What Are The Current Growth Prospects For UK Businesses?
Introduction According to recent research from Lloyds Bank, 70% of UK surveyed businesses expect their turnover to increase in 2025, up from 62% when questioned in the same confidence survey 12 months ago. 73% of businesses are also expecting to see increased profitability levels as they feel more optimistic about their growth prospects. Businesses are … Read more
Light at the end of the grants tunnel!
It’s not getting any easier for business owners to access the grant funding that will help develop their businesses and increase UK growth and productivity. With Innovate Smart Grants not happening for 2025 there has been some disquiet and uncertainty about what if anything will replace them. There is some good news in that the … Read more
New Grants Added This Week – 16th February 2025 to 23rd February 2025
There were 97 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £19,496,049.
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What Is The Current Status Of The UK Innovation Sector?
Introduction According to new analysis by HSBC Innovation Banking UK and Dealroom, UK innovation businesses were estimated to be worth a combined value of around £1 trillion at the end of 2024. This figure represents a 20% increase year-on-year when compared with 2023 and an overall increase of 9 times (900%) over the past 10 … Read more
How grants can support training and upskilling
During recent discussions with the grants community it has become apparent that there are specific sectors and industries that align well with grants. If you take an example such as artificial intelligence, grant funding could be used in many different ways some of which may be less obvious than you might think. The obvious application … Read more
New Grants Added This Week – 9th February 2025 to 16th February 2025
There were 67 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £19,532,000.
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Overseas Market Development Grants Round-Up
Introduction According to the January 2025 Business Insights and Conditions Survey published by the Office for National Statistics, around 1 in 5 (21%) of UK businesses with 10 or more employees reported that they had exported goods or services in the last 12 months. 18% of these exporting businesses reported they exported more in December … Read more
AI Supermodels: 100x Faster Materials Discovery
Researchers are developing “AI Supermodels,” a new generation of AI tools, that are poised to drastically accelerate materials discovery and other R&D processes. These models leverage domain knowledge and theoretical constraints, allowing them to achieve high-fidelity predictions with significantly less data than traditional AI methods. Early tests have shown speed improvements of 100x or more, … Read more
New Grants Added This Week – 2nd February 2025 to 9th February 2025
There were 57 new schemes added last week with a total amount available of £13,809,154.
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Certainty in an ever-changing grants world
There have been a few changes in the grant funding environment in the UK recently. Nothing on the scale of those seen in the US, but still they present a challenge for grant consultants and businesses alike. Change is a constant theme – take the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) which by and large disappeared, being … Read more