£500 vouchers still available to farming and land based businesses
Farming and land based businesses in the old Eden District Council and South Lakeland District Council areas can access up to £500 to help towards the cost of working with a consultant of their choice, thanks to funding through Westmorland & Furness Council’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Advice vouchers can be used for a whole range of consultancy support, for example:
- Accountancy – operating more cost effectively and/or adapting to the changes in agricultural funding
- Legal – Farm & property sales & purchase, partnership matters & disputes, Landlord & tenant law, Basic Payment Scheme & other grant schemes, agricultural wills & succession planning
- Insurance – reviews, risk assessments, valuations
- Planning – planning advice, preparing planning applications and helping farming businesses use Agricultural Permitted Development Rights to support farm growth and diversification
- Architectural planning and design service
- Marketing – plans, campaigns, website development, PR
- Agricultural consultancy – specialised advice, support and guidance
No match funding is needed but businesses can choose to add more. We can however only fund work that has yet to start. It’s a really simple application process with only one quote needed (two if applying for over £2,000) and the voucher is paid directly to the business.
Anyone interested in applying should call 0844 2478450 or email info@cumbriagrowthhub.co.uk
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Business grants available in Cumberland
- Revenue grants of up to £7,500 (50% match funding) to support work with a consultant of your choice in areas such as marketing, websites, accountancy, legal, planning, business continuity, succession planning, business growth, productivity, agricultural or other specialist advice. Also available are £500 advice vouchers for similar support which require no match from the business.
- Tourism grants up to a maximum of £20,000 (50% match funded) development and promotion (both trade and consumer) of the visitor economy for activity such as development of local visitor experiences, local attractions and trails or tourism products more generally
There are some postcode restrictions to the tourism grant
Applications for revenue grants and vouchers will be offered on a first come, first served basis (subject to meeting the grant criteria) until funds have been fully allocated.
Expressions of interest for the tourism grant need to be submitted by 12noon on Friday 9th August to info@cumbriagrowthhub.co.uk to be considered by the panel. Further opportunities may be available subject to availability of funding – see our website for submission deadlines.
For further information and to apply please click below to visit our website – Business Grants – Cumbria Growth Hub
To contact us directly email info@cumbriagrowthhub.co.uk
We don’t have long to allocate funding – grants need to be spent and claimed by the end of January 2025 so I’d encourage any business interested to start the process straight away!