# UK Grant Alert Engine – Innovate UK, UKRI & Horizon Europe (`conceivable_extension/uk-grant-alerts`) Actor

Monitors UK and EU grant funding across Innovate UK, UKRI, and Horizon Europe. Only charges when new opportunities matching your keywords are found. Affordable alternative to IdoxGRANTfinder at £0.10 per new match.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/conceivable\_extension/uk-grant-alerts.md
- **Developed by:** [joseph fadero](https://apify.com/conceivable_extension) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $100.00 / 1,000 grant match founds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UK Grant Alert Engine – Innovate UK, UKRI & Horizon Europe

**Stop missing UK and EU grants. £0.10/new match instead of £2,000–15,000/year.**

Monitors Innovate UK's Funding Service, UKRI's real open-opportunities listing, and the EU's Horizon Europe funding portal for grant opportunities matching your keywords. Only charges when new opportunities are found. Remembers what you've already seen between runs.

### Sources covered

- **Innovate UK** — R\&D grants, innovation challenges, Smart Grants, Feasibility Studies (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)
- **UKRI** — the real, current open-opportunities listing at ukri.org/opportunity/ — a documented gap found and fixed on 2026-09-07: this used to call UKRI's Gateway to Research API, which is a historical database of *already-awarded* funding on completed/ongoing projects, not open calls a business could apply to. Switched to the real source.
- **Horizon Europe** — the EU's real funding & tenders search API (api.tech.ec.europa.eu), filtered client-side to genuinely open topics (real future deadline dates) — the original GET-based integration was calling the wrong HTTP method entirely (a real 405) and has been fixed to the real required POST format.
- **Grants.gov** — US federal grants (optional)

### Use cases

- UK tech SMEs monitoring Innovate UK AI/deep tech calls
- Grant writers tracking multiple funding streams for clients
- University research offices monitoring open calls across all UKRI councils
- Charities and NGOs tracking public funding opportunities

### Inputs

| Field | Default | Description |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| `keywords` | required | Topics matching your area (e.g. 'AI', 'net zero', 'digital health') |
| `organisationType` | sme | Filter for eligible org types |
| `fundingSources` | innovate\_uk, ukri, horizon\_europe | Which databases to scan |
| `minFundingGbp` | 10000 | Minimum grant value to include |
| `publishedWithinDays` | 30 | Only return recently opened grants |
| `includeClosingSoon` | true | Flag grants closing within 14 days |

### Output fields

Each record includes: `grantId`, `source`, `isNew`, `title`, `description`, `fundingBody`, `fundingAmountMin`, `fundingAmountMax`, `isHighValue`, `closingAt`, `closingSoon`, `grantUrl`, `matchedKeyword`, `eligibleOrganisations`.

**Known limitation, honestly disclosed:** Horizon Europe records always report `fundingAmountMax: null`. The EU portal's real API does carry per-topic funding figures (`budgetOverview`), but they're nested under internal numeric topic IDs that don't reliably map back to the public `identifier` for a specific call — rather than risk attributing the wrong figure to the wrong topic, this is left null. Innovate UK and UKRI both report real, correctly-attributed funding amounts (parsed directly from each source's own real page text).

### Run on a schedule

Set up a weekly Apify schedule. New grant opportunities flow into your Google Sheet, Slack channel, or email automatically. Pair with PRD-11 UK Procurement Alerts for complete public funding coverage.

### Pricing (PPE)

| Event | Price |
|-------|-------|
| Run started | £0.05 |
| Opportunity scanned | £0.002 |
| New match found | £0.10 |
| High-value match (>£100k) | +£0.05 |

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords matching your research or innovation area. Example: 'AI', 'net zero', 'digital health', 'advanced manufacturing'.

## `organisationType` (type: `string`):

Your organisation type — used to filter for eligible grants.

## `fundingSources` (type: `array`):

Which grant databases to scan. Valid values: innovate\_uk, ukri, horizon\_europe, grants\_gov.

## `minFundingGbp` (type: `integer`):

Only return grants worth at least this amount in GBP. Set to 0 to include all.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only return grant opportunities opened within this many days.

## `includeClosingSoon` (type: `boolean`):

Add a closingSoon flag to grants closing within 14 days.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "AI",
    "digital transformation"
  ],
  "organisationType": "sme",
  "fundingSources": [
    "innovate_uk",
    "ukri",
    "horizon_europe"
  ],
  "minFundingGbp": 10000,
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "includeClosingSoon": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `resultsDatasetUrl` (type: `string`):

New grant opportunities matching the given keywords from Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe and Grants.gov, produced by this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "AI",
        "digital transformation"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("conceivable_extension/uk-grant-alerts").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keywords": [
        "AI",
        "digital transformation",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("conceivable_extension/uk-grant-alerts").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "AI",
    "digital transformation"
  ]
}' |
apify call conceivable_extension/uk-grant-alerts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,conceivable_extension/uk-grant-alerts"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Li3HISJuraH1rJ5OI/builds/HVpvQ2OYKkeB27aSl/openapi.json