Grant Funding Resources

These guides cover the practical questions that come up when applying for UK grants: what schemes exist, who qualifies, what applications actually cost and how to write responses that answer what assessors score. They are free and need no signup. The most-used are the grant writing cost guide, which sets out real UK market rates including the success fees most consultancies charge, and the grant application guide, which works through how to structure responses against published criteria. Regional guides cover Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland separately, because devolved funding differs substantially. Scheme-specific guides cover Innovate UK Smart Grants and the National Lottery Community Fund. Everything here reflects current UK schemes and is updated as they change; where a guide quotes a figure, the source is stated so you can check it.