Built for Coventry's businesses
Coventry has real strength in automotive, advanced manufacturing and gaming, and startups here don't need a generalist down the road — they need specialists who answer quickly and price fairly. Because we work online, you get exactly that, plus a nudge towards the right local support: the CW Growth Hub is a good first stop for grants and advice, and our Swoop-powered funding portal searches 1,000+ lenders and grant schemes on top.
What reliefs are Coventry's games and automotive businesses entitled to?
Coventry's mix of automotive engineering and games development covers both ends of the relief system. UK games studios can claim Video Games Expenditure Credit on qualifying core expenditure, but only where the game holds a British cultural certificate from the BFI — so certification has to be started early rather than remembered at the year end. Automotive and advanced-manufacturing businesses are usually claiming capital allowances on plant and tooling, with full expensing available to companies on qualifying new equipment, plus R&D relief where the work resolves genuine technical uncertainty. Both routes reward records kept as the work happens and punish reconstruction afterwards, which is really an argument for bookkeeping that runs monthly.
