Business Grants in South West England
The South West provides diverse business funding from urban Bristol to rural Cornwall and Devon. The region has strengths in aerospace, marine, agritech, and creative industries.
West of England Combined Authority
The West of England CA covering Bristol, Bath, and South Gloucestershire runs business support programmes. Their schemes focus on innovation, clean growth, and skills development.
Cornwall and Devon
Cornwall and Devon have historically accessed significant funding for rural and coastal business development. While funding structures have changed, support continues through local councils and new programmes.
Heart of the South West
The Heart of the South West LEP covers a large area including Devon, Somerset, and parts of Dorset. They support businesses across various sectors with a focus on rural and coastal economies.
South West Business Grants
229 grants found
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.
Funding opportunity: Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £33 million to develop device level hardware and associated software to meet the scale, programmability, and runtime performance needs of universal fault tolerant quantum computers.
Help the Homeless Grant Scheme
Grants for small UK charities working wholly or mostly with homeless people to fund capital projects.
Full ADOPT Grant: Round 9
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: full stage
Apply for this Early Independence Fellowship to support you to establish your own research niche, and conduct independent research within a host laboratory. Your fellowship will last three years.
Canada-G7-Nordic call for proposals on quantum technologies
Apply for funding to establish world-leading research partnerships with collaborators in Canada, the US, Germany, Japan, and the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway). Proposals must include researchers from both the UK and Canada and may also involve researchers from other eligible countries participating in this funding opportunity.
NextGen Fund
Offers emerging creatives grants to help young people invest in themselves, develop their skills, bring their creative ideas to life, and support early-stage musicians and music-adjacent creatives.
Partner Awards 2026/27
Funding provided by Unlimited in partnership with regional organisations to support disabled artists in creating ambitious new work.
Design Generators round two
Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in South West