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 focuses on technology and innovations that aim to deliver government commitment to clean energy for the UK and accelerating to net zero, helping the UK to prosper from the transition to net zero. This includes solutions and enabling technologies that make a significant contribution to mitigating climate emissions, across heat, power, mobility, manufacturing, materials, agriculture and food production systems. Research categories include feasibility study, industrial research and experimental development. The competition aims to provide the support for research and development and access to the capital investment you need to develop and commercialise your innovations.
Funding: Feasibility Studies - Total project costs must be £50k-£300k and last 6-12 months (up to 70% funded, aligned investment led by the investor partner must always be at least equal to the grant funding) Industrial Research - Total project costs must be £100k-£1m and last 6-24 months (up to 70% funded, aligned investment led by the investor partner must always be at least equal to the grant funding) Experimental Development - Total project costs must be £250k-£2m and last 12-24 months (up to 45% funded, aligned investment led by the investor partner must always be at least twice as much as the grant funding)
Closes: 2nd July 2025
Scope: The aim of the Create Growth Programme is to provide a package of targeted support to high growth creative businesses, to scale, build investor networks and reach their potential. This funding is designed to help creative businesses explore new innovation projects as a stimulus for growth.
Funding: Projects must last between 3 and 6 months and project costs must be between £20,000 and £50,000 (100% funded).
Closes: 29th May 2025
Scope: The aim of the Create Growth Programme is to provide a package of targeted support to high growth creative businesses, to scale, build investor networks and reach their potential. This funding is designed to help creative businesses explore new innovation projects as a stimulus for growth.
Funding: Projects must last between 3 and 6 months and project costs must be between £50,000 and £200,000 (up to 70% funded).
Closes: 29th May 2025
Scope: UK registered organisations can apply for funding for ambitious research and innovation projects in any sector, and tailored support to develop careers for future leaders.
Funding: Projects must last a minimum of 4 years and project costs must be between £100,000 and £3 million (up to 70% funded).
Closes: 5th November 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 £2 million.
Closes: 7th May 2025
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