Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation and Feasibility Awards
Usually opens in April and May and June
Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.
Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.
The Brian Mercer Award for Innovation is worth up to around GBP 250,000; Brian Mercer Feasibility Awards are smaller (historically up to around GBP 30,000) to test commercial viability of a scientific idea.
The Royal Society
private · national
Deadline: annual_call — Historically an annual call with a spring or summer deadline.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: deeptech
- Stage: idea, pre_seed
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
For scientists at UK universities or research institutes seeking to commercialise research.
Source. https://royalsociety.org/grants/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked