Business In Maidstone

🚀 Funding Opportunity for Innovative Businesses 🚀

The AKT (Accelerated Knowledge Transfer) Grant helps businesses fast-track the development or evaluation of new projects, products, services, or processes.
✅ 3-month project with a full-time graduate Associate
✅ Academic expert support (0.5 days per week)
✅ Access to university facilities
✅ End result: a solution roadmap or future KTP application

💷 Total project value: £35k
➡️ Business contribution: just 10% (£3.5k)

This is a fantastic opportunity for companies looking to tackle a challenge or explore growth opportunities with expert support.
📅 Deadline: 15 July

Projects must align with one of Innovate UK’s Industrial Strategy sectors, including:



Find out more 👉https://iuk-ktp.org.uk/accelerated-knowledge-transfer/

Small Business Summer is a brand-new careers campaign brought to you by Amazing Apprenticeships and supported by the Edge Foundation.

It will support young people to increase their awareness of small businesses in their local community, and to understand the unique benefits of being an apprentice in a smaller organisation.

Amazing Apprenticeships

👉https://www.amazingapprenticeships.com/small-business-summer-employers/

Turning niche content into a scalable business

For founders building modern brands, particularly in media and community-led businesses, the real opportunity lies in creating something that can evolve across platforms without losing its identity. Check out the advice from the Startups Magazine team here.

Read more here▶️ https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/turning-niche-content-into-a-scalable-business

Startups Magazine