Clean Growth UK

Are you on a mission to tackle the climate crisis?

With access to expertise and facilities across our three University hubs, we:

Help you understand your business’s carbon footprint and create a data-driven net zero pathway.
Connect you to academic expertise and university facilities to make your innovative ideas happen.
Supercharge your net zero journey with sustainability communications and funding coaching.

A one-stop-shop for clean growth.

£ Million

raised for members'
R&D projects

3500+

network
members

green jobs
created

What we offer

Net Zero 360

Deep-dive workshops help you understand and measure your carbon footprint. Access our carbon calculator and university support to help decarbonise your business.

Innovation Accelerator

Got an idea that needs to happen? We'll work with you to identify the right university expertise and resources to take it forward.

Funding

Support identifying and applying for grant funding and investment, including our regularly-updated innovation grant finder tool.

Workshops

Regular workshops on how to source funding for sustainability projects and how to create high-impact communications around your sustainability strategy.

Three University Hubs, open for business

Do you have a business idea that could help tackle the climate crisis?

We’re your route to accessing university expertise, facilities, and resources to get those ideas moving faster.

Talk to us about product design and testing, material innovation, business model development, improvements to business processes, scope 3 carbon emissions, and more.

Talk to us

South East Hub

South East Hub University of Brighton

South West Hub

University of Portsmouth

North Hub

Liverpool John Moores University

Latest news

University of Brighton hosts major UNESCO Biosphere event

Brighton’s Sustainable Restaurant Initiative Expanded

FAQs

We help businesses reduce their impact on the environment and make innovative clean growth business ideas happen. We'll help you understand your carbon footprint and hotspots and link you with university expertise, facilities, and funding to accelerate solutions.

Yes. If you're developing a low carbon innovation or circular business model and need expertise to move it forward, get in touch.

Clean Growth UK doesn't provide funding directly, but we have decades of experience helping businesses successfully apply for grants. Talk to us about your business and we can help identify appropriate funding and, in many cases, help you apply.

Accelerate Your
Net Zero
Mission

Case Study: Green Bell Packaging

Case Study: Falcon Coffees

Case Study: Lankelma

Case Study: Nafici Environmental Research

Are you on a mission to tackle the climate crisis?

Are you on a mission to tackle the climate crisis?