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UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Innovate UK is offering up to £25 million in loans to micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Innovate UK innovation loans are for highly innovative late stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There must be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.

Apply for a share of £14m to accelerate the development and adoption of quantum sensors and quantum position, navigation, and timing products and services.

Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG) 2025 supports early stage, high-risk research and development projects with up to £45,000 in grant funding.

UK registered micro and small businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.3 million for projects that grow their innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West.

This funding is from Innovate UK’s Launchpad programme which supports the UK government’s goals for local economic growth. This Launchpad is also supporting Maritime UK South West as the local cluster management organisation.
Innovate UK will work with Cornwall Council, Plymouth City Council and Dorset Council to invest up to £2.3 million in innovation projects.

Calling all students! Want to get your hands on some brand new Apple tech? You're in luck - we're giving away 15 iPads and 35 pairs of Apple AirPods (4th Gen) in our latest prize draw!
Who can enter?
All current further education (FE) and higher education (HE) students in the UK aged 18+, including:
Full-time and part-time students
Undergraduates and postgraduates
A-level and T-level students
BTEC, HNC, HND, and Foundation Degree students
Degree apprentices
What's more, you don’t need to be a Santander customer to take part.
By entering, you'll not only be in with a chance to win some new tech - you'll also get free access to skills development courses from top global institutions! 

What is the Growth Catalyst?
Innovate UK’s Growth Catalyst is a new integrated package of funding and support, designed to accelerate highly innovative start-up businesses through specific stages on their journey to becoming scale-ups and beyond.
Our first Growth Catalyst pilot is aimed at innovative late-stage start-up businesses (seed to series A) working in clean energy or climate technology.
We plan two further Growth Catalyst rounds this year, potentially in different industry sectors. The next pilot will be aimed at early-stage (pre-seed) start-ups.
What could Growth Catalyst do for business?
We are offering successful applicants a new tailored funding and support package.
This package could support your business to progress innovative solutions towards a fully developed and tested product or service that may be delivered at scale.

The Tree Production Innovation Fund (TPIF) supports projects that will enhance or facilitate tree production methods in England. The Tree Production Innovation Fund (TPIF) supports projects that will enhance or facilitate tree production methods used in the UK. You can apply for up to £200,000 per financial year to develop new technologies or techniques that enhance UK tree production methods.

Two tailored business support programmes designed to accelerate the growth of promising start-ups and scale-ups in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI).

EIT Culture & Creativity launches its 2025 call for applications for two tailored business support programmes designed to accelerate the growth of promising start-ups and scale-ups in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI).
With a focus on five key sectors — fashion, architecture, cultural heritage, audio-visual media, and gaming — this call offers high-potential ventures the opportunity to scale their impact, compete for financial prizes, prepare to raise funds, and expand across international markets.
To help applicants in preparing and submitting their proposals, EIT Culture & Creativity previously hosted two information sessions covering the different aspects of the call. These webinars aimed to ensure open, free, and fair access to all interested stakeholders.
Webinar 1: Introduction to the call, focus & scope. Watch the recording here.
Webinar 2: Application demonstration. Watch the recording here.

The Quantum Business Incubation Centre (QuBIC) is designed to support early-stage quantum technology companies achieve their commercial potential by de-risking their route to market. It enables early-stage companies to develop new products or services based on quantum technologies (including computing, imaging, sensing, networks, cryptography, simulation, etc.).
The QuBIC builds upon the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s strong track record of managing support programmes and facilities for small businesses across its locations and the technical expertise both at STFC’s National Laboratories and at our partner organisations, such as The National Quantum Computing Centre.
While the QuBIC will ultimately support start-ups working across the spectrum of quantum technologies, our current focus will be on supporting Quantum Computing start-ups. The QuBIC will support businesses developing Quantum Technologies (Quantum Computing- software and hardware, Quantum Sensing, Quantum Communications, etc.)

The UK Space Agency invites proposals from end-user business led consortiums, with a space supplier and any relevant integrator organisations, for innovative pilot projects to commercialise space solutions within the Financial Services or Transport & Logistics sectors in the UK.
Projects must provide positive economic benefit to an end-user business within either the Financial Services or Transport & Logistics in the UK. Proposals must be UK based, led by UK based organisations. 
Projects must involve at least one satellite data domain (Earth observation, Satcom, PNT), and may involve complementary enabling technologies such as AI, Quantum or Machine Learning. 
Projects must start at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5+ and must progress to at least TRL 7 by the end of the project. 
Projects must be able to demonstrate a tangible benefit to the end-user business within the 7-month maximum project duration. Projects must have clearly defined, and tangible outcomes measured against success criteria showing progress towards commercialisation. Examples of previous successful pilot projects can be found here. 
Awarded projects will start from 1 September 2025 and must have fully completed by 31 March 2026. Projects should aim to be completed within 6 months, i.e. by February 2026, to allow for final wrap-up in March, with three milestones completed by January 2026. Projects planning to use the full 7-month duration should be aware that extension requests beyond the 31 March 2026 are not possible. 
Grant funding per project is expected to range from £150,000 to £400,000. In exceptional circumstances, UK Space Agency reserve the right to adjust the value or duration of the grant funding available.