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Bus Operator Accessible Information Regulation Support Grant (Extended Application Period)

Closing Date: 1 Jan 2025

Accessible Information Grant. This grant supports small bus operators to provide audible and visible information consistent with the Public Service Vehicles (Accessible Information Regulations) 2023. This is for applications from 4th June 2024 onwards

Location England,Wales,Scotland

Funding organisation Department for Transport

Who can apply Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £100 to £90,000

Total size of grant scheme £4.65 million

Opening date 4 Jun 2024, 12:00AM

Closing date 1 Jan 2025, 12:00AM

AI Safety Institute – Systemic Safety Grants

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2026

Further to the AI Seoul Summit announcement, this programme looks to fund researchers who will collaborate with the UK government to advance systemic approaches to AI Safety. The grants aim to address the risks that AI poses to people and society by looking beyond the capabilities of the models themselves.

Location National

Funding organisation Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From N/A to N/A

Total size of grant scheme £8.5 million

Opening date 22 May 2024, 12:00AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2026, 12:00AM

Business Events Growth Programme

Closing Date: 1 Feb 2025

The Business Events Growth Programme forms part of Government’s commitment to grow the business events sector. The programme supports the attraction of international business events, which align with the Government's priority industry sectors, the growth of the international profile of business events in the UK, as well as the creation of new business events. Through the programme, VisitBritain supports all organizations in hosting international business events in the UK. Whether you would like to win international events or to develop, grow and internationalise your events, the Business Events Growth Programme can support.

Location England,Wales,Scotland

Funding organisation British Tourist Authority t/a VisitBritain

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector,Local authority

How much you can get From £2,000 to £20,000

Total size of grant scheme £350,000

Opening date 6 May 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Feb 2025, 12:00AM

Archive Skills Bursaries

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

The National Archives Skills Bursaries provide grants of up to £1000 per person, to archivists and heritage professionals, to support access to training and development opportunities. In particular, we want to provide funding that will confront the challenges of today: preserving and sharing the digital record, reducing our environmental impact and adapting to climate change, and helping the archives sector become more diverse, equitable and inclusive. To support archivists in building the skills needed for the future, The National Archives is delighted to be offering bursaries for the first time, for archivists seeking to access training, career professional development or mentoring that would not usually be available in their own organisational development programmes.

Location England,Wales

Funding organisation The National Archives

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector,Local authority

How much you can get From £1 to £1,000

Total size of grant scheme £18,500

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Heritage Protection Commissions Programme

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

The Heritage Protection Commissions and Capacity Building Scheme provides funding for strategic research and to build skills and capacity in our historic environment. The research funding from this scheme helps us to know what our historic environment comprises, which aspects of it are the most significant, how people value and interact with it, and what innovations in science and approach will help us to look after it for the future. The capacity building is targeted towards helping to reduce or avoid risk to the historic environment by building the capacity and commitment of local communities to champion the conservation and enhancement of their own local historic environment.

Location England

Funding organisation Historic England

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector,Local authority

How much you can get From £100 to £300,000

Total size of grant scheme £4.5 million

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Repair Grants for Heritage at Risk

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

We give grants towards the repair and conservation of listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered parks and gardens. This includes project development actions which enable repair or improved future management. Our grants under this scheme are intended to reduce the risk faced by some of the most significant historic sites in England, as shown on the Heritage at Risk Register. We focus our grants on those sites which are most in need of repair and where, without our grant, a project would not be able to go ahead. This scheme was formerly called Grants for Historic Buildings, Monuments and Designed Landscapes.

Location England

Funding organisation Historic England

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £5,000 to £500,000

Total size of grant scheme £9 million

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Section 17 Management Agreements

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

We can offer funding to improve the management of monuments or access to them through agreements with the owner or occupier of the land. These agreements usually run for a term of three or five years. We can include payment for one-off repairs which would usually be carried out at the start of the term. More major repairs can be considered under our Repair Grants for Heritage at Risk grant scheme. Our priorities for funding through management agreements are be scheduled monuments at risk.

Location England

Funding organisation Historic England

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £100 to £20,000

Total size of grant scheme £250,000

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Partnership Schemes in Conservation Areas

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

Local authorities can apply for funding under our Partnership Schemes in Conservation Areas (PSICA) scheme. These schemes are run on a day-to-day basis by local authorities and are designed to target funding for the preservation and enhancement of conservation areas. They are based on a partnership between us, the Local Authority and other funding bodies and are designed to ensure the long term sustainable future of conservation areas, in particular through supporting heritage-based regeneration initiatives.

