Find the grants your business actually qualifies for
Every month, we send three curated grant opportunities matched to your sector, stage, and location. Free.
Free · No credit card · 3 curated opportunities per month
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How it works
1
Tell us about your business
Sector, stage, location, and what you are working on.
2
We scan the grant landscape
Every month we review active UK and EU funding across dozens of schemes.
3
You get three matched picks
Curated, plain-language, with notes on why each one fits your business.
Why founders use GrantPal
Save Time Searching
Stop wasting hours trawling through grant databases. We monitor hundreds of funding sources daily so you can focus on building your business, not hunting for opportunities.
Perfect Match Filtering
Get grants that actually fit your sector, stage, and location. Our smart matching means you only see opportunities you're eligible for – no more dead ends or wasted applications.
Never Miss a Deadline
Receive timely alerts before applications close. We track opening and closing dates so you have plenty of time to prepare quality submissions without last-minute panic.
Founders, let GrantPal do the heavy lifting.
We scan a wide set of grants and pull out the ones that actually fit your business.
Each month you’ll get an email with our picks.
Upgrade to Pro for weekly updates, partner suggestions, and expert help.
Focus on what you do best
"I was spending more time finding grants than writing them"
Every founder knows the grant paradox: you need funding to grow, but finding the right grants eats into the time you should spend growing.
GrantPal breaks that cycle. We do the searching, filtering, and deadline tracking so you can focus on what actually moves your business forward. When the right opportunity arrives in your inbox, you’ll know it’s worth your time.
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Our Plans
Basic
£0/month
- One tailored grant email per month
- Up to 3 relevant opportunities included
- Matched to your stage, sector, and funding need
- Basic eligibility check
- No plain-English notes
- No partnership suggestions
- Not first to hear about new calls
Pro
£7.99/month
- Weekly tailored grant emails (4× more frequent)
- 3–5 curated opportunities each week
- Plain-English notes on why each grant fits
- Partnership suggestions for collaborative calls
- Early alerts on new and niche funding calls
- Priority access to new features and improvements
- For founders serious about winning funding
Want a clear answer before you commit?
Book a Grant Reality Check – a 15-minute advisory call with a written verdict for just £129.
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Start-Up Grants for your Business
Start-up grants are one of the most valuable forms of funding available to UK founders. Unlike loans or equity investment, business grants don’t need to be repaid and don’t dilute your ownership, which makes them ideal for early-stage companies looking to extend runway, fund research, or launch a new product without giving away a slice of the business.
The UK has one of the richest start-up grant landscapes in the world. Innovate UK, UKRI, the British Business Bank, local growth hubs, and dozens of regional and sector-specific schemes distribute hundreds of millions of pounds in business grants every year. The challenge for founders isn’t whether funding exists, it’s finding the right start-up grants at the right time.
Every start-up grant has its own eligibility criteria, covering things like company age, turnover, sector, location, and project type. A grant that’s perfect for a pre-revenue deep-tech company in Manchester may be completely closed to a SaaS start-up in London. GrantPal filters out the noise and only shows you small business grants you’re genuinely eligible for.
Research and development grants are among the most popular forms of start-up funding in the UK. Schemes from Innovate UK, Horizon Europe, and the NIHR reward businesses that are building genuinely new technology, improving healthcare outcomes, or pushing a sector forward. If your start-up is working on something novel, R&D grant funding can cover a significant share of the cost.
Beyond R&D, UK start-up grants also support hiring, exporting, green innovation, creative industries, and regional growth. Arts Council England backs cultural ventures, the European Commission funds cross-border collaboration, and regional authorities run their own business grant programmes tied to local economic priorities. There’s rarely just one grant that fits, and often several worth applying for in parallel.
Winning a start-up grant takes preparation, a clear project plan, and a strong fit between your business and the funder’s objectives. GrantPal matches you to the opportunities most likely to succeed and sends them straight to your inbox, so you can spend less time hunting for business grants and more time writing the applications that win them.
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