Funding opportunities

Maximum funding available: 

Salary + up to £20,000 pa

Competition closes:

06 July 2022

Funding overview:

Note: this funding call is anticipated to open in April, 2022. Alzheimer’s Research UK Clinical Research Fellowships are designed for promising clinically qualified researchers who have delivered previous research projects with evidence of impactful outputs and have clear plans to establish their own research ‘niche’.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the ARUK website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £100,000

Competition closes:

06 July 2022

Funding overview:

Applications are invited in one of the three categories: Perinatal Mental Health; Support to Women post-discharge; Risk identification, stratification, and intervention. The call is aimed at small businesses but is also open to other organisations. At the end of the funded period projects are expected to have established the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of the proposed technology.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the SBRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £100,000

Competition closes:

06 July 2022

Funding overview:

Applications are invited for development of innovative solutions that will tackle challenges associated with: Early identification and diagnosis; Health inequalities and access to care; Access to effective support and services. The call is aimed at small businesses but is also open to other organisations. At the end of the funded period projects are expected to have established the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of the proposed technology.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the SBRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

up to £480,000

Competition closes:

07 July 2022

Funding overview:

Funding is available to pursue novel innovations in the field of public dialogue. Funded activity must generate evidence on the potential of new methods and capture and share learnings.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

80% of up to £750,000

Competition closes:

08 July 2022

Funding overview:

EPSRC funding is available for enabling improved human centred decision making through increased and better interactions with data and visualisations. Standard EPSRC eligibility criteria applies.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£15,000 to £50,000

Competition closes:

13 July 2022

Funding overview:

VocTech Seed grant fund projects that are at a relatively early stage, helping to prototype ideas and work out the next steps necessary on the journey to long-term success

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Ufi website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£100,000 to £2,000,000

Competition closes:

17 July 2022

Funding overview:

SMEs can apply for a loan with repayment over 64 months. Highly innovative late stage research and development projects with excellent future potential and a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact are eligible. Projects which focus on the future economy areas from the Innovate UK Plan for Action are encouraged.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Innovation Funding Service website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £200,000

Competition closes:

18 July 2022

Funding overview:

This funding is open to help develop the complex bids required for the future Medical Research Council - NIHR Efficacy Mechanism Evaluation Programme International platform studies in Precision Medicine call. Funded work should also contribute to generalisable learning around platform study designs and best practice.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

No limit

Competition closes:

20 July 2022

Funding overview:

Research organisations eligible for MRC funding can apply for support to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. Early development and design, pre-clinical testing and early-phase clinical studies and trials (up to phase 2a) are eligible.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

up to £2m

Competition closes:

22 July 2022

Funding overview:

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme are seeking an agile research team/consortium to conduct independent, rapid evaluations alongside promising technology-enabled innovations in health and care services that support people to use technology-enabled, remote monitoring at home.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

$8,000 CAD & £4,800 GBP 

Competition closes:

25 July 2022

Funding overview:

The Welsh Government and the Government of Quebec have launched a funding call to support organisations in Wales and Quebec, Canada, to develop collaborations and partnerships. The present call for proposals is open to all sectors in sustainability, research and innovation, and culture.

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Welsh Government website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £50,000

Competition closes:

26 July 2022

Funding overview:

Small and micro businesses can apply for up to £50,000 alongside tailored business support from Innovate UK EDGE. Highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation through business growth are eligible for funding. Funded activity must lead to new products, processes or services significantly ahead of others available; propose an innovative use of existing products, processes or services; involve a new or innovative business model.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UK Government website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £500,000

Competition closes:

26 July 2022

Funding overview:

Funding is available to accelerate the delivery of promising innovations in late-stage development into real-world healthcare settings. The call is aimed at small businesses but is also open to other organisations. Projects should implement medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, digital health solutions, behavioural interventions, software, artificial intelligence, or new models of care to address challenges in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, specifically in early detection of high-risk individuals; improving prevention strategies; patient empowerment and self-management.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the SBRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £500,000

Competition closes:

26 July 2022

Funding overview:

