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UK Community Renewal Fund
The Government is seeking an application from the Vale of Glamorgan into its Community Renewal Fund. £220 million investment in the UK Community Renewal Fund (UKCRF) was announced in its budget on 3 March 2021.
The Fund is to support people and communities most in need across the UK, creating opportunities to trial new approaches and innovative ideas at the local level. For full details please visit: UK Community Renewal Fund
Cultural Recovery Fund
Applications for the Cultural Recovery Fund Phase 2 are now closed. Funding for freelancers will open early May and be delivered by local authorities.
Please look for announcements on the opening of the Freelancer fund on this website and Business Wales.
Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)
Fourth grant announced: Self-Employment Income Support Scheme fourth grant
The online service to claim the fourth grant will be available from late April 2021.
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30 September 2021.
Find out more about how the scheme is changing.
Non-Domestic Rates Linked Support for Businesses – 15 March 2021 - NOW CLOSED
Following the First Ministers announcement 12 March 2021, if you registered your details and received an NDR linked grant for the schemes introduced in December 2020 and subsequently extended, you do not need to take any further action – please do not reapply you will receive automatic payment by 25th March 2021.
This grant is now closed to new applicants. Based on applications to date, the budget is potentially allocated.
Should further funding be made available by Welsh Government we’ll let you know via our communication channels.
Extension Discretionary Grant - NOW CLOSED
Coronavirus Regulations in Wales
- Vale of Glamorgan Council Coronavirus updates
- Temporary Trading Areas for Food and Beverage Retail
- Welsh Government Coronavirus updates
Skills and Jobs Fund
The Welsh Government pledges to support everyone to find work, education or training or help to start their own business as it launches a £40m skills and jobs fund.
The £40m package will provide:
- more than £20m to incentivise employers to recruit and retain 5,000 apprentices, increase the capacity of traineeship programmes and support more graduates to access work experience, work tasters and paid work placements.
- almost £9m to help workers access retraining and find new employment, including in areas of skills demand, through ReACT and the Union Learning Fund. This includes the national roll-out of the personal learning accounts programme so an additional 2,000 people can learn new skills and gain new qualifications.
- funding for traineeships, Working Wales and Communities for Work Plus will be increased to help match people to job opportunities and promote self-employment and new ways of working, as well as funding to support employer-led training through the Flexible Skills programme.
- there will be support for a new Barriers Fund, offering up to £2,000 to support people who may not have previously considered self-employment, in particular women, young people, people from BAME communities and disabled people.
Funding Support and Training
Business Grants
Up to date figures for the Business Grants in the Vale of Glamorgan. In line with Welsh Government guidance the business support scheme for eligible rateable properties has now closed.
The latest total of 2,056 grant payments have been made worth a total of £25,652,000.
Town Centre Businesses and Premises
For advice and information on working in or running shops during the COVID-19 pandemic, please contact:
Retailers Coronavirus Guidance
Fast Start Competition
On the 20 May 2020 UK government announced it is doubling investment in the Fast Start Competition with an additional £20 million. Innovative businesses and start-ups are set to benefit from a £40 million UK government investment to drive forward new technological advances. Among the successful projects to receive the funding to date is a virtual-reality surgical training simulator and an online farmers’ market platform.
Boost for cutting edge start-ups
Support for welsh food and drink manufacturers
Food Innovation Wales, backed by Welsh Government, is based at three food centres across Wales. The team of industry experts can support manufacturers of all sizes to navigate their way through a range of complex technical and commercial issues.
Food Innovation Toolkit
Bounce Back Loans Scheme
Major boost for Welsh SME's as New Bounce Back Loans Scheme opened for applications.