Business Grant UK Government – EU Grants

What’s a small business grant then?
Well a small business grant is there to hep you start your business in a nut shell. As you may have already found, there are lots websites offering to provide you information and the like for a fee, thankfully we don’t charge you any fee, just provide the information we have found for you to inspect.

What kind of business grants are available?

Information from Business Link:

The main groups who award grants are:

· the government
· the European Union – EU
· Regional Development Agencies in England, Scottish Enterprise, the Welsh Development Agency and Invest Northern Ireland
· local authorities or local councils and local development agencies
· Business Links
· Chambers of Commerce
· County Enterprise Boards
Some funding is also distributed through colleges and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).

Telephone Numbers:

Business Link – UK Government:
Tel: 0845 6009006.
BERR : UK Goverment: Tel: 020 7215 5000
From BERR Website :

The Business Support Simplification Programme

“The Business Support Simplification Programme (BSSP) is an important part of the government’s drive to make the UK a
good place to start and grow a business. It is streamlining the grants, subsidies and advice that government offers to make it easier for businesses to access help and support.” (C) BERR.GOV.UK – Crown Copyright 2009.

FUNDS AND PROGRAMMES BY EU POLICY

· Agriculture
· Audiovisual and Media
· Communication
· Competition
· Conference interpretation
· Consumers
· Culture
· Development
· Economic and financial affairs
· Education, training and youth
· Employment and social affairs
· Energy
· Enlargement
· Enterprise
· Environment
· External Relations
· External Aid
· External Trade
· Fisheries
· Fighting fraud
· Freedom, Security and Justice
· Humanitarian Aid
· Human Rights
· Information society
· Public Health
· Regional Policy
· Research and Innovation
· Sport
· Statistics
· Transport
Agriculture
Funding opportunities under the Common Agricultural Policy
Direct payments
Rural Development Programmes
Information measures relating to the common agricultural policy
Information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products on the internal market and in third countries

Audiovisual and Media

MEDIA Plus Programme
Other Programmes

Communication

EU funding opportunities in the field of Press and Communication

Competition

Calls for Proposals

Conference interpretation

Grants for training in conference interpreting
Study bursaries for interpreters
Pedagogical Assistance from the Directorate General of Interpretation

Consumers

EU funding opportunities in the field of Consumer Policy

Culture

Grant Programmes

Development

Development Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific states
EuropAid Co-operation Office

Economic and financial affairs
Grants awarded in the field of economic and financial affairs

Education, training and youth

Grant Programmes

Employment and social affairs

EU funding opportunities in the field of Employment and Social Affairs

Energy

EU funding opportunities in the field of Energy
“Intelligent Energy Europe” Programme

Enlargement

Financial assistance to candidate countries
Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)

Enterprise

EU funding opportunities in the field of Enterprise
Access to Finance for European Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Environment

EU Funding Opportunities in the Field of Environment
Eco-innovation programme
External Relations
External Relations
Eco-innovation programme

External Aid

EuropAid Co-operation Office – How to get a grant?
Calls for Proposals

External Trade

Grant Programmes

Fisheries

Grant Programmes

Fighting fraud

Freedom, Security and Justice

EU funding opportunities in the field of justice, freedom and security

Humanitarian Aid

EU funding opportunities in the field of humanitarian aid

Human Rights

European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Gender Equality
Anti-discrimination and relations with Civil Society

Information society

EU funding opportunities in the field of information society
ICT research funding opportunities under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013)

Public Health

Programme of Community Action in the field of Public Health (2003-2008)

Regional Policy

European regional development fund
European Social Fund
Cohesion Fund
Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance
JASPERS – Joint Assistance in Supporting Projects in European Regions
JEREMIE – Joint European Resources for Micro to medium Enterprises
JESSICA – Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas
The European Union Solidarity Fund

Research and Innovation

CORDIS – Community Research & Development Information Service, Calls for Proposals for Research Projects

Sport

Funds, Grants and programmes for sport projects integrating other aspects

Statistics

Eurostat Grants

Transport
EU funding opportunities in the field of transport Marco Polo programme

This data is (c) www.ec.europa.eu Copyright 2009.