University of Derby - Invest to Grow fund
Product Description:
The Invest to Grow programme provides grants and loans of between £15,000 and £250,000 to support private-sector businesses across the East Midlands to innovate, grow and create jobs. The programme is now funded by the repayment of loans awarded to successful applicants.
Projects will need to demonstrate that other avenues of support and funding have been explored and why Invest to Grow funding is vital to the project going ahead.
You can apply if you are a small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), large enterprise, sole trader and partnerships.
Area of Expertise:
Funding
Loans
Grants
Job Creation
Eligibility:
Your Project Must:
* Create new jobs or safeguard existing positions in your company
* Increase the scope or scale of your company activity
* Improves the company’s performance
* Not have commenced and will not be achievable in the timescales proposed without Invest to Grow support.
* Have a minimum of £50k project costs
Districts:
- Leicester City
- Blaby
- Charnwood
- Oadby and Wigston
- Melton
- Harborough
- Northwest Leicestershire
- Bosworth and Hinckley
Application Process:
Call us on 0116 454 2917 or email us Growthhub@llbsp.org.uk