FUNDING | ACCESS ALL AREAS
We’ve made finding funding simpler and more accessible.
This resource brings together a curated list of known funding opportunities, giving you a clear starting point whether you’re exploring options or ready to apply.
It’s part of our commitment to helping you save time, stay informed, and unlock opportunities that can support your next stage of growth. Visit the new page today and see what funding could be within reach…
Current Available Opportunities
Made Smarter | North West Funding
The Made Smarter adoption programme was first piloted in the North West delivering advice and assistance and has since supported over 2000 manufacturers.
The programme is designed to assist local manufacturing SMEs to understand and overcome operational challenges through digital technologies. Made Smarter is designed to lead manufacturing into the future. Discover how Made Smarter can help your North West manufacturing.
General:
EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships
Apply for funding to support ambitious, collaborative research programmes.
Prosperity Partnerships projects must:
- be business-led, co-created and co-delivered by business and academic partners
- aim to create long-term prosperity for the UK, for example by bringing jobs and revenue growth, or addressing broader societal and sustainability issues
For the Materials world especially:
Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme
The Henry Royce Institute’s Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) provides grant funding for research, development, and innovation sprint projects that support technology translation.
This competition is Royce’s flagship funding initiative and is designed to catalyse impactful partnerships between industry, academia, and Research Technology Organisations (RTOs).
You might also want to take a look at:
Innovate UK Growth Catalyst – Investor Partnerships
UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.
Innovate UK Growth Catalyst is an integrated package of funding and support, designed to help accelerate high-potential start-ups on their journey to becoming scale-ups and beyond.
KTPs are (as almost always open):
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £10 million to fund innovation projects with businesses.
The KTP partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project.
Access to finance for SMEs:
Innovate UK Innovation Loans
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. They must significantly improve the UK economy and drive societal benefit.
Competition closes: Wednesday 7 January 2026 11:00am
Next ATI SME programme dates:
Opens 2nd Feb, closes 13th Feb until June.
The ATI SME programme is a funded programme tailored to the needs of SMEs to strengthen and further encourage technology innovation within the supply chain and civil aerospace sector.
The SME Programme is coordinated and managed by:
- Department for Business and Trade
- Innovate UK
- Aerospace Technology Institute
