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If you are a small or medium enterprise working in clean technology and innovation, there is a bewildering array of grant funding that you can apply for. We make it easy for you: we scan and collate information from a wide range of local, national and international bodies, and serve up one single, easy-to-digest quarterly newsletter on grant funding opportunities for the cleantech sector straight to your inbox.
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Funding opportunities
BeWorks Automation – Crowdfunding
Karfu’s aim is to be the Moneysupermarket for Mobility, designed to help consumers compare the lifetime financial cost and environmental impact of different vehicles from cars to scooters, showcasing finance, leasing, subscription, sharing and rental options all in one place. Save money, time and the planet!
Karfu is raising £300,000 – Crowdfunding
Karfu’s aim is to be the Moneysupermarket for Mobility, designed to help consumers compare the lifetime financial cost and environmental impact of different vehicles from cars to scooters, showcasing finance, leasing, subscription, sharing and rental options all in one place. Save money, time and the planet!
GFIL Future Frontiers Fund (FFF)
Grant funding for early-stage projects that are developing solutions to tackle climate change, protect our environment and deliver a net zero future.
Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition
Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Innovate UK is offering up to £25 million in loans to micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.
The Earthshot Prize
The Earthshot Prize is the most ambitious and prestigious of its kind – designed to incentivise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years.
Successful tech grant scheme boosts local businesses
An initiative from the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority to help small and medium-sized businesses improve their productivity using digital technology has so far successfully distributed over half a million pounds.
UK government plans and the pledge to COP26
The UK government’s strategy will not lead to reducing emissions by 45% from 2018-2030 despite pledging to the United Nations to do so.
Industrial Energy Transformation Fund
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have just launched the second round of their Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, worth £60m.
Eastern New Energy Collaboration for Innovation
Led by the University of East London, the £10.2m programme, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, helps organisations across the region to lower their carbon impacts and develop services or products which support a zero-carbon economy.
Thermulon are crowdfunding
Thermulon is developing super-insulating aerogel materials to tackle the climate & fire-safety emergencies in the building sector.
ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging
ISCF smart sustainable plastic packaging: business-led R&D UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7 million for R&D projects with the potential to significantly impact the 2025 UK Plastic Pact targets.
Amplify Programme – Cambridge
The Amplify programme helps founders of established impact businesses who want to build a network of support and best practice for their ongoing journey.
