The Funding Blog

SMART is Innovate UK’s flagship fund. UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million per call to deliver game-changing or disruptive innovations with significant potential for impact on the UK economy.

The latest SMART grant round of funding has been released with a deadline for the 24th of July and has also increased to a share of up to £25 million. Read More

ISFC Overview

The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund aims to bring together the UK’s world-leading research with business to meet the major industrial and societal challenges of our time. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund provides funding and support to UK businesses and researchers. The fund is part of the UK government’s £4.7 billion increase in research and development over 4 years to 2021. It is designed to ensure that research and innovation take centre stage in the government’s Industrial Strategy. Read More

To kick start Granted Consultancy’s 10-year celebration, we have recently released a new service to further support innovative companies in their journey to successfully securing grant funding.

Our comprehensive training programme provides a range of Grant Funding Training options that are flexible to the needs of your organisation and will add real value (skills, knowledge and confidence) to your team. Read More

In 2018, Innovate UK released 5 Innovation Loan competitions. Granted supported multiple companies throughout the application process and has developed a breadth of knowledge from advising these companies on all aspects of securing the innovation loan.

The innovation loan has huge benefits and Innovate UK are set to release a number of competitions throughout 2019, but, are there any implications to claiming R&D tax credits if you secure the Innovate UK Loan? Read More

ISFC Overview

The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund aims to bring together the UK’s world-leading research with business to meet the major industrial and societal challenges of our time. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund provides funding and support to UK businesses and researchers. The fund is part of the UK government’s £4.7 billion increase in research and development over 4 years to 2021. It is designed to ensure that research and innovation take centre stage in the government’s Industrial Strategy. Read More

Being the only funding exhibition of its kind in the UK & EU, Granted Consultancy were thrilled to have sponsored The Business Funding Show 2019 for the third year running.

The Business Funding Show is a 70,000 strong network of entrepreneurs and funders supporting businesses across all industries and stages to get the necessary advice to improve and expand. Read More

If you have secured Horizon 2020 grant funding, have you registered your details with the UK government to make sure you receive funding for the full duration of your project?

The government has stated all businesses successful in securing funding in Horizon 2020 bids before the UK exits the EU will be guaranteed to receive funding for the full duration of their project. However, all successful business must register their details with the government to continue to receive their funding if the UK leaves with no deal. Read More

Celebrating clean technology innovation, Granted Consultancy sponsored and attended the Rushlight show 2019 on the 31st of January in London to support leading Cleantech innovators.

Hosted at The Royal Society in London, the show brings together cleantech developers and sustainable solution providers, with investors & financiers and businesses looking to source suppliers and partners for an improved level of sustainability in their supply chain and operations. Read More

Are you attending the only funding exhibition in the UK and EU?

The Business Funding Show 2019 is a 70,000 strong network of entrepreneurs and funders supporting businesses across all industries and stages to get the necessary advice to improve and expand.

For the third year running Granted Consultancy are delighted to be sponsoring this unique funding exhibition which brings together a top-quality audience of key decision makers and leading industry experts representing funding and growth support organisations.

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The main focus for UK funding bodies is for companies to produce innovative products, technologies or services that are significantly ahead of others in the field. Within the process of applying for grant funding, you will need to be thinking about the logistics of your supply and value chains. But what is the difference between supply and value chains? Read More

ISCF: Prospering from the energy revolution

“Around 80 per cent of global energy use still comes from fossil fuels. To preserve a safe and stable climate, this has to change, fast. Countries all over the world are moving to renewable energy, with investment more than doubling over the last decade.But for the majority of our energy to be clean and affordable, we need much more intelligent systems. Smart systems can link energy supply, storage and use, and join up power, heating and transport to increase efficiency dramatically. By developing these world-leading systems in the UK, we can cut bills while creating high-value jobs for the future.” (Innovate UK).

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For the third year running Granted Consultancy is delighted to be sponsoring the Rushlight Show 2019 which celebrates and promotes cleantech innovation. Alongside Innovate UK and BEIS, Granted Consultancy will be introducing some of the leading innovators in 2019 – all of which will be leading candidates for R&D grant funding.

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Introduction to Innovation Loans for Business by Innovate UK

Innovate UK (UKRI) ran 5 Innovation Loan Competitions in 2018 targeting Health & Life Science, Infrastructure Systems and Open Innovation (3 rounds). Granted Consultancy have supported clients through the application and project management process of the Innovation Loans for multiple projects over 2018 and here we share some of our insights and learnings.

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Research and development grants are available to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who have cutting-edge or disruptive ideas aligned with commercial ambition. Working with an academic partner on your application can maximise your chances of success, but what do you need to know before securing your partnership?

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Applying for grant funding can facilitate collaborations with unique industry, research and academic partners to help deliver world-leading innovation projects. These collaborations open up access to new technologies, techniques and expertise – further enhancing outcomes for your business.

With the growing complexity of the problems needs solutions, universities can provide a new or different perspective to your product, process or solution and potentially offer more time to consider the problem and published literature.

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