Manufacturing

Supporting made Smarter Adoption: Grants to enable manufacturing SMEs to adopt industrial digital technology solutions.

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What are the grants for?

This grant is aimed at manufacturing SMEs to help them adopt industrial digital technology solutions.

Minimum grant value of £2,500 and the anticipated average grant value for this fund is £19,000.

Applicants must use their grant to create a positive outcome such as:

  • Introduce new products
  • Adopt new technologies or processes

We can't fund...

We cannot fund wages or salaries with this grant funding. Plus we cannot fund new for old or replacement goods and services. 

Your business must... 

Provide at least 50% match funding. 

Cashflow the total cost of your project as grants will be claimed retrospectively.

Contribute to at least one of the Good Growth Principles.

How do I apply?

Tell us more about your business and we can discuss your ideas in more detail in a free business review. We will also discuss your wider business opportunities and challenges to signpost you to any support or training you may need.

We can also look at resources to help you gather evidence, or benchmarking you can undertake, to show the need for the grant funding. 

If the grant funding looks right for you, we will pass you to our Grant Facilitator Team who will help you to develop your project and apply for funding. Here is an example application form that you will complete. VIEW APPLICATION

After you receive your grant...

We will keep in touch to support you throughout the delivery of your project, to make sure you are on track to achieve the goals you set out as part of your application. 

More support can be found here.

 

 

 

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