Wax is a successful grant writing consultancy, with 15 years experience securing funding for innovative research and development projects. Our streamlined process takes the pain out of application writing and can help you write a winning grant application.
Wax was founded by Casper and Damien, both highly-experienced and successful grant-writers. Casper has a background and expertise in sustainable innovation, business productivity and impact analysis. Damien is a digital innovation specialist with design, project management and engineering expertise.
Innovate UK has a £450m annual budget and offers R&D grants (for projects up £10m) via a competitive process, to encourage innovation in the UK. Innovate UK funding can be used for innovative R&D to help your business grow. Depending on the competition and your innovation, IUK can provide funding for activities such as research, prototyping and testing.
As well as offering Innovate UK grant writing services we can also help you apply to other funds including EU H2020, European Space Agency, SBRI and NESTA. Get in touch to find out how we can help you secure innovation funding.
Scope: The aim of this CR&D competition is to advance the development of collaboration with innovators in the creative industries. Your project must focus on one or more of the following creative industries subsectors: advertising and marketing animation architecture arts and culture crafts design fashion film, TV and video games publishing music and radio visual art and photography
Funding: Your project must have a grant funding request between £150,000 and £200,000 (up to 70% funded) and last between six and nine months.
Closes: 29th January 2025
Scope: The aim of this competition is to develop responsible and ethical AI personalised learning solutions, to support AI competency development in the key sectors of: Construction Transport and Logistics Creative Industries Agriculture and Food Processing
Funding: Up to 70% grant funding for £50,000-£100,000 projects
Closes: 29th January 2025
Scope: The aim of this competition is to help businesses use people centred and systemic design methods. These will lay foundations for innovative ideas that can deliver significant benefits to people, the planet, and society as a whole. The ideas can be for new or significantly improved products, services, places or business models.
Funding: 100% funding for grants up to £80,000
Closes: 15th January 2025
Scope: The aim of this competition is to develop digital therapeutic extended reality (XR) solutions to provide mental healthcare services.
Funding: Up to 70% grant funding for £200K-£300K projects
Closes: 15th January 2025
Scope: This competition funds collaborative projects across the arts and humanities. UKRI says The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) supports world-class research in a wide range of subjects from history and archaeology to philosophy and languages and also more contemporary research – for example, on the design and effectiveness of digital content and the impact of artificial intelligence.
Funding: AHRC will fund 80% FEC for projects worth total £300,000 to £1.5 million.
Closes: 10th December 2024
Scope: UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
Funding: You can get a loan of up to 100% of your eligible project costs between £100,000 and £2 million.
Closes: 8th January 2025
Scope: Smart grant will fund radical, innovative and market-leading R&D projects.
Funding: Up to 70% grant funding for £100K-£500K projects up to 18 months, or £100K-£1M for 19-24 months.
Closes: 22nd January 2025
It all starts with a great idea
Identify suitable funds here
Carefully read the guidance
Develop consortium if required
Write application & appendices
Submit application to funder
We understand that every business is different, so we offer a range of services, to suit your needs, timescales and budget:
We write the entire application and submit to the funder. We work with you to extract and clearly present your innovations and business strategy.
2 reviews of an application written by you based on the templates we provide. We provide detailed feedback to improve your application and chance of success.
The review service and additional support on key sections you want detailed input on.
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Contact us to discuss your technology and how we can help you secure funding to develop it