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Your Innovation Journey
Smarter Funding Options
Less Financial Risk
Long Term Partnerships
Innovation Liquidity Partners (ILP) helps you with funding options at each stage of your idea's journey, through to market and beyond – navigating, finding and delivering technical financial options whilst de-risking the funding process for you.
Our Solutions
Are tailored to the financial and cashflow needs of your company. Mixing and matching government backed schemes, at the right time with commercial cashflow funding products, gives us an edge when planning your development funding. Based on an initial scoping call, typically followed by a scoping meeting to review and understand:
- Your ideas and innovations - and what they may or may not qualify for.
- Your funding requirements - how much, and when.
- Your cashflow's timing and continuity - to allow you the financial confidence to progress any project work as quickly as you want to progress it.
- Your management data – de-risk it and shape it to make your company 'funder friendly' for various funding options.
- Improve internal processes - to help present and protect your company and appeal to funders or the qualifying criteria for government schemes.
- Tax work – with a particular skill in R&D Tax Credits, we can support any claim at any stage for clients, accountants and advisors.
- Tax defence – access to a top UK tax defence firm for any kind of tax dispute.
Why Partner With Us?
Co-founded in September 2025 by two highly experienced professionals, Karen Evans, FCCA (TicTax Solutions) and Kevin Johnson (Panoptic Ledger Solutions); ILP offers limited companies and their accountants an unparalleled mixture of funding options and tax defence services by combining the directors specialist skills together:
- Education – we will explain the good, the bad and the ugly about any cashflow solutions, schemes or finance products we mention.
- You retain control – we provide the cashflow options for your funding "map," you decide what you want to do.
- R&D tax credits – guidance to highly compliant, de-risked, new claims and accompanying tax calculations ready for submission to HMRC.
- Commercial finance options - specialising in working capital solutions to fund your journey and to compliment the cashflow needs of your business.
- Cashflow Forecasting (Accountancy) – we don’t offer any of the typical accounting services like audit, payroll and bookkeeping. We do accountancy from a pro-active position as part of your strategic team.
- Tax disputes and defence preparation - for all types of tax related cases, both corporate and personal investigations, in partnership with NHD Tax Solutions Ltd.
- Access to - other government backed corporation tax rebate schemes.
- Independent advice – strategically operating from your side of the table.
Our Building Blocks
Proactive and Reactive
We are most effective when we partner with you, and your accountant. Engaging early on means more time, more choice and better strategic funding options for you and your accountant to consider. We only tend to be reactive when taking over situations from other advisors or funders. Typically meaning you will have less time and more financial pressure, and therefore less choices when we engage. We are only reactive until our pro-active approach wins through to restore control and options for you.
Reverse Engineered R&D tax defence experience
Karen and Kevin have successfully defended R&D tax claims independently to the original advisors, often being engaged very late into the HMRC compliance check process. Applying our knowledge from this experience to a new R&D claim allows us to proactively de-risk the R&D claim process from the ground up, through to the tax calculation work and filing. A powerful combination for accountants and clients.
Filling remaining cashflow gaps
This is where our commercial finance broker knowledge, coupled with specialist R&D accounting skills, fills another challenging area for both a company and accountants. Our expertise and advice is particularly helpful where government backed schemes may not apply to your company, or the innovation project simply doesn't qualify for R&D tax credits, grants or patent box.
Pricing and Transparency
- ILP operate on an hourly rate fee for most engagements - our work is educational and advisory based and helps the client understand any risks they may be taking.
- ILP do not typically work on contingency fees or introductory commissions. If either are payable to ILP, they will be declared to the client upfront and before work starts.
- ILP provide estimated time-based quotes - typically in stages as needed for each engagement.
- ILP will provide an estimated minimum fee and maximum fee for the full engagement wherever possible.
- ILP do not tie clients into any lengthy contracts – so in the unlikely event you are not happy with our services, and we cannot resolve any issues you may have, you will be free to move once we are paid for work done.
- ILP do not provide quotes for tax disputes and defence work. This is an entirely separate speciality to our cashflow services. Tax defence work is provided in conjunction with our partners NHD Tax Solutions Ltd.
Partnering With Accountants
- YOU stay in control of your clients relationship, we tailor our services to suit each accountancy firm.
- ILP are experienced in supporting firms that wish to offer a full range of strategically planned cashflow funding services to their clients.
- ILP like to educate your client facing managers first, then work with you to support the client’s cashflow needs.
- ILP will add value to your service offering, without taking the risks (particularly for R&D Tax Claims) and we create a win, win, win situations for all parties.
More About The Directors
Karen Evans, FCCA
Karen loves dogs and horses. She enjoys nature and the outside, yoga, going on walks.
Kevin Johnson
Kevin is a family person at heart. He enjoys the gym, playing heavy metal and rock bass guitar, eating out, live music and going to car meets.
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