Full ADOPT Grant Round 6

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Original Source
Award

£50,000 - £100,000

Deadline

Apr 08, 2026

Due in 37 days
Location

England

Applicants

organization, consortium

About This Opportunity

The Full ADOPT Grant Round 6 is part of the Farming Innovation Programme delivered by Defra in partnership with Innovate UK. This funding opportunity provides up to £5 million for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects across England. The aim is to support innovative, on-farm trials or experiments to test ideas or solutions that will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities. Projects must demonstrate potential to significantly improve productivity, resilience, sustainability and progression towards net zero farming. The lead applicant must be a farming, growing or forestry business based in England and must collaborate with at least one other UK farmer, grower or forester. Projects must demonstrate benefits to other English farmers, growers or foresters and embrace open innovation principles by sharing results. A Project Facilitator from the ADOPT Innovate UK Business Connect database must be part of the project team. Projects must have total costs between £50,000 and £100,000, last between 6 and 24 months, and can receive up to 80% funding coverage depending on location and business type.

Duration 6 - 25 mo

Who Can Apply

Region
England
Residency
United Kingdom
Project in
United Kingdom
Applicants
organization, consortium
Organizations
for profit

Application Details

Matching funds

Stages

  1. 1 single_stage

Required documents

research_proposal budget

Additional benefits

  • mentorship

Restrictions

  • no_concurrent_funding
  • geographic_restrictions
  • reporting_requirements

Post-award obligations

  • final_report
  • acknowledge_funder
  • share_data