Funding and Grants

Funding and Grants always seem to be available but no-one really makes it easy for you to understand them and how to access them.  We specialise in how to find the most appropriate solutions for your needs and how to cut through red tape to source appropriate funding and grants and make them work for you!  

New Services for Business

From April 2011 the government will make available thirteen services to focus on helping businesses meet their aspirations and improve.  View here for details Solutions for Business.pdf

 

Would your business benefit from an Innovation Voucher?

SMEs in the South East of England can now apply for vouchers that allow them to engage with the UK knowledge base.
Would your business benefit from a £4,000 or £8,000 Innovation Voucher to develop technology, start research, access equipment/expertise or technical consultancy from one of the UK's excellent universities or Public Research Establishments?

If you are a high-growth SME based in the South East region, you can apply for one of two new Innovation Voucher schemes, offering growing businesses, in any sector, vouchers of £4,000 and £8,000 to encourage and make it easier for them to engage with the UK knowledge base.

• Quick and easy access to expertise from the UK's knowledge-base
• Expert help to resolve technical/service/product development challenges
• Help to get a product/service to market quickly
• Opportunity to develop a collaborative relationship with a regional knowledge base

"Innovation Vouchers can act as a very important catalyst for businesses demonstrating innovation and high-growth potential in their specific sector," says Dr David Parry, CEO of the South East Health Technology Alliance (SEHTA), which is administering the scheme. "If successful with your application, you can easily get access to expertise and technical capabilities that would normally be beyond your reach - which also means you can develop and deliver products and services to market more quickly."
The deadline for applications is 9th March 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by 31st March, 2011. To find out more, visit www.sehta.co.uk

 

Funded Training for Land Based and Rural Businesses, LandSkills East

TCHC  provide training courses, under the LandSkills East project. The training includes various management, marketing and information technology courses specifically for land based and rural businesses. All training delivered under the LandSkills East project is up to 65% part funded. Read more...

Consultancy Vouchers Worth Up To £3000

Could your business benefit from one week's consultancy with an academic expert at Anglia Ruskin University? Consultancy vouchers are worth up to £3000 and can be used towards specialist in-house training, technical or business support consultancy, research or testing. To apply, contact Business Development Managers Zlatka Stoeva or Jemma Little on surviveandthrive@anglia.ac.uk, or download an expression of interest form from the website. The closing date for expressions of interest is Monday 16th August 2010.

Pioneering Skills Initiative for Regional Economy - 65% grants towards training

LandSkills East is a new partnership set up to provide farmers and rural businesses across the six counties of the East of England with improved access to skills and training opportunities in the region. The project brings a new focus to skills, enterprise and knowledge transfer with delivery partners across the region offering a range of vocational training for employees, alongside higher level training for managers and owners.  Courses provided by the partners are shown on the website as soon as these are approved and anyone interested can contact the training provider direct to book a place. The providers supply the training with a 65% grant available towards the cost of the course and the rest of the cost to be paid by the beneficiary.  Beneficiaries must be engaged in a businesses or organisation which is dependent upon farming or rural businesses.

Funding is available for Bursaries which will cover 50% of the cost of the training activity. This can be from £500 to a maximum of £3000 pounds.

For more information visit www.landskillseast.co.uk

Need a Job! - Training and Support available

Been made redundant recently or just need help to find a job? 

The government have launched a number of new schemes to help you get back into work.

For more information contact your local JobCentre or contact your local College who also may be able to help you. 

http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/index.html or http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm

 

Management Development Funding up to 50% funding towards your training plans

Beyond 2010 is a new initiative to assist small to medium-sized businesses in the East of England to give staff new skills to move the business forward.

The project works alongside Train to Gain to ensure that businesses can get the skills training that they need. Businesses employing up to 250 staff can contact specialist sector advisors who are able to discuss training needs in detail and agree with the business which training course will best meet their needs. Up to half of the cost of training is available from EEDA and the European Social Fund.

