Practical Courses for Founders and Innovators
It’s challenging to turn a brilliant idea into a funded, market-ready reality.
Our courses provide the practical frameworks and expert guidance you need to build winning grant proposals and apply powerful design thinking methods.
Read the Founder’s Guide to Grants: Sustainability Edition Report: here
Grant Funding Fundamentals Training
Foundation Course
Expert-designed fundamentals course with templates, resources and videos to strengthen your success
Grant Strategy Builder
Access 2 x 2.5hr live workshops with course
£475+VAT
Turn your idea into a competitive application.
Two intensive workshops where we build your grant strategy together, from eligibility validation to impact evidence. Leave with a clear roadmap and the confidence to write a winning bid.
Application Review
Includes in-depth review with a 1.5hr video call, with course
£1,250+VAT
Get an expert's eyes on your application before you submit.
A thorough, independent review that catches the gaps funders spot and shows you exactly how to strengthen your case. Direct feedback and practical fixes.
Application Review & Coaching
Includes 2 x4hrs of coaching sessions, with review and course
£2,975+VAT
Your guide to write your own grant application.
Combine our detailed expert review with strategic one-to-one coaching. We'll work through every section together, ensuring your application demonstrates exactly what funders need to see.
£225+VAT
Build your grant strategy from the ground up.
Get the framework, evidence templates, and practical tools you need to move from vision to a fundable project. Master the fundamentals and set yourself apart from the competition.
Add Sharp Insight Services
Work with Sharp Insight by adding us as a subcontractor in your grant application.
We have lots of experience in writing grants, and we have transitioned away from offering this as a main service and wrapped up all we’ve learned in the courses above, with light grant support.
If you’re looking for a grant writer, get in touch, and we can direct you to one.
Design Thinking for Deep Tech Training
Design Thinking for Deep Tech
Expertly created for your sector, our course shows how popular frameworks can apply to Deep Tech.
Standard Design Thinking frameworks assume you can build fast, test cheap, and pivot easily. Deep Tech doesn't work that way.
When your prototype costs £100k and takes 18 months, you can't "fail fast" and pivot, you need to validate before you build.
This course teaches you how to prove customer need and commercial viability using research approaches tailored to the realities, constraints, and timelines of your sector.
£249+VAT
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Sharing thoughts
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Enterprise Nation Article: Five tips for conducting brilliant competitor analysis: here
Helio Blog Post: Product Development Research Guide to Slow and Fast Research: here
UXTweak Podcast: Making products that matter: here
The Institute of Creativity Podcast: How to make products that matter: here
Video Podcast: How to Build Products That Matter: Dr Chloe Sharp: here
Video Podcast: Product Development - Coffee with Ems: here