Grants for businesses in Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, or South Gloucestershire

By Will Sargent, Manager, Bristol office – [email protected]

On my periodic trawl through West of England Growth Hub website I came across two grants that I thought may be of interest to SMEs in the Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, or South Gloucestershire local authority area:

An overview of each is set out below with more details at links above.

Green Business Grants

Grants for	Purchase and/or install materials, products and equipment that will result in a measurable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in your business
Applicants	Must be Legal entity and a SME A number of businesses are ineligible – see page 4 of Guidance for Applicants
Other requirements	Have had an independent energy or carbon assessment done that recommends the project you are applying for
Grants	£500 to £15,000 with intervention rates of 30%, 40% or 60% depending on project type / payback period (see page 6 of Guidance for Applicants)
Assistance	Email at [email protected] call the Low Carbon Business Support team on 0117 332 1520
Open and close	Grant is available first come, first served. A total of £2million will be made available up to March 2025
Guidance	https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/growth-hub/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Green-Business-Grants-Guidance-for-Applicants-June-2023.pdf

Business Growth and Adaptation Grants

Two funding streams: Fund 1 and Fund 2.

Applications for	Grants can be used for products or equipment to help the business achieve one of the following: increase or improve production start production, including bringing production ‘in-house’ adapt to regulatory change related to production practices, enacted in the last three years
Grant size	Fund 1: £6,000 to £10,000 Fund 2: £10,001 to £30,000
Intervention rate	80% max
Business type	Fund 1 – Be a sole trader, limited company, limited liability partnership, or a co operative and traded for at least 1 year Fund 2 – Have traded as a limited company, limited liability partnership, or a co operative for at least 3 years Either fund: SME
Ineligible expenditure	Quite a long list of ‘what the grant can’t be used for’ on pages 4 and 5 of Application Guidance
Open and Close date	The next round of funding will be open from Thursday 21st September until Thursday 5th October at 5pm
Guidance	https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/growth-hub/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Business-Growth-Adaptions-Grant-Application-Guidance-2.pdf
Support	West of England Growth Hub state that support available through their Universal Business Support programme. Please contact [email protected] to speak to our grant team about accessing this. Or telephone 0117 456 6955

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Whilst we endeavour to keep informed of grants for SMEs, we would suggest all SMEs based in West of England region (that is Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, or South Gloucestershire local authority area) sign up to the West of England Growth Hub newsletter here: https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/growth-hub/