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: This competition aims to support Women in Innovation Award winners whose innovation is aligned to one of the following three high-growth sectors defined in the Government’s Industrial Strategy: Advanced Manufacturing, Digital and Technologies and Life Sciences and have a late-stage start-up with ambitions to grow a scalable business, which will involve raising considerable investment in the next 12 to 24 months.
Funding: Your project must have a grant funding request of up to £75,000 (100% funded) and last for 12 months.
Closes: 4th February 2026
Scope: Projects can focus on any health, or healthcare, sector or discipline including but not limited to: advanced therapies (cell, gene, RNA, regenerative) biosciences and platform technologies preclinical tools, target discovery and validation therapeutics and medicine development, including Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and infectious disease diagnostics and biomarkers, including AMR and infectious disease medical technologies, devices and robotics precision and personalised medicine digital and data driven health healthy ageing and independent living
Funding: UK-registered businesses can have a grant funding request of up to £2m (up to 70% funded) for projects lasting between 6months-36 months.
Closes: 10th December 2025
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 £5 million.
Closes: 7th January 2026
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