UK Government Grants Feed (Find a Grant + Innovate UK)

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One clean, deduplicated feed of UK public funding from two official GOV.UK services:

• Find a Grant (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk), the government's central grants list
• Innovate UK competitions (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)

Turn on watch mode and run it on a schedule, and you only get grants that are new, changed or no longer listed. That makes it easy to send alerts to Slack, email or a CRM.

Why use this instead of searching Find a Grant yourself

Find a Grant is free and you can search it by hand. This feed is for when you want to check often, or pass grants to other tools:

• One feed of two sources. Find a Grant and Innovate UK competitions come back in the same format, with the same field names, deadlines as ISO dates and award sizes as numbers where the listing gives them.
• Only what changed. In watch mode each run reports just the grants that are new, changed (with the fields that changed) or no longer listed, so you do not have to re-read the whole list to spot what is different.
• Filters. Keep only the sources you want and only grants whose title or summary matches your keywords; closed grants are left out unless you ask for them.
• Ready for your other tools. Results land in an Apify dataset, so Apify's integrations (Slack, email, webhooks, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and others) can send them to a channel, spreadsheet or CRM on every scheduled run.

What you get

Field	Meaning
id, source, title, url	The grant and its official page
summary	The short description from the listing
funder	Funding organisation
location, whoCanApply	Lists, as shown on the listing
amountText, amountMin, amountMax	Award size, as text and as numbers in pounds (Find a Grant)
totalFundText, totalFund	Total size of the scheme
opensOn, closesOn	ISO dates
status	open, upcoming or closed
change	new, changed or removed in watch mode, listed otherwise
changedFields	Which fields changed since the last run
fetchedAt	UTC time of the run

Innovate UK states amounts only in free text, so the numeric amount fields stay empty for its competitions rather than being guessed.

Example input

{
  "sources": ["find-a-grant", "innovate-uk"],
  "watch": true,
  "includeClosed": false,
  "keywords": ["energy", "net zero", "community"],
  "maxPagesPerSource": 30,
  "delaySeconds": 2
}

Example output item

A made-up grant, to show the shape of one record:

{
  "id": "find-a-grant:example-community-energy-pilot",
  "source": "find-a-grant",
  "title": "Community Energy Pilot (example)",
  "url": "https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/example-community-energy-pilot",
  "summary": "Funding for community groups to plan small local energy projects.",
  "funder": "Example Department",
  "location": ["England"],
  "whoCanApply": ["Non-profit", "Public Sector"],
  "amountText": "From £5,000 to £50,000",
  "amountMin": 5000,
  "amountMax": 50000,
  "totalFundText": "£2 million",
  "totalFund": 2000000,
  "opensOn": "2026-10-01",
  "closesOn": "2026-12-15",
  "status": "open",
  "change": "changed",
  "changedFields": ["closesOn"],
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-15T07:00:05+00:00"
}

Filters

• sources: find-a-grant, innovate-uk, or both (the default).
• keywords: keeps a grant if its title or summary contains any of the words or phrases, ignoring case. Words match inside longer words, so ai also matches "maintain"; use longer words or phrases (artificial intelligence) to avoid that. Location, funder and eligibility are not searched; filter on those fields in your own tool.
• includeClosed: off by default, so grants past their closing date are left out.
• watch: off by default (every run returns the full filtered list, marked listed). Turn it on for scheduled runs to get only new, changed and removed grants.

Watch mode remembers each combination of sources, keywords and includeClosed separately, so changing a filter starts a fresh history and the next run reports every matching grant as new.

How it reads the sites

• Reads robots.txt first and always obeys it.
• Reads listing pages only, one request at a time, with at least one second between requests.
• Never collects contact names, emails or phone numbers.
• If a source cannot be read in full, it is reported in the run status and its previous results are kept. Nothing is wrongly marked as removed.

Licence

Content from both services is Crown copyright and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. When you reuse it, keep the attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." UKRI's own funding finder is not included, because its content is licensed for non-commercial use only.

For site owners

This feed identifies itself as HustleStaxxGrantsFeed and obeys robots.txt. To block it, add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: HustleStaxxGrantsFeed
Disallow: /

Pricing

You pay per event, in US dollars:

Event	Price	When
Run start	$0.02	Once per run
Grant record	$0.025	Each record written to the dataset, including removed records in watch mode

Grants that are filtered out, or unchanged in watch mode, cost nothing.

Worked examples

• A run that returns 50 grants: $0.02 + 50 × $0.025 = $1.27.
• A quiet watch-mode day with nothing new: $0.02. With 3 new or changed grants: $0.02 + 3 × $0.025 = $0.095.
• A full list with no keywords can run to a few hundred grants (up to about 300 per source with the default maxPagesPerSource); 300 grants would cost $0.02 + 300 × $0.025 = $7.52. Keywords and watch mode keep this down.

Set a maximum cost per run in the Apify Console; the feed stops cleanly when it is reached and the run ends as a success with the records delivered so far.

Limits

• Two sources only: Find a Grant and Innovate UK competitions. UKRI's funding finder is not included (see Licence).
• Reads the listing pages, not each grant's detail page, so fields are what the listing shows. Innovate UK listings give amounts only in free text, so its numeric amount fields stay empty.
• Up to 100 listing pages per source (maxPagesPerSource, default 30; about 10 grants per page).
• One request at a time, at least 1 second apart (default 2 seconds, longer if robots.txt asks).
• Always check the official grant page before applying; the listing can change after a run.

Troubleshooting

• A source is reported as skipped in the status message (for example innovate-uk skipped: page 2 returned 503). That source could not be read in full this time, so its records are left out of this run and its previous watch-mode history is kept: nothing from it is wrongly reported as removed. The other source is still delivered and the run ends as a success. Run again later. If every selected source fails, the run fails.
• Checking a run automatically (schedules, webhooks). Every run writes a RUN_SUMMARY record to its default key-value store, for example:

  {"delivered": 2, "counts": {"listed": 2}, "sourcesRead": ["innovate-uk"], "sourcesFailed": [{"source": "find-a-grant", "reason": "robots.txt does not allow the listing pages"}], "stopReason": null}
  

  If sourcesFailed is not empty, that run is partial: read it before treating missing grants as gone.
• "no listings found on the first page; the page layout may have changed". The site's page layout has probably changed and the feed needs an update. The run keeps your previous history, so nothing is lost; please report it through the Issues tab.
• "stopped at maxPagesPerSource (30) before the last page". The source has more listing pages than the limit. Raise maxPagesPerSource, or narrow the results with keywords (the pages are still read in full, but fewer records are charged).
• "robots.txt does not allow the listing pages". The site has asked crawlers not to read those pages, and the feed obeys.
• The dataset is empty but the run succeeded. In watch mode this means nothing changed since the last run. Without watch mode, your keywords matched no open grants; try broader words.
• Watch mode reported everything as new. It is the first run for that combination of filters (see Filters).

Change log

0.2 (2026-10-15)

• README: why use this instead of searching Find a Grant yourself, prices in money with worked examples, example input and output, a filter guide, limits, troubleshooting and this change log.
• Every run writes a machine-readable RUN_SUMMARY (records delivered, sources read, sources that failed and why), so scheduled runs and webhooks can spot a partial run.
• The User-Agent now reports version 0.2.

0.1 updates (2026-10-14)

• Watch mode is now off by default, so a run on default input always returns the current list. Turn it on for scheduled alerts.
• Added output and dataset schemas, so the Output tab shows an overview table.

0.1 (2026-10-14)

• First release.

Local development

python -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt pytest
python -m pytest -q   # uses fake pages, no network needed