Carmarthenshire Rural Enterprise Fund (CREF)
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The Carmarthenshire Rural Enterprise Fund (CREF) can provide financial assistance to businesses and sole traders for the development of new and existing business premises, where jobs are being created as a result.
Priority will be given to applications that will provide tangible benefits to the local economy in terms of quantity and quality of direct jobs created in key sectors.
What is on offer?
The grant offer will be either based on £20,000 per job created or up to the following intervention rates, whichever is the lesser figure;
- Small Businesses: 45%
- Medium Businesses: 35%
- Large Businesses: 25%*
The maximum grant award is £100,000. In exceptional circumstances this may be increased.
Eligibility
- The grant will fund improvement works to commercial property in rural wards within Carmarthenshire, as defined in the Local Development Strategy for Rural Carmarthenshire* where jobs are being created as a result.
- Applicants must be either the freehold owner of the property, or a leaseholder where the lease has a minimum of seven years remaining at the anticipated time of final payment of grant.
*See Scheme Guidance for further information
Important: Please read guidelines before applying
Funding
Business growth grant
- The Offer
- Eligibility
- What you can use the grant for
- What you cannot use the grant for
- Second hand equipment
- Application and Assessment
- Procurement rules - Getting quotes
- Welsh Language Standards
- Subsidy Control
- Post Completion - Terms and Conditions
- Claw Back of Grant Funds
- How to Apply
Business start up grant
- The Offer
- Eligibility
- What you can use the grant for
- What you cannot use the grant for
- Second hand equipment
- Application and Assessment
- Procurement rules - Getting quotes
- Welsh Language Standards
- Subsidy Control
- Post Completion - Terms and Conditions
- Claw Back of Grant Funds
- How to Apply
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Business Renewable Energy Fund
- The Offer
- Eligibility
- What you can use the grant for
- Outputs
- Application Process and Assessment
- Procurement rules
- Procurement guidelines
- Statement of Financial Support
- Post completion - terms and conditions
- Claw back of grant funds
- Submission checklist
- How to apply
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