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
Funding opportunity: Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis
Innovate UK, on behalf of the OLS Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices.
Funding opportunity: CoSTAR Showcase Labs: Createch infrastructure and commercialisation
Join the Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national research and development (R&D) infrastructure for the creative sector to reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption, improve commercialisation support, and drive scale up and investment.
Funding opportunity: CoSTAR Satellite Labs: Accessible creative R&D infrastructure
Join the Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national research and development (R&D) infrastructure for the creative sector to reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption, improve commercialisation support, and drive scale up and investment.
Pre-announcement: Expanding access to creative sector R&D infrastructure
Join the convergent screen technologies and performance in realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national R&D infrastructure for the creative sector. Funding aims to reduce barriers to creative businesses' technology adoption, improve commercialisation support for creative technology businesses, and drive scale up and investment.
Up & Running Grants 2026
Grant scheme supporting young entrepreneurs and businesses investing in the next generation, aiming to empower emerging talent shaping the UK's future.
Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative
Apply for an Academic and Industry Partnership award as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative’s (FGx) Innovation and Collaboration fund. The awards will enable the development of links between industrial partners and the FGx. These awards can be used to support feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.
Large Grants
Funding to support Christian places of worship with major urgent repairs costing over £80,000 or the installation/upgrade of kitchen and accessible toilet facilities costing over £30,000.
Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D: Round 3
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £8.5 million to develop and scale Engineering Biology platforms, products and services. This funding is part of UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme.
Focal award: EPSRC and MHCLG Fire Engineering Skills Hub
Funding for a skills hub to deliver high quality, cohort based doctoral training, and design of high-quality postgraduate level taught programmes in fire engineering.
EPSRC-Defra Reimagining Circularity: full stage
Funding to develop a NetworkPlus that builds new capacity, strengthens community, and enhances research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in data and metrics, or textiles, using the 'Plus' element to accelerate impact.
UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum computing
Apply for funding to expose and overcome critical bottlenecks associated with the implementation of quantum computing within classical computational workflows. This investment will strengthen the UK’s capability to achieve accessible, UK-based quantum computers that deliver benefits beyond classical supercomputers across key sectors of the economy.
Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis
Funding to support innovative CR&D projects focused on the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices, particularly for less common cancers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in South West