Recruitment
The Best Tech Talent
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Index, one of the leading global networks for remote software talent. Through this new collaboration with Index, our clients will have access to top tech talent all across the world. Index is a global talent platform that expertly sources, screens, vets, and assesses senior developers for companies with maximum speed, efficiency, and accuracy. With partnership RedKnight will support tech-based start-ups and SMEs in hiring and building their tech team they will need to develop innovative products, processes and services.
100+ reputable clients and partners backed by Kleiner, Goldman Sachs, YC, Startx .
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90+ tech skills covered
The Index platform at a glance
100,000+
sourced developers
from EU & US & LATAM
3,000+
developers on the platform
$73
average rate we sell devs
16.2 months
average assignment period of devs, from 2020 – 2021
89%
satisfaction score among
Index’s active devs. And if they
would recommend us to their
peers.
Index talent network of senior developers are pre-screened across 100+ skills:
● Android
● Node.js
● Angular
● Ruby
● Django
● Kotlin
● Microsoft
● Azure
● JavaScript
● React
● Laravel
● DevOps
● Linux
● TypeScript
● React Native
● Spring
● Python
● PHP.
● NET
● iOS
● Data Science
● C++
● Figma
● Java
● Groovy
● UI/UX Design
To discuss your tech recruitment needs further, contact us today.
Grant Matcher
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Grant Matcher
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Retained Consultancy
Whats it All About?
RedKnight’s retained consultancy offers clients priority access to a number of innovation funding services. We agree to work under a retainer agreement for a small subset of select clients. This enables RedKnight to develop long-term relationships with these clients, ensuring an effective innovation funding strategy is developed, implemented, and refined.
A typical retainer commits RedKnight to a specified minimum number of hours of service per month (typically a 1-hour planning meeting plus 7-hours service delivery). The service is based on a monthly rolling contract and alternative plans can be arranged at the client’s discretion, providing excellent flexibility.
What Does The Service Include?
Retained services will depend upon each specific contract. They may include:
Technical Assistance
- Project scoping sessions to flesh out the application content (does not include bid-writing)
- Providing advice and technical support (for example, reviewing project budgets and ensuring eligibility with the funding programme rules and regulations
- Engaging in planning sessions with client staff
- Presenting workshops/training to client staff
- Provide a “critical friend” service to reviewing draft applications
- Ensure alignment between the tenant’s project and the funding opportunity
Research
- Performing grant prospect research
- Horizon scanning for relevant funding opportunities
- State-of-the-art/competitor analysis of other funded projects
- Ad-hoc activities as agreed with client (e.g., market research)
Other
- Partner/project searching and brokerage
- Pitch deck development
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Grant Matcher
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Staff Development Training
Our Courses
RedKnight’s staff development training courses are suitable for individuals within organisations of all types, sizes, and sectors.
They are primarily aimed at individuals involved in bid writing, proposal development, and research and innovation strategy development.
This includes those who have a discrete bid writing, fundraising, or project management role. However, they are also suitable for anyone who undertakes these activities as part of a portfolio of other duties.
What We Offer
Our courses are suitable for businesses in all sectors, from agriculture to astronomy, and can be tailored to meet your specific needs and requirements.There are several areas of an organisation that may benefit from our training sessions, including:
Research and Development Services Technology and Knowledge Transfer Business Development Budget and Finance
We provide training for the following innovation funding programmes:
Innovate UK EIC Accelerator Eureka Eurostars
As mentioned above, our training courses can be tailored to suit an organisation's needs. If you are looking for support in another area of innovation funding, please contact us to discuss further.
Grant Matcher
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Grant Matcher
Discover UK grants now available to help your business grow
Our simple to use grant matcher tool allows you to choose your region, sector and business type to help narrow your search.
Grant Claim Management
Taking Care Of Your Project
When you are awarded grant funding, you are required to undertake a range of grant claim management tasks for the funder. They need confirmation that you are delivering the project outlined in your application. Without this, you won’t receive funding.
Not only is this process time-consuming, but it can also be daunting – particularly if it is not something that you or your team have experienced before. RedKnight can help; we have extensive experience with UK and EU grant funding and can guide you through the grant claim management process. We will ensure the claim is processed as quickly as possible so that you receive the funding you need to deliver your project.
What does the service include?
We take care of demanding administrative tasks so you can focus on your project. This includes:
- Project set-up documentation
- Second level planning
- Claim submissions
- Monitoring officer liaison
- Project change requests
Who is grant claim management for?
