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Welcome to the latest funding opportunities this spring!

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After a very wet and windy winter, the Tatton Consulting team are looking forward to a bright and exciting spring. And what better way to get the new season started than to take a look at some of the great new funding opportunities open at the moment.

March 2020 expression of interest: Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programmeThe Aerospace Technology Institute Programme is at the Expression of Interest stage of a 3 stage competition, looking to invest in projects that maintain and grow the UK’s competitive position in civil aerospace, and meet the Aerospace Technology Strategy, “raising Ambition’.

Competition opens 2nd March and closes 18th March at 12pm.
Award – total fund available £3.9billion

SBRI: monitor and visualise domestic pollution to safeguard health
Innovate UK are looking to fund organisations of any size who can develop and demonstrate new products and/or services that enable households to measure, visualise and respond to air pollution and safeguard health.

Phase 1 competition opens 19th Feb and closes 15th April 12pm.
Award – phase 1 – up to £20K, phase 2 up to £300K.

Demonstrators addressing cyber security challenges in the Internet of Things: round 2  
This competition, funded by Innovate UK, is looking for projects that aim to solve industry-focused cyber security related challenges. A preference will be given to projects that include a plan to test near-to-market interventions and experiments in real environments.

Competition opens 27th January and closes 15th April at 12pm.
Award – Maximum of £2m per project.

Seafood Innovation Fund
A £10M UK Seafood Innovation fund is looking to support the UK’s fishing, aquaculture and seafood industries, by inviting projects that deliver cutting edge technology and innovation in the productivity and sustainability of UK Seafood into the future.

Competition opens 7th February and closes 20th April.
Award – Feasibility studies up to £50K. Full R&D projects up to £250K.

UK-Canada: enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability
In line with the aims of the transforming food production challenge, innovative research and development projects – involving UK businesses working with partners in Canada – are being invited to apply for funding. The aim s to bring new businesses and technologies into both the UK and Canadian agriculture sectors, taking into account the needs of farmers and growers.

Competition opens 27th January and closes 20th May at 5pm.
Award – A combined total funding for UK partners of £400K per application.

ISCF smart sustainable plastic packaging: feasibility studies and industrial research
Innovate UK are looking to invest up to £1M from the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Programme for early stage projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging. Projects must contribute to one of more of the UK Plastics Pact targets.

Competition opens 13th January and closes 1st April at 12pm.
Award – £1M available for eligible projects.

Funding for SMEs in the manufacturing sector
Calling all SMEs working in the manufacturing sector. In particular, projects that integrate key enabling technologies to solve clean production challenges. Key enabling technologies include micro and nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, advanced materials, photonics and advanced manufacturing technologies.


For more information on any of these funding opportunities, or if you have any questions about planning an application, come and talk to the team at Tatton Consulting.

Funding Milestone – £40m in grants won!

After 5 years hard work, we are very pleased to announce that we now successfully secured over £40 million in repayment-free, interest-free, equity-free grant funding to help our clients innovate and grow. 

Recent success include;

  • £4,000,000 for a national food traceability project,
  • £15,100,000 for Clean energy project in Africa;
  • £1,150,000 for the big data project across the insurance, legal and accountancy industry. 

 Not bad for a small team in the North West! 

New Offices

I am pleased to advise that we have moved offices and are now delighted to be part of the exciting cluster of technology companies at Sci-Tech Daresbury. Please come and say hello if your on-site! 

Tatton Consulting Ltd.                   
The Innovation Centre,
Sci-Tech Daresbury,
Keckwick Lane,
Daresbury
WA4 4FS

Tatton Consulting wins Best Grant Consultancy Firm 2019!

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With the holidays just around the corner, it’s not just the Christmas festivities that have got us all excited here at Tatton Consulting.  We’re very proud and extremely eager to let you know about our recent success at the SME News Finance Awards, where we have just been awarded Best Grant Consultancy Firm 2019!
 
The awards, led by SME News, aim to celebrate the successes and achievements of small businesses around the UK. Looking for SMEs who deliver excellence and expertise in their field, the SME News team recognised our more obvious successes – such as having secured funding for more than 250 UK SMEs, winning over £38,500,000 in funding for our clients and of course, our No Win, No Fee guarantee.
 
But the hard working team here at Tatton Consulting are also elated to gain recognition for the way we work and the relationships we build with our clients. Knowing our clients and understanding both their businesses and their goals in the way that we do, makes it easier for us to pick up on the funding opportunities that will be a perfect fit.
 
