Grant guide
Cardiff grants and Welsh funding checks
Cardiff funding may be local, Wales-wide or UK-wide. Teams should check whether a route is a direct grant, business support, advice or partner programme.
Teams deciding where to spend application time
Cardiff SMEs, charities, CICs, community groups and consultants checking local and Welsh funding sources.
Make the first review more concrete
Find Cardiff grants and Welsh funding support.
Review workflow
What FundingLens helps you do
Keep source facts, caveats and next actions together so your team can decide what deserves attention before application work starts.
Check whether the source is Cardiff Council, Business Wales, a Welsh funder, UK-wide source or local community route.
Record applicant type, geography, project purpose, language/source caveats, deadline, status and evidence requirements.
Use finance locators as discovery tools while verifying the primary funder page before acting.
Readiness checks
- Cardiff or Wales-wide geography confirmed.
- Council, Business Wales or primary funder route identified.
- Grant, loan or advice route separated.
- Deadline and status checked.
- Source citation saved.
Eligibility caveats
- Welsh support routes may differ from English or UK-wide schemes.
- Business support locators can include non-grant finance.
- Some source material may have Welsh and English versions that should be checked consistently.
Source references
Use Cardiff Council support pages to check local business routes, then verify grants against Business Wales or primary provider guidance.
Official sourceBusiness Wales Finance LocatorUse the official Wales finance locator to discover finance schemes, then verify each result against the primary funder before treating it as a grant match.
Official sourceArts Council of Wales fundingUse Arts Council of Wales funding pages to check arts applicant rules, current rounds, Welsh source routes and project evidence requirements.
Related FundingLens pages
Wales grant alerts with checks for applicant location, Welsh delivery, finance type, community funding, arts funding, sport routes and primary funder URLs.
Small business grantsSmall business grants separated from loans and adviceSmall business grant alerts with checks for location, company status, support type, eligible costs, match funding and repayment caveats.
Grant guideLocal authority grants: verify council-run funding before applyingVerify local authority grants by checking council geography, applicant type, local priorities, grant status, evidence and primary source pages.