This service is aimed at businesses already running a grant-funded project, or those who are currently applying for funding. You can include our services in your application as our fees are typically counted as an eligible project cost. For Innovate UK, this can be up to 70% funding towards them. For Horizon Europe, it would be either 70% or 100%.
“The most professional and committed team who should be commended on their attention to detail and tight deadlines. Extremely responsive, genuinely supportive and knowledgeable. This company is completely committed to providing a true ‘consultancy’ service. They are seasoned consultants and are invested in your success. It was refreshing to work with such a highly professional, courteous, organised and talented specialist consultancy. I look forward to working with them again.”
– Ms Kausar Bibi, Chief Operating Officer, Triple 1 Group Ltd
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Grant Matcher
Discover UK grants now available to help your business grow
Our simple to use grant matcher tool allows you to choose your region, sector and business type to help narrow your search.
Project Evaluation & Review
Our Experience at Your Service.
If you have already prepared a grant application, but feel it could benefit from a second opinion, our Review service is for you. One of our experienced bid writers will conduct a thorough review of your application, ensuring you have adequately answered each of the application questions. Where necessary, they will provide actionable feedback so that you can improve your application before submission.
RedKnight is proudly unique in that we have in-house expert reviewers and evaluators. Their experience was gained within the very funding organisations to which we now apply! For example, RedKnight’s Co-Director, Professor Peter Quantick, worked as an evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission for over 25 years. In addition, RedKnight’s Associate Bid Writer, Dr. Diana Branzea, previously worked as an assessor for Innovate UK. Therefore, you can be confident that our team will expertly review your application, providing the extra detail that you need to produce a high-quality application.
We also offer an English language proofreading service, which aims to improve the readability of your grant applications. You can read more about this here.
Our Experience at Your Service.
If you have already prepared a grant application, but feel it could benefit from a second opinion, our Review service is for you. One of our experienced bid writers will conduct a thorough review of your application, ensuring you have adequately answered each of the application questions. Where necessary, they will provide actionable feedback so that you can improve your application before submission.
RedKnight is proudly unique in that we have in-house expert reviewers and evaluators. Their experience was gained within the very funding organisations to which we now apply! For example, RedKnight's Co-Director, Professor Peter Quantick, worked as an evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission for over 25 years. In addition, RedKnight's Associate Bid Writer, Dr. Diana Branzea, previously worked as an assessor for Innovate UK. Therefore, you can be confident that our team will expertly review your application, providing the extra detail that you need to produce a high-quality application.
We also offer an English language proofreading service, which aims to improve the readability of your grant applications. You can read more about this here.
Grant Matcher
Discover UK grants now available to help your business grow.
Our simple to use grant matcher tool allows you to choose your region, sector and business type to help narrow your search.
Grant Matcher
Discover UK grants now available to help your business grow
Our simple to use grant matcher tool allows you to choose your region, sector and business type to help narrow your search.
R&D Tax Relief
R&D Tax Credits Introduction
Research and Development Tax Relief is a government incentive designed to make innovation easier for small companies. Companies can derive significant cash benefits directly linked to the level of qualifying expenditure their R&D activities have incurred.
Since the scheme’s inception in 2000, over 300,000 R&D tax credit claims have been submitted to HMRC, with over £33.3bn successfully recovered in tax relief over this period. The average claim value currently stands at £57,000 for SMEs and £332,000 for large companies.
How do R&D Tax Credits work?
Companies have two years from the end of their accounting period to make, or amend, an R&D claim so there is often scope for companies to derive significant immediate cash benefits.
R&D can generally be thought of as work undertaken to develop new, or improved, products or processes. For example, developing an automated process, or one that is quicker, more efficient or creates less waste etc. may potentially qualify.
There are a range of qualifying categories of expense, including staffing costs, contracted out activities, EPWs (for instance, agency workers), consumables, computer software, utilities and payments to the subjects of clinical trials. However, knowing that staffing costs qualify is the easy part. The complexity in preparing a claim involves, for example, identifying all employees involved within the R&D process and establishing the correct proportion of time they were engaged in qualifying activities.
Preparing a standard R&D claim is far from complicated, but unless a company takes proper, experienced advice they risk losing out on cash benefits to which they are entitled. The real added value lies in identifying all R&D projects undertaken (including work on processes), all qualifying activities, all employees involved, and all other qualifying expenditure incurred. The documentation submitted to HMRC in support of a claim is vital. This helps HMRC to determine whether a company’s activities qualify and therefore a company needs to ensure that the R&D Report contains the required information.