Funding is available to accelerate the delivery of promising innovations in late-stage development into real-world healthcare settings. The call is aimed at small businesses but is also open to other organisations. Projects should implement medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, digital health solutions, behavioural interventions, software, artificial intelligence, or new models of care to address challenges in respiratory diseases, specifically in early diagnosis; monitoring and management, accessing the right care at the right time.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the SBRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£100,000 to £2 million

Competition closes:

27 July 2022

Funding overview:

Innovate UK Smart Grants provide an opportunity for businesses and research and technology organisations to apply for a grants to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations with significant potential for impact on the UK economy.
All proposals must be business focused, rather than pure research.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Gov.uk website today!

Maximum funding available: 

up to £3m

Competition closes:

09 August 2022

Funding overview:

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme are seeking a social care rapid evaluation team to work in partnership with colleagues in social care services to produce evaluations of innovations/developments in social care services.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

€50,000 to €100,000

Competition closes:

18 August 2022

Funding overview:

This prize celebrates women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations, raising "awareness of the need for more women innovators and create role models for women and girls everywhere". Prizes will be awarded to women who have “created the largest impact on the EU innovation ecosystem by transforming ideas into new and advanced products and services to benefit people and planet". There are two prize categories: Women Innovators (3x prizes of EUR 100,000 each) and Rising Innovators (3x prizes of EUR 50,000 for innovators under the age of 35).

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the European Commission website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£750k available to fund multiple projects

Competition closes:

25 August 2022

Funding overview:

This funding call will focus on research that will inform the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) on the credible benefits that might be achieved by the development of generation-after-next wearable technologies

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UK Government website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified

Competition closes:

31 August 2022

Funding overview:

This funding scheme is open to applications for research to assess the effectiveness of technologies within the NHS. Primary research and evidence synthesis grants are available for topics proposed by the applicant.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified

Competition closes:

31 August 2022

Funding overview:

This funding scheme is open to applications for research to assess the effectiveness of technologies within the NHS. Primary research and evidence synthesis grants are available for topics proposed by the applicant.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified

Competition closes:

31 August 2022

Funding overview:

Funding is available for research into the evaluation of interventions or services to support the delivery of a more sustainable UK health and care system, including mitigating the effects of climate change on health and care delivery.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

80% of up to £187,500

Competition closes:

06 September 2022

Funding overview:

BBSRC funding is available for collaborative work between researchers in Japan and the UK in relation to developing novel approaches, technologies and applications relating to synthetic cells or synthetic genomes. Standard BBSRC eligibility criteria applies.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

80% of up to £187,500

Competition closes:

06 September 2022

Funding overview:

BBSRC funding is available for new or pre-existing partnerships between researchers in Canada and the UK working on projects relating to combating antimicrobial resistance. Standard BBSRC eligibility criteria applies.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£75,000

Competition closes:

08 September 2022

Funding overview:

Funding is available to support established research partnerships between business and academic institutions for up to 5 years. Bids must be led by the business lead at the outline stage.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the BBSRC website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not Specified

Competition closes:

13 September 2022

Funding overview:

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme is accepting stage one applications to this funding opportunity.
The programme aims to commission high quality, well designed research which will be carried out by effective and efficient research teams, providing findings which meet the needs of NHS and Social Care managers and leaders.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified.

Competition closes:

13 September 2022

Funding overview:

Note that this call is anticipated to open on 24^th June 2022.

This is a regular funding call (usually 3 rounds annually) which supports new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers in infections and immunity. Grants can enable the establishment of new, high-value collaborative activities or capabilities; add value to high-quality scientific programmes already supported through MRC (and other) grant funding.

