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Defence Funding Portal: The Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) hosts all of MOD’s advertised requirements. You can tailor your notifications from DSP by selecting appropriate category codes.

Unlocking Space for Investment Growth Hub: Free, open access resource from the UK Space Agency designed to help UK space businesses become more investment ready. It brings together practical guidance, short expert-led videos, toolkits and templates covering topics such as building an investable business case, creating robust financial models, preparing data rooms and understanding investor expectations.

UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund: An £8m fund is available to space businesses at the pre-seed and seed stages, with investments between £100k to £500k. Unlike most funding programmes, this fund is a publicly-funded, privately managed, venture capital fund. It aims to address a critical funding gap faced by start-ups, and enables them to scale and thrive in the competitive space industry. In addition to financial investment, UKI2S will offer strategic and operational support through expert guidance and mentoring, giving each business the greatest opportunity to succeed. Any profits made by the UK Space Agency, which oversees the fund, are reinvested back into the fund.

UKRI funding finder: all the latest funding opportunities available across a range of UK funding councils and funding types.

ESA funding applications: ESA’s Business Applications offers funding and support to businesses from any sector who intend to use space (satellite navigation, earth observation, satellite telecommunication, space weather, space technologies) to develop new commercial services.

ESA and Non ESA ITTs: The latest list of all open and intended ESA and Non-ESA ITTs from ESA STAR includes every contract that is in its intended phase, prior to publication, or is currently open for bids. For GSTP, ARTES and BASS, we strongly advise you to consult their associated gov.uk websites as we are not able to support all bids in these areas:

Choosing the Most Suitable EO Funding Call: To help potential applicants determine which funding call(s) are most relevant to their proposal across UK-accessible Earth observation funding opportunities (both national and ESA-led), and to clearly highlight the key differences between each opportunity. the UK Space Agency has created a table detailing the Most Suitable EO Funding Call.

Barclays Demo Directory: This is a gateway to investor visibility and future opportunities, designed to make fundraising more efficient and accessible, helping you connect directly with potential backers. The free platform enables founders to showcase their ventures to over 800 verified UK investors. It has already supported thousands of growing businesses and backs funding rounds from proof of concept up to £25 million. Register on the Barclays Demo Directory

Horizon Europe: Horizon Europe is an opportunity for all types of UK organisations (including businesses and academia) to get funding for research and innovation. For UK businesses this is an opportunity to collaborate with partners with the right expertise to expand markets and accelerate innovation across Europe and internationally.

SpaceCraft: this initiative to help small and medium enterprises and colleges who want to create their own space-flight equipment, space experiments and to access specialist training. It is co-funded by the UK Space Agency and the University of Surrey, and run from Surrey Space Centre.

AI Skills Boost: a free training programme of benchmarked AI courses being offered to every adult in the UK to gain practical AI skills for work. Courses take anywhere from 20 minutes to a day, fit around working life, and teach practical skills you can use straight away – whatever your role or technical background.