--- title: Support for Innovative Businesses - Wednesday 15th November description: Join Shorts, Withers & Rogers, FCS Associates and other innovative businesses for a morning workshop to understand what support is available for your business. image: https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/Images/Blog%20images/Support%20for%20Innovative%20Businesses.jpg --- [![Shorts_logo_White](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/New%20Site%202018/Shorts_logo_White.svg "Shorts_logo_White")](https://www.shorts.uk.com/) [Blogs & News](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/) > [Seminars and Events](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/seminars-and-events) # Support for Innovative Businesses - Wednesday 15th November Jo Grant - 30 August 2017 ###### Select topic - Please Select - [ Audit ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/audit) [ Business Taxes ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/business-taxes) [ Radius – R&D Tax Relief & Patent Box ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/radius-rd-tax-relief-patent-box) [ Corporate Finance ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/corporate-finance) [ GENUS Management Accounts ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/genus-management-accounts) [ VAT ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/vat) [ Private Client ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/private-client) [ Payroll ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/payroll) [ EOT ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/eot) [ International Taxes ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/international-taxes) ![featured image](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/Images/Blog%20images/Support%20for%20Innovative%20Businesses.jpg) ###### Join Shorts Chartered Accountants’ Innovation Taxes Group, patent attorneys Withers & Rogers, grant specialists FCS Associates and other innovative businesses for a roundtable morning workshop event to understand what support is available to your business, and how it could benefit from it.  **** | **Date** | Wednesday 15th November | | --- | --- | | **Time** | 9.00am- 12.30pm | | **Location** | East Midlands Chamber Commerce House \| Millenium Way \| Dunston Road \| Chesterfield \| S41 8ND |   [![Book now](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2442072/f259cbce-d136-4d86-83f5-ecdb901c191c.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2442072/f259cbce-d136-4d86-83f5-ecdb901c191c) Is your business innovative? Does it create and develop new or improved products, new software solutions, improve processes or solve technical problems? Did you know that there is a wide range of support and a variety of options available that can help your business from - R&D tax credits – £26 in corporation tax savings for every £100 spent innovating, - Intellectual Property (IP) protection – Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, - Patent Box relief – reduce your corporation tax rate to 10%, - Grant funding and winning tenders, - Accounting in the cloud   ****Who Should Attend?**** This workshop is for SMEs and business owners in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. [Click here to reserve your place.](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/support-for-innovative-businesses-tickets-36896395111) ****Timing**** Registration is from 9.00am for a prompt start at 9.30am. Refreshments will be provided upon arrival. **ERDF** This workshop is funded via the European Regional Development Fund, therefore we are required to evidence that you are a small to medium enterprise. There will be a couple of forms that will need to be completed either prior to the event or on the day and these will be sent to you once you have registered. One form is to ensure you are a small to medium enterprise, the second is to capture any business support you have received over the last 3 years to ensure you haven’t exceeded €200,000. If you have previously completed these forms at a Growth Hub event you will not have to complete another set.   ![author](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/1678438830033-1.jpg) #### Jo Grant Jo is the Senior Marketing Manager at Shorts Chartered Accountants. [View my articles](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/author/jo-grant) Tags: [Seminars and Events](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/seminars-and-events) Share this on - - - [Questions? 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