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The Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership has just announced a new round of funding for its Productivity Pilot Scheme. The grant can offer businesses £25,000 to £100,000 against capital equipment and fit-out cost of current facilities (based on 10-20% of total costs). Unlike most capital grant funds, the productivity grant does not need the […]

Leeds City Region’s LEP, has announced a £500,000 pilot competition aimed at supporting investments directly related to productivity improvement. The competition can offer between £25,000 and £100,000 and the important difference is that businesses do not need to demonstrate a growth in new jobs,  just maintain current employment levels. Costs must be capital based and […]

Over £3 million of European funding has been allocated for rural businesses in the Leeds City Region to  improve local tourism. The funding, part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) Growth Programme, will be available to a broad base of businesses to invest in infrastructure that will boost local tourism. Grants start at £35,000  and can support […]

2015 has been a busy year. With many Soapstone customers applying to the Local Enterprise Partnership grant funds and Innovate UK, as well as some others, we have maintained our very high success rates throughout the year. There is a great opportunity for those growing businesses to think of grant support as an alternative additional […]

The Worcestershire Expansion Programme, run by the Local Enterprise Partnership is open for its 3rd Round of applicants to allocate its last remaining funding before next spring. However, please be aware that the window of opportunity is very short and the fund is only open for applications until 5.00pm on 12th December 2014. Grants are […]

We are delighted that one of our clients has recently succeeded in being offered grant support from Innovate UK (formally the Technology Strategy Board). The project was successful in requesting feasibility funding from one of the Innovate UK competition calls; to develop a unique manufacturing process. The management team will now utilise the funding to […]

Soapstone have once again helped to secure significant funding for a client; this time from the recently opened York, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire LEP‘s Business Grant Programme. We are delighted to have helped with a substantial capital investment, which had been on hold. Soapstone worked with our client to build a robust business plan […]

A number of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) organisations were successful in bidding for Regional Growth Fund (RGF) finance to offer grant funding from £10,000 to £2,000,000. Most of those LEPs have allocated significant funding but have also had a number of project which, although approved, have not gone ahead. This means that there is still […]

The eagerly anticipated 5th Round of the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is due to be announced in October. With shortened timescales to submit applications, businesses should start thinking about the opportunity now. Soapstone has been associated with successful RGF projects since the first round and will be working with a number of projects looking to […]

We are delighted to announce that two more applicants to the Business Growth Fund, managed by Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership,  have been offered grant support. Both projects were asking for substantial funding to support investment costs from LCR’s large fund (offering £100k-£1m). The fund has a total value of £15 million and is seeking to support projects which […]