At Improve Business Solutions we have helped businesses grow and tackle their challenges through various government initiatives, we have worked as approved Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) consultants and accredited Business Growth Service coaches.
More recently we have been approached to help with the delivery of a business support package aimed at helping businesses in the Tees Valley area. The scheme has been set up in response to the closure of the SSI UK steelworks in Redcar to help UK businesses directly impacted by the closure together with other businesses based in the Tees Valley.
Funding for the scheme is provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, via Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. The Tees Valley Business Support scheme provides grant support to eligible businesses ) to undertake eligible projects or activities located within the Tees Valley which are designed to expand or diversify the business, leading to sustainable growth and the creation of employment.
This Tees Valley Business Support scheme provides grant support to most manufacturing and service sector businesses (offering more than a local service) based in the Tees Valley. The Tees Valley Business support scheme offers small grants so businesses can access external expertise and professional services to help them overcome barriers to their growth, leading to the creation or safeguarding of jobs. Grants of between £2,500 and £25,000 are available.
As grants start from £2,500.00 with a maximum contribution of up to 50% so projects would need to be £5,000.00 and over.
Eligibility
The business must be located in a Tees Valley Authority (Middlesbrough, Redcar, Cleveland, Stockton, Hartlepool and Darlington)
- Be trading for more than 12 months
- Looking to access expertise and professional services to overcome barriers to grow
- Create jobs or safeguard jobs
The fund covers projects which could include: –
- Product and market diversification
- Product and market diversification
- Business change management
- Business expansion
- Development of environmental/efficiency programmes
- Process and system improvement
- Supply chain improvement
- Product development
- Marketing planning
- Brand / re-brand design.
For further information regarding the Tess Valley Business Support scheme please contact us at Improve Business Solutions so that we can discuss your requirements and eligibility for the Tees Valley Business Support scheme.
For further information on the Tees Valley Business Support scheme you can also click on this link Tees Valley Business Support Schemes.