Deadline: 9-Nov-22
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for scale-up of existing or development of new work on inclusive innovations. This funding is from Innovate UK.
The aim of this competition is to support micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), who have a track record and demonstrable positive impact for the target audience. This must be in developing innovations centred on equality, diversity and inclusion in their design and development.
Your proposal must clearly explain:
- The equality, diversity and inclusion challenges identified
- How your previous innovations have addressed these challenges
- The societal and economic impact of your innovations
- Your plans for a new project to further develop inclusive innovations
- How you will act as a role model to other businesses.
Specific Themes
- Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- Digital and technologies
- Net zero
- Healthy living and agriculture
- This list is not exhaustive.
Funding Information
- Each award will provide £50,000 of funding.
Eligible Projects
- Your new project must:
- Centre on equality, diversity and inclusion in the design and development of products, processes or services
- Involve a diverse team, as appropriate to the project
- Demonstrate business growth and successful economic impact
- Deliver demonstrable societal impact.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have a total grant funding request of £50,000
- Start on 1 April 2023
- End on 31 March 2024
- Last 12 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Your company must be able to commit to:
- Provide at least 5 days over the duration of the award to be a role model for inclusive innovation, expenses for these activities can be included in the project costs
- Spend up to two days supporting development of the Innovate UK partners resources to support inclusive innovation
- Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise
- Be a business that has been operating for at least 12 months from the competition close date
- Not have exceeded your £315,000 limit of de minimis or minimal financial assistance funding during the current and previous two fiscal years
- Have a track-record delivering an inclusive innovation.
- To lead a project your organisation must:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that:
- Have a negative impact on the environment or society
- Have a detrimental effect on equality, diversity and inclusion
- Do not involve any research and development or innovation, for example, the creation of information only websites
- Do not meet the competition eligibility or scope
- Involve primary production in fishery and aquaculture
- Involve primary production in agriculture
- Are not allowed under De minimis regulation restrictions
- Are not allowed under Minimal Financial Assistance.
- They cannot fund projects that are:
- Dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
- Dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1328/overview/0584ece4-4a37-4a04-9c6c-f36df03d75a5