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Small – Medium Businesses. Launched in March 2023, the West Midlands Co-Investment Fund provides innovative businesses with equity of up to £1m, helping them to expand and grow the region’s industries of the future.
Based in Birmingham, Black Country, Coventry – Revenue generating – Raising £1 for £1 private co-investment
Up to £1m
The West Midlands SME Grants Programme seeks to increase productivity by improving business confidence, stimulating business activity, attracting investment, safeguarding existing and creating new jobs within local communities.
Businesses based in Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton.
Grant funding of £2,500 to £100k (note: it would be expected that the average grant would be circa £20k-30k). The intervention rate will be up to 50% of the total grant.
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million to develop Innovative proposals in partnership with Japan and other participating Eureka countries.
Must be led by a UK registered business of any size and must partner with a Japanese registered SME which must be a separate non-linked entity to the UK project partners. Can include other UK registered organisations.
Up to £2m
Grants ranging from £1,000 - £9,000 to support freelancers and small organisations to access learning and development opportunities to support and develop their creative business and artistic practice.
Creative Freelancers, Creative Small Organisations
Up to £9k
The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your project will contribute to the ambitions of the cluster to develop, fuse and transfer existing research excellence, industrial innovation capability and sectoral strengths. Building market orientated opportunities in immersive and creative industries. Your business must use the funding to grow your innovation activities in the immersive and creative industries innovation cluster centred on Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands, both during and after your project.
Funding is open to UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (SME) that have not have previously been awarded funding from the Round 1 MFA competition strand for this Launchpad for Coventry and Warwickshire. You must be growing your innovation activities in the immersive and creative industries cluster centred on our region and have a demonstrable ambition for business growth. Funding is available to those who intend to exploit the results from or in, and carry out all project work in the UK within 6-12 months.
Request must be between £25,000 and £100,000
This will support projects across two Launchpad competition strands that target the immersive and creative industries innovation cluster centred on Coventry and Warwickshire. The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must use the funding to grow your innovation activities in the immersive and creative industries cluster centred on Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands, both during and after the project.
Funding is open to UK registered business of any size, but you must either be or involve at least one grant claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). You must be growing your innovation activities in the immersive and creative industries cluster centred on our region and have a demonstrable ambition for business growth. Funding is available to those who intend to exploit the results from or in, and carry out all project work in the UK within 6-18 months.
Request must be between £150,000 and £1 million
Foster collaboration between the immersive technology sector and mental health providers, to improve treatment options, offering faster, more cost effective and accessible support for individuals with mental health concerns.
Developing digital therapeutic extended reality (XR) solutions to provide mental healthcare services. These solutions will optimally be applied and trialled following an R&D cycle of between 12 to 18 months. Solutions must have the potential to be adopted at scale to form part of the UK’s formal mental healthcare ecosystem. Your proposal must include the design and features of your solution and how it will be applied.
£3.7 million total fund – apply for a share
