Grants, loans and equity funding may be available to anyone from a sole trader to a large organisation, whether you want to start up or expand your business, invest in R&D or build overseas trade, or if you're in a rural area. Yorkshire Forward administers several awards schemes on behalf of funders such as HM Government and the European Commission.
Yorkshire Forward is offering a fully funded Financial Health Check to Yorkshire and Humber based companies that meet their eligibility criteria. The Health Check has been designed to help businesses assess the financial strengths of the business and to survive and thrive in the current economic climate.
Yorkshire Concept is a new project Fund designed to stimulate the commercialisation of research and knowledge-based activities in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the Yorkshire and the Humber region. It is funded jointly, on the principle of matched funding, by the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, and the Higher Education Institutions themselves.
TRC is an independent charity launched in 1998 as The Research Centre. They are uniquely well-positioned to act as honest brokers and facilitators for a wide range of training programmes and industry events. Key partnerships include Channel 4, the BBC and a host of public agencies. Support ranges from hot-desking to high-end training, bringing people together and making things happen.
Over the next 12 months TSB will invest up to £18m in this competition, which challenges businesses to develop an internet with a sustainable economic future from which all participants will benefit.
For links to other business support organisations and networks, click on the 'more info' button.
Case Study: Alastair DonStop and Shoot
After leaving ITV in 2009, Alastair Don took the bold step of setting up his own traffic management company, STOP AND SHOOT. Drawing on Alastair's 5 years experience as a Location Manager, Stop and Shoot caters exclusively to the TV and Film industries:Screen Yorkshire's Production Liaison team has been outstanding in offering up their time and assistance and providing me with valuable contacts. They have also been able to support me with funding for crucial training, without which I would not have been able to get off the ground. Their crew finding database, Northern Exposure, has been particularly useful, helping me to find and employ outstanding and hard working crew.
Since its inception less than 3 months ago, Stop and Shoot has gained credits on productions such as The Gemma Factor (Freeform Productions for BBC3), Five Days II (BBC), Morrison's Commercial (Outsider Films) and Emmerdale (ITV,) none of which would have been possible without Screen Yorkshire's support.
