School breakfast clubs can apply for

UK-Germany Collaborative Innovation for Quantum Technologies 2026

Innovate UK

Ongoing
Up to £3,000,000Manufacturing, Information & Communication, Professional & Scientific Services

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for innovative quantum technology projects. This is a collaborative programme between the UK and Germany. The funding supports inn

Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants

Action Together

Ongoing
Health & Social Work

Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants help schools that lack money and resources. The grants pay for healthy food and activities that improve young people's mental and physical wellbeing. Schools and organisatio

The Beinneun Community Fund

Foundation Scotland

Ongoing

The Beinneun Community Fund supports projects that help local residents in two Scottish Highland areas. You can apply if your project benefits people in Glengarry or Fort Augustus community council ar