Getting a Grant for Your Business

3. Other Grant Areas

Other grants are available depending on the location and type of your business.

3.1 Exports - support is often available to businesses looking to export goods they manufacture.

• UK Trade & Investment offers funding to help exporters, as well as a range of charged-for, but subsidised, services. Contact Business Link (www.businesslink.gov.uk) or UK Trade & Investment (020 7215 5444; ).

3.2 Logistics and freight - schemes that promote alternatives to road haulage are often available.

• Where a shift to alternative forms of transport that will have a large and measurable impact on local and national congestion is possible, there may be grants available that address any cost differences.

3.3 Industy specific grants - where local or national schemes target individual industries that need promotion.

• Themes such as rural diversification, crafts, tourism and agriculture have been featured.
• Grants may become available from time to time to address local industry issues so it is worth staying in touch with local authorities and agencies.

3.4 Some local grants are intended to help new businesses and boost employment.

• Local support (eg subsidised rent and rates) is often available to encourage small businesses to start up in particular areas. Look at business and industrial parks that may offer incentives. For hi-tech enterprises examine the benefits presented by science parks () and local incubator centres.