Beyond 2010 focuses on ten key sectors of the East of England's economy:

• automotive and high-tech manufacture
• creative sector
• financial services
• food and drink processing
• life sciences and healthcare
• low carbon and sustainable technologies
• social enterprise
• sustainable communities and the built environment
• tourism and Olympics 2012
• transport gateways

For more information visit www.essexbusinesssupport.com/beyond-2010/about-us

Cardiff University Professional Development Fund

Up to 60% funding available aimed at supporting SME's to develop their staff with the aim of fostering business growth and enabling businesses to remain competitive.

How it works

Funding is available for courses offered through the Cardiff University Open for Business programme, running between 01 August and 31 December 2009.

Delegates eligible for the funding will be invoiced for the discounted cost of the course.

Criteria

• The organisation should have ‘SME' (small to medium sized enterprise) status The organisation must be based in Wales Each organisation may have any number of applicants for the funding Please see full terms and conditions for further details

Level of funding

Funding available is for 60% of the course cost for leadership and management courses offered through our Open for Business programme, and 40% of course cost for our other courses in the programme.

* Though this funding is aimed at SME's, public sector and charity organisations should contact Cardiff University Business Development Team as other support may be available.

Funding may also be available for organisations requiring bespoke leadership and management courses, please contact the Business Development Team for further details on how to apply.

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn/training/lmdf_new.php

Business Finance from EEDA

EEDA have designed a free programme to help you identify and access the right type of finance for your business.  Support is provided through tailored workshops, coaching and mentoring and is delivered by St Johns Innovation centre - a globally renowned business incubator with a wealth of experience in working with entrepreneurs and the investment community.

SMEs based in the East of England with fewer than 250 employees who are looking to secure more than £10,000 of external funding can benefit from this service.

For more information visit www.eeda.org.uk/finance

28m skills investment a "huge boost for Welsh businesses"

A £28million investment has been announced to provide Welsh businesses with world-class leadership and management skills needed to compete successfully in the 21st century global economy.Lesley Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Science Innovation and Skills, described the investment as a huge boost for Welsh businesses coming out of the recession that would unlock talent and innovation in the Welsh economy. "It will develop highly motivated, highly competitive individuals and equip them with the strategic skills and inspiration necessary for success to support the growth of the Welsh economy."

Funding for the second phase of the Enhanced Leadership and Management Skills (ELMS) programme has been approved with EU backing of £9.4m from the European Social Fund, through the Welsh Assembly Government. This builds on the £37m EU backed ELMS programme announced last year for West Wales and the Valleys and means that businesses throughout Wales will now benefit. It is the largest high-level business skills programme of its kind launched in Wales with £17m of the total £65m project earmarked for Leadership and Management workshops over the next five years. Training providers have been contracted by the Assembly Government to deliver this highly specialised strategic training to more than 23,000 people.

It is anticipated that 7,700 businesses - the majority of which are small and medium sized enterprises - will benefit from the workshops. The subsidised courses will be tailored to the needs of individual businesses with content ranging from skills for first line managers to strategic leadership for senior managers and owners. The workshop programme was launched at the conference where businesses could make online applications for funding.

Information on the quality and impact of the workshops will be publicly available on the Leadership & Management Wales website so businesses can assess the value that a course might offer their organisation.  With contribution from businesses, the total amount invested in leadership and management workshops will be approximately £24m over five years.

Organisations that wish to choose their own Leadership and Management providers and delivery method will be able to do so by making applications for Discretionary funding under the Workforce Development programme. Approximately £16m of funding from the Assembly Government and the European Social Fund has been allocated for this.

The ELMS programme also includes: The Centre for Excellence for Leadership and Management, which aims to make the case for businesses investing in Leadership and Management; a specific project to train mentors and coaches; a management diagnostic programme and a fund for Sector Skills Councils to develop their own solutions.

For more information enquiries@angelakimberley.co.uk