Funding is available for between one and five years.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Typically <£75,000 per year

Competition closes:

14 September 2022

Funding overview:

UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified

Competition closes:

21 September 2022

Funding overview:

The topic is to support the research infrastructure implementation and enrichment to ensure the delivery of a cloud-based wide-range of integrated facilities and distributed specialised competence centres, for comprehensively serving the European communities for neuroscience and research in brain medicine, including for dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions, and brain-inspired cognitive technologies.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the EU website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Up to £250,000

Competition closes:

28 September 2022

Funding overview:

Innovate UK is investing in collaborative research and development projects focused on industrial research with Israel. The competition will fund projects from any technological or market area. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified

Competition closes:

30 September 2022

Funding overview:

This Open Call for Proposals is aimed at fostering activities bringing space technology that contributes towards shaping the NHS Future Hospital project initiative, recently kicked off by the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the ESA website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Total investment value should be over £12 million, with the requested grant contribution based on need.

Competition closes:

30 September 2022

Funding overview:

The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF) will support capital investment projects in life sciences manufacturing for: human medicines (drug substance and drug product); medical diagnostics; MedTech products.

Of particular interest are emerging technologies ready to scale up to commercial manufacturing. Applicants must be UK-based and intending to upgrade or expand an existing facility, or establish a new manufacturing facility.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UK Government website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Total investment value should be over £12 million, with the requested grant contribution based on need.

Competition closes:

31 October 2022

Funding overview:

The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF) will support capital investment projects in life sciences manufacturing for: human medicines (drug substance and drug product); medical diagnostics; MedTech products.

Of particular interest are emerging technologies ready to scale up to commercial manufacturing. Applicants must be UK-based and intending to upgrade or expand an existing facility, or establish a new manufacturing facility.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UK Government website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified.

Competition closes:

16 November 2022

Funding overview:

Note that this funding call is anticipated to open on June 16 2022. This is a partnership call for proposals contributing to truly mixed human-AI initiatives for human empowerment and/or trustworthy hybrid decision-support systems. Innovative approaches are encouraged to build the next level of perception, visualisation, interaction and collaboration between humans and AI systems working together as partners to achieve common goals, sharing mutual understanding and learning of each other’s abilities and respective roles.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the European Commission website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified.

Competition closes:

16 November 2022

Funding overview:

Note that this funding call is anticipated to open on June 16 2022. This is a partnership opportunity for proposals with activities expected to start at TRL 3-5 and reaching TRL 6-7 by the conclusion of the project. Activities should integrate novel robotics technologies into solutions capable of autonomously taking over dangerous, dull and dirty jobs, or capable of achieving tasks beyond human capabilities in innovative applications in key sectors or that are capable of reaching the level of reactivity, flexibility and adaptivity and natural intelligibility required for smooth and beneficial human-robot, as well as robot-robot collaboration and interaction.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the European Commission website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified.

Competition closes:

29 November 2022

Funding overview:

Funding is available for research into the most effective forms of health communication and public health messaging to use during a period of infectious disease/pandemic.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the NIHR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Total investment value should be over £12 million, with the requested grant contribution based on need.

Competition closes:

30 November 2022

Funding overview:

The Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF) will support capital investment projects in life sciences manufacturing for: human medicines (drug substance and drug product); medical diagnostics; MedTech products.

Of particular interest are emerging technologies ready to scale up to commercial manufacturing. Applicants must be UK-based and intending to upgrade or expand an existing facility, or establish a new manufacturing facility.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UK Government website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Not specified

Competition closes:

Competition remains open

Funding overview:

Out of the original City Deal funding, £495m has been allocated to a Wider Investment Fund.  This is the primary fund that proposals that align with the 3 priority investment areas of Innovation, Infrastructure and Challenge should access.  Cardiff Capital Region are seeking proposals into this fund that have the scale and ambition to radically address the challenges facing the region.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the CCR website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£10,000,000 

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

Flexible business finance for companies based in Wales going from £1,000 up to £10 million. Loans and equity. Secured and unsecured.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Development Bank of Wales website today!

Maximum funding available: 

€ 2,500,000 

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

The EIC Accelerator supports individual Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in particular Startups and spinout companies to develop and scaleup game-changing innovations. In some cases small mid-caps (up to 500 employees) are supported. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the European Innovation Council website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£80,000 

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

Apply for funding to support short-term time-sensitive collection of data or samples or rapid turn-around research or analysis to either:  

• inform urgent policy or national decision making 
• secure data for future research use.