How do R&D Tax Credits work?
Companies have two years from the end of their accounting period to make, or amend, an R&D claim so there is often scope for companies to derive significant immediate cash benefits.
R&D can generally be thought of as work undertaken to develop new, or improved, products or processes. For example, developing an automated process, or one that is quicker, more efficient or creates less waste etc. may potentially qualify.
There are a range of qualifying categories of expense, including staffing costs, contracted out activities, EPWs (for instance, agency workers), consumables, computer software, utilities and payments to the subjects of clinical trials. However, knowing that staffing costs qualify is the easy part. The complexity in preparing a claim involves, for example, identifying all employees involved within the R&D process and establishing the correct proportion of time they were engaged in qualifying activities.
Preparing a standard R&D claim is far from complicated, but unless a company takes proper, experienced advice they risk losing out on cash benefits to which they are entitled. The real added value lies in identifying all R&D projects undertaken (including work on processes), all qualifying activities, all employees involved, and all other qualifying expenditure incurred. The documentation submitted to HMRC in support of a claim is vital. This helps HMRC to determine whether a company’s activities qualify and therefore a company needs to ensure that the R&D Report contains the required information.
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Grant Matcher
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Bid Writing
Writing a Winning Grant Application
Bidding for grants and funding can be a frustrating, tiresome and demoralising process. Hours can be wasted putting pen to paper, just for your hard work to be torn apart. Of course, this is all part of the democratic process required to justify the investment of public money.
Truthfully, there is no quick-fix or magic formulae to winning grants. However, there are certain steps you can take to ensure the funding you are bidding for is right for your organisation and that you put forward the most competitive proposal possible.
RedKnight’s 5 step self-assessment is an internal process we undertake on behalf of every client before we begin writing any funding application. This includes:
IDEA
Before even considering funding options, it is imperative that you have a clear understanding of exactly what it is you want to do. Clearly identify your aims and objectives and the tasks you need to undertake to achieve these.
FUNDING
Once you have a clear project idea, you can then review the funding opportunities available and determine whether your project fits within the funding call scope. There is no substitute for sitting down and reading, but most importantly understanding, what the funding call is looking to fund. Remember, square pegs do not fit round holes!
CAPACITY
Do you have the in-house skills to achieve what you are setting out to do? And be honest with yourself. If not, you may have to consider working in collaboration.
TRACK RECORD
Are you able to convince the evaluators that you can deliver the project? As with point 3, if not, you may want to consider teaming up with a more experienced partner who is used to running projects.
PARTNERS
If you’ve answered ‘No’ to points 3 or 4, you will likely need the support of a project partner, but even if you do have the capacity and track-record, some funding programmes insist on collaboration. It is essential that you understand the eligibility criteria of the call you are applying to, and what types of organisations are eligible.
IDEA
Before even considering funding options, it is imperative that you have a clear understanding of exactly what it is you want to do. Clearly identify your aims and objectives and the tasks you need to undertake to achieve these.
FUNDING
Once you have a clear project idea, you can then review the funding opportunities available and determine whether your project fits within the funding call scope. There is no substitute for sitting down and reading, but most importantly understanding, what the funding call is looking to fund. Remember, square pegs do not fit round holes!
CAPACITY
Do you have the in-house skills to achieve what you are setting out to do? And be honest with yourself. If not, you may have to consider working in collaboration.
TRACK RECORD
Are you able to convince the evaluators that you can deliver the project? As with point 3, if not, you may want to consider teaming up with a more experienced partner who is used to running projects.
PARTNERS
If you’ve answered ‘No’ to points 3 or 4, you will likely need the support of a project partner, but even if you do have the capacity and track-record, some funding programmes insist on collaboration. It is essential that you understand the eligibility criteria of the call you are applying to, and what types of organisations are eligible.
About Bid Writing
We encourage all organisations to consider the above points before they waste valuable time and money on a grant application that they aren’t quite ready for.
It is also important to remember that even excellent proposals aren’t always successful. RedKnight has supported many applications that have passed the threshold but haven’t received funding. The critical point is to learn from the feedback you receive and to persevere.
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Grant Matcher
Discover UK grants now available to help your business grow
Our simple to use grant matcher tool allows you to choose your region, sector and business type to help narrow your search.