Business Grants in East of England
The East of England provides business funding through various county councils, LEPs, and innovation hubs. The region includes the globally significant Cambridge tech and life sciences cluster.
Cambridge and Peterborough
The Cambridge area is a global centre for tech and life sciences. The Combined Authority, Cambridge City Council, and various university-linked programmes provide significant funding opportunities.
Norfolk and Suffolk
Norfolk and Suffolk have their own business support through county councils and the New Anglia LEP. Sectors including energy, agritech, and tourism receive particular attention.
Essex and Hertfordshire
Essex and Hertfordshire councils provide business grants and support. The proximity to London means businesses can sometimes access capital-linked programmes as well.
East of England Business Grants
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UK-Switzerland CR&D Round 3
Enhance UK and Swiss collaborations and capabilities in emerging technology fields (Semiconductors, Life Sciences, or Engineering Biology), resulting in the development and delivery of new innovations and applications across a broad range of sectors.
NERC-Innovate UK ICURe Engage programme
Apply for the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) ICURe Engage four-week programme for those projects previously funded by NERC. The programme aims to identify potential beneficiaries and users of academic research, introduce participants to commercialisation tools, and foster entrepreneurship.
Farming Innovation Programme: feasibility round five
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million for feasibility projects from the industry-led Research and Development Partnerships Fund, part of the Farming Innovation Programme.
Electricity Demand Turn Up trial: EoI for flexibility providers
UK registered businesses providing flexibility services can submit an expression of interest for a trial assessing if DTU can reduce renewable electricity curtailment in Great Britain. Successful applicants can apply for a share of up to £16 million.
Accelerating adoption of quantum enabled sensing and PNT
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £14.3 million to accelerate the adoption of quantum enabled position, navigation, and timing (PNT) and sensing technologies by addressing specific technical and commercial barriers.
Quantum computing applications for large scale impact: CR&D
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £13 million for building quantum computing software applications that show clear value and potential high impact on near term quantum computing systems.
DRIVE35 innovation fund: collaborate three
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for late stage collaborative research and development projects supporting the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry.
Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences
Funding opportunity for doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences. Builds on STFC's previous investment to provide students with skills and training for careers in academia or industry. Harmonised under the UK Research and Innovation Doctoral Focal Awards scheme.
Expression of interest: Precision prevention: biological mechanisms of response variation
Apply for funding to investigate why biomedical prevention interventions work differently across people. Projects must generate mechanistic evidence in humans by testing biomedical experimental interventions or challenges in pre-disease or early disease states, providing insight into how to improve the targeting and effectiveness of precision prevention strategies.
computing resources on the STFC DiRAC HPC facility (RAC19)
Apply for computing resources on the STFC DiRAC High Performance Computing (HPC) facility: Resource Allocation Committee (RAC) 19th opportunity. DiRAC offers computing resources on four systems: Data Intensive Service at Cambridge, Data Intensive Service at Leicester, Extreme Scaling Service at Edinburgh, and Memory Intensive Service at Durham. Successful awards will begin on 1 April 2027. Short proposals can be for up to one year and thematic proposals can be for up to three years.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC
Apply for funding to establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) focused on driving adoption of the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) security by design technology. The aim is to build critical mass towards commercialisation of CHERI technologies.
Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D
Innovate UK will invest up to £33 million to support the development and production readiness of quantum computing hardware device technologies, solving critical system development challenges in hardware and associated software required for universal fault tolerant quantum computing platforms.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in East of England