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 industry-led R&D competition is to support SMEs to develop innovative solutions to address health, and healthcare, challenges.
Funding: Up to 70% grant funding for £150,000-£4 million projects
Closes: 16th October 2024
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: 24th September 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: 30th October 2024
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: 23rd October 2024
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.
What our clients say about us:
Contact us to discuss your technology and how we can help you secure funding to develop it