What we cover
468 schemes, from 1,317 official sources.
Every figure on this page is counted from the index as it stands right now, including the ones that are not flattering. Nothing here is typed in by hand.
What is in the index
468 schemes are open or rolling today. They break down by the kind of money on offer, which matters more than the headline number: a loan and a grant are not the same offer.
- 199 grants
- 96 loans
- 65 in-kind support
- 51 tax reliefs
- 32 mixed packages
- 16 equity
- 9 guarantees
Where it comes from
1,317 sources, each a funder’s own published page rather than a directory of someone else’s summaries. That is the whole point: when we tell you a rule, we can show you the sentence it came from and link you to it.
- 427 councils
- 198 universities and their enterprise arms
- 141 enterprise agencies and charities
- 68 corporate programmes
- 59 sector and trade bodies
- 57 corporate foundations
- 38 everything else
- 30 community development finance
- 30 growth hubs
- 29 social investors
- 27 international programmes open to uk businesses
- 27 national bodies
- 26 scottish bodies
- 26 hmrc and tax reliefs
- 21 skills and training bodies
- 21 welsh bodies
- 17 northern irish bodies
- 15 innovate uk
- 15 combined authorities
- 12 accelerators
- 7 uk research and innovation
- 7 bank foundations
- 7 gov.uk
- 7 london bodies
- 4 levy bodies
- 1 gov.uk find a grant
How current it is
Schemes are re-read on a rolling schedule, so a deadline that moves or a fund that closes does not sit in the index saying otherwise. Of the 468 open today, 6 were re-read in the last seven days and 425 in the last thirty.
Every result carries the date its scheme was last checked, so you never have to take the index’s word for how fresh it is. If a date looks old to you, it should look old to us too: tell us and we will put that scheme to the front of the queue.
What we do not cover
Not everything is findable. Some funders publish nothing until they open, some run invitation-only programmes, and some bury their criteria in a PDF that says one thing and a form that asks another.
We also do not cover funding outside the UK, personal or household grants, or anything where the only route in is a relationship rather than published criteria.
Know a scheme we are missing? Tell us at hello@fundingcheck.co.uk and we will add the source. Funding Check is better for every one somebody sends in.
Check your own business, or read the questions people ask first.