Business Grants in London
London businesses can access funding from the Mayor of London's programmes, individual borough councils, and national schemes. The capital's diverse economy means grants are available for everything from tech startups to creative industries.
Mayor of London Programmes
The Mayor of London and GLA run various business support initiatives. These include programmes for specific sectors, support for underrepresented founders, and investment in London's economic recovery and green economy transition.
London Borough Grants
Each of London's 32 boroughs plus the City of London has its own economic development programmes. These may include small business grants, shop front improvement schemes, and support for local high streets and town centres.
Tech and Creative Sector Support
London's strength in technology and creative industries means dedicated funding exists for these sectors. Programmes support digital skills, creative workspace, and innovation in fintech, AI, and other emerging technologies.
London Business Grants
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Battery Innovation Programme: investor partnerships
UK registered small or medium sized businesses can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.
Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science
Apply for funding to strengthen conservation and heritage science infrastructure by building sustainable national capability, improving access to nationally significant facilities and addressing unmet user demand. Projects should expand collaboration with industry to accelerate technology development, commercialisation and knowledge exchange.
Discover Creative Careers Funding
Grants of up to £4,000 to deliver local activities that break down barriers to the creative industries and create opportunities for underserved young people in the community.
Wise Music Foundation Grant
Financial support for people experiencing hardship, distress and illness, with a focus on children, the homeless and people living in poverty, as well as supporting a broad range of domestic and international charitable causes.
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
A scheme that aims to reduce electricity costs by up to £40 per megawatt hour for eligible manufacturers in the growth sectors (the ‘IS-8’) and foundational manufacturing industries. It exempts eligible businesses from paying indirect costs of the renewables obligation, capacity market, and feed-in tariff.
UK-Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 5
Innovate UK and BMWE will invest up to £2.4 million in business-led collaborative research and development projects focused on industrial research, specifically in Clean Energy, Life Sciences, or Engineering Biology. UK registered SMEs must collaborate with at least one German SME applying under the German ZIM programme.
Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) Winter
Grants to move viable public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness.
Attendance and engagement at UK sporting, cultural and heritage sites
Apply for funding to research the development of novel data-intensive approaches for capturing engagement data from unticketed cultural, heritage, and sporting events, activities and locations, demonstrated through a deployable tool in at least one Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sector.
Funding opportunity: Long-term cultural and sporting events legacy
Apply for funding to research the long-term impact and legacy of major sporting and cultural events in the UK, focusing on running a live experimental evaluation of a major event that fills gaps in existing methodologies.
UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering
Apply for funding for ambitious and exploratory projects bringing together AI and domain expertise. Projects will have the potential to unlock new opportunities for applying artificial intelligence (AI) to important research challenges in priority science and engineering disciplines.
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D round 2
Invest support for the development and adoption of sustainable technologies for the manufacturing of medicines.
Growth Cohorts: next-gen low carbon concrete cohort entry round 2
UK registered businesses can apply to join a cohort of ambitious businesses to develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector specific support to develop and deliver innovation and growth plans.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in London