Funding for innovation

Article Type: Food facts From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 39, Issue 4

An exciting new project is offering generous funding support to food and drink businesses to develop innovative new products or novel packaging ideas.

Appetizing Innovation, an initiative supported by Yorkshire Forward, is providing funding of up to 50 per cent of the total project cost to help companies to access specialist help. This significant financial incentive is available to all food and drink companies in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Appetizing Innovation is a three-year project, funded by Yorkshire Forward,to deliver product and packaging innovation support to the food and drink sector. Food and drink manufacturers of any size can benefit, and funding is available to those within the Yorkshire and Humber region to support some of the project work, depending on the nature of the project and level of company investment.

Further details can be found at: www.appetizinginnovation.co.uk