Summary

This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by UKRI. The aim of the competition is to fund organisations to deliver social impact and address one or more of the seven themes of the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework.

This is phase 1 of a potential 2-phase competition. A decision to proceed with phase 2 will depend on the outcomes from phase 1, availability of further funding and assessment of a separate application into a subsequent phase 2 competition.

Only successful applicants from phase 1 will be able to apply to take part in phase 2.

Any adoption and implementation of a solution from this competition would be subject to a separate, possible competitive, procurement exercise. This competition does not cover the purchase of any solution.

Eligibility

Your project must:

• start by 1 March 2022
• end by 28 February 2023
• have total eligible project costs up to £50,000 inclusive of VAT

To lead a project, you must:

• be an organisation of any size
• work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors
• exist wholly to provide benefits for society
• have stated commitment to social outcomes for an identified set of beneficiaries related to your social or environmental mission
• have objects in your constitutional documents, which form a constitutional lock, that protect your social or environmental mission
• have a policy to distribute profits after tax so surpluses are used to achieve social or environmental impacts 

Contracts will be awarded only to a single legal entity.