Funder Opportunity Scanner

At the ‘identify funding’ stage, we help you to understand the funding landscape, your funding options and the best fund to fit your idea. Within GrantsNow, we provide an extensive online searchable database of UK, EU and international funding opportunities & research policies.


Key features include

  • The ability to perform funding searches by key word, discipline, career stage, funding body, award type, closing date and award amount.
  • Save time building your customised searches,without having to search the Funder portals  
  • Using AI, we present Immediate daily alerts of new funding opportunities based upon your research areas of interest.
  • News service that keeps you up to date with major developments in the policy and funding landscape by Funder.
  • Personalisation service which generates personal funding alerts, based on publicly available information about your research interests and published work.
  • Ability to simply share any opportunities for internal collaboration within GrantsNow 
    UNIQUE functionality that automatically converts all the data of a funding call immediately into the relevant Funder template. 

Examples of Funders

  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Councils 
  • Research England 
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)  
  • Horizon (EU) 
  • GOV.UK
  • Alzheimer’s Society  
  • Cancer Research UK 
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Bill Gates Foundation  
  • British Academy
  • Leverhulme Trust