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Finance
Anaerobic Digestion Loan Fund (ADLF)
The Anaerobic Digestion Loan Fund (ADLF) is a £10 million programme designed to support the development of new AD capacity in England. The fund aims to support 300,000 tonnes of annual capacity to divert food waste from landfill by 2015.
Business Boost Programme
Business Boost is a suite of four investment funds totalling £17million with something to offer businesses of every size and type operating in every sector; the suite is designed to enhance business growth in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Business Catalyst Fund
Part of the Business Boost programme, the £5m Business Catalyst Fund will help you make significant investments so you can really improve your business productivity. It can help you fund large scale expenditure to step your business up a gear, whether for capital investment or revenue projects. The purpose of this fund is to help you take your business to the next level, making a real difference and creating a step change in your business performance.
Business Investment for Growth Programme (BIG)
Part of the Business Boost Programme, BIG is a business voucher scheme aiming to improve competitive advantage of high growth Cornish Small & Medium Enterprises (SME's), leading to 400 skilled jobs being created.
Carbon Trust Loans - Energy Efficiency Financing
Energy Efficient Financing offers leases, loans and other financing options to all types of organisations seeking to reduce their energy use.
Community Renewable Energy Grants
Offer start up 'seed corn' grants for community renewable energy projects, whatever type of renewable power generation you, as a community, are considering.
DECC Offshore wind development competition
Offshore wind is at the heart of the UK economy’s shift to low carbon. Britain is, and will remain for the foreseeable future, the largest single market for offshore wind in the world. Subject to European state aid considerations, an open competition will be launched allowing site developers to bid for funding of up to £60m for infrastructure for the offshore wind industry. It is expected that all bids will include contributions from local partners.
Energy Crops Scheme
The Energy Crops Scheme aims to increase the amount of energy crops grown in England in appropriate locations.
Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs)
Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs) enable a business to claim 100% first-year capital allowances on their spending on qualifying plant and machinery.
Entrepreneurs Fast Track
The Carbon Trust has over £3 million to support British low carbon technology entrepreneurs, offering a customised package of expert commercial advice, networking opportunities and grant funding to small enterprises that are developing priority low carbon technologies in the UK.
Feed in Tariff
Under this scheme energy suppliers make regular payments to householders and communities who generate their own electricity from renewable or low carbon sources such as solar electricity (PV) panels or wind turbines. The scheme guarantees a minimum payment for all electricity generated by the system, as well as a separate payment for the electricity exported to grid. These payments are in addition to the bill savings made by using the electricity generated on-site.
Gap Funding for Employment Space
Gap Funding for Employment Space offers targeted funding to accelerate developments of offices, serviced employment land or industrial schemes in Cornwall that meet key environmental and economic criteria.
Grants for Business Investment (GBI)
Grant for Business Investment provides capital grants to businesses to support sustainable investment in England. This fund is now only open to large exceptional projects and applications to DECC from offshore wind equipment manufacturers.
Growing Places Fund
Part of the Business Boost Programme, the Growing Places Fund has made £6m of investment funding available to unlock housing and commercial development to create jobs. It will form a revolving investment for businesses and public sector organisations in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to help fund infrastructure that unlocks stalled housing and commercial development projects.
Low Carbon Cars
The Government has confimed an incentive of up to £5000 for motorists purchasing an ultra-low carbon car. The scheme will begin on January 2011 and will be open to both private and fleet buyers. It is expected to reduce the up front costs of ultra-low carbon cars by 25 per cent.
Low Carbon Grant Fund
Grant funded programme that will support capital projects from a minimum ERDF investment of £70,000 up to a maximum of £1 million based over two calls (1st call Mar 2011 & 2nd call Summer 2011). Aimed at supporting carbon reduction developments. The principle measures will be carbon focussed as opposed to the more standard GVA measures traditionally used (tba).
Low Carbon Van
Motorists purchasing a qualifying ultra-low emission van can receive a grant of 20% towards the cost of the vehicle, up to a maximum of £8,000.
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Scheme
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) was launched in 2011 to make it more financially attractive for industry and businesses to install low carbon heating systems like heat pumps, biomass boilers or solar thermal panels.
The scheme offers financial support to encourage individuals, communities and businesses to switch to the use of renewables for heating and is the first scheme of its kind in the world.
Shell Spring Board
It's not only big business and government that can respond to the challenge of climate change. After all, there are over 4 million small businesses in the UK, who are smart, quick and full of ideas. We're offering a financial boost of up to £40,000 for a small number of UK businesses who submit the most compelling plans for a product or service which helps combat climate change.
Smart (previously known as Grant for Research and Development)
Smart is a Technology Strategy Board scheme offering funding to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in R&D projects in the strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful new products, processes and services could emerge.
Three types of grant are available: Proof of market; Proof of concept; Development of prototype.
South West Investmant Group (SWIG)
South West Investment Group (SWIG) is the largest provider of complementary loan finance to small and medium sized businesses in the South West.
South West Loans Fund – Finance for Business
Loans of £50,000 to £250,000 on commercial terms to support viable growing businesses in South West England that have been unable to secure all of the finance they need, to fund their expansion, from the usual commercial sources.
Southwest Clean Tech Co-investment Fund
This is an co-investment fund providing businesses within the Cleantech sector, which are receiving fresh equity finance from experienced new 'keystone' investors, with a potential source of additional mezzanine loan funding of between £50,00 and £100,000.
Superfast Cornwall Fund
Part of the Business Boost Programme, the £2m Superfast Cornwall Fund is now available to grow your business through superfast broadband.
The Superfast Cornwall programme is building a brand new fibre optic broadband network for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and the arrival of superfast broadband has created unprecedented opportunities for businesses in the county.
SWAIN (South West Angel and Investor Network)
The South West Angel and Investor Network (SWAIN) connects private investors, or 'Business Angels', with companies looking for investment. SWAIN specialises in helping small and medium sized companies to find equity finance, and assists private investors in the South West to search for investment opportunities in businesses with growth potential.
Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Competitions
The TSB advise Government on how to remove barriers to innovation and accelerate the exploitation of new technologies. And we work in areas where there is a clear potential business benefit, helping today's emerging technologies become the growth sectors of tomorrow. Relevant competitions include: Batteries for Low and Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles: Recycling and Re-Use; Highly innovative strategic technologies in low carbon vehicles; Building Performance Evaluation; Measurement of the energy yield from the biobased fraction of mixed waste.
The European Investment Fund (UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF)
The European Investment Fund's UK Future Technologies Fund (£200M) will invest in a number of specialist technology funds such as life sciences, digital technology and advanced manufacturing.
The Hermes Environmental Innovation Fund (UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF)
The Hermes Environmental Innovation Fund (£125M) is focussed on increasing the efficient use of resources and the development of clean technologies and is a major boost in the transition to a low carbon economy and it made its first investment into WHEB Ventures’ second clean technology fund.
The Low Carbon Society - Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI)
Fund will finance community schemes, focussing on wind in the first instance. First loans will be made in 2011.
The South West Loans Fund - Small Loans for business
Loans from £1,000 to £50,000 on commercial terms to support viable businesses in South West England that have been unable to secure all of the finance they need, to fund their growth, from the usual commercial sources. Applications from businesses in disadvantaged communities are particularly encouraged.
