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Find the right grant and make a stronger case.

Innovation funding can take your technology further without giving away equity. We help you judge fit, show the commercial evidence funders look for and improve your application while you write it.

Who we’ve worked with

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Learn the essentials

Free Grant Funding Webinars

Understand specific competitions and what funders are looking for.

Grant Funding Masterclasses

£129 including VAT

Practical 90-minute sessions on funding fit, project planning and building a convincing case. Includes Grant Funding Fundamentals online course.

Prefer to learn at your own pace?

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Get expert grant support

Grant Clinic

£100 + VAT per hour

A focused one-to-one session on a specific grant question. Bring the question and we’ll work through it with you.

Grant Application Review

From £1,750 + VAT

Detailed feedback on your draft before you submit, checking the case, evidence and consistency, followed by a debrief.

Grant Application Coaching

£2,500 + VAT

Expert guidance and feedback while you write the application: two four-hour sessions and one full draft review. Fixed fee, no success fee.

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Write the application together

Grant Application Co‑Writing

From £3,950 + VAT

Two experts in the room: one in grants, one in your business. You bring the technical knowledge and own the project. We bring funding judgement, commercial challenge and research expertise, and guide the narrative. AI, used live in the session, turns that shared thinking into draft text through a process we’ve refined on real applications.

Includes:

  • Live co‑writing sessions that move the application forward
  • A final application review and debrief

You make real progress in every session, get expert challenge on eligible costs, positioning and fit, and learn how to approach the next application yourself. Fixed fee, no success fee.

We use paid AI tools with model training switched off, so nothing you share is used to train AI models.

Support beyond the application

Work Package: Commercial research and delivery

Customer research, market validation and route-to-market planning, commissioned directly or included as an eligible work package within a funded project.

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Work Package: Regulation and manufacturing readiness

Plan the design, regulatory and manufacturing work your technology needs to move beyond the lab, delivered by our partner Inond. Commissioned directly or included as an eligible work package within a funded project.

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For universities, accelerators and programmes

Grant training, workshops and clinics tailored to your founder cohort.

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In their words

“We’ve partnered with Sharp Insights, who have helped LeafyColl secure £550k in funding across multiple projects. They provide advice on grant strategy and project scoping, as well as ensuring we have a strong commercial case underpinning our grant applications. We’re looking forward to continuing to work with them as we commercialise our technology.”
Dr Ejaz Hussain, Co-Founder and CEO, LeafyColl
“I found the tips in the Grant Funding Fundamentals online course and workshops to be incredibly practical. The guidance was immediately applicable, helping me feel far more prepared to build a grant strategy. I highly recommend this workshop to anyone looking to strengthen their approach to grant writing and boost their confidence in navigating funding applications.”
Ana Silva, Replica Biomaterials

Looking for funding? Start here.

Know which competition you’re applying for? Join a free webinar or a masterclass. Need more hands-on application support? Talk to us about a clinic, a review, coaching or co-writing.

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