Our business support provides links to external resources, member companies or business partners providing specific services to the industry.

Composites UK Business Support Network are organisations/companies who have forged special relationships with the Association to enhance the services we give to our members.

If your organisation provides services or products to the composites industry please contact us.

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Contract and Legal Services

BEB provides tailored legal contracts to protect small and medium-sized businesses, often overlooked in this area. They take a hands-on approach, learning about your business and past challenges to create personalized terms and conditions. They also offer services like sub-contractor agreements, shareholder agreements, and GDPR policies.

Member Offer: Composites UK Trade Association members receive a 10% discount on BEB’s Bronze, Silver, and Gold packages, as well as on the Complete JCT and Construction Essentials course (9 modules).

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Digital Switchboard

Moneypenny, the UK’s top outsourced communications provider, handles calls and live chat for businesses using skilled staff and advanced technology. They work seamlessly as an extension of your team, ensuring great customer experiences.

Member Offer: Composites UK members get an exclusive 2-week free trial of Moneypenny’s Telephone Answering and Live Chat services, with no setup costs or obligation to continue afterward.

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Funding and Investment

Government Funding

Find government backed support and finance for your business through this online tool including:

  • Grants
  • Finance and loans
  • Business support e.g. mentoring
  • Fundng for SMEs and start-ups

Top tips to securing funding for start ups and small businesses

Could you be claiming R&D tax relief?

Accessing Government Funding Programmes

Composites UK collaborates with KTN Ltd, the UK’s innovation network, to connect businesses, entrepreneurs, academics, and funders for developing innovative products, processes, and services. KTN helps foster ideas, expertise, and collaborations to create world-class solutions.

Click here to access KTN support

Composites UK members receive regular bulletins with details of open funding calls. if you are a member and don’t receive them click here.  

Innovation Funding & R&D Tax Credits

Ryan is a trusted provider of end-to-end tax services, serving thousands of businesses, including many Global 5000 companies. They are recognized for client service excellence, workplace innovation, and team development.

With deep expertise in innovation funding, tax relief, and evolving tax regulations, Ryan helps UK companies grow by securing funding for the future, improving efficiency, and ensuring tax compliance and best practices.

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Insurance

Minimising risks to an acceptable level and protecting the investment made by Shareholders is a sign of a successful and well-structured business. No two businesses are the same. All require the individual attention of a highly skilled broker if their insurance programmes are to be effective.

Member company Towergate Insurance can work with you to develop a bespoke solution for your business. Part of the Towergate Partnership, Europe’s largest independent insurance intermediary they offer the specialist products and services that our industry looks for in a local broker with the benefits of being part of a larger group.

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Make UK Affiliate Scheme

To strengthen the service offered by Composites UK to our members we have become Affiliate Partners of Make UK.

The affiliate partner programme has been established to bring together UK membership organisations who operate within the manufacturing, engineering and wider industrial sector. The aim is that, by working together, we are better placed to both deliver a stronger industrial sector for the UK and provide valuable benefits for member companies.

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Marketing

The heart of your business success lies in its marketing. Most aspects of your business depend on successful marketing.

The overall marketing umbrella covers advertising, public relations, promotions and sales. Marketing is a process by which a product or service is introduced and promoted to potential customers. Without marketing, your business may offer the best products or services in your industry, but none of your potential customers would know about it.

Talk with the following member companies to get your marketing strategy right:

You can also advertise with Composites UK.

Click here to download a copy of the latest media pack

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Altruist Enterprises offer face-to-face and online resilience, stress management and mental health at work training. Their courses provide staff with the skills to support themselves and each other, through the many challenges of work and home.

They provide private wellbeing courses bespoke to your organisation and public wellbeing courses.

Altruist also offer several free online tools to support the development of your health and wellbeing strategy

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Net-Zero Planning Support

To support the membership, Composites UK has partnered with Auditel – an SME focussed sustainability, carbon & cost organisation – to help members with creating and delivering on a commercial sustainability strategy.

  • Supporting you commercially with tenders, bids and proposals
  • Saving your business money (Use less energy, spend less money)
  • Delivering you an internationally recognised ISO standard carbon certification
  • Giving you a partner you can lean on to help guide, advise and lead you through the space

Auditel are already working with SHD Composite Materials to great success with the team there recently explaining more about the work they are doing to our internal Sustainability sub-group.

SHD Composite Materials‘ Product Technology Manager Ben Andrews said:

“Auditel’s support has been instrumental in ensuring accurate data collection, enabling us to measure our operational carbon footprint with integrity. This empowers us to set ambitious targets for future reduction to further support the composites supply chain’s route to net-zero.”

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Patent Box

The Patent Box Scheme aims to create a competitive tax environment to incentivise companies to develop and exploit patents in the UK as well as actively manage their patentable IP. The scheme potentially benefits any organisation that as part of its business activity is innovating in the areas of either product or process as part of its services and or activities.

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Plug and Play Measuring Hardware

Sensorfact offers our members a solution consisting of plug & play hardware, installed without downtime, that – after connection to machines – can measure, among other things, energy, water and gas consumption, airflow or vibrations and temperatures on a machine level and can also provide the user with insights and/or advice based on the data generated.

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Promotional Support

Advertise with Composites UK

Our media pack includes details on the following:

  • Website and Hub advertising
  • Newsletter banner adverts
  • Solus emails to members
  • Social media support
  • Job advert posting

Click here to download a copy of the latest media pack

Event Advertising

We have sponsorship opportunities available at all of our events. See each individual listing for details.

Site Logistics

Composites UK has partnered with SITE Event Logistics to assist its members with getting their exhibition stand equipment and products to shows around the world.

SITE is a specialist event logistics provider for Exhibitions, Conferences, Product Launches, Road Shows and Trade Fairs across the globe. SITE are able to provide comprehensive shipping solutions tailored to your every need. SITE provide an unbeatable service focused on Quality, Cost and Diversity.

SITE offer a fully comprehensive exhibition logistics service and handle freight for exhibitions & conferences regionally as well as globally through their network of offices. SITE’s vast network coverage enables them to offer our clients the most competitive rates ensuring they receive the highest level of service. In addition to logistics SITE are also offering bespoke stand design and construction. A true “One stop shop” for all exhibition and event related solutions!

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Sustainability Training

BSI has identified a number of key sustainability training courses online which it hopes companies in the composites community will find useful in increasing your organisational skills base around sustainability. The courses have been grouped into three categories, those particularly suited to non-specialists and SMEs, those around PAS2060 for companies further along their carbon management journey and finally some courses around environmental management

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Trade Support

There is a wealth of information and advice available through the DBT website with links to critical programmes and schemes for both new and experienced exporters.

Further Support for Composites UK Members

Composites UK is working with two companies to offer members assistance with trade issues.

The International Trade Consultancy

The International Trade Consultancy (ITC) specialises in supporting SME manufacturing companies to trade internationally. Acting as a virtual external trade department, they can provide advice on any aspect of the trade process from specific problems relating to customs declarations and documents, to tariff classification and developing a global supply chain.

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Santander

Santander Navigator is a trade facilitation platform designed to help UK business make the most of the global opportunities available to them. The platform will help your business identify potential growth opportunities and make connections to a global network of providers who can help you make the most of these opportunities. These providers also offer a range of solutions to enable you to identify and overcome the challenges you face when moving goods across international borders.

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