Grants for Women in Engineering 2023 | Get It Made
Are you a female leader of an enterprise within UK engineering? Are you looking for funding to take your organisation to the next level?
If so, this grant could be for you. Manufacturing specialist Get It Made is delighted to announce a new grant, which aims to support female-led engineering enterprises and help encourage the next generation of women in UK engineering. This grant will receive £5,000 to help scale up production and move the business forward. It can be used for our services, such as 3D Printing, Plastic Injection Moulding and CNC Machining.
Our Future Depends on the Next Generation
Here at Get It Made, we are well aware of the gender imbalance that exists within the UK manufacturing industry. Recent data suggest that female employees account for just 14.5% of the total UK manufacturing workforce, with an even smaller percentage accounting for female-led enterprises. As such, this grant aims to support female-led engineering organisations, both financially and in offering our expertise, as grant winners will work closely with Get It Made’s knowledgeable engineers to accelerate the design and development of their ideas.
With the help of this grant, Get It Made hopes to help your business reach its true potential, and simultaneously help remove barriers facing future generations of women hoping to enter UK engineering.
Aiza, one of our Project Managers, had this to say about the grant:
“From my personal experience, the more women you see within the industry, the more I hope it encourages and inspires other women to take the lead and not be intimidated. Entering a male-dominated industry has not taken away from my own femininity, but has actually made me braver and stronger.”
Find out how Get It Made grants can assist you today.
Grant Judging Criteria
The criteria for applicants of this grant is simple, and is as followed:
- The leader of the organisation must be female
- The organisation must reside within UK engineering
- The goal or mission of the product or company.
What is your ultimate goal? How will it assist human beings? Whatever it is, it should be clear and well defined. - How the grant will be used.
Do you have specific components in mind to manufacture? Do you have drawings and CAD files? - The difference the grant will make to the organisation.
We want to make sure the grant will have a noticeable impact to your startup and the industry as a whole.
To apply for the grant, please complete the application below. If you have any questions about the application process please contact hello@get-it-made.co.uk.
The Small Print
The Grant
The manufacturing grant consists of £5,000 (excluding VAT) that can be used when ordering any of our manufacturing services. In addition, you will have direct access to Get It Made engineers who will help support your project from a Design for Manufacturing perspective.
Deadline
Applications close at midnight GMT on July 31st, 2023. The successful applicant will be notified by email. The £5,000 grant expires 12 months after the winner is notified.
Industry Criteria
Your business must have an element of being a hardware-based business. If you are unsure regarding your eligibility to apply, please do get in touch.
Organisation Criteria
This grant is available to engineering businesses with a female leader and less than 10 employees.
Your Manufacturing Support Team
Get It Made are a team of people that love to get things made. We utilise the best manufacturing technologies from CNC Machining to Moulding, Extruding and 3D Printing. It is our passion and the reason why we come to work every day. You will always be viewed as a partner, not simply a customer, we want to be your manufacturing partner for your hardware startup. We always look to make sure you get the best result for your project, if we can’t help, we will look to make a recommendation on who to contact. Trust means we will be your first point of call.
Hardware Manufacturing Made Simple
Great service is at the heart of everything we do, with the goal of making manufacturing easy. From your initial contact to the safe delivery of your hardware components, we take care of your project. Always providing you with fast lead times, great quality and outstanding value.
We remove friction from the supply chain by becoming your manufacturing support team and producing parts using our highly integrated, extremely capable manufacturing partners. We’re proud to offer manufacturing services to our clients.
