ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 8
Ref: GRT-O529S8WU
Funding Available
Up to £2,500
UK Wide
All Sectors
27 May 2026
Grants & Funding
About This Grant
A grant to enable farming, growing, or forestry businesses in England to engage an external Project Facilitator. The facilitator supports the development and submission of a Full ADOPT Grant application for on-farm trials and experiments.
What Can It Fund?
- Engaging an external Project Facilitator to support with submissions into the Full ADOPT Grant competitions
- improving application quality
- and enhancing innovation funding skills.
Eligible Costs
- -Fees for an external Project Facilitator registered in the Innovate UK Business Connect database.
Ineligible Costs
- -Production of crops for medicinal or pharmaceutical use
- -cultivated meat
- -equine systems
- -wild caught fisheries
- -aquaculture (algae/seaweed for human consumption)
- -fermentation systems for bacteria/yeast/fungi for human consumption.
Funding Source
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
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