ENTERPRISE bosses in North Yorkshire are urging small and mediumsized businesses to apply for special grants if they want to expand after 130 jobs were created in the latest round of handouts.
The York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership helped several local firms get grants through their business programme set up with money from the government’s Regional Growth Fund.
Thirsk Furniture secured a £5,000 grant and put the money towards the purchase of new machinery to make higherquality products faster.
This helped the business take on new work and increase staff.
At the Great Yorkshire Brewery in Cropton, near Pickering, 17 new jobs were created after the Partnership contributed £150,000 towards a scheme to help the business expand to meet demand particularly from existing export markets in China, South Africa and Japan.
The programme is targeted at small, medium and micro businesses and covers the capital costs of up to 20 per cent of projects with grants ranging from £5,000 to £1m on offer.
The programme has about five months left to run. Businesses can find out more about the grant programme at businessinspiredgrowth.com/bgp.
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