Business Grants Available in Wales
Wales provides comprehensive business funding through Business Wales, the Development Bank of Wales, and various Welsh Government schemes. From Cardiff to Wrexham, Welsh businesses can access grants for growth, innovation, and job creation.
Business Wales Support
Business Wales is the Welsh Government's flagship business support service. They offer free advice, workshops, and can connect you with appropriate funding schemes. Their expert advisors help businesses across all sectors access the right support.
Development Bank of Wales
The Development Bank of Wales provides loans and some grant funding to Welsh businesses. They focus on filling funding gaps where traditional lenders may not provide support, particularly for growing SMEs and startups.
Welsh Government Programmes
The Welsh Government runs various grant schemes targeting specific sectors and objectives. These include support for manufacturing, tourism, food production, and the foundational economy. Regional programmes also exist for areas like the Valleys and rural Wales.
Wales Business Grants
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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.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in Wales