Grant Funding helps you finance innovation and business growth
- Innovate UK Competitions
- ARIA Competitions
- UKRI Competitions
- NIHR Healthcare Grants
- Regional and Local Grants
- Horizon Europe
- Sector-Specific Programmes
Grant Funding
Definition
What is Grant Funding?
Grant Funding is a government-backed initiative designed to support businesses by providing financial assistance to drive growth and innovation. It helps businesses across various sectors, from start-ups aiming to establish themselves to established companies looking to scale up.
Grant funding accelerates ambition, turns visions into reality, and enables businesses to explore new opportunities, develop innovative solutions, and achieve long-term success.
Qualification
What project activities qualify for Grant Funding?
Grant funding provides crucial resources for companies to accelerate research, collaborate with partners, and scale groundbreaking solutions.
Innovation Tax continuously monitor the market for funding competitions and opportunities available to UK companies. Although each grant awarding body has different priorities across various sectors, they target to ensure only the best projects are funded. The range of activities which can be supported by grant funding are many and varied, here are a few examples:
- Bioengineered “living” materials that self-heal, absorb carbon, and adapt to surroundings.
- AI-driven supply chain twins that self-optimise to global events in real time.
- Autonomous hydrogen-electric vessels for long-range, zero-emission shipping.
- CRISPR-edited climate-resilient crops resistant to drought, pests, and extremes.
- Quantum-safe cybersecurity to counter next-generation encryption threats.
- Modular robotic swarms for rapid disaster response and infrastructure repair.
- Closed-loop textile recycling to regenerate mixed fibres at industrial scale.
- AI neurorehab devices adapting to brainwaves for faster stroke recovery.
- Climate migration prediction tools for planning large-scale population shifts.
- Off-world mining systems to extract rare materials from the Moon and asteroids.
- Blockchain energy trading enabling local peer-to-peer renewable markets.
- Adaptive AI tutors adjusting lessons via emotional and cognitive tracking.
We know what it takes to be successful in securing Grant Funding
Innovation Tax provide a bespoke range of grant services, from one-off funding consultancy, or grant application/bid writing, to end-to-end management of the funding and fundraising process; enabling companies of all sizes, industry sectors and locations to identify, apply for and successfully tap into the large range of grants and subsidies available.
Some of the Grants available to UK businesses?
Grant Funding
Our process to help you submit a winning grant application
Navigating the grant landscape can be complex. We guide you through identifying the most relevant opportunities, preparing applications, and securing the funding you need to lead in innovation.
01.
Identify grant funding opportunities for your project Week 1
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Assess your eligibility and confirm project meets grant scope
03.
Engage and hold briefing session for your team
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Commence drafting of a winning application
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Pre-submission review Week 3
- Business Opportunity – What drives the innovation and market need?
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) – Has this been considered in your project plans?’
- Innovation – What is innovative / novel about your solution?
- Market – Which market will your solution solve and how will you target this?
- Exploitation -How will you commercialise the solution and within what timescale?
- Benefits – how will your solution provide wider economic, social and environmental benefits?
- Project Plan – How will you manage the project and turn your idea into reality?
- Team & Resources – Do you have a well balanced and experienced team to deliver the solution within the given timeframe?
- Risks – What are the main project risks – technical, commercial, managerial, environmental?
- Finances – Does the project represent good value for money and are your costs reasonable and fully justified?
- Need for Funding – What other funding sources have been tried and why is public money necessary?
Beyond Grant Funding : Your Complete Tax Incentive Portfolio
While grants provide essential non-dilutive capital, innovative businesses often need a multi-layered funding strategy. We help you secure every opportunity:
R&D Tax Credits →
We help companies seeking a scientific or technological advance in their field to recover between 16% – 33% of the costs incurred in R&D.
Patent Box →
Our Patent Box service aids companies in benefiting from reduced tax rates on profits derived from patented inventions, providing substantial tax relief.
Capital Allowances →
Obtain tax relief on capital expenditure e.g costs incurred in the acquisition, refurbishment or alteration of commercial properties.
Energy Incentives →
We help businesses claim energy tax incentives through Climate Change Levy Exemption, Energy Intensive Industries Tax Relief and UK ETS Compensation Schemes.
HMRC Enquiry Support →
We provide expert assistance in responding to HMRC enquiries, ensuring the response is clear, sufficiently detailed and in-line with HMRC's expectations.
Grant Funding Specialists
Our proactive approach ensures your application aligns strategically with current trends, maximising your funding potential.
- Strategic Alignment: We thoroughly evaluate your project to match it with the most relevant grant opportunities, significantly increasing your chances of success.
- Detailed Proposals: Our experienced team creates compelling narratives highlighting your project's innovation, feasibility and potential impact, clearly differentiating your application from competitors.
- Effortless Compliance: We manage every aspect of your application’s submission, ensuring compliance and freeing your team from administrative burdens.