Location England

Funding organisation Historic England

Who can apply Public Sector

How much you can get From £100,000 to £300,000

Total size of grant scheme £1 million

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Regional Capacity Building

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

We offer funding under this programme for activities and projects which are local or regional in coverage and which promote the understanding, management and conservation of the historic environment. Our support for building and maintaining sector capacity is focused on the sustainable management and development of the historic environment. We aim to ensure that those eligible activities and projects for which there is a lack of alternative sources of funding are our highest priorities for support.

Location England

Funding organisation Historic England

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £1,000 to £100,000

Total size of grant scheme £1 million

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Archive Records at Risk Grants

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

The Records at Risk Grant programme is delivered in collaboration with the British Records Association and the Business Archives Council, to provide support for urgent interventions to save significant physical and digital records facing immediate peril across the UK. The programme seeks to safeguard at-risk collections for the nation. Its objective is to provide an additional mechanism to protect records of cultural and research value from premature destruction or prolonged neglect. Its focus is on records and services that are not protected by legislation, such as archives of businesses, charities and private individuals.

Location National

Funding organisation The National Archives

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector,Local authority

How much you can get From £1 to £5,000

Total size of grant scheme £25,000

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

National Heritage Memorial Fund

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2025

The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has been awarding grants to safeguard the UK’s most important heritage since 1980. As a fund of last resort, NHMF has helped save thousands of our most-loved treasures from being lost forever. Taken together, these treasures form a UK-wide memorial in honour of those who have given their lives to the country. NHMF can help buy anything which is of outstanding importance to the national heritage and either at risk or of memorial character. For example, works of fine or decorative art, museum collections, archives, manuscripts, items of transport and industrial history or historic buildings and land.

Location National

Funding organisation National Heritage Memorial Fund

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit

How much you can get From £49,999 to £50,000

Total size of grant scheme £50,000

Opening date 1 Apr 2024, 12:00AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2025, 12:00AM

Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant for Households with On-Street Parking

Closing Date: 31 Mar 2025

The grant provides electric vehicle (EV) drivers with support towards the costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints at residential properties when also installing a cross-pavement charging solution.

Location National

Funding organisation Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

Who can apply Personal / Individual

How much you can get From £1 to £350

Total size of grant scheme £350

Opening date 18 Mar 2024, 12:00AM

Closing date 31 Mar 2025, 11:00PM

Workplace Charging Scheme for state-funded education institutions

Closing Date: 31 Mar 2025

Grant for eligible state-funded education institutes to provide support towards the costs of the purchase, installation and infrastructure of electric vehicle chargepoints.

Location National

Funding organisation Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £2,500 to £100,000

Total size of grant scheme £500,000

Opening date 5 Feb 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 31 Mar 2025, 11:59PM

Open access fund for longform publications: stage two

Closing Date: 27 Mar 2025

Research organisations can claim open access (OA) costs for monographs, book chapters, and edited collections that are in-scope of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s OA policy that have been approved at stage one. Applications must be completed by the team responsible for OA within the organisation. Organisations must be based in the UK to apply.

Location National

Funding organisation UKRI

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £1 to £3.5 million

Total size of grant scheme £3.5 million

Opening date 15 Jan 2024, 09:00AM

Closing date 27 Mar 2025, 04:00PM

Mathematical sciences small grants

Closing Date: 7 Jan 2025

Applications to the Mathematical Sciences Small Grants funding opportunity must focus on original research projects or feasibility research studies. The majority of the research must be within the remit of the EPSRC Mathematical sciences theme. Core application questions and assessment criteria will be used. Full applications can be submitted at any time and will be considered by EPSRC on a rolling basis. Standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply. The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £100,000. EPSRC will fund 80% of the FEC and up to 12 months in duration.

Location National

Funding organisation EPSRC

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £10,000 to £80,000

Total size of grant scheme £2 million

Opening date 2 Jan 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 7 Jan 2025, 04:00PM

Bus Service Operators Grant: commercial transport operators

Closing Date: 31 Mar 2025

The Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) is a discretionary grant paid to operators of eligible local bus services to help them recover some of their fuel costs.

Location England

Funding organisation Department For Transport

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Private Sector

How much you can get From N/A to N/A

Total size of grant scheme N/A

Opening date 1 Jan 2024, 12:01AM

Closing date 31 Mar 2025, 11:59PM

UK Seafood Fund - Grants for improvements to boats, ports and in health and safety

Closing Date: 13 Dec 2024

Defra is looking to award grants through the UK Seafood Fund. This round will fund projects that make improvements to vessels to reduce fuel use and emissions, infrastructure at ports, and in health and safety for the UK catching sector.

