UK registered fashion, design and craft businesses can apply for a share of up to £2 million for projects that develop new innovative products and tools for the UK creative industry, as part of funding from Innovate UK’s Creative Catalyst.

The aim of this CR&D competition is to advance the development of collaboration with innovators in the creative industries.

Projects must:

• support the growth of the UK creative industries
• demonstrate a clearly innovative and ambitious idea which addresses an industry challenge
• be a significant improvement on what is currently available, with a demonstrable impact to your growth plan
• create a new revenue stream, for example, new products, tools or intellectual property (IP)
• be market ready within 12 months after project completion
• demonstrate value for money

They must also:

• have a grant funding request between £150,000 and £200,000
• last between six and nine months
• carry out all of its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• start by 1 July 2025
• end by 31 March 2026

To lead a project your organisation must:

• be a UK registered micro or small business
• collaborate with other UK registered organisations
• fall within one of the creative industries subsectors
• involve at least one grant claiming business from outside the Greater London area

The project team must have a least one grant claiming business outside of the Greater London area.

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