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 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Businesses in the Leeds City Region can now apply for 50% of cost towards training, as long as its not a legislative requirement. The scheme is open to priority sector businesses such as manufacturers, logistics, healthcare and professional service businesses. Contact the Soapstone team to find out more.
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »BIS has announced Round 6 of the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is open, with a deadline of September 30th 2014. This 6th Round has over £200m available for bidders and can provide grant funding for costs incurred up until March 2017. The usual rules of a minimum grant request of £1m from private sector bidders remains […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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 […]
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