by Anna Jordan | Aug 7, 2018 | News & Updates
The deadline has passed for July’s Small Business Grants, and our team at SmallBusiness.co.uk has narrowed down the list of applicants to a shortlist of six. They are: ATMOS Lab ATMOS Lab is an environmental consulting start-up which supports the development and...
by Anna Jordan | Aug 6, 2018 | News & Updates
Small firms are facing difficulty in raising new finance due to the costs associated with doing so, according to research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). These findings were unveiled ahead of the Bank of England’s decision to raise the base rate to 0.75...
by Anna Jordan | Jul 23, 2018 | Grant Winners
The winner of June’s Small Business Grants competition is revealed as Parcours Velo, set up in 2016 to provide high-performance wheels for cyclists. Founder Dov Tate identified a gap in the market between high-end, high-priced wheels, and lower-priced wheels....
by Anna Jordan | Jun 26, 2018 | Grant Winners
The winner of May’s £5,000 Small Business Grants competition, as adjudicated by our panel of independent judges, is Consequential Robotics (CQR) specialising in robotic networked devices that seek to empower people to maintain independence as they age. CQR, a...
by Anna Jordan | May 23, 2018 | News & Updates
Small Business Grants is now open to businesses that have been set up, but with no minimum revenue requirement. Prior to this development, the competition was only open to businesses at least one year old with a turnover between £50,000 and £500,000. However,...
by Anna Jordan | May 23, 2018 | Grant Winners
The winner of April’s £5,000 Small Business Grants competition, as adjudicated by our panel of independent judges, is Olly’s Olives, which aims to shake up the olive market with its unpasteurised snack pouches. Founder Olly Hiscocks studied neuroscience at...
by Anna Jordan | Apr 13, 2018 | Grant Winners
Well&Truly was born when sisters-in-law Maria and Sarah Trechman saw an opportunity for an innovative and exciting brand with great tasting, healthy snacks, whether lower fat, fewer calories or lower sugar. In the space of a year and a half, the company has...
by Anna Jordan | Mar 22, 2018 | News & Updates
In the second instalment of our series with Opus Energy, Lynn Morrison, marketing director of the company, offers strategic advice to Elizabeth Tweedale, founder of our February winner Cypher. Launched in June 2016, Cypher is an educational company that teaches...
by Anna Jordan | Mar 22, 2018 | Grant Winners
The winner of February’s £5,000 Small Business Grants competition is Cypher, an educational company that teaches children between the age of 4 and 14 how to code during the school holidays. Cypher’s camps run for a full week and incorporate real world...
by Anna Jordan | Feb 15, 2018 | News & Updates
Small Business Grants is pleased to announce our new partnership with utilities provider Opus Energy. Opus Energy, which supplies more than 315,000 business locations across the UK with electricity and gas, knows that running a small business is challenging, and that...
by Anna Jordan | Feb 15, 2018 | Grant Winners
The winner of the December/January Small Business Grants competition is online textbook subscription service Perlego, collecting £5,000 to invest in new services key to the company’s growth. Billed as the ‘Spotify for textbooks’, Perlego claims to be...
by Anna Jordan | Jan 9, 2018 | News & Updates
At Small Business Grants, we are delighted to announce our partnership with Crowdcube, the world-leading equity crowdfunding platform. As part of the arrangement Luke Lang, co-founder of the company, has joined our panel of judges to help decide on the most promising...
