GOV.UK Find a Grant — and everything it misses
Find a Grant is the UK government's official service for discovering central-government grant schemes. It's a genuinely useful, free starting point — but it covers central government only. It doesn't include devolved agencies, National Lottery funds, community foundations, local council schemes or European programmes. Subvention searches Find a Grant alongside all of those and matches the results to your company.
Grants change frequently — always confirm eligibility, amounts and deadlines with the funder via the linked source. Subvention does not guarantee funding.
What Find a Grant covers
Find a Grant lists open grant opportunities from UK central government departments and agencies, with eligibility and deadlines. It's the authoritative source for those schemes and worth checking directly.
What Subvention adds
Subvention includes Find a Grant and then goes wider — pulling in Innovate UK and UKRI, the British Business Bank, National Lottery funds, devolved agencies (Scottish Enterprise, Business Wales, Invest NI), regional growth hubs and European schemes — then matches everything to your Companies House profile so you see only what you're eligible for, ranked and explained, each linked back to its original source including Find a Grant itself.
Frequently asked questions
- What is GOV.UK Find a Grant?
- Find a Grant is the UK government's official service for finding central-government grant schemes, with eligibility and deadlines. It's free and authoritative for those schemes.
- Does Find a Grant include all UK grants?
- No — it covers central government only. It doesn't include devolved agencies, National Lottery funds, community foundations, local council schemes or European programmes. Subvention adds those.
- Is Subvention a replacement for Find a Grant?
- Subvention includes Find a Grant and links back to it, while adding the many sources it doesn't cover and matching everything to your company — so you can use both, or just Subvention for a single search.
Grant data refreshed daily · page last reviewed 2026-07-26. Always confirm details with the funder.