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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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.  

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.

Click here to learn more (member login required)

Marketing & Advertising

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.

Click here to download a copy of the latest media pack

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.”

Click here to learn more (member login required)

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.

Click here to learn more (member login required)

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

Click here to learn more (member login required)

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

Log in to the member resources page, here.