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Who we are…
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.
Innovation Funding…
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.
Available Innovate UK Funds…
Investor Partnerships: Clean Energy and Climate Technologies
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
DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4: small projects
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
DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 4: large projects
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
Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 10
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
Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: Round 20
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
Application Process…
Invent
It all starts with a great idea
Search
Identify suitable funds here
Read
Carefully read the guidance
Partner
Develop consortium if required
Write
Write application & appendices
Submit
Submit application to funder
How we work…
We understand that every business is different, so we offer a range of services, to suit your needs, timescales and budget:
Full writing
We write the entire application and submit to the funder. We work with you to extract and clearly present your innovations and business strategy.
Review
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.
Review +
The review service and additional support on key sections you want detailed input on.
Happy customers…
What our clients say about us:
Daniel Becerra | Founder | BuffaloGridI have been working with Wax for many years and Wax has become a plug-in team to BuffaloGrid, helping us be successful on numerous grant applications. Wax understands our technology and business, making work easy and efficient.
Hal Watts | CEO and Co-Founder | UnmadeWax’s expert help was essential to us securing multiple grants from Innovate UK. Wax took the pain out of applying and allowed me to concentrate on running my business. I highly recommend them.
Dae Ho Lee | Head of Operations | Gravity SketchWe have worked with the team at Wax for several grants. The work output is of high standard and the team hold deep insight into what is needed for a high quality application. Would highly recommend.
Tom Putnam | Co-Founder | BeelineWax quickly understood our innovation, ambition and helped us write a winning application. Wax delivered us fantastic service and I recommend them highly.
Dr Rebecca Harding | CEO | Coriolis TechnologiesThe grant Wax helped us secure has enabled us to expand with confidence into full commercialisation of our disruptive technology. This exponential growth just wouldn’t have been possible without Wax’s help.
Bethany Koby | Co-founder and CEO | Tech Will Save UsWax are highly skilled, professional, have a proven track record and are expert at writing grant funding applications. Their collaborative process helped us write two successful applications. I recommend them unreservedly and we are already working with them on our third application!
Maria Tanjala | co-founder | FilmChainWax was a pleasure to work with! It was a collaborative process and they provided great guidance. We won the grant and we whole-heartedly recommend them!
Arthur Kay | Founder | bio-beanIUK grant applications written by Wax have helped bio-bean develop its technologies, scale-up and generate sustainable revenue. I recommend Wax completely.
Dr Hugh Harvey | Clinical Director | Kheiron Medical TechnologiesWorking with Wax optimised our time, finances and resulted in us securing a very large grant, which has driven our growth and generated further investment.
Dr Peter Bentley | CTO | BraintreeWax provided patient, efficient and expert guidance to help present our complex technology in a concise manner. They understood what was required to win an Innovate UK grant for us and the successful result has been vital for our company. I’m pleased to recommend Wax.
Dr. Floria Antolini | CKO | D3OWax’s team provided an excellent IUK grant application service. With excellent attention to detail and excellent knowledge of the Smart application process, they played a key role in helping to unlock this funding to take our development to the next level.
Virginia Gardiner | CEO | LoowattWax has strong knowledge of design and strategic thinking combined with eloquent writing skills. Wax’s meticulous analysis and thorough feedback showed in-depth understanding of our project and Innovate UK. I highly recommend Wax’s advisory services.
Matthew Shaw | co-founder | ScanLAB ProjectsWax offered deep, succinct insight into the grant process. We simply would not have received our award without their expert analysis and improvement of our application.
Get in touch…
Contact us to discuss your technology and how we can help you secure funding to develop it
