The Carbon Trust £7 million Green Business Fund launched
The Carbon Trust has launched a new £7 million Green Business Fund to help small firms to save energy and cut costs.
The fund will provide grants for business owners to carry out energy efficiency upgrades, such as improvements to heating and lighting, as well as offer energy saving training and advice.
The scheme is expected to support up to 2,000 small businesses to invest £55 million in energy-saving projects, which will generate lifetime energy savings of £130 million. Applicants can
Interactive Healthcare Fund is for small creative and digital businesses (SMEs)
Funding opportunities for digital health projects
Interactive Healthcare Fund is for small creative and digital businesses (SMEs) who wish to bring innovative digital health and wellbeing products and services to market in the NHS and wider health and social care marketplace
Funded by Creative England’s Regional Growth Fund and managed by Creative England in partnership with the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), this Interactive Healthcare Fund is for small creative and digital businesses (SMEs) who wish to bring innovative digital health and
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme Open to Applications
Goldman Sachs are now accepting applications for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme which will commence in September 2016.
The programme is fully funded by the Goldman Sachs Charitable Foundation and is specifically designed to enable business owners to grow their businesses. The programme helps to review all aspects of the business such as the processes, finances, sales and leadership then develops a strategy to improve, develop and grow all of the areas.
The programme gives participants a fantastic opportunity to
Queens Award for Enterprise 2017 – Applications now open
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise
Applications are now invited for the 2017 Queens Award for Enterprise
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are free to enter.
You must submit your application between 3 May and 2 September 2016. You can apply for more than one award.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement in 3 categories: innovation, international trade, and sustainable development. Winners have reported benefiting from worldwide recognition, increased commercial value, greater press coverage and a boost to staff morale.
If you win
Start-up competition: win €100,000 cash to build TOMORROW
Hello Tomorrow launches global science startup competition
Hello Tomorrow has launched the Hello Tomorrow Challenge 2016, a global science startup
competition dedicated to the transformation of innovations into impactful products and solutions.
Hello Tomorrow is an international, non-profit initiative that promotes early-stage scientific
startups with an aim to solve major industrial and societal challenges. Now in its third edition,
the initiative has grown into a vibrant ecosystem that empowers scientists to transform
innovations into world-changing products.
This year, Hello Tomorrow has partnered with thirteen major private and
New £10 million community business fund
Power to Change, a community enterprise support organisation, has launched a new £10 million Community Business Fund, which will provide grants of between £50,000 and £300,000 to community enterprises in England.
The funding is intended to increase the social impact of community enterprises and support them to increase trading income, secure assets or reduce costs. Any grants awarded must be used for either capital costs (including building, vehicle and equipment costs) or project-specific revenue costs (including staff salaries).
The first funding round
Green Alley Award 2016 – Business Start-ups prize worth 30,000 Euros
Kick off for European circular economy start-up competition of Green Alley and Seedmatch
The Green Alley Award is Europe’s only award for entrepreneurs and start-ups working in the circular economy. Green entrepreneurs with ideas for a sustainable economy and new ways of looking at waste as a resource can apply for the award at www.green-alley-award.com until the 27th of July 2016. Both classic pitch decks and creative videos are accepted – the online application is quick and easy. The guidelines explain which
Local Authority Contracts Up For Tender
We have a selection of contracts which are up for tender in each of the four Humber Local Authority areas.
East Riding Council
2052-16 External Training and Conference Venues
Kennelling Facilities to Accomodate Dogs
Hull City Council
Further Competition within the ESPO LED street lighting luminaires Contract
Taxi & Small Bus Service 2017. Call for Competition
North East Lincolnshire
Housing related support services enabling independent living for people in North East Linc…
Community Led Local Development (CLLD) – Workshop design and delivery
Request for Quotation Community Led Local Development (CLLD)
Technology boost for UK businesses
UK businesses are set to be at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution by embracing digital technologies that could improve productivity.
The EU Commission has published details on how businesses across the EU, including those in the UK, can get better access to the technologies that will help them to modernise. The innovative package includes improving access to cloud computing and services, data analytics and the Internet of Things. It will improve the way the UK does business in the research, technology and industrial sectors, and
FSB Newsletter 22nd April 2016
In this weeks addition of the East Yorkshire & Sheffield FSB newsletter:
• HS2 Supply chain – register your business for supplier roadshow
• ASEAN Insight Seminar Yorkshire and the Humber
• Big discount for new Saturday accounting course
• HR Challenges 2016: ‘Understanding Digital Risk’
• Chartered Manager degree apprenticeship – employer lunch
• Antiques Quarter book launch celebrates ‘A Lifetime in Antiques’
• Rule-breakers conference delivered to your inbox
• Entries open for Made in Hull 2016
• Yorkshire cyber security cluster event
• Yorkshire Bank announces plans