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    Accelerated Growth Programme

    Business Wales

    Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme is a Welsh Government advisory service providing intensive, one-to-one support to high-growth-potential SMEs based in Wales. It is not a cash grant — it is a relationship-managed package of strategy, finance, leadership and connections support, typically over 12–24 months. AGP routes innovation-ready companies into SMART Cymru and equity-ready companies into Development Bank of Wales finance. Best suited to ambitious Welsh SMEs already trading with clear scale intent.

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    Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (aKT)

    Innovate UK

    Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (aKT) is a UK funding programme. UK businesses partnering with an academic to deliver a 4-month feasibility-style KTP. Funding: Up to £35k. SMEs accessing rapid academic feasibility support. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.

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    Advanced Propulsion Centre Collaborative R&D

    Advanced Propulsion Centre UK

    Advanced Propulsion Centre Collaborative R&D is a UK funding programme. UK automotive supply chain consortia developing low-carbon propulsion technologies. Funding: £5m–£25m typical. UK automotive R&D consortia. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.

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    Advanced Propulsion Centre Funding

    Advanced Propulsion Centre

    Funding for low-carbon automotive R&D. Funding competitions supporting R&D in low-carbon automotive propulsion and zero-emission vehicle technologies in the UK. It is aimed at Automotive R&D collaborations. Eligibility typically requires UK-based automotive supply chain R&D projects. Competition-specific criteria. Application: Competition rounds.

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    Aerospace Technology Institute Programme

    Aerospace Technology Institute

    The Aerospace Technology Institute programme is a long-running UK aerospace R&D fund jointly delivered by DBT, Innovate UK, and the ATI. It funds substantial, multi-year, industry-led collaborative R&D projects aligned with the ATI's published technology strategy — typically zero-carbon flight, advanced systems, structures, and propulsion. Project costs commonly run from low millions to tens of millions; intervention rates follow standard subsidy control rules. Not appropriate for early-stage start-ups working in isolation or projects with no clear path to a UK aerospace supply chain.

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    Aerospace Technology Institute Programme — Strategic R&T Portfolio

    Aerospace Technology Institute

    The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme co-invests with industry in UK civil aerospace R&D, with delivery in partnership with DBT and Innovate UK. Funding supports collaborative research projects from technology development through to demonstrator stages. A long-term UK government–industry co-investment in civil aerospace R&D. Eligibility typically requires UK aerospace businesses and academic partners with qualifying collaborative R&D projects. Funding is typically Match-funded aerospace R&D grants.

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    Automotive Transformation Fund

    Advanced Propulsion Centre UK

    Automotive Transformation Fund is a UK funding programme. UK strategic investments in electric vehicle supply chains: battery, motor, hydrogen and power electronics gigaprojects. Funding: Multi-million capital. Strategic UK EV supply-chain investors. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.

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    Brum Breathes Financial Incentives

    Financial incentives, designed to offer support to businesses who conduct commercial operations in Birmingham, towards replacing their Light Goods Vehicle and Heavy Duty Vehicle to meet required emission standards.

    • West Midlands
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    Business Productivity Grant South Yorkshire

    The project aims to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in South Yorkshire to improve productivity and drive digital innovation through the provision of capital or revenue grants.

    • Yorkshire and the Humber
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    Centre for Process Innovation — Open Calls

    Centre for Process Innovation

    Centre for Process Innovation — Open Calls is a UK funding programme. UK process manufacturers accessing CPI capability via Innovate UK competition and CPI-led projects. Funding: Project-dependent. UK process and biotech manufacturers. It is published as a standard listing — verify current rounds and full criteria on the official source before applying.

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