Further reasons for the award touched upon our specialist team and our combined 30 years experience in the field. It is this experience and knowledge, covering a number of industries and technologies, which allows us to advise our clients on the best opportunities and go on to manage and produce successful funding applications.
 
We look forward to continuing our exciting work, and gain further success for our clients as we move into 2020.

A link to the full article in SME News Magazine can be found here.

70% R&D Grants To Help Develop Technology for Healthy Ageing

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The UK GOV has made £98m available to help companies develop innovative technology to help people age happily and healthily. 

Opening for applications this week is the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: Healthy Ageing Challenge offering grants of up to 70% to help develop innovative solutions for an ageing population.

The average life expectancy is rising rapidly. In fact, it’s now thought that the children born today will be expected to live to 100. We have to ask what kind of pressures and challenges does this mean for our Health Services, as more of our older generation look for ways to lead healthy, active lives.

As part of the Ageing Society Grand Challenge, Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation) are looking for businesses and organisations who have ideas, or who are developing new products or services that will support a healthy lifestyle for people in their older years.

With up to £98 million funding available across the whole project, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Focus Areas

Projects considered need to meet one (or more) of the 7 themes of the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework. These themes include;

  • Sustaining physical activity
  • Maintaining health at work
  • Designing for age-friendly homes
  • Managing common complaints of ageing
  • Living well with cognitive impairment
  • Supporting social connections
  • Creating healthy and active places

Applications will be considered from businesses and public sector organisations of any size.

Funding Levels
Stage 1 projects can range up to £100,000 (with £2 million available) and Stage 2 projects up to £6 million.

The amount you can claim depends on the size of your organisation. For stage 1 feasibility studies, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:

  • up to 70% if you are a micro or small business
  • up to 60% if you are a medium-sized business
  • up to 50% if you are a large business

Deadline for applications
The competition opened on 23rd September and will close at 12pm on November 27th 2019. For further details on the above scheme, or if you would like to discuss a potential project please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Partnerships

We are proud to announce Tatton Consulting as the official UK public funding partner of the Greentech Challenge, a Europe-wide business incubator supporting the brightest and best sustainability and green technology start-ups.
 


We will be supporting them at GREENTECH CHALLENGE London 2019 at Sustainable Workspaces, London. For further details please click here.  

Recent Successes

We love helping businesses apply and secure funding, and have supported our clients in raising over £32m. We’ve recently secured funds for a number of projects including;

  • £190k for an Augmented Reality project,
  • £450k for a Digital Health Genetics company
  • £260k for an African Agritech 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. 

Grant Opportunities for September and October

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Despite it raining outside and it being the holiday season there are a large number of grant opportunities at the moment. Funding is available to support innovation in Construction, Financial Services, Energy, Quantum Computing, Ageing Technology and Self-Driving Vehicles.

A selection of these can be found below;

Enabling data access in accountancy, insurance and legal services: CR&D
Apply for a share of up to £3.5 million from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, to enable data access and innovation in accountancy, insurance and law.

Opening Date: Monday 14th October 
Closing Date: Wednesday 20th November


Transforming UK construction: demonstrator projects
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £26 million for practical, demonstrator projects in MMC, digital and whole-life asset performance.

Opening Date: Wednesday 28th August
Closing Date: Wednesday 6th November


Commercialising quantum technology: feasibility and industrial research projects round 1
Funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £6 million for quantum technology innovation projects.

Opening Date: Monday 5th August
Closing Date: Wednesday 30th October


And don’t forget that the Innovate UK Smart Grants: July 2019 is already open! 

This opportunity allows you to apply for a share of up to £25 million to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations that can make a significant impact on the UK economy.

Closing date: Wednesday 16th October

For further details on any of the above schemes, or if you would like to discuss a potential project please don’t hesitate to give us a call.
 

Partnerships

We are proud to announce Tatton Consulting as the official UK public funding partner of the Greentech Challenge, a Europe-wide business incubator supporting the brightest and best sustainability and green technology start-ups.

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We will be supporting them at GREENTECH CHALLENGE London 2019  on the 9–12th of September 2019  at Sustainable Workspaces, London. For further details please click here.  

Recent Successes

We love helping businesses apply and secure funding, and have supported our clients in raising over £32m. We’ve recently secured funds for a number of projects including;

  • £190k for an Augmented Reality project,
  • £450k for a Digital health genetics company
  • £260k for an African Agritech 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.