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CSP11: Manage scrapes and gutters supplement

Defra — Sustainable Farming Incentive

What you must do to get paid for this CSHT action and advice on how to do it.

£1 per square metre (m2) per yearRolling — apply any timeEngland
IndividualSole traderPartnershipLimited company+1 more

CSW16: Flood mitigation on permanent grassland

Defra — Sustainable Farming Incentive

What you must do to get paid for this CSHT action and advice on how to do it.

£330 per hectare (ha) per yearRolling — apply any timeEngland
IndividualSole traderPartnershipLimited company+1 more

CWT12: Wetland grazing supplement

Defra — Sustainable Farming Incentive

What you must do to get paid for this CSHT action and advice on how to do it.

£566 per hectare (ha) per yearRolling — apply any timeEngland
IndividualSole traderPartnershipLimited company+1 more

CCT10: Manage and restore maritime cliffs and slopes

Defra — Sustainable Farming Incentive

What you must do to get paid for this CSHT action and advice on how to do it.

£791 per hectare (ha) per yearRolling — apply any timeEngland
IndividualSole traderPartnershipLimited company+1 more

CSW19: Raise water levels in cropped or arable peat soils

Defra — Sustainable Farming Incentive

What you must do to get paid for this CSHT action and advice on how to do it.

£892 per hectare (ha) per yearRolling — apply any timeEngland
IndividualSole traderPartnershipLimited company+1 more

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.

Amount not publishedCloses in 30 days (23 September 2026)UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to develop innovative solutions for automation and robotics in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. This funding is from the Farming Futures R&D fund.

Amount not publishedCloses 30 September 2026UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

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.

Amount not publishedCloses in 23 days (16 September 2026)UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Pre-announcement: Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder

Medical Research Council (MRC) , Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) , Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) , UK Research and Innovation

Apply for funding for academically led experimental medicine studies in humans that deepen mechanistic understanding of the causal mechanisms underlying the effects of gambling activities, products and interventions in gambling disorder.

Up to £3mCloses 14 April 2027UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Funding opportunity for mid-range capital equipment that will enable and enhance research across MRC’s scientific areas. You must be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding.

Amount not publishedCloses 5 November 2026UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Connecting Culture Fund

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

Apply for funding to enhance research culture at your BBSRC strategically funded institute. This is an invitation-only funding opportunity and one or more of our institutes must lead or co-lead the application, but other eligible UK based research organisations are encouraged to be involved as project partners.

Amount not publishedCloses 30 September 2027UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Large Grant full applications: November 2026 (invite only)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful outline application. Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.

Amount not publishedCloses 5 November 2026UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Apply for funding to study why people respond differently to biomedical prevention interventions. Projects must generate mechanistic evidence in humans to provide insight into precision prevention through better targeting. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Amount not publishedCloses in 25 days (17 September 2026)UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one’. Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. You must be employed at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Amount not publishedCloses 4 November 2026UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Doctoral focal award plus: innovating in data-driven research

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

We are commissioning one doctoral focal award plus to develop a cadre of social scientists from doctoral studentships and across career stages with the skills needed to use data-driven research approaches in innovative ways. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.

Amount not publishedCloses 14 October 2026UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity

Apply for funding to deliver collaborative research projects with partners from the US, Canada or both to improve understanding of and resilience to wildfire occurrence and impacts in the wildland-urban interface. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

Up to £1.57mCloses 1 October 2026UK-wide
ResearcherAcademicUniversity