I am very pleased to announce that we have secured £556,000 in grant funding to help the manufacture of cells under the Innovate UK ‘Manufacturing & Materials’ call.
Further details will be announced shortly.
**2018 Open innovation call – £19m Round 2**
Developing innovative technology? Get your 2018/19 R&D costs covered
Round 2 now open: £19m in funding, 70% grants available
The UK Gov is looking to support disruptive innovation and the development of new technology. To be in scope, a proposal must:
- Result in a clear game-changing and/or disruptive innovative idea leading to novel, new products, processes or services that are significantly ahead of others in the field
- Have a clear route to market and demonstrable positive impact in terms of growth and competitiveness
The deadline for applications is the 9th May.
What disruptive, game-changing technology would you develop if you knew 70% of the risk was covered?
Funding details
The funder has allocated up to £19 million to fund innovation projects in this open competition. Successful applicants can attract grant funding towards their eligible project costs.The percentage of costs that they pay through a grant varies. It depends on the type of research being carried out and size and type of organisation involved.
| Applicant size | Industrial research | Experimental development | |
| Micro/small | 70% | 45% | |
| Medium | 60% | 35% | |
| Large | 50% | 25% |
Projects are expected to last from 6 months to 3 years and to range in size from total costs of £50,000 to £2 million. The costs covered by the grant include labour, overheads, materials, IP, depreciation and subcontractors.
Recent Successes – £1.3m from the European Space Agency
2018 has so far been a successful year and I am please to announce that we have recently helped secure over £1.6m in interest-free, equity-free and repayment-free grants this quarter for our clients, including a £1.3m grant from the European Space Agency for an innovative Agritech consortium.
Some of our other recent successes include;
- £189k for an innovative, environmental technology start-up;
- £156k for an expanding UK food producer;
- £129k for clean cities, clean technology project;
- £348k for an innovative medical device company.
For further details please see our website here.
About Tatton Consulting
We help ambitious SMEs identify, apply for and secure the funding and grants to innovate and grow. Our team has secured over £28 million in repayment-free, interest-free, equity-free funding to help our clients innovate and grow. Priority areas include;
- Manufacturing & New Materials
- Health, Biomedical & Life Sciences
- Digital, IoT, Electronics & Sensors
- Green Technology, Transport, Defence & Energy
- Regional Expansion & Growth
- Tourism & Rural Development
If you would like to explore what funding opportunities are available at the moment or would like to discuss your project, then please;
- call us on 0161 826 2256
- email us funding@tattonconsulting.co.uk
- follow us on twitter @UKgrantfunding
- check out www.UKgrantfunding.co.uk
Alternatively contact us by clicking on one of the links below. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing your project further.
— Mark Clayton
Managing Director
£1.3m R&D grant secured for innovative Agritech company
£1.3m grant secured
I am delighted to announce that we have secured over £1.3m in grant funding for an innovative Agritech client.
The funding has been awarded by the European Space Agency.
More details to follow.
Grants for emerging Material, IoT, Big Data, Sensor, Robotic and Space technologies
Grants up to £1m, covering 70% of project costs, are available to support innovative 2018 and 2019 projects leading to innovations in the IoT, Digital, Sensor, Robotic and Space technologies.
The deadline for applications is the 28th March 2018 so act fast!
Scope
Projects must show significant innovation in one of six priority areas:
- Materials
- biofilms
- energy harvesting
- graphene and novel single-layer (2D) materials
- cutting-edge imaging technologies
- unconventional new computational paradigms such as biological computing
- Digital
- machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
- cybersecurity
- data analytics or ‘big data’
- distributed ledger technology (such as blockchain)
- internet of things
- immersive technology (such as virtual or augmented reality)
- innovative services or applications employing new forms of connectivity, including 5G
3. Electronics, sensors and photonics (ESP)
- electronic systems
- large area electronics
- power electronics
- sensor systems
- photonics
- compound semiconductors
- Robotics and autonomous systems
- service robotics for professional or personal applications
- inspection and maintenance in extreme and challenging (hazardous) environments
- health and social care, including assistive technologies, patient care and robotic surgery
- next-generation farming
- next-generation manufacturing
- autonomous transport, including automotive, aerospace and rail applications
- AI technologies for autonomous systems
5. Creative economy
- enabling higher-quality, faster and more cost-effective creation, manipulation and/or consumption of ‘real time’ creative content
- creating richer and more engaging user experiences on new innovative platforms, such as virtual reality
- Space
- Satellite communications
- Satellite positioning, navigation and timing.
- Earth observation.
The next deadline is the 28th March. For details on the scheme and application process, please see our website: www.UKgrantfunding.co.uk
Recent Successes
We help a wide range of businesses, across a variety of industries identify, apply and secure public funding. Some of our recent successes include;
- £189k for an innovative, environmental technology start-up;
- £156k for an expanding UK food producer;
- £129k for clean cities, clean technology project;
- £90k for a 3D printing technology company;
- £348k for an innovative medical device company.
All consultations are done free of charge and we only earn once both parties have identified a suitable opportunity with a good chance of success. For further details please click here.
