Rural England Prosperity Fund
What is the Rural England Prosperity Fund? The Rural England Prosperity Fund is a complementary funding pot to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund that was launched by the last UK Government as part of their Levelling Up agenda. A total of £110m in funding has been made available across financial years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 in … Read more
Elevating Business Intelligence Through Smart Prompts
“Artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It is more profound than fire or electricity.” Sundar Pichai, 2020 PROBLEM: POOR PROMPT OPTIMISATIONPoorly constructed AI prompts can severely hinder a business’s ability to leverage AI effectively. Inaccurate or irrelevant results, stemming from prompt deficiencies, lead to wasted resources and … Read more
New Grants Added This Week – 14th July 2024 to 21st July 2024
There were 112 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £94,609,597.
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UK Shared Prosperity Fund Update
Refresher – What is the UK Shared Prosperity Fund? The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the former Conservative Government’s Levelling Up agenda and aims to provide £2.6 billion of funding for investment within local authority areas by March 2025. The fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances … Read more
How AI is Transforming the World of Business Grants
As our understanding of AI improves, its scope of application increases and the world of business grants is no exception. Finding grants and then applying can be a time consuming exercise, whether it’s the business owner themselves doing it or a professional grant writer. Also, it requires a level of knowledge as well as a … Read more
New Grants Added This Week – 7th July 2024 to 14th July 2024
There were 180 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £18,085,696.
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Funding Awarded to UK AI Companies
According to the latest statistics, there were a total of 1,797 active high growth AI start-ups in the UK, with investments totalling £3.21bn in equity funding in 2022 alone. Another report puts the total number of UK AI start-ups that received funding of $1.5m and over between 2013-2023 at 727. This second metric is important … Read more
The AI Advantage: Transforming Business Functions for the Digital Age
“We see the wave coming. Now this time next year, every company has to implement it — not even have a strategy. Implement it.” — Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO, Stability AI PROBLEM: KEEPING UP WITH AIIn our last AI blog we stated that the impact of artificial intelligence on transforming business functions cannot be … Read more
New Grants Added This Week – 30th June 2024 to 7th July 2024
There were 116 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £44,238,223.
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The Importance of Recognising the Patterns across Vertical Functions
“Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.” – Steve Krug PROBLEM: REINVENTING THE WHEELReinventing the wheel in software development wastes time and resources, often leads to suboptimal solutions, and misses learning opportunities. In contrast, standardised cross-functional work improves … Read more
