Business finance
The council offers a free internet-based service - 'GrantNet' - to help businesses find out about funding schemes available in Huntingdonshire. This service allows you and your business to:
- Find all local and national funding schemes currently available to help your own unique business.
- Browse all national and local business grant schemes by category.
- Discover awards that provide financial support as well as prestige for business.
- Find out if you are eligible for soft or special loans with preferential terms.
Simply register your company's details and you can search for all the financial assistance you are able to apply for. Registration is a simple process and once registered you can return to the site as often as you like to check on the latest funding available. The funding database is updated on a daily basis to provide you with up-to-date information. Click on the link on the right to access the database.
Additional sources of potential funding can be accessed through:
Business Link - Finance and Grants
A comprehensive source of funding, grants, loans and assistance across a range of business sectors and different stages of a company's development including research and development
East of England Development Agency - the Business Map
A route map of potential support and assistance for small to medium sized businesses
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Growth Fund
Local funding for business support programmes
Fens Adventurers Rural Development Programme
Specific financial support for farmers and small businesses in Huntingdonshire's rural northern areas
Job centre
Assistance for recruitment purposes
Further details on all of the above are available via clicking the relevant link in the right hand column.
Financial Advice
For general financial advice and support, the following agencies are best placed to assist:
- Business Link
- Norfolk and Waveney Enterprise Services
- HM Revenue and Customs
Further details are available via the links in the right hand column.
The Leadership Management & Advisory Service
The above company are offering potential £1000 Grant Funding for SME Business Leaders.
For further information please click on the link on the right.
£25 Million Higher Apprenticeships Fund for England
The Government has announced £25 million of additional funding to aid the growth of Higher Apprenticeships in England. The funding will be used to support a range of activities, including initiatives to help small and medium-sized employers take on more Apprentices.
The Higher Apprenticeships Fund will support the expansion of Apprenticeships up to degree equivalent in companies where there is unmet demand for the higher level skills that are necessary to create additional jobs and growth.
Activities the Higher Apprenticeship Fund is looking to support the following:
- Co-investment: using public investment to kick-start activity which is clearly aimed at generating ongoing employer contributions to support programme costs.
- Employer leadership: using public investment to facilitate stronger sector or occupational partnerships to drive development and promotion of the programme.
- Transformation: using public investment to achieve a lasting change in employer recruitment and training patterns, creating a significant change in practice
- Innovation: using public investment to develop new models of Apprenticeship learning.
For further information regarding the funding please go to the external on your right for the Grantnet website