How to Apply
The application process is as follows:
Registration of Interest
The Grant for Research and Development is available throughout the year. If you think you have a project that might qualify for a Grant for Research and Development please complete a Registration of Interest form (ROI), available below, to outline your project and enable us to reach an initial view as to whether we might be able to help. This will form the basis for our discussions with you.
Before completing a Registration of Interest, please refer to the Guidance Notes, available below, to help familiarise yourself with the aims of the Grant for Research and Development and to ensure that you are eligible.
Making a full application
If your project meets the criteria of the Grant for Research and Development, we may ask you to submit a formal application. This will include:
- An Application form (available below)
- Financial Appendices (available below)
- Project proposal (proforma available below)
- Last 2 years full accounts and up-to-date management accounts
- Evidence of your own share of your funding
- Business Plan
- Additional supplementary information, as required
Please also see the 'Checklist' in the Application form.
A decision on whether your application has been successful will be made within 30 working days of receiving a full application with all the required information. Expert peer review will be sought from technical advisors on our “Technical Register”, see below, plus a patent review will be commissioned. Furthermore, an in-house financial assessment of your company will be carried out.
Please note that grant awarded will never be for 100% of project costs and you must prove that you have access to sufficient funds to cover your own share of project costs. These funds must be from private sector sources. If you are receiving funds from any other public sector source for the same project, we will reduce the grant on a pound-for-pound basis (which means, for example, that if you have received £5,000 from another public source, we would reduce your grant by £5,000).
As part of the appraisal process, we carry out a technical review. The list of advisors below offers technical advice when appraising Grant for R&D applications. If, however, for any reason you would prefer us not to seek advice on your project from any of the organisations listed below, please tell us (with a short note explaining why) as soon as possible. Please note that confidentiality agreements are in place with all advisors to ensure your intellectual property is protected.
- Building Research Establishment
- C-Tech Innovation Ltd
- Ceram
- Centre for Integrated Photonics
- Chimaeron Ltd
- Cooper & Caulcott Ltd
- EA Technology
- Health and Safety Laboratory
- The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (Iom3)
- Knowledge House
- LGC Ltd
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- Materials Engineering Research Laboratory (MERL)
- Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
- Momenta
- NAMTEC (National Metals Technology Centre)
- National Physical Laboratory
- National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML)
- NCC Group Ltd
- NEL TÜV Ltd
- Norman Carey Consultant
- Patent Office
- PERA International
- Pira International
- Qinetiq
- Quantum Insights Ltd
- RS Biotechnology Associates
- Transport Research Laboratory Ltd
Further details are available by contacting the Grant for Research & Development Team within One NorthEast.
For more information on further government support to invest in R&D, please visit the BERR Innovation website
Grant for R & D - Registration of Interest Form [doc]
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Grant for R & D - Application Form [doc]
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Grant for R & D - Guidance Notes for Applicants [doc]
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Grant for R & D - Blank Financial Appendices [xls]
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Grant for R&D - Grant Payments Profile Calculator [xls]
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