With both national and regional programmes, Launch Academy is an award-winning supply chain support programme that focuses on near-to-market solutions and is supported by industrial and business support specialists. The bespoke nine-month programme sees the cohort of companies being given access to a unique package of support from the delivery partners, including legal, marketing, accountancy, IP, and investor readiness support.

Our Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) programme is a unique service to help the UK supply chain get ready to bid for work in the offshore renewable energy sector. It is a journey of business improvement and sector specific capability building, using a proven process that typically takes 12 to 18 months. Companies are guided and supported through each step by expert advisors, but to ensure that changes firmly take root, each company must also dedicate significant resource.

The North East Offshore Wind Innovation and Demonstration (NEOWIND) is a supply chain support and technology demonstration programme designed to boost growth and productivity in North East England’s offshore wind and subsea sectors. Funded by the North East Mayor, the programme aims to accelerate the development and demonstration of innovative offshore renewable energy technologies through a combination of research and development grant funding and specialist business support.

The Wind Innovation Hub is an independent collaborative partnership designed to accelerate innovation, industrial growth, and strategic coordination across the UK’s offshore wind sector. Funded by Innovate UK, the Wind Innovation Hub has been created to do exactly that, partnering the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, NCC and NMIS and combining more than 45 years of combined innovation and technology expertise—spanning offshore renewable energy, advanced composites, digital and sustainable manufacturing, and industrial scale-up.

The OWGP (Offshore Wind Growth Partnership) is funded by the offshore wind industry and delivered by our team. It provides support to supply chain companies to enable them to grow and increase their competitiveness. Support includes access to direct funding and a range of services such as expert advice on manufacturing and commercialisation as well as funding for innovation.

FLOWB is a strategic Floating Wind Supply Chain Acceleration Programme led by ORE Catapult in conjunction with Innovate UK. FLOWB is helping UK Entities to establish links and commercial opportunities in the United States and helping to accelerate the research and development phases of their Floating Offshore Wind Supply Chain technologies.

SPARTA (System Performance, Availability and Reliability Trend Analysis) is a joint industry programme established in 2015 by us, and supported by The Crown Estate. The programme is the world’s only benchmarking platform,  and uses anonymised performance data to increase reliability of wind turbine operations.

The Research Hubs have been at the heart of our Academic Engagement Programme, designed to align us with UK academic expertise to support the needs of the offshore renewables industry. The research priorities include: blades, powertrains and electrical infrastructure.