Show Me The Money! Grants & Funding - Practical Tips & Support

Revised: March 2026

Hello Wonderful Innovators,

The AI tools race is on! Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 arrived with a million-token brain and agent teams that code together, OpenAI hit back with GPT‑5.3‑Codex, and Gemini quietly passed 750m users. Whether you’re excited, overwhelmed, or both, the shape of your team is going to change.

Community Wealth Building (CWB) in Scotland! This is brilliant! CWB is a way of strengthening local economies by making sure that the money generated in an area stays there and benefits local people. Instead of wealth flowing out to large external companies. CWB focuses on supporting local businesses, social enterprises, and community organisations.

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Featured (s)heros:

Oyinkansola Adebayo – Founder of Niyo, building economic power for Black women in tech through scalable, community-rooted innovation that blends technology, commercial strategy and inclusion. Taking a £200 a week side-hustle to a £multi-million pound movement.

Prof Karen Cham - Professor of Augmented Intelligence, Digital Transformation & Design Kingston Business School, somehow brilliantly manages to converge creativity, business, tech and inclusivity. This awesome person is smashing tech glass ceilings and bringing people with her.

Rosie Ginday MBE – founded Miss Macaroon CIC, a social enterprise which through catering, retail and training reinvests 100% of profits into helping young people gain life-changing skills. Well done for achieving 15 years of Miss Macaroon, Rosie!

Follow Oyin, Karen and Rosie to understand all the great initiatives they are working on.

Featured Grant or Programme: TechLocal: Connecting Local Talent to Local Tech Jobs – A DSIT/UKRI-backed opportunity funding partnerships that move people into real tech roles, not just training pipelines.

Check out The Entrepreneurs Network (TEN) events, they’re free to attend and are hosted up and down the country. 

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Stay amazing, stay courageous

Drew

Drew Currie

Founder, hibretOne CIC | Interim CEO & Board, iSE CIC

Top Tips for New Subscribers:

●       If a grant or programme is not in your region, many funds listed are for the W Midlands. Search the keywords within the grant, as the programme may be running in your area, under a different name.

●       Use AI to search this document, as some of the grants have a short applications window.

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