Location National

Funding organisation Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £65,000 to £500,000

Total size of grant scheme £4 million

Opening date 14 Dec 2023, 12:01AM

Closing date 13 Dec 2024, 11:59PM

Teacher Mentoring Programme (TMP)

Closing Date: 30 Mar 2025

On 28 March 2023, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the next phase of government support for FE teacher mentoring through the Teacher Mentoring Programme. Following a competitive procurement, DfE has signed a two-year contract with Cognition Learning Group for delivery of the programme which will run until 31 March 2025.

Location England

Funding organisation Department for Education

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £5,000 to £25,000

Total size of grant scheme £3 million

Opening date 31 Aug 2023, 12:01AM

Closing date 30 Mar 2025, 11:59PM

Cladding Safety Scheme

Closing Date: 1 Apr 2030

The Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS) will meet the cost of addressing life safety fire risks associated with cladding on residential buildings over 11m in height (11-18m in London).

Location England,Northern Ireland

Funding organisation Homes England (England), Department for Levelling up, Housing & Communities (NI)

Who can apply Personal / Individual,Non-profit,Private Sector,Local authority

How much you can get From £250,000 to £20 million

Total size of grant scheme N/A

Opening date 24 Jul 2023, 12:00AM

Closing date 1 Apr 2030, 12:00AM

Public Engagement Reaction Awards

Closing Date: 31 Dec 2024

Quick-response funds of up to £10000 for timely projects on: - unexpected or important recent discoveries - significantly heightened awareness of the social cultural or economic impacts - responding to changing national curricula or government policy related to STFC science technology or facilities duration up to six months.

Location National

Funding organisation Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Who can apply Public Sector,Non-profit,Private Sector

How much you can get From £1 to £10,000

Total size of grant scheme £10,000

Opening date 18 Jul 2023, 12:01AM

Closing date 31 Dec 2024, 04:00PM

Value AD

CAN BE

ALTERNATIVE

INVESTMENT

What is Value Ad?

Value Ad is an innovative policy designed to foster a mutually beneficial relationship between two key groups: new businesses and service providers. This policy helps startups save significantly on essential services while enabling service providers to gain valuable traction and growth opportunities.

How is it a Win-Win Deal?

For New Businesses:

Cost Savings: Startups can save 50% to 80% on essential services such as website development and marketing. This means they don’t need to invest heavily upfront, making it easier to launch and grow their business.

Alternative Investment: The money saved through these discounts can be reinvested into other critical areas of the business, acting as an alternative investment that fuels further growth and development.

For Service Providers:

Initial Customer Base: Service providers, often tech startups themselves, can attract a significant number of initial customers by offering their services at a discounted rate. This helps them build traction and demonstrate value, which is crucial for attracting venture capital (VC) funding and other opportunities.

Marketing Efficiency: By providing affordable services, service providers do not need to spend heavily on marketing to acquire new customers. The discounted services themselves become a powerful marketing tool, bringing in customers who can spread the word and enhance the provider’s reputation.

Growth and Expansion: Attracting more customers through Value Ad helps service providers expand their client base and build long-term relationships, which can lead to increased revenue and business growth.

Alternative Investment for New Businesses:

For new businesses, the significant cost savings achieved through the Value Ad policy effectively serve as an alternative investment. Instead of spending large amounts on website development and marketing, they can leverage the affordable services provided by service providers. The saved funds can be redirected into other strategic areas of the business, enhancing overall growth and sustainability.

Benefits for Service Providers:

Service providers benefit from the Value Ad policy by gaining access to a ready pool of new customers who are drawn by the discounted rates. This initial customer base is crucial for:

Building Traction: Demonstrating product or service viability to potential investors.

Securing Funding: Enhanced customer traction and a growing user base can make the service provider more attractive to venture capitalists and other funding sources.

Market Penetration: Establishing a presence in the market quickly and efficiently without heavy marketing expenditures.

In Summary:

Value Ad is a strategic policy designed to create a win-win scenario for both new businesses and service providers. By offering significant discounts on essential services, startups can save and reinvest those savings, while service providers gain crucial initial customers and market traction. This mutually beneficial arrangement supports the growth and success of both groups, making Value Ad a powerful tool for business development and investment.

Value AD

CAN BE

ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT