SME manufacturers may be able to claim Manufacturing Advisory Service funding of up to £10,000 towards implementing strategic change
Under the scheme, SME manufactures can claim funding up to £10,000 (or 50% maximum) towards approved projects carried out with the help of E-MK advisers. Business strategy specialist E-MK was one of the first to be registered as an approved MAS delivery partner.
E-MK’s advisers have extensive experience and expertise in starting, growing, funding and exiting successful manufacturing businesses.
The new funding is for suitable projects that fall under the MAS Level 4 Transformation Service for a strategic change...
The Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) to be operated by the Manufacturing Advisory Consortium (MAC) from January 1st 2012
A new nationally operated Manufacturing Advisory Service will focus on helping small and medium sized manufacturers to grow, Business Minister Mark Prisk announced recently.
The new service will be delivered by the Manufacturing Advisory Consortium (MAC) and will help create an estimated £1.5bn in economic growth, 23,000 jobs and safeguard 50,000 jobs.
The Manufacturing Advisory Service will continue to deliver a national service to all manufacturing businesses in England but the new consortium now means that there...
Grants of up to £1,000 are available for business growth and strategy development
Businesses with between 2 and 250 full time equivalent employees, who display the potential for high or fast growth, can apply for funding to develop the leadership and management skills of their senior management team.
The 2011/12 Leadership and Management fund is managed in the South East by Skills South East and in the East of England and East Midlands by EMB Ltd, on behalf of the Skills Funding Agency. Up to £1,000 Leadership and Management matched funding can be put towards one or a combination of development...
Sustainable Routes – the smart way to cut travel costs!
Has your business been trading since 1st January 2009?
Do you have a turnover of at least £75,000?
Is your business located in Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire or Berkshire?
Then Sustainable Routes can offer a grant of up to £1,000 to businesses who want to cut business travel costs by adopting new ways of working. If your business is a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) employing less than 250 people and has been trading for at least two years, then here is your opportunity to focus on business...
New Leadership and Management funding for 2011/12
Businesses in the south east and south west, with between 2 and 250 full time equivalent employees, can apply for funding to develop their leadership and management skills and support their most important asset.
Funding is now available to eligible businesses that display the potential for high or fast growth, defined as;
if trading for more than 12 months – have the potential to increase turnover by 20% each year for three years
if trading for less than 12 months – have the potential to achieve a turnover...
New funding scheme will support innovative small companies
A new scheme will offer funding to small companies to enable them to research and develop new products, processes and services that could stimulate economic growth.
Managed by the Technology Strategy Board, the Grant for Research and Development scheme, which comes into effect from 4 April 2011, will support small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) across the UK that want to carry out research and development generating new and innovative products and services. The new scheme supersedes the Grant for R&D scheme...