The mechanical checks that bin an application before anyone reads it
Word limits, unanswered questions, the funding cap, the rules a funder applies before assessment begins — and why they are the cheapest thing in a bid to get right.
Find the 323 live UK and European grants you can actually enter — then write the application against the funder's own questions, with their real word limits and the criteria your assessor is given. Updated daily.
323
live grants tracked
£3.6B+
in open funding tracked
Daily
grant database updates
Free
eligibility check, no account
Check eligibility in 2 minutes · No commitment required
323
Live UK & European grants
£3.6B+
Open funding tracked
Daily
Database updates
2 min
Eligibility check
How it works
We've stripped out the complexity so you can focus on building your business — not filling in forms.
Answer a few simple questions about your business and sector. Our AI instantly evaluates your fit across 323 live UK and European funding schemes.
We surface the grants you can actually enter — matched on each funder's published eligibility rules, and ranked by funding amount and deadline. UK government, Innovate UK, UKRI and Horizon Europe, in one place.
The application is broken into the funder's own sections, with their real questions, the published word limit on each answer and what the assessor is told to look for. You write it; nothing is drafted for you.
When your application is ready, you submit it directly through the funder's portal. FundGenius keeps tracking deadlines and new opportunities so you're always ahead of the next round.
Our services
We go deep on each programme so you don't have to. Pick your funding pathway and let FundGenius do the rest.
Funding
£25K – £500K
Innovate UK runs dozens of themed competitions a year, each with its own scope, deadline and intervention rate. We match your project to the ones it actually fits, and guide you through what each one requires.
Funding
No cost
Answer a few questions about your business and project — our AI scans 323 live UK and European grants and tells you exactly which ones you qualify for, ranked by fit and funding value.
Why FundGenius
Most businesses waste months chasing the wrong grant — or miss deadlines entirely because they don't know what's open. FundGenius tracks 323 live UK and European schemes, updated daily, and matches you to the ones worth applying for.
80%
Of grants in our database are open or rolling right now — including Horizon Europe calls available to UK businesses post-association.
Your project checked against 323 live UK and European schemes, including Horizon Europe and the EIC — on the eligibility rules each funder publishes, so you are not reading a competition you cannot enter. It is a fit against stated criteria, not a prediction of whether you will win.
Each competition opens a workspace holding its actual questions, the published word limit on every answer, and what the assessor is told to look for — beside the box rather than in a PDF in another tab.
A forty-question application in the order the form asks for it, with a live word count against each limit and a draft that saves as you type. Neither submission service warns you when you go over, and going over is a pre-sift failure.
Before anyone reads your application it is checked mechanically: word limits, unanswered questions, the funding cap, the rules that bin a proposal on a technicality. It names the answer that would fail and why. It does not tell you whether the writing is any good, and it does not pretend to. This is what the £199 pass buys, alongside the wording pass — the questions, limits and criteria above it are the funder's own and are free.
UKRI classes improving English and formatting as minimal use of AI, and forbids generating an application or any section of one without human involvement. So the optional wording pass tightens sentences you have already written, adds no facts, and records that it ran.
Pricing
The grants, the questions, the word limits and the criteria are the funder’s own: they cost nothing and are not going to. Two things are paid, and both are narrow.
Free
An email address opens the full list. That is the only thing it is for.
£5 a month
Or £50 a year. What it buys is push instead of pull.
£199 per competition
One payment. No subscription.
For comparison: a UK grant consultancy publishing its rates charges from £3,500 up front plus 7 to 12% of the award, or 10 to 15% on success alone. On a £1m grant that is £100,000. The pass is £199, and it does not write the application — you do.
Insights
Word limits, unanswered questions, the funding cap, the rules a funder applies before assessment begins — and why they are the cheapest thing in a bid to get right.
Innovate UK and UKRI both publish their assessment criteria. Most applicants never read them beside the box they are answering.
Find out which of our 323 live grants you're eligible for in 2 minutes. We check UK government schemes, Innovate UK competitions, and Horizon Europe calls — all in one place, for free.
Takes 2 minutes · No credit card · No obligation