Services

Grant support built around how assessors score

Choose the level of support you need. From a single application to a fully managed grant funding programme. We are selective: we only take on projects where the business, innovation and competition brief are genuinely framable into a winning bid.

Most founders start here

Grant Writing Consultancy

One target competition, usually a first Innovate UK grant competition or Horizon Europe bid.

We write your entire application. From competition selection through the full technical narrative, project plan, finance forms and appendices. Drafted by writers who have won these awards themselves.

Competition and scope selection against your roadmap
Technical interviews with your founders and technical leads
Full drafting plus multiple assessor-style review rounds
Submission support on the Innovation Funding Service and other funder portals
Multi-year pipeline management
Post-award claims and reporting

Grant funding engagements have a minimum upfront setup fee starting from £1,750, plus a success fee payable on award. The scope and success fee are agreed before work starts. We do not take equity.

Grant Funding Partnership

Teams treating grant funding as a multi-year, multi-funder strategy.

An ongoing retained partnership. We build and run a multi-year funding roadmap across UK and European funders so you always have the next application in flight.

Continuous opportunity scanning across Innovate UK, UKRI and Horizon Europe
Deadline calendar and pipeline management
Consortium building and partner introductions
Follow-on and scale-up funding strategy
Audit support beyond your award reporting scope

Retained monthly, scoped to the number of applications in flight.

Grant Reporting & Claims

Companies that have already won and need the admin burden lifted.

Winning is the start. We take on the reporting and claims burden so your team stays focused on delivery while your grant stays fully compliant.

Quarterly reporting and Innovate UK claims
Monitoring officer liaison and project change requests
Audit-ready record keeping
Project close-out and follow-on funding positioning
Writing new applications
Funding strategy across funders

Per award, fee quoted against reporting frequency and project size after a free consultation.

What is included, side by side

Included	Grant Writing Consultancy	Grant Funding Partnership	Grant Reporting & Claims
Competition and scope selection	Included	Included	Not included
Full application drafting	Included	Included	Not included
Assessor-style internal review rounds	Included	Included	Not included
Submission support on funder portals	Included	Included	Included
Multi-funder pipeline and deadline management	Not included	Included	Not included
Consortium building and partner introductions	Not included	Included	Not included
Post-award claims and quarterly reporting	Not included	Not included	Included
Audit-ready record keeping	Not included	Not included	Included

How pricing works

Grant funding engagements have a minimum upfront setup fee starting from £1,750, plus a success fee payable on award. The scope and success fee are agreed before work starts. We do not take equity. If we do not think you should apply this cycle, we will tell you on the free call rather than sell you a proposal.

Grants are competitive awards, so meeting eligibility criteria does not guarantee funding. R&D tax relief is an entitlement for companies and expenditure that meet the statutory conditions, not a competition. HMRC can check the claim, so eligibility, technical evidence and accurate costs still matter. GrantUp’s engagement fees are separate from the match funding and working capital your project may need.

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Also available

R&D Tax Relief claims

Grants support future projects, R&D tax relief returns cash on what you have already spent. We prepare technical-first claims under the merged credit scheme and ERIS, written by people who understand the engineering, with the HMRC additional information form and enquiry support included. R&D tax relief claims have no upfront fee. We charge a success fee only, typically 10% of the benefit received, with no lock in on future years.

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Spread the fee across 3 or 12 months

Start the work now and pay monthly. Nothing to pay for the first thirty days, no arrangement fee, and limits up to £30,000 for UK limited companies and LLPs.

How it works

How we run every engagement

The standards you can hold us to

Grant deadlines are unforgiving, so the way a consultancy is run matters as much as the writing itself. These are our operating commitments on every project, in writing, before you pay anything.

A named lead and a named reviewer

Every project is staffed with a lead writer matched to your technology plus a second specialist who scores the draft against the published criteria. Nothing rests on one person's judgement or availability.

A written schedule from day one

You get every draft date, review window and internal deadline at kick-off, with an internal submission target that sits ahead of the funder deadline, never on it.

Independent finance check before submission

Costings, headcount, intervention rate and total project cost are checked against your finance form by a second pair of eyes, then signed off by you in writing.

Reachable people, rebooked within a day

Direct email to your lead writer throughout. If a call ever has to move, it is rebooked within one working day, and anything unresolved escalates to a director the same day.

Upfront setup fee plus a success fee

Grant funding engagements have a minimum upfront setup fee starting from £1,750, plus a success fee payable on award. The scope and success fee are agreed before work starts. We do not take equity. If a bid is unsuccessful we review assessor feedback and discuss whether a resubmission is worthwhile.

Selective intake, every project pre-screened

Every enquiry is pre-screened for funder fit, impact potential and technical credibility before we quote, and we cap live applications per writer per round. Projects that do not meet the bar are declined on the first call, which is how our success rate stays high and your budget stays out of the bin.

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