Show Me The Money! Grants & Funding - Practical Tips & Support

Revised: September 2025

Hello wonderful innovators,

Sending this newsletter out early as I’m on leave & don’t want you to miss out on stuff.

Featured brilliant people this month: Melissa Snover & Pam Sheemar. Interesting fact: Melissa has received the highest seed investment for a woman in UK history. And is the only person I know left university with more money in the bank than when she started! She’s been a massive supporter. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-snover-84276920/

The amazing: Pam Sheemar. NatWest Regional Accelerator Director, Midlands, South West and Wales. Super-high up at the NatWest & has developed programmes to take people with her. Pam's personal & professional work to improve every life she touches is something wonderful to behold.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pam-sheemar-ccib-j-p-41621a76/

Top tip this issue! Connect you with your local council, combined authority, university to see what new funds have launched recently. There’s a bunch of them where the money needs to be spent by March 31^st 2026! I’ve written a few bids last week which were only announced a few weeks back.

Sometimes you don’t actually need funding, you can skip straight to finding people who are already funded to complete the work. Checkout Yueqi a student funded by the University of Birmingham. He built our prototype Business Plan Writer. Using MBA students meant I didn’t have to write one grant proposal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwiOBKnRuE

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Featured free university programme this month is the nationwide Arden Futures Live Industry Project. A nationwide 4-week virtual consultancy gives students the chance to apply their learning to real-world business challenges. Students work flexibly around their studies in small teams, remotely, to address a challenge set by your organisation. Themes can include: Growth Strategy, Digital Marketing, Sustainable Impact.

Featured programme is Virgin StartUp’s brand-new Momentum programme, 8-week accelerator for Dyslexic Thinker founders. In the USA 1 in 3 founders identify as being neurodiverse. Dyslexia is a superpower.

Award season is upon us. Look forward to seeing a few of you on stage as winners over the next few months.

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Stay amazing, stay courageous

Drew

Drew Currie

Founder, hibretOne CIC

Interim CEO, initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (iSE) CIC

Top Tips for New Subscribers:

●       If a grant or programme is not in your region, many funds listed are for the W Midlands. Google search the keywords within the grant, as the programme may be running in your area, under a different name.

●       Use AI to search this document, as some of the grants have a short applications window.

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