See the funding your business actually matches.

A grant, no: that is what separates it from a loan, and it is why grants are competitive. Two things to watch. Most carry conditions - spend it on what you said, stay trading for a set period, report on what happened - and breaking them can mean paying it back. And a great deal of what gets called a grant is not one: loans, tax reliefs, in-kind support and equity are all commonly listed alongside grants, so check what you are actually being offered. Every scheme here is labelled with its type.

Usually yes. A grant that supports your trade is normally treated as taxable trading income, so it goes into your accounts and is subject to corporation tax or income tax like any other receipt. Some specific schemes are exempt, and a grant toward a capital asset is often treated differently again. HMRC publishes the rules and your accountant can tell you how a particular award should be handled - this is not tax advice, and the answer genuinely does depend on the scheme.

It depends on four things more than anything else: where your business is registered, how big it is, what sector you are in, and what you intend to spend the money on. Most schemes are restricted on at least one of those, and the restriction is usually published. That is the whole job of this site: you enter your company number, and we check your business against each scheme's published criteria and show the funder's own sentence behind every yes and every no.

Real, competitive, and more local than most people expect. The large national schemes are heavily subscribed, but a large share of UK business funding comes from individual councils, devolved governments, sector bodies and charitable funders - and those go unclaimed far more often, because no single place lists them. The harder problem is not winning one, it is finding the ones you can apply for at all.