AWS Imagine Grant U.K. & Ireland

A public grant opportunity open to registered nonprofit charities who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions

Grants for nonprofits

Our goal is to empower charitable organisations to prioritise technology as a mission-critical component of their projects by providing support for organisations pursuing technology-driven goals. As part of the programme, we are seeking proposals for pilot projects, proofs of concept, or existing programmes that utilise technology in a new or expanded way.

AWS Imagine Grant in the U.K. and Ireland

AWS Imagine Grant offers two distinct award categories for registered nonprofit charities based in the U.K. and Ireland to receive support based on their organisational goals and the stage in their technology adoption journeys.

The Pathfinder – Generative AI Award

The Pathfinder — Generative AI award will provide support for a highly innovative, mission-critical project that leverages generative AI. This project will have the potential to produce a scaled, repeatable solution that directly accelerates mission achievement and may impact an entire industry or field. Projects in the Pathfinder category may include service types mentioned in the Go Further, Faster and Momentum to Modernise awards, but must include the use of generative AI as a required additional workload. Pathfinder projects must be building on existing data strategy and foundation, and the generative AI use case is already defined with implementation in the planning phase (or later).

Award package includes:

  • Up to $100,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
  • Up to $50,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
  • Project implementation support from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center
  • Access to AWS training and support
  • An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion

*Amazon Web Services (AWS) reserves the right to determine actual awarded amounts at its sole discretion.

The Pathfinder – Generative AI Award

The Go Further, Faster Award

The Go Further, Faster award will provide support for highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud. These projects will have the potential to produce scaled, repeatable solutions and may impact an entire industry or field. They will be force multipliers for organizations and will include the application of and/or seek integrations with advanced cloud services, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT), and more. 

Award package includes:

  • Up to $50,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
  • Up to $16,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
  • Access to AWS training and support
  • An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion

*Amazon Web Services (AWS) reserves the right to determine actual awarded amounts at its sole discretion.

The Go Further, Faster Award

The 2024-2025 AWS Imagine Grant recipients

How to Apply

Please download application instructions and guidelines to learn more about the upcoming 2025 application cycle. 

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