Women in Innovation Awards 2025/2026 (up to £75,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 4, 2026

Applications for the Women in Innovation Awards 2025/2026 at the moment are open. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is providing up to 60 Women in Innovation Awards to girls founders and co-founders of micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the UK. This is topic to a ample variety of excessive-high quality functions being obtained.

The goals of this competitors are to help Women in Innovation Award winners:

• whose innovation is aligned to one of many following three excessive progress sectors outlined in the Government’s Industrial Strategy; Advanced Manufacturing, Digital and Technologies and Life Sciences
• who’ve a late-stage begin-up with ambitions to develop a scalable enterprise which can contain elevating appreciable funding in the subsequent 12 to 24 months

Awards

• Successful tasks will obtain up to £75,000 of grant funding and bespoke enterprise help for 12 months.

Eligibility

To lead a mission you should:

• be a lady founder or co-founder inside a UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME) that’s registered on Companies House
• be a resident in the UK
• interact in a minimal of 10 hours of coaching and improvement help
• commit to a minimal of 4 hours of position modelling exercise to encourage future generations of girls innovators

Your mission should:

• have a grant funding request of up to £75,000
• final for 12 months
• begin on 1 July 2026
• finish on 30 June 2027

Application

You should learn the guidance on applying for a competition on the Innovation Funding Service earlier than you begin.

Before submitting, it’s your duty to be certain:

• that each one the knowledge supplied in the application is appropriate
• your proposal meets the eligibility and scope standards
• all sections of the application are marked as full
• you have got accomplished all assigned sections and accepted the phrases and situations (T&Cs)

The application is cut up into 4 sections:

• Project particulars
• Application questions
• Finances
• Project Impact

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Women in Innovation Awards.