Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chains: Potential High Growth SMEs
23rd March 2026
UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2m for pre-commercialisation projects.
Your project’s total eligible grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £100,000. This can cover up to 70% of your project costs.
Closes: 22/04/2026 at 11:00am
The aim of this competition is to enable micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to unlock barriers to commercialisation and scaling in the UK. Only SMEs can apply.
Your proposal must focus on delivering an improvement in the resource efficiency or resilience of the Advanced Manufacturing sector plan frontier industries supply chains. We want to fund projects that deliver cross-cutting technologies that can be applied across the six frontier industries defined in the Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan (automotive, batteries, aerospace, space, advanced materials, and agri-tech). You must have built a basic version of the product or service, for example, a prototype or Minimum Viable Product (MVP) at TRL6 or higher.
