Grant Advisory and Writing
Grant funding support for UK and Irish businesses.
Comprehensive Grant Application Support
Managed by a team of qualified specialists
We discuss your ongoing and future projects, advising you on the most suitable innovation or capital grants available.
From there, our grant advisory and writing service manages the entire application process – from the technical narrative and project plan, through to budget and commercial case.
Every grant has its own format, scoring criteria and eligibility requirements. Our team writes each application specifically to meet them.
Why Amplifi
Why businesses across the UK and Ireland work with Amplifi
10+ Years in Innovation Funding
We have been helping innovative businesses across the UK and Ireland grow with valuable incentives and funding for over a decade.
In-House Expertise
Our Grants Manager, supported by qualified accountants, tax advisers, commercial specialists and technical writers, creates thoroughly evidenced applications.
Grants and R&D Tax Under One Roof
UK and Ireland businesses work with one team across both services – one team with a joined-up understanding of your innovation activity.
Post-Submission Support
If an application is unsuccessful, we review assessor feedback and advise you on the next steps. This might include resubmission at no additional charge.
Diligence and Prudence
From eligibility assessment through to submission-ready application, each stage is managed with care and precision.
Partnership Approach
We get to know the substance of each client’s projects, so we can recommend the right grants and write applications with the depth assessors expect.
Eligibility
Does your project qualify for innovation and capital grant funding?
Our advisory service assesses your ongoing and future projects and recommends suitable grant programmes, checking each project against the specific criteria of the relevant funding body before any application work begins. While each grant has its own requirements, most expect applicants to address the following:
Innovation Grants Eligibility
Genuine business innovation
The project must tackle a technical problem where the answer is not already known or available in your field – a real advance, not a routine update. Most competitions also expect the benefit to reach beyond your own company or sector.
Clear route to market
You need clear commercial prospects for what the project produces and a credible plan for getting it into use.
Deliverability capability
Funders look for:
- The team and the skills to do the work
- A work plan with deliverables, a start and an end date
- Any partners or academic lead the competition expects
- Environmental and social impact addressed in the application – it is scored, not assumed
Financial Viability
Before applying, work through the following:
- Can you fund the 30–50% the grant does not cover?
- Can you spend up front and claim in arrears?
- Do your filed accounts support a request of this size?
- How much subsidy control headroom is left after previous public funding?
- What effect will the grant have on your R&D tax relief position?
Fits the competition, and has not started
The project must sit within the scope, project size and duration of the round, be submitted before the deadline and be delivered and exploited where the funder operates.
Costs incurred before the grant offer letter do not count.
Capital Grants Eligibility
Capital spend
Capital grants fund equipment, machinery, buildings or infrastructure rather than day-to-day running costs and nothing can be ordered or paid for before the offer letter.
Evidenced economic impact
You need a clear return on the investment – through revenue, productivity, jobs or wider economic benefit – aligned to what the funder is trying to achieve:
- Energy transition, clean growth and supply-chain scaling
- Productivity, automation and digitalisation of production
- Jobs, wages and regional economic development
Company eligibility
Most schemes want an eligible structure – usually a limited company, sole trader or partnership – within their size threshold, typically SMEs under 250 staff, counting group and linked companies. You also need to be in an eligible region and sector, with the trading history and headcount the scheme requires, and some schemes are open only to existing clients of the funder.
Funding and cash flow
Four things to size up:
- Minimum request: every scheme sets a floor, ranging from tens of thousands to several hundred thousand pounds
- Your share: usually the majority; intervention rates for capital schemes are typically 20–40% of eligible costs, with smaller companies supported at the higher end
- Cash flow: you spend up front and claim in arrears
- Evidence: your filed accounts and subsidy control headroom need to support the request
Conditions of award
Employment, wage and net zero commitments may be attached to the award, with clawback if they are not met.