Are you firstly of your entrepreneurial journey? Do you need to innovate in meals or animal feed? AberInnovation are providing the Dick Lawes Legacy Entrepreneurship Acceleration Programme (LEAP) of assist.

The LEAP Programme will assist visionary initiatives, impressed by Dick Lawes and his experiences, that push the boundaries of our meals methods. We’re searching for bold UK-wide entrepreneurs and really early stage enterprises to supply as much as £50,000 of assist.

Our purpose is that will help you obtain proof of idea, foster collaborations, and produce revolutionary services or products to market.

What’s On Provide

Profitable candidates will obtain a complete bundle of assist, together with:

  • Grant Funding: Obtain between £30,000 and £50,000 to drive your challenge ahead – no match funding required.
  • Technical Assist: Collaboration with AberInnovation for entry to state-of-the-art services, gear, and professional technicians. You’ll additionally profit from consultancy with main college teachers and consultants at UK innovation centres.
  • Sources & Gear: Get the consumable provides you want, from laboratory reagents to specialised software program, and spend money on small capital gear that’s vital to your success.
  • Mentoring: Faucet right into a wealth of expertise with tailor-made mentoring to information your challenge from idea to execution.

Consequence Goals

The LEAP Programme is not only about funding—it’s about affect. Right here’s what we purpose to realize by your participation:

  • Entrepreneurship: Assist early-stage concepts materialise into validated initiatives.
  • Tangible Affect: Empower recipients to make an actual distinction to your ambitions.
  • Collaboration: Foster a community of innovators, encouraging collaboration amongst members.
  • Additional Funding: Place your challenge for added funding and funding inside 12 months of completion.
  • Commercialisation: Assist the beginning of latest enterprise ventures and the planning to launch new services or products.
  • IP Safety: Assist entrepreneurs in totally defending and understanding their IP.

Eligibility

  • Entrepreneurs and companies lower than 12 months previous.

Eligible actions:

  • Tasks should match into the next areas:
  • Human meals & vitamin
  • Animal feed &vitamin
  • Setting
  • Meals system or provide chain (normal)

Eligible purposes will suggest the next:

  • AberInnovation services rent
  • Consumables

Why Apply?

Our programme is designed to be impactful, making certain that your challenge has the most effective probability to succeed and scale.

Tasks should begin in November 2024 and finish in April 2025.

Discover out extra and apply on the AberInnovation web site. Functions shut at 12pm on ninth September 2025.

Yow will discover additional funding alternatives in our Funding Finder.