Business Funding

Vale Business Start-Up Bursary

The Vale Business Start-Up Bursary scheme is a regeneration and economic development initiative led by the Vale of Glamorgan Council in partnership with various public, private and voluntary section organisations. 
 
The purpose of the bursary is to promote conditions which will help entrepreneurs implement their business idea. This can include providing advice and expert support to develop a business idea, providing the necessary equipment or resources to start a business and helping with business location costs. 

 

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Shared Prosperity Fund

The Shared Prosperity fund is now fully allocated, and applications are now closed.  For more details on how the fund was allocated from 2022-2025, please explore this case study document.

Although the Vale of Glamorgan does not endorse or recommend any specific funding source, we have gathered together links to several of the more common funding resources to assist your search.

 

• Finance Finder
  Use the Business Wales Finance Finder to find finance options relevant to your business.
• Find a grant   
  Find a grant is a service that allows you to search government grants.
  
• Development Bank of Wales  
  Helping businesses get the loans and investment they need to start up, strengthen and grow.
• Rural Funding Schemes 
  Funds to develop community projects, your business or other initiatives in the rural areas of the Vale
• Arts Funding 
  Explore grants to support arts organisations based and primarily working in Wales. 
• Robert Owen Banking  
  Access financing and loans for businesses and community initiatives
• Community Facilities Grant  
  Find capital grants to improve community facilities that prevent or tackle poverty and its effects.
• Purple Shoots 
  Find out more about small business loans to cover start up costs and mentoring services.

 

Tourism focussed 

• Wales Tourism Investment Fund (WTIF) 
  This fund brings together both commercial and grant funding into one combined package of financial support to provide capital investment for the sector.   
• Vale of Glamorgan Events Grant Scheme 
  Grant funding to support events in the Vale of Glamorgan.

 

For more information on community grants and support please visit: Creative Communities 

The links provided here are not exhaustive, they are provided for reference only and should not be considered an endorsement of any of the providers. Many other sources of funding exist that may represent a good choice for your initiative, for example, loans from banks and crowdfunding.