Case studies: Real-life examples of government activity

• BLF new data on pollution levels around hospitals and surgeries

  The British Lung Foundation has released a new report mapping out levels of particulate matter around health centres across the UK highlighting potential risks.

• Reduced bus emissions and improved air quality in Brighton & Hove

  Urban air quality can be improved with a combination of new bus procurements and exhaust retrofits.

• Primary school celebrates Clean Air Day with street party

  Leicester primary school marks Clean Air Day with a temporary traffic-free space for the whole community.

• ECO Stars Fleet Recognition Scheme

  Voluntary fuel management and operational efficiency support programme to improve air quality.

• ICoNiChem: recycling rare materials in electric vehicles

  The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is supporting work to improve recycling in the UK electric vehicle industry so cars can be powered more sustainably.

• Bear Pit Theatre

  We interviewed 3 of the founding directors of a community focused theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

• NDA archive: Nucleus (the Nuclear and Caithness Archives)

  A new facility, called Nucleus (the Nuclear and Caithness Archives), has been built in Caithness to manage the nuclear industry's records.

• Feminine care innovator boosted by £1 million Innovate UK loan

  Callaly will use funding secured through Innovate UK’s loan programme to scale up production of its Tampliner, the first tampon design innovation in 80 years.

• ExtraCare: building better lives for older people

  With 2 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and a starring role in a Channel 4 documentary, ExtraCare is exploring innovative approaches to the UK’s ageing society.

• Community networks linking older and younger people

  How The Cares Family community networks are reducing loneliness and improving wellbeing by bringing older and younger neighbours together.

• Artificial intelligence robots in Ipswich Hospital

  How robots have cut down the processing time of GP referrals by more than half.

• Using existing skills to strengthen communities and improve wellbeing

  How Resilient Together used asset-based community development to empower residents to get involved in their community and improve wellbeing.

• Preventing homelessness through early intervention mediation

  How early intervention mediation service talk2sort is preventing homelessness for young people.

• Embedding All Our Health from theory to practice in a university

  University embeds AOH framework in its curricula to help current and future students build the skills to maximise their impact on preventing ill-health.

• Kelvin Hughes wins naval contract with UK Export Finance support

  UKEF helps British radar technology company, Kelvin Hughes, equip the Royal New Zealand Navy’s new fleet tanker with a navigation bridge system.

• Furniture parts cartel case study

  Furniture parts firms fined £2.8 million for market sharing cartel activity.

• Overseas sales soar for Simworx following support from UKEF

  Midlands-based company expands into China and Vietnam thanks to innovative financing.

• Using the PHSKF to merge public health teams

  How the Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF) can be used to bring several public health teams into one unified team.

• Darwin Plus grant: Penguins in the Southern Ocean

  Darwin’s support to monitoring penguins in the Southern Ocean has led to one of the largest citizen science ventures in the world.

• Essex County Council delivers stop smoking support via vape shops

  Using selected e-cigarette stores in Essex, training staff to deliver stop smoking support to their customers wishing to quit smoking by using an e-cigarette.

• Working for the Parliamentary Counsel: Jack Connah

  Jack Connah shares his experiences working for the Parliamentary Counsel.

• Working for the Parliamentary Counsel: Shuchi Shah

  Shuchi Shah shares her experiences working for the Parliamentary Counsel.

• Working for the Parliamentary Counsel: Jenny Munday

  Jenny Munday shares her experiences working for the Parliamentary Counsel.

• Agroceutical Products: a better life for Alzheimer’s patients

  Welsh businessman Kevin Stephens has developed a process for producing sustainable Alzheimer's medication, with support from Innovate UK.

• Alert Technology: saving lives with better asbestos detection

  Devon firm on the verge of launching world’s first real-time warning device for deadly airborne asbestos fibres, thanks to a new innovation loan.

• Ilika Technologies: recharging the electric vehicle market

  Solid-state battery specialist's technology to power an electric car in 25 minutes, developed with support from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

• SmartSurvey working with Department for Education

  SME SmartSurvey provided a compliant, UK-based survey platform for the Department of Education

• Deregallera: improving the range of electric vehicles

  Through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, a Welsh materials company is working on hybrid battery technology to support electric vehicle adoption.

• Manchester SME increases turnover with UK government backing

  Clothing company Leisurewear finds exporting success thanks to collaboration with Barclays and UK Export Finance (UKEF).

• Dstl Case Study – Keith Gilert, Chief Superintendent

  Keith Gilert is Dstl’s Senior Police Adviser in the Counter Terrorism and Security Division. After more than 30 years of distinguished service in the police service, Keith Gilert joined the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) when the Home Office’s Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) integrated with Dstl .

• Redweb Ltd working with Department for Education

  Redweb Ltd have delivered the Department of Education's Get Into Teaching website support for nearly a decade

• BepiColombo

  This European mission to Mercury will help our understanding of the formation of the Solar System and its inner rocky planets.

• Photocentric: next-gen 3D printing using mobile phone screens

  Manufacturer taking inspiration from the devices in our pockets to develop the future of 3D printing.

• Urban Connected Communities

  Testing 5G in cities

• Citi Logik: planning for tomorrow’s smart cities

  Citi Logik is providing its real-time traffic and transport analysis to Hull - and will target other cities with Innovate UK support.

• UKEF helps Bioguard Hygiene find export success in the Middle East

  Northampton manufacturer wins an important new customer and maintains momentum in a high-value market with support from UK Export Finance (UKEF).

• SmartSourcing winning government contracts

  SME generates 75% of its turnover through government contracts whilst also benefitting from the Prompt Payment Code.

• Intellectual Property: Tangle Teezer

  Shaun Pulfrey is a hair guru to men and women across the world, fighting the war on tangles with his patented hairbrush.

• Intellectual Property: These Please

  Online company These Please explain how their registered designs are helping them fight the copycats.

• Solving cities’ problems through integration

  Innovate UK-supported urban collaborations develop smarter, better-connected infrastructure systems to join up cities.

• i-movo working with DWP

  SME i-movo delivers an online voucher system for the DWP to support benefit claimants who are unable to use standard banking products.

• Lullabyz Nursery

  We interviewed the owner and manager of a private nursery based in Newport.

• Rainmaker Solutions working with Croydon Council

  Croydon Council needed to appoint a strategic Cloud delivery partner who would support them in delivering their ICT Sourcing Strategy

• Irrigation system helps farms to grow more crops and cut energy

  A university-led consortium has developed a cloud-based irrigation system that could save energy and improve yields for small farms in India.

• OakTec: global demand for low-emission engine

  Engineering specialist OakTec has developed an innovative bio-gas engine that offers a low-cost, environmentally-friendly alternative for powering vehicles.

• Space-based dam monitoring

  Reducing the probability of failure of tailings dams through the use of remote sensing data

• SIBELIUs: Improved resilience for Mongolian herding communities

  Improved severe weather resilience for Mongolian herding communities using satellite Earth observation derived environmental services

• Satellite Enablement for Disaster Risk Reduction in Kenya (SatDRR)

  Harnessing satellite services to improve Kenyan capacity for disaster prevention, response and recovery

• Modelling Exposure Through Earth Observation Routines (METEOR)

  Earth Observation for robust exposure data and better-informed Disaster Risk Management

• Improved Situational Awareness in Fisheries (ISAIF)

  Using satellites to improve fisheries management and tackle illegal fishing in the Philippines