South Lanarkshire Council is offering grants of up to £2500 to start up businesses.
Funding between £1000 and £2500 is being offered to people with viable business ideas to help them get started.
The council is offering this from the Business Start Up Grant (BSUG) is to provide grant funding to help pre-start- businesses with a robust and viable business idea to launch it.
It offers funding for essential business purchases such as IT, equipment, infrastructure costs, website design and stock costs.
The BSUG is a tiered fund with grants of £1000 and £2500 available, £1000 is available for home based enterprises with employee headcount of less than one full time employee as well as the proprietor.
A total of £2500 is available for business who will operate from a commercial premises and will have a minimum of one full time employee as well as the proprietor.
The scheme aims to encourage new start businesses to grow their operation earlier, to be successful, applicants must be able to utilise 100 percent of the grant.
Successful applicants may have the opportunity to apply for a second grant award six months from the initial award to help with the ongoing working capital requirements of running a business.
To apply and for more information, contact Business Gateway Lanarkshire on 01698 756956.
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