Can a new business get a UK grant?
Sometimes, but a brand-new business is a poor fit for most capital grants. Many schemes want you to be trading, to have accounts, or to show you can pay the match. A company number is not a grant. Check the postcode and read who the scheme is written for before you spend a week on the form.
Also asked as: startup grants UK · grants for a business with no accounts · funding for a new company
Is a Start Up Loan a grant?
No. A Start Up Loan is a loan, with interest and a repayment date. It is not free money. The British Business Bank publishes the current terms. Do not list it as a grant in an application.
What can a new firm realistically read?
Local growth-hub advice, which is often free and not a grant, and any competition whose brief allows a young company. Innovate UK rounds set their own age and accounts rules. Read that brief, not a general startup list.
Will Find Grants invent a startup grant?
No. If it is not in the catalogue, it is not named. A page that promises a grant for every new business is not this one.
Schemes named here
- Innovate UK Smart grantInnovate UK · £25,000–£2,000,000 · A business · Up to 249 · Manufacturing, Digital and creative, Energy and environment, Professional services, Health and care · Closes 20 Jan 2027
- East Midlands small grantEast Midlands Growth Hub · £1,000–£15,000 · A business · Up to 49 · Mentions Retail · Closes 29 Jan 2027
Related
128 answers on this site. Find Grants checks which UK grants a business can get from a postcode or a place. Looking is free. If you want the application written, the fee is £99 for that one application, shown before you pay. Find Grants does not take a percentage of the grant, does not file the form, and is not part of GOV.UK. Confirm every scheme on the funder's own site.