Identifying opportunities as they arise
Our most comprehensive service: strategic advice, grants tracking, and application support, on hand throughout the year. Organisations typically pursue multiple projects, whether driving innovation or undertaking major capital investments.. However, they rarely have a coherent grant-funding strategy to successfully take full advantage of available funding opportunities. Ayming’s Strategic Grants Advisory (SGA) is the answer to forming and utilising a coherent grant funding strategy.
How we can help
Identify the most relevant and high-value grants for your business goals
Develop a tailored funding strategy for long-term innovation potential
Higher chance at success with guidance at every point of the grant process
Save time and resources by leveraging specialist insight
Align your projects with government priorities and establish a competitive advantage
What does a SGA engagement entail?
We’ll work with you to design a funding strategy aligned with your business and investment priorities, identifying the most competitive innovation and capital projects..
We then match those projects with upcoming funding opportunities as they are announced, ensuring you are aware of relevant competitions at the earliest stage. Organisations rarely have the time to devote to this constant grants scouting. With Ayming’s expertise, you won’t miss out on valuable innovation or investment grants while competitors secure funding you could have claimed. And, of course, we’ll write the grant application itself, ensuring that your submission is presented to the grant assessors as an appealing and compelling solution.
Once your grant has been awarded, we can provide project compliance by managing project set-up, reporting, and communication with funding bodies, allowing you to focus on delivery while we handle the complexities.
Our strength in numbers
Project activity typically covered by a grant, reducing your costs
Additional turnover, 3-4 years after grant funding
Additional private investment on original net-zero related grant
Why work with Ayming’s Strategic Grants Advisory?
Ayming delivers a complete grants programme, managing the whole process from initial grants strategy and advice to ongoing grant scouting and the final grant application. Our total lifecycle approach saves you and your team time so they can focus on the all-important innovation projects, safe in the knowledge that grant funding is being taken care of.
Dr Jonathan Memel leads Ayming’s expert Grants Team. He’s worked as an assessor for Innovate UK and has extensive first-hand experience of what successful grant applications look like.
We collaborate with your team to compile all the information necessary for the grant applications, including previous applications, business plans, financials, market data and competitor information.
Throughout the year, we’ll write multiple applications on your behalf as grant competitions are announced, saving you 100+ hours and leaving your team to get on with what they do best: innovation.
Ayming’s comprehensive grant application service includes submitting a robust, ready-to-submit application through to the award offer letter.
FAQs
Strategic Grants Advisory is designed for organisations with multiple innovation, growth, or capital investment projects. It is particularly valuable for businesses that want a structured, long-term approach to grant funding rather than applying for individual opportunities on an ad hoc basis.
Grant Writing focuses on preparing a strong application for a specific funding opportunity. Strategic Grants Advisory provides ongoing support throughout the year, helping you identify relevant opportunities, prioritise projects, build a funding roadmap, and develop applications as competitions arise.
We monitor the grant funding landscape throughout the year and alert you when relevant opportunities become available. This helps ensure you can act early, assess suitability, and prepare competitive applications before deadlines approach.
Yes. We assess your project pipeline against current and upcoming funding priorities, considering factors such as eligibility, strategic fit, innovation potential, impact, and deliverability. This helps focus time and resources on the opportunities with the strongest chance of success.
A strategic grants plan can cover a range of innovation and investment grants, including funding for R&D, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, deeptech, defence, infrastructure, and capital investment projects.
Grant funding should ideally be planned well ahead of project delivery. Many competitions have fixed deadlines, detailed eligibility requirements, and specific strategic priorities. Planning early gives you more time to shape projects around the right opportunities and improve application quality.
Yes. Strategic Grants Advisory is well suited to organisations with complex structures, multiple locations, or varied project portfolios. We can help coordinate opportunities across teams and ensure grant funding activity is aligned with wider business priorities.
We typically need an overview of your business objectives, project pipeline, investment plans, technical priorities, and expected timelines. We may also review previous applications, financial information, market context, and competitor activity to build a clear and practical funding strategy.
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