Please note, this is a rarely awarded emergency route for exceptional circumstances. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

No limit

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

This UK-wide programme will deliver £375m of government funding via British Patient Capital, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank. Due to high research and development costs, breakthrough technology companies typically require more capital than other companies, to fuel the later stages of their growth. Operates on a commercial basis with private sector investors to co-invest with British Patient Capital. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Future Fund  website today!

Maximum funding available: 

No limit

Competition closes:

Competition remains open

Funding overview:

Providing funding to organisations who share our special purpose to help people do more, feel better, and live longer. GSK provides financial support to organizations that: Foster an increased understanding of scientific, clinical, healthcare, and community issues; Have a general interest in progressing the prevention, treatment, and management of disease; Contribute to improving patient care and quality of life.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the GSK website today!

Maximum funding available: 

80% of project costs 

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

Healthcare technologies investigator-led research grants are for researchers at UK higher education institutions, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations and NHS bodies. The funder strongly encourage collaboration with relevant healthcare professionals, other researchers, industry, the public sector and other relevant partners. Your application should be in line with the grand challenges of UKRI's healthcare technologies theme. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the UKRI website today!

Maximum funding available: 

up to £62,500

Competition closes:

Competition remains open

Funding overview:

Since the first call for the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards in 2020, Zinc and UKRI have partnered to fund entrepreneurial academics who want to translate their research into impactful and scalable products, services and interventions. The Awards are part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge and the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge, founded by the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. This is a worldwide movement to improve physical, mental, and social well-being for people as they age. In 2022, Zinc will support its third cohort of researchers to create innovations that: Allow everyone to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected across generations for as long as possible; Narrow the gap between the experiences of the richest and the poorest.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Zinc website today!

Maximum funding available: 

No limit

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

HSBC UK has announced a £14 billion lending fund to support the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Fund includes a ring-fenced £1 billion to help UK companies grow their business overseas, as well as a broader package of support. The initiative is available to UK businesses with a turnover of up to £350 million. Applicants do not need to be an HSBC customer to apply. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the HSBC website today!

Maximum funding available: 

Unlimited

Competition closes:

Competition remains open

Funding overview:

The Lloyds Bank Foundation offers unrestricted funding to small and local charities who are helping people to overcome complex social issues. Applicant charities should have an annual income of £25,000 to £1 million and a proven track record of helping people on a journey of positive change through in-depth, holistic and person-centred support in the context of complex social issues.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Lloyds Bank Foundation website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£7,500 

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

The MedTech NAVIGATOR Innovation Grants are designed to facilitate such bespoke interactions between SMEs and eligible Knowledge Providers, such as an NHS Trust, or a University, during the product development process. Each Innovation Grant (up to £7,500) is worth 50% of the total project costs up to a maximum of £15,000.  Your business must pay the remaining 50% and any project costs over and above the £15,000 cap. 

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the MedTech Navigator website today!

Maximum funding available: 

No limit

Competition closes:

No closing date

Funding overview:

The Moondance Cancer Initiative fund projects that innovate and improve the collective response to cancer in Wales so that more people survive. They welcome applications at any time for projects with a measurable potential impact on cancer survival outome and have a particular interest in projects that impact bowel cancer and upper gastro-intestinal cancer survival.   

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the Moondance Cancer Initiative website today!

Maximum funding available: 

£10,001 to £500,000

Competition closes:

Competition remains open

Funding overview:

People and Places: Large grants offers funding from £10,001 to £500,000 for projects where people and communities are working together and using their strengths to make positive impacts on the things that matter to them the most. We are prioritising projects that are: 

• supporting organisations to adapt or diversify to respond to new and future challenges 
• supporting communities adversely affected by COVID-19 
• supporting communities and organisations to become more resilient to help them to respond better to future crises.
• Good/successful applications will be People Led, Strengths Based and Connected.

Although we are supporting responses to the pandemic, your project does not have to be directly related to COVID-19 to be funded.

Learn more:

For more information or to apply for the funding opportunity, visit the The National Lottery website today!