PNO Presentation Approaches To Grant Funding

1. “ Grant Funding Made Easy” or Overview of Optimising External Funding September 2008

3. 93% of UK businesses are aware of grants 4% have “ever” applied for external funding 1% are successful (Source; PNO Consultants – internal research Q3 2007) 60% of Applications contained “basic errors” (Source: Yorkshire Forward 2006) 65% of companies experienced difficulties at the compliance stage after an award had been granted. (Source: National Audit Office) Compared with the UK, PNO observes a higher level of uptake of external funding in European countries. e.g. R&D investments in Scandinavia and capital programmes in Central Eastern Europe (CEE). Grant Funding – key challenges

4. Routemap to Funding? UK Cent Govt Agencies Enterprise Regional Agencies Govt Funded National EU Comm-ision Local Govt and Agencies