About Tatton Consulting
We help ambitious SMEs identify, apply for and secure the funding and grants to innovate and grow. Our team has secured over £26.9 million in repayment-free, interest-free, equity-free funding to help our clients innovate and grow. Priority areas include;
- Manufacturing & New Materials
- Health, Biomedical & Life Sciences
- Digital, IoT, Electronics & Sensors
- Green Technology, Transport, Defence & Energy
- Regional Expansion & Growth
- Tourism & Rural Development
If you would like to explore what funding opportunities are available at the moment or would like to discuss your project, then please;
- call us on 0161 826 2256
- email us funding@tattonconsulting.co.uk
- follow us on twitter @UKgrantfunding
- check out www.UKgrantfunding.co.uk
Alternatively contact us by clicking on one of the links below. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing your project further.
— Mark Clayton
Managing Director
**2018 Open innovation call – £19m Round 1**
Investing in R&D in 2018? Developing innovative technology?
**Open to any technology, any company size, anywhere in the UK**
*£19m in funding, 70% grants available*
The UK GOV’s leading grant scheme is now open for applications. Grants of up to £1m are available to support 2018 and 2019 R&D projects – this is one scheme not to be missed.
Scope
To be in scope, a proposal must:
- lead to the development of innovative, new products, processes or services;
- demonstrate sufficient technical innovation, potential return on investment and a high degree of technical risk;
- articulate a clear and anticipated high growth impact for the business(s) leading to a significant return on investment (ROI).
Priority will be given to proposals that are likely to lead to sustainable gains in productivity and/or access to new overseas markets through export led business growth.
Funding details
The funder has allocated up to £19 million to fund innovation projects in this open competition. Successful applicants can attract grant funding towards their eligible project costs.The percentage of costs that they pay through a grant varies. It depends on the type of research being carried out and size and type of organisation involved.
| Applicant size | Industrial research | Experimental development | |
| Micro/small | 70% | 45% | |
| Medium | 60% | 35% | |
| Large | 50% | 25% |
Projects are expected to last from 6 months to 3 years and to range in size from total costs of £50,000 to £2 million. The costs covered by the grant include labour, overheads, materials, IP, depreciation and subcontractors.
Deadline
The application deadline is 12pm on the 28th February 2018 with a second round due to open in March and close on the 31st May. Applications will typically take at least 4 weeks to put together and then 8 weeks to review. Projects should therefore be looking from start in Q3 and Q4 2018 onwards and can incorporate 2019 and 2020 R&D activity.
What challenging, innovative projects would you undertake if you knew 70% of the costs were covered?
Recent Successes
We help a wide range of businesses, across a variety of industries identify, apply and secure public funding. Some of our recent successes include;
- £189k for an innovative, environmental technology start-up;
- £156k for an expanding UK food producer;
- £129k for clean cities, clean technology project;
- £90k for a 3D printing technology company;
- £348k for an innovative medical device company.
All consultations are done free of charge and we only earn once both parties have identified a suitable opportunity with a good chance of success. For further details please click here.
About Tatton Consulting
We help ambitious SMEs identify, apply for and secure the funding and grants to innovate and grow. Our team has secured over £26.9 million in repayment-free, interest-free, equity-free funding to help our clients innovate and grow. Priority areas include;
- Manufacturing & New Materials
- Health, Biomedical & Life Sciences
- Digital, IoT, Electronics & Sensors
- Green Technology, Transport, Defence & Energy
- Regional Expansion & Growth
- Tourism & Rural Development
If you would like to explore what funding opportunities are available at the moment or would like to discuss your project, then please;
- call us on 0161 826 2256
- email us funding@tattonconsulting.co.uk
- follow us on twitter @UKgrantfunding
- check out www.UKgrantfunding.co.uk
Alternatively contact us by clicking on one of the links below. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing your project further.
— Mark Clayton
Managing Director
Industrial Challenge: Advanced Manufacturing & Materials
Industrial Challenge: Advanced Manufacturing & Materials
** £19m in funding, 70% grants available**
Innovative projects that boost productivity, result in a new process or material use are encouraged from the following technology areas:
• nanotechnology and nanomaterials
• composite materials
• coatings, thin films and surfaces
• metals and metallurgy
• ceramics
• polymers
• non-metallics
• electronic and sensing materials
• resource efficiency
• assembly and joining
• forming technologies
• chemical and bio process
• surface engineering
• CAD/CAM/CAE/simulation, digital manufacturing
• electronics manufacturing
• sensor and instrument (design and manufacture)
• material recovery and treatment
• additive manufacturing and 3D printing
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Funding details
Innovate UK have allocated up to £19 million to fund innovation projects;
• Projects should focus on technical feasibility, industrial research or experimental development.
• All projects must involve at least one SME and a business must lead the project.
• Projects costing more than £100k must involve a partner.
• The funding ranges from 35% up to 70% of total R&D costs (labour, overheads, materials, IP, subcontractors).
• Projects are expected to last from 6 months to 3 years and to range in size from total costs of £50,000 to £2 million.
*** The closing dates for application is the 31st January 2018 ***
If you would like any further details on the schemes highlighted or to discuss a potential project, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Tatton Consulting Ltd