Business Growth Grant scheme helps create over 300 jobs across the South East

14th January 2015 4:00 pm

Over 300 jobs are set to be created as a direct result of grants awarded by the Coast to Capital Business Growth Grant scheme throughout 2014, the local enterprise partnership (LEP) has said.

The Business Growth Grants programme, managed by Coast to Capital, Brighton and Hove City Council and commercial partners, helps local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expand their businesses by supporting projects such as skills improvement, research and development and investment in equipment or premises.

In the last round of grants awarded at the end of 2014, 21 companies received a total of £1.3m for projects worth a combined £7.6m. Grants ranged in size from £6,000 for Croydon-based Kingfisher APS to £200,000 for Medical Imagining Partnership. Other beneficiaries included Shoreham Port, Brighton-based Big Bit and GTR Ltd, based in West Sussex.

Coast to Capital chairman Tim Wates said: "As a local enterprise partnership, we want to encourage local businesses to expand and we believe the projects these businesses are undertaking will make a significant step change to the companies and to the local economy.”

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