Leeds City Region is to allocate an additional £26million for capital projects through its Growing Places Fund. The fund is focused on improving infrastructure but is can also help businesses struggling to agree commercial lending for their own capital investment projects. This second round of funding will offer loans of between £250,000 and £5 million. Robert Littlefair from […]
Read more »Research and Development tax credits remain an area of uncertainty for large and small businesses alike. In our experience , only around 50% of those companies eligible have investigated the opportunity and of those, around 10-20% have made a claim. This is often because they have taken an ‘accountancy approach’ when looking at pulling claims together. The amount of […]
Read more »The Technology Strategy Board has announced a new competition to support development and demonstration projects to create supply chain innovation in UK offshore wind and renewable energy. £7m will be invested in projects developing and demonstrating component technologies in offshore wind systems, with £3m committed to feasibility studies and the remaining £1.2m supporting innovation between universities and industry in the sector. […]
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