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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: calmore on May 11, 2007, 08:16:09 pm

Title: Business grants
Post by: calmore on May 11, 2007, 08:16:09 pm

After reading another thread ("Sex sells") I have been wondering..

Are there any grants easily available for small start-up businesses that maybe we should be applying for? Perhaps some sort of eco grant for using "green" products?

Title: Re: Business grants
Post by: Ian Gourlay on May 13, 2007, 10:38:38 am

If you are young and starting out there could be,

If you been unemployed for a long time there could be depending on your age but you are probably broke by then  and have no money left for marketing etc

Title: Re: Business grants
Post by: matt jones on May 13, 2007, 12:28:43 pm

Ive often wondered this too i did contact various people trying to find this out but unfortunately never found anything.
matt

Title: Re: Business grants
Post by: Karl Wildey on May 13, 2007, 12:41:33 pm

The princes trust is only available to younger people, up to 25 I think.

You can get grants/set up though shaw trust, if you have a handicap. I used to employ a guy with bad sight. The shaw trust paid for his training/spme of his wages.

Now for those ambitious types. You could try and get a grant from shaw trust, employ a disadvantage person, get shaw trust to supply a computer and pay the person wages, and get that person to do you marketing, ring around for work etc, or even possible leaflet drop.

Who's going for it....

Title: Re: Business grants
Post by: calmore on May 14, 2007, 10:11:08 pm

Unfortunately, I don't qualify for any of them.

I'd hoped that maybe, with all this "eco" stuff in the press there'd be grants available for businesses using eco products etc.