Online Search for Grants and Funding

If you are looking for grants or funding for your business, you can carry out your own search on our Bournemouth4Business web site which provides information on grants, soft loans and awards available to businesses locally or nationally.

Recession Fund

The Fund has been set up by the Council in response to the current difficult economic situation.  The funds aim to stimulate local economic activity and create new opportunities for growth.

Real help with finance now / Small business loan plan

The government has introduced a new package of financial measures to provide real help to companies during the economic downturn.  See the Business Link website and BBC news article for more information about the schemes on offer:

Business Link - Real help with finance now

BBC News - Small business loan plan unveiled

Bio-Energy Capital Grants Scheme for Local Businesses

The purpose of the Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme is to promote the efficient use of biomass* for energy, by stimulating the early deployment of biomass-fuelled heat and biomass combined heat and power projects. It will do this by awarding capital grants towards the cost of equipment in complete installations.

The fifth round of Bio-Energy Capital Grants is open until the end of April 2009 and applications are welcome from businesses, organisations and charities in the industrial, commercial and community sectors for grants up to a maximum of £500,000 per installation.

Full details, including guidance notes and application forms, are available from the Department of Energy and Climate Change at http://www.bioenergycapitalgrants.org.uk/

*Biomass is any renewable organic material, such as wood by-products and agricultural wastes, that can be used to produce energy or converted into fuel.

For further information please contact:-

Economic Development Unit
Tel:  01202 451